HAM radio may seem antiquated by today's standards, but there are still plenty of good reasons to get licensed.

Two Russian cosmonauts will float outside the International Space Station on Wednesday (Aug. 3) to install an experimental laser-based communications system and release an amateur ham radio satellite ...

There are more than 1,600 CubeSats in orbit around the Earth, with more than 1,000 of those launching in 2020 alone. But while these inexpensive small satellites have made space more accessible to ...

This story was updated at 1:07 p.m. EDT. Two Russian cosmonauts hit a snag while trying to toss an amateur satellite into orbit from the International Space Station today (Aug. 3) because of a missing ...

Hermosa Beach resident John D. Kovac, M.D., has two passions: the space program and amateur radio. The seeds for both were planted early. “When I was in sixth grade, my brother and I would lie on a ...

Two years ago, in my home state of Kentucky, we had a devastating tornado that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency ...