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 ...

Hackaday has among its staff a significant number of writers who also hold amateur radio licenses. We’re hardware folks at heart, so we like our radios homebrew, and we’re never happier than when ...

My amateur radio journey began back in the mid-1970s. I was about 12 at the time, with an interest in electronics that baffled my parents. With little to guide me and fear for my life as I routinely ...

Well before the days of the tweet and the status update, people communicated with each other over sweeping distances by quite literally harnessing the earth's magnetic field to send messages via radio ...

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, ...

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 ...

Growing up in the 1940s and ’50s, I loved science toys like chemistry sets and telescopes, and especially kits to build anything electronic. I spent many delightful hours with my father at night ...

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 ...

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 ...