Joe Barnhart with the Meigs County Auxiliary Communications said it takes a team to be prepared.

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 ...

When you can’t hop on your cellphone, they’ll be able to tune in other operators across the globe and keep lines of ...

In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...

In events of hazardous weather conditions, the West Virginia Emergency Management Department is rolling out a system with ...

There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing, as they called it. A new program, LongChat, is a new entry into the ham radio software ...

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It was one small step for a NASA astronaut and one giant leap for a father-daughter duo from the U.K. with a shared interest in amateur radio. Matt Payne, of Kent, England, got to share a special ...

When Isabella Payne heads back to elementary school in September, she's going to have the best "what I did in my vacation" story to tell. In a tale of "right place, right time," the 8-year-old girl ...