The Boulder County Fairgrounds turned into a communication hub Saturday during the Longmont Amateur Radio Club’s Summer Field Day. The annual event encourages ham radio operators to meet, practice ...

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 ...

Rick Bressler leaned over a laptop with flashing radio frequencies and a list of communications with far-flung countries — Wales, Bosnia-Herzegovina and dozens of others — his ham radio setup in ...

The fun is seeing how far you can go, the point is being ready to keep contact when an emergency strikes. Members of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club spent the weekend camped out on a Huntington ...

Dejanira Okorn, right, listens as WACOM vice-president Tom Wright explains how to connect with a ham radio operator during the AARL Summer Field Day on Saturday. Some of the members of the Washington ...

Most people would happily have skipped having the past weekend’s winter storm, but for amateur or “ham” radio operators, it was perfect timing. Saturday and Sunday already were scheduled as a ...

Tom Beckett gestures toward a window on the third floor of the Durham County Main Library. “We’re in the middle of a geomagnetic storm,” he announces. The room chuckles. There are no swirling vortexes ...

It’s a hobby with a responsibility. That’s how the 80 members of the Steel City Amateur Radio Club in Collier view the skill, science and enjoyment of participating in ham radio. “It’s a fun place to ...