Power outages caused by the Gap Fire have disrupted servers, killed routers and shut off televisions. Yet the solution to the recent communications problems may lie in an old technology: ham radio.

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 ...

W4BRU, KF4JG, WA4FEH. To most people these are just a clutter of incomprehensible numbers and letters. To the Richmond Amateur Radio Club, they are a rite of passage. The groups of letters and numbers ...

What if you could broadcast signals across the globe using just a credit-card-sized computer and a handful of components? It might sound like a scene from a sci-fi novel, but with a Raspberry Pi and ...

Long before pixels and cell towers, there were dots and dashes. Morse Code was the complicated mainstay communication of choice practically from the day Samuel Morse started clicking his prized ...

In the Midland community, as well as around the world, an army of faceless voices helps connect the pieces and share information behind the scenes of disasters. These same voices make friends all over ...