OSWEGO – Fred Legawiec built his first amateur (ham) radio and passed the Novice Class ham operator’s license test at age 8. Ever since that day, and now as an Extra Class operator, Legawiec has ...

An example of a radio set-up from the 1960s along with a telegraph key and amateur radio guide booklet are seen at the 2025 World Amateur Radio Day event at Grand Central Mall. (File photo) ...

The Wellesley Amateur Radio Society has been active since its founding in 1951 as part of the nation's civil defense strategy. With more than 50 members, the club promotes amateur radio through ...

The fun is seeing how far you can go, the point is being ready to keep contact when an emergency strikes. Members of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club spent the weekend camped out on a Huntington ...

Amid claims of China sabotaging Taiwan's undersea internet cables, some citizens are learning how to send and receive their own emergency communications. In Taiwan, a nonprofit civil defense group, ...

Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Joe Walsh has led a full life. Here Walsh opens up about his former days of abusing alcohol, differences playing in The Eagles and James Gang and his passion for ham radio.

Ham radio operator Frank Krizan of Texas, who spends his summers in Scarborough, performs "Hunt and Pounce," a method of scanning the radio band for stations waiting for a turn to call them, during ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. When wildfires tore through parts of Altadena and the Palisades in January, many amateur radio operators lost more ...

The Humboldt Amateur Radio Club is offering a class to prepare students for the Amateur Radio Technician Class license examination. The Technician Class license is the entry-level license for amateur ...

Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...

What if you could broadcast signals across the globe using just a credit-card-sized computer and a handful of components? It might sound like a scene from a sci-fi novel, but with a Raspberry Pi and ...

It’s a hobby with a responsibility. That’s how the 80 members of the Steel City Amateur Radio Club in Collier view the skill, science and enjoyment of participating in ham radio. “It’s a fun place to ...