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.

It is popular to blame new technology for killing things. The Internet killed newspapers. Video killed the radio star. Is FT8, a new digital technology, poised to kill off ham radio? The community ...

MILWAUKEE—Long ago, before Facebook, Twitter and email, ham radio operators were the original social media geeks. And they’re still out there, in greater numbers than ever, chatting and messaging each ...

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 ...

SHIMLA: Taking into consideration the recent devastation triggered by the torrential rains and landslides, the Himachal Pradesh government has recognized a strong need to evolve an alternate means of ...