The American Radio Relay League hosts Field Day every June, and the Pontotoc County Amateur Radio Association joined in to compete Saturday and Sunday. Field Day is open to all licensed radio ...
If cellphone towers, power grids, and internet lines are down during a hurricane or big storm, local amateur radio operators can step up and provide essential communication for their area. Celebrating ...
WQRF Rockford on MSN
Amateur radio operators prepare for nationwide test and storm spotting
Ham radio operators from around the country will participate in a nationwide test on June 27th-28th to check their skills and equipment and keep communication lines open in the event of a power and ...
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 ...
Mark and Paula Persons at their ham station. Starting in the 1920s and through the ’60s, almost every broadcast engineer was a licensed amateur radio operator. That has changed a bit, but the ...
WBRE Wilkes-Barre on MSN
Local amateur radio operators put skills to the test in Field Day
TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Some local amateur radio operators are putting their emergency communication skills ...
The Carbon County Amateur Radio Club held its annual Ham Radio Field Day recently at Penn Forest Township Recreational Park. Amateur radio operators were called “hams” as early as 1914 when the ...
After watching a steady stream of television coverage of the horrendous conditions victims of Hurricane Katrina endured in the deadly storm’s wake, ham radio operator Dennis Motschenbacher had had ...
Become an amateur radio operator: Free online classes prepare people for upcoming FCC licensing exam
Amateur radio has been around for more than 100 years and, in this day of cell phones, computers and other high-tech devices, ham radio, as it is also known, continues to play an important role in the ...
Broadcasters are launching emergency operations as Hurricane Milton continues course for Florida’s west-central Gulf Coast. National weather forecasts show the storm making landfall late Wednesday or ...
This article is available exclusively to subscribers like you. Longtime ham radio operator Gerald Gaule wants to spread the word that amateur radio is a great hobby for those who are blind and ...
As phone lines were jammed and the internet went down in Nepal after last April’s earthquake, the only way Manju Sunar could find out if her daughter was safe was to ask an amateur radio operator in ...
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