New online course helps beginners prepare for the updated FCC Amateur Radio Technician exam question pool taking effect July 1, 2026.

Full disclosure: ham radio isn’t for everyone, and there are many different facets to it. What appeals to one person might bore another to death. One area of ham radio that has changed a lot in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ham radio operators from the Midland Amateur Radio Club (MARC) and Odessa Amateur Radio Society (OARS) will be participating ...

In a world of satellites and cell towers, radio may seem hopelessly outdated. But there are plenty of good reasons to get a ham radio license in today's world. From personal hobbies to emergency ...

Jun. 24—BLUEFIELD — Local ham radio operators will be participating this weekend in a national amateur radio exercise, ARRL Field Day, an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ARRL, ...

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 ...

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 ...