When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

Talking about this Chinese ham radio transceiver requires a veritable flurry of acronyms: HF, SSB, QRP, and SDR to start with. [Paul] does a nice job of unboxing the rig and checking it out. The radio ...

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 ...

John D. Hays, an IT manager in Edmonds, Wash., devotes most of his spare time these days to helping develop a communications system that’s designed to integrate portable two-way radios with the global ...

When Isabella Payne heads back to elementary school in September, she’s going to have the best “what I did in my vacation” story to tell. In a tale of “right place, right time,” the 8-year-old girl ...

There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing, as they called it. A new program, LongChat, is a new entry into the ham radio software ...

These Colorado kids turned to older technology to ask Santa for gifts this year. This year, kids visit with Santa using ham radio Gone are the days that kids go to the mall, sit on Santa’s lap and ...