HAM radio may seem antiquated by today's standards, but there are still plenty of good reasons to get licensed.

Well before the days of the tweet and the status update, people communicated with each other over sweeping distances by quite literally harnessing the earth's magnetic field to send messages via radio ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Aside from the latest smartphone, ham radio has become the newest trend in ...

The newest trend in American communication isn't another smartphone from Apple or Google but one of the elder statesmen of communication: Ham radio licenses are at an all time high, with over 700,000 ...

Amateur radio (ham radio) license classes will be offered in Chino Hills starting July 10, with a second session starting Aug. 28. Ham radio operators must be licensed by the Federal Communications ...

I was having a chat recently with someone, and it surprised me that she had an amateur radio license. I suppose it shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise; after all, getting a ham radio license is ...

Are you interested in becoming a ham radio operator or upgrading your ham radio license class? Mississippi State's W5YD Amateur Radio Club is hosting a testing session to help those interested in ...

Many of today’s experienced engineers got their start in electronics through amateur, or “ham,” radio. (Many theories exist over the origin of the term “ham radio,” but there is no consensus.) Over ...

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 ...

Social networking wasn't always as easy as it is today. Long before Twitter or Facebook (or the internet itself), amateur radio was a popular way for folks to talk to people they may not necessarily ...

The FCC reversed itself and revoked the license of amateur radio operator David Titus. In 2007, the Enforcement Bureau received information that Titus had been convicted of at least one felony sex ...