Lucas Adcock Staff Writer Let’s start with a vivid scenario – one which cripples the grid, extinguishing telecommunications via both landline and cell coverage. To add to the scenario, and to make it ...

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 ...

FORT WORTH, TEXAS – RadioShack’s humble beginnings as a small, 1920s Boston ham radio shop and mail-order business belie its later role as an American retail icon with 7,000 stores and a bevy of ...

Longtime ham radio operator Gerald Gaule wants to spread the word that amateur radio is a great hobby for those who are blind and disabled. Gaule, who was disabled in 2007, said he worked for ...

RadioShack began in 1921 as a Boston ham radio shop and mail-order operation and was acquired in 1963 by one-time Texas leather supplier Tandy, which later assumed the retailer’s name. Based on 2013 ...

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 ...

Eight years ago, amateur radio enthusiast and ham-radio operator Bill LaMay wondered who might be the patron saint of amateur radio. He began searching the internet for some answer since the field of ...

During the 2024 holiday season, amateur radio operators were treated to a unique gift from the International Space Station (ISS): a slow-scan television (SSTV) image of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams ...