Dutchess County will offer a free course and exam for amateur radio, or ham, radio operators beginning June 5 in Poughkeepsie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Amateur radio operators from around the country will participate in a nationwide test on Saturday. In the ...

All weekend, amateur radio operators tested their skills in case of emergency – which happens more often than you would think. Ham radio has been around since the early 1900s, and it is considered ...

Candidates for testing must follow certain rules and complete certain preparations. 1.) Exam candidates are required to register in the FCC CORES system and receive a Federal Registration Number (FRN) ...

Members of the Central Kentucky Amateur Radio Society set up in Richmond’s Camp Catalpa Park at 2 p.m. Saturday and began trying to make as many contacts as possible in 24 hours. The annual exercise ...

Plus a stop at NH's remaining RadioShack ...

Members of the Ascension Amateur Radio Club participated Oct. 21 in a statewide disaster drill or Simulated Emergency Test over amateur radio. The scenario was “Hurricane Pam” which was a category 3 ...

WREX (ROCKFORD) — In the case of an emergency, a local radio club wants to make sure you’re prepared. Today the Rockford Amatueur Radio Association wrapped up its annual Ham Radio training. The ...

If all else fails, amateur ham radio usually doesn’t. The Skyview Radio Society in Upper Burrell will participate in an annual event to make sure that remains the case, putting their communication ...

What are ham radios? In short, ham radio operators are amateur radio enthusiasts who communicate with one another via radio frequencies assigned specifically to this community by the Federal ...

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 ...