The Sun has just unleashed an M5-class solar flare, a powerful burst of radiation that signals a clear uptick in solar activity as the current cycle heads toward its peak. While this event is not the ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has already rewritten the rulebook on what a visitor from deep space can look like, and now ...

Along with turkey, ham has become popular to serve at the Thanksgiving table. For the last few years, the American Farm Bureau Federation included ham in an expanded version of its annual cost of a ...

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 ...

When it comes down to Radio apps, the Windows Store is overrun with them. But instead of talking about them all, we will focus on the four radio apps we believe to be the best of the bunch. This app ...

Once upon a time, ham radio was all about CW and voice transmissions and little else. These days, the hobby is altogether richer, with a wide range of fancy digital data modes to play with. [KM6LYW ...

A 92-year-old man has lost a battle with Stockton Council to keep an antenna in his garden that allows him to talk to fellow radio enthusiasts. Ray Pratt, who uses a wheelchair, spends much of his ...

During the ice storm of 1998, power lines and transmission towers in Quebec and Ontario collapsed under layers of ice, taking out communications and leaving millions of people stranded without ...

Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...

Area amateur radio enthusiasts will take to the airwaves Saturday, June 28 for the hobby’s annual Field Day. Locally, the Catskill Transmitters Radio Club, together with the Oneonta Amateur Radio Club ...

Nearly 300 commenters have already flooded the FCC’s website since Chairman Brendan Carr asked for public input on ways to eliminate burdensome regulations. Experts say much of the FCC work will ...