Two years ago, in my home state of Kentucky, we had a devastating tornado that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency ...

Before the internet reduced communication to the whiz of an email or text, sent and received within seconds, people had slower options for staying in touch with each other. Some wrote letters, others ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just when one might think there’s nothing new in the world of ham radios, along comes digital, and it’s being embraced due to its ...

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 ...

Ham radio operators from the TAG Region (Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia) will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise from 2 p.m. on Saturday until 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 22-23. The ...

ABERDEEN – For more than 20 years, amateur radio operator Jim Buffington has traveled to lighthouses along the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf Coast to activate his equipment at or near the light ...