Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Mitchell sits in front of his amateur "ham" radio setup, including a screen showing a map of the world and designated places ...

Have you ever considered running your ham radio remotely? It has been feasible for years but not always easy. Recently, I realized that most of the pieces you need to get on the air remotely are ...

A ham radio setup is pictured at Learned Hall on the KU campus as part of a national ham radio field day, June 26, 2010. Local amateur radio operators will be setting up temporary transmitting ...

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 ...

“Whiskey, Five, Echo, X-Ray, India. GOTA Station Field Day in Lafayette, Louisiana. W5EXI, CQ, CQ.” Jess Gillion repeatedly called out the alphabet soup of words and acronyms over the short-wave radio ...

Even in these days of incessant tweets, texts and Facebook posts, a century-old form of social media is drawing new enthusiasts by embracing the latest technology. Members of amateur, or ham, radio ...

But ham operators say that like the many frequencies themselves, radio went in several different directions, including the entertainment industry, military use and, of course, the private amateur ...

Poway’s amateur radio enthusiasts, or “hams,” spent 24 hours at Lake Poway on Saturday and Sunday contacting other hams across the world for the annual American Relay League Field Day. The Poway ...