SUMTER, S.C. — It was September of 1989 and the wind and rain of Hurricane Hugo were battering the state. Vic Jones was the director of emergency services in Sumter at the time, and remembers the ...

There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing, as they called it. A new program, LongChat, is a new entry into the ham radio software ...

ATLANTA – Seeking reliable backup communication in a crisis, emergency managers are finding new solutions in an old technology: ham radio. “It’s just another avenue, another opportunity for us to be ...

When devastating fires ravaged North Bay communities last fall, many communication devices and services proved inadequate to the need. Mike Von der Porten has this Perspective on one that did not.

Only a few years ago, blogs listed ham radio alongside 35 mm film and VHS tape as technologies slated to disappear. They were wrong. Nearly 700,000 Americans have ham radio licenses — up 60 percent ...