There was another way, too, though much less known to the general public. It's called amateur "ham" radio, a kind of hobby whereby operators across the world chat with each other over the air waves.

At the height of the Cold War when I was 13 years old, I got my amateur (ham) radio novice license. From the confines of a cramped closet in my bedroom, my “ham shack,” I talked via Morse code ...

QSL cards, which stand for “I confirm receipt of your transmission,” were commonplace in the early 20th century, when millions of ham radio operators tuned into specific radio frequencies to ...

The Amateur Radio Association of the Southern Tier will hold its Field Day, open to the public, June 28-29 on Harris Hill in ...

Contact cards on the wall of his radio room show proof of memorable exchanges with far-flung locales and interesting people, like the late Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Peggy Sue of Buddy ...

There are over 1,400 radio clubs across the United States. The American Radio Relay League has a list of all associated radio ...

QSL "calling cards" became a highlight of ham radio in the hobby's early days, and the McLean County Museum of History has a colorful one from a cartoonist in its ...

Although I see a lot of wireless projects, I’m always surprised at the lack of diversity in the radio portions of them. I’m a ham radio operator (WD5GNR; I was licensed in 1977) and hams use a ...

For 24 hours, starting at 2 p.m. Saturday and ending Sunday afternoon, amateur radio operators attempted to contact as many other ham radio operators as they could.