Ham Radio News

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In addition, CQ named two new members to the CQ DX Hall of Fame and two new members to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame.

2:20 p.m.: A large tree snaps eight miles west of Waskom, Texas. 2:30 p.m.: Two people are injured when a tree falls, smashing a truck in Waskom.

Who can resist taking a long look at the vintage veterans sitting along the aisles of the flea markets? Hey, I'm talking about the radios, not the attendees! "Big iron" is making its comeback with Johnsons and Hallicrafters and Swans shoulder-to-shoulder at the hamfests.

Nearly 25,000 amateur radio operators will descend on Dayton this weekend for the annual Dayton Hamvention event.

You might as well realize it, that " smartphone " - Blackberry Z10, Samsung S, HTC One, Apple iPhone 5 - is really just a two-way radio transceiver.

Certain assertions in Randolph J. May's piece on the new FCC nominee may be a bit premature .

A veteran ham radio operator will speak when the Lee De Forest Amateur Radio Club meets Wednesday, May 15.

The fiber optic cable the serves phone customers in the Jenner, Sea Ranch and Timber Cove areas was disrupted at some point before 8 a.m. in the vicinity of Monte Rio and AT&T and Verizon have been on scene trying to repair it, said Zachary Hamill, emergency coordinator for the Sonoma County Fire and Emergency Services Department.

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I wish I was back in school again. When I was a student, the only technical gadget in the building was a cranky 16 millimeter projector that our teachers used to show films like Hemo the Magnificent and The Unchained Goddess .

The Pinellas Park FL Amateur Radio Club will be holding a ham radio & electronic flea market on 5-25-2013 starting at 8 am at Freedom Lake Park.

This Saturday, May 11th, the West Queen Anne Playfield will be the staging grounds for Mayday, Mayday, an earthquake preparedness drill.

Every year, ham radio operators take part in many challenging contests and exercises, both for fun and to hone their skills.

Several northwestern Indiana students are thrilled after having a chance to talk with an astronaut now orbiting on the International Space Station .

Three consumer smartphones that were sent into orbit around Earth last month snapped some incredible photos of our planet from space.

I find a lot of editorializing about amateur radio to be, well, curiously off the mark.

I admit it I am a Star Trek fan. I own and have watched every episode from the original 'TOS' series many times and like many Star Trek fans I can recite lines from many of the episodes and movies verbatim.

Attendees have an interest in providing emergency communication via Amateur Radio during training exercises or in response to disasters.

Joseph J. Schroeder Jr. was a student at New Trier High School during World War II when a neighbor who was a radio operator in the Merchant Marine told him that if he took the school's course in radio code, he'd "never carry a rifle." Mr.