When the power goes out and cell service fails, amateur radio keeps working. That reliability is one reason the hobby still draws newcomers. In Limerick, the Pottstown Area Amateur Radio Club has ...

Spectators can follow the flight of a high-altitude amateur radio weather balloon as it ascends 18 miles up during the annual ...

The TSA is rolling out new 3D scanners with smaller openings. Will your carry-on bag still fit through security?

San Antonio residents who find a lost dog or cat will soon have more places to check for an owner, thanks to new free microchip scanners being installed outside fire stations.

The Montgomery Police Department has changed with way it broadcasts radio calls, cutting out the opportunity to track the calls with radio scanners. “The Montgomery Police Department has transitioned ...

Scientists have successfully demonstrated a breakthrough in how sensitive radio telescopes can be used to significantly improve the world's ability to detect, track and characterize satellites and ...

In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...

PORT HURON, MI — Police radio traffic in Port Huron is expected to go silent to the public this week as the department begins encrypting its communications, a change tied to statewide requirements ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. CRIMINAL JUSTICE · Vanessa Kelder was weeks away from ...

Ham radio operator Frank Krizan of Texas, who spends his summers in Scarborough, performs "Hunt and Pounce," a method of scanning the radio band for stations waiting for a turn to call them, during ...