In part 1 of this series, I wrote about using the Internet to enhance traditional ham stations. In part 2, I wrote about the use of the Internet to connect to remote stations and control them. This is ...

Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance Early in the history of the internet, the powers that ...

While most of you reading this have broadband in your home, there are still vast areas with little access to the Internet. Ham radio operator [emmynet] found himself in just such a situation recently, ...

Full disclosure: ham radio isn’t for everyone, and there are many different facets to it. What appeals to one person might bore another to death. One area of ham radio that has changed a lot in the ...

When Helene swept across the Southeast on Sept. 27, including Western North Carolina, cell phones and internet-based communication became unusable. People still needed a way to talk — to check on ...

Many believe that ham radio is dying with all of the modern communications technology. Not so. There are still three million hams around the world, a quarter in America.

Washington — WASHINGTON--Think of ham radio, and the image that crops up may be of a ‘50s whiz kid building his own receiver, or a retiree tapping out Morse code in some darkened room: at best an ...

As a card-carrying Baby Boomer, I remember when cameras had film, telephones had cords, cars had no seatbelts, and television went off the air at midnight. We used to “paste-up” this newspaper by ...

For 100 years or so, amateur radio operators have sat in front of their radios. And the radios have been connected to their antennas directly or by physical transmission lines – coax cable, open-wire ...