The annual conference of the Ham Radio University, which was formed in 1999, was held Saturday at LIU Post in Brookville.

When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

Before we can talk about it, however, we need some basic language, and like most technologies, Amateur Radio has a language all its own. This month, Dan Smith gets us started by explaining some of the ...

Your computer exchanges basic information with the other station ... For better or worse, ham radio and computers are inextricably married.

This means you can communicate with other ham radio operators even when traditional ... the process is relatively ...