WINCHESTER — Tim Angell twists a dial on his thick, black Yaesu radio, and hears a hiss, a crackle and a tone rising and falling like a slide whistle. He twists again, and the radio spits out rapid ...

Back in the 1960’s, the entry level amateur radio license was called the novice license. To earn this license, you needed to learn the Morse code and be able to send and receive Morse code messages at ...

Turning the dial ever so slowly, Griff Warren of Boiling Springs listens closely for a clear signal to emerge from all the static and garbled audio. His ears perk up as he zeroes in on a faraway voice ...

When Japan’s SLIM lunar lander made a rather unconventional touch-down on the lunar surface, it had already disgorged two small lunar excursion vehicles from its innards: LEV-1 and LEV-2. Of these, ...

More than 100 Scouts from across B.C. came together to take part in the annual Jamboree on the Air near Kelowna, an event that connects Scouts across the world. “The third weekend of October for the ...

The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio set can be had for a few hundred bucks. Perhaps that explains, in part, the appeal of having one of humankind’s greatest ...