 31 Aug 2010 at 7:55pm
Oklahoma State University’s Amateur Radio Club is making a comeback.
Having been around since the 1920s, Amateur Radio Club is one of the oldest clubs on campus.
31 Aug 2010 at 7:53pm
Long before Facebook, email, cell phones and satellites, a select group of people were able to communicate across continents, often broadcasting from obscure locations using ham radios. By today’s standards it may not seem too impressive. But what happens when the next big earthquake hits us?
31 Aug 2010 at 7:47pm
During emergencies and disasters, the Clinton County Sheriff's Office relies on a vital yet obscure member of their volunteer quartet to provide emergency communications. The Clinton County Emergency Communications Team is a group of volunteer amateur radio operators who help area first responders communicate with one another when normal communications channels are broken or overloaded.
31 Aug 2010 at 7:47pm
The radio club will make use of the new applied mathematics and engineering lab in Stutzman-Slonaker, room 303.
The radio club uses shortwave and high frequency radio to broadcast on wavelengths not used for commercial or other specific broadcast purposes.
31 Aug 2010 at 7:47pm
Colorful, flashing buttons proudly worn by Ernie Chiles and Phil Nash sport the saying, "When all else fails ... Amateur Radio."
31 Aug 2010 at 7:47pm
The Uniontown Amateur Radio Club will hold its annual Gabfest on Saturday, an event that is geared toward ham radio operators and electronics enthusiasts.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:50pm
Arlo Raim, KB9LLF, of Danville, Illinois, was killed by a southbound Canadian National freight train on the morning of Friday, August 20. He was 67. Raim had been in Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve -- part of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage (Illinois) County -- to monitor the effect of increased train traffic on cardinals.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:35pm
Many people know that amateur radio operators like to chat. Few realize that the chatter can sometimes save lives.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:35pm
It was a mystery for the Baxter County Sheriff's Office.
There were "major disruptions in its communication," Chief Deputy Jeff Lewis told The BulletinWednesday, and it was of an unusual type sounding like a taxi cab company's radio transmissions and occurring only at night, between about 8 p.m. and 4 a.m.
As it turned out, there was a taxi company in Mississippi whose radio transmissions were bleeding over onto the sheriff's office's radio signal.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:35pm
Many amature radio (ham) operators gave up so much time and at their own expense to help others after the Aug. 28, 1990, tornado. Most of us only slept for 15 to 30 minutes a day for an eight-day period. To begin with, we train for these kind of emergencies every year with an event called field day. This is held the last full weekend in June. We set up sites in fields and in public parks and make as many contacts as possible while trying to get through cluttered airways. This event is done so throughout the United States. We also take emergency tornado trainings, as well as, for most of us, keep up on advanced first aid.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:35pm
The Lockyer Valley Radio and Electronics Club took part in the worldwide celebration of 100 years of amateur radio and telecommunications at the weekend.
If it wasn't for many of the pioneers of these technologies, we may not have television, microwaves, satellites or mobile phones today.
The event was held in Laidley as part of the organisation's tribute to a century of telecommunications with the Australian Wireless Institute and they communicated with others via high frequency transmissions.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:35pm
An ordinance making its way to the Oceanside City Council would limit where cell phone companies and in some cases, amateur radio operators can place their towers and antennas.
A number of people in the community feel that the new ordinance doesn't go far enough in some cases, and too far in others.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:27pm
Morse code filled the tiny radio control room of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday as Michael Rioux's fingers tapped a modern telegraph aboard the National Historic Landmark built in 1936.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:48pm
The Nevada County Amateur Radio Club is turning 50 years old.
Nevada County supervisors honored club members with a plaque, presented to club President Walt Hannontree at their meeting on Tuesday.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:27pm
Prasad, VU2PTT (also W2PTT), Contest Manager for the Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI), reports:
"We have news from our Ministry of Communications that the 6 meter band has finally been allocated for Amateur Radio use."
27 Aug 2010 at 10:27pm
During the severe storms that battered Fort Bend County Monday night, the county's Emergency Management Radio Operators Group provided "vital information to the National Weather Service and the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office," according to the Fort Bend County Office of Emergency Management
27 Aug 2010 at 10:27pm
After retiring from the Army Signal Corps in 1992 as a lieutenant colonel, David Gaines has helped keep the Hotter'N Hell race and ride connected since 1993.
27 Aug 2010 at 10:27pm
This is a story of the house that ham radio built.
Richard Hayman received his first ham radio when he was 10 -- a gift from his grandfather. That radio was older than he was, built in 1942, and he used it to listen to all the buzz and crackle of conversations. That got him into a hobby that grew up along with him.
21 Aug 2010 at 8:29pm
Ham operators in Graham quickly grabbed a handle on floods in North and West Texas.
A flash flood hit Albany on Aug. 3, 1978, and covered 80 percent of the small town.
Five members of the Lake Country Amateur Radio Club drove to Albany to help set up emergency communication. They had seen drought after effects, but they had little experience with flash floods.
21 Aug 2010 at 8:29pm
TODAY you can call the Cape Byron Lighthouse your own.
The lighthouse - one of Australia’s most iconic beacons - will be open to the public as part of National Lighthouse Day.
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