I really appreciated the article from Mark Persons on amateur radio (“Alike, but Not Alike: Broadcast vs. Ham Radio”). Unfortunately, as Mark mentioned, with cell phones and the internet, the youth of ...

For 100 years or so, amateur radio operators have sat in front of their radios. And the radios have been connected to their antennas directly or by physical transmission lines – coax cable, open-wire ...

Amateur 'ham' radio operators don't need web cams or the Internet to chat with people all over the world With millions of people posting up-to-the-minute photos on Facebook, checking Twitter and ...

When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

Depending on who you talk to, Google Assistant is either a tool capable of quickly and clearly answering audio queries in natural langauge, or a noisier and less useful version of Wolfram Alpha.

When Helene swept across the Southeast on Sept. 27, including Western North Carolina, cell phones and internet-based communication became unusable. People still needed a way to talk — to check on ...

When I meet people and the subject turns to hobbies and interests, I often get puzzled looks when I mention that I do ham radio. “Do people still do that? I thought the Internet pretty much killed it ...