It’s a hobby with a responsibility. That’s how the 80 members of the Steel City Amateur Radio Club in Collier view the skill, ...

Seems to me that amateur radio is more or liss doing what it originally was intended for: teaching kids technology. A ham gave me the ARRL HANDBOOK(bible) when i was 12 and.

A dying art? Formally known as the Amateur Radio Service, ham radio is at least 100 years old. By definition, hams are amateurs, barred from accepting payment for their services under federal law.

The state of the art Some segments of the ham-radio hobby allow you to impress your engineering friends, and maybe even your non-engineering friends. When you tell people you are into ham radio, they ...

Ham Radio Art. You often hear this described as ASCII art, today, although hams usually use 5-bit BAUDOT code, so that’s a misnomer for those images, at least. Of course, ...

The American Radio Relay League, an organization that exists to "promote and advance the art, science, and enjoyment of amateur radio," sponsors 19 different contests a year to encourage hams to ...

Amateur radio operators gathered at the Nacogdoches County Emergency Operations Center this past week for one of the most important events of the year.

Ham radios use a special set of frequencies — not the regular AM or FM signals on a regular radio — to "turn electrical power into actual radio communications," David said during a meeting of ...

Brigantine has long been the home base to the Shore Points Amateur Radio Club, or SPARC, a group of what are commonly called ham radio operators, who communicate with others ...