CHICO — Over 30 years, ham radio enthusiast Larry Mitchell has made contacts in Mexico, Japan, Morocco, Iceland and South Africa — just to name a few. Ham radio, also known as amateur radio, is a ...

If you’d have asked us for odds on whether you could successfully turn a canned ham into an amateur radio antenna, we’d have declined the offer. Now, having seen [Ben Eadie (VE6SFX)]’s “hamtenna” ...

Six hours into the 90th annual National Association for Amateur Radio Field Day, Peter Von Hagen sat alone in front of his ham radio. Metal microphone in his left hand and pen poised ready over a ...

WAYNE COUNTY, Pa. — It was a big weekend in the world of ham radio in Wayne County. Ham radio, or amateur radio, is a popular hobby people use to talk across town or around the world or to send out ...

The Boulder County Fairgrounds turned into a communication hub Saturday during the Longmont Amateur Radio Club’s Summer Field Day. The annual event encourages ham radio operators to meet, practice ...

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — County Emergency Management Amateur Radio Emergency Services’ ham radio operators will be attending a national amateur radio exercise this weekend. The Radio Field Day ...

(TNS) — The folks behind the Central Kentucky Amateur Radio Society (CKARS) pulled an all-nighter on Saturday. The group took part in the National Amateur Radio Field Day exercise — making contact ...

The Heart O’ Texas Amateur Radio Club set up their radios and antennas at Hewitt Park Saturday to participate in American Radio Relay League Field Day. The overnight event, which started in 1933, ...

If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it’s turning just about anything into an antenna. And hams have a long history of portable operations, too, where they drag a (sometimes) ...

Ham radio hobbyists will practice their emergency communications skills while showing the Ramona community how they can help during a fire, earthquake or other disaster at Amateur Radio Field Day. The ...

A group of about a dozen amateur radio operators from Long Island had already contacted dozens of others from around the country just minutes into American Radio Relay League Field Day Saturday ...