At the height of the Cold War when I was 13 years old, I got my amateur (ham) radio novice license. From the confines of a cramped closet in my bedroom, my “ham shack,” I talked via Morse code night ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. My trip around the world took less than an hour. Chris in Paris, France, ...

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke uses the amateur radio on board the International Space Station to talk with crew at the Palmer Research Station in Antarctica in 2004. I hear static, but the voice comes ...

Photo by Doug Loyer Richard Miller, President of the Marietta Amateur Radio Club watches club member Matt Pooler making contact with another station. MARIETTA — The Marietta Amateur Radio Club ...

That’s amateur radio. From his home in Punta Gorda, Marty Purselley can communicate with other ham radio operators all over the world. “We can see England, Puerto Rico. We can see France, Canada, ...

Through Dec. 24, children can talk to Santa — all they need is access to amateur radio equipment. Children, also known as “little harmonics” in amateur radio lingo, can call “the North Pole” through ...

(TNS) - The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio set can be had for a few hundred bucks. Perhaps that explains, in part, the appeal of having one of humankind's ...

Ham radio operator Dwight Holtzen works out of the VFW Post 3115 in west Wichita earlier this month. Go to Kansas.com to watch a video from the VFW Post 3115 ham radio operation. (Jan. 8, 2016) ...