When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.
The Indiana County Emergency Management Agency Radio Club will hold a quarterly amateur radio license testing session on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. at the ICEMA 911 center, 85 Haven Drive, White Township. Club ...
Consider this: It is now four decades ago that astronaut Owen Garriott, callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space. He was a crewmember on the space shuttle program's STS-9 ...
Volunteer ham radio operators are coming to the aid of relief agencies and emergency officials to help with badly needed communications in areas of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi ravaged early ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Saturday, ICEMARC, the Indiana County emergency preparedness ham radio group, again will transmit about the legacy of Jimmy Stewart. Outside the entrance to the Jimmy Stewart Museum along Ninth and ...
Tom Dawson squeezes into a chair jammed between five computer screens and shelves of gadgets in a cramped room of his house, turns on a ham radio transceiver and searches the airwaves for company. He ...