Harpoon 1-2, this is Midnight Sun 1, radio check, over.”A brief pause stretches across the 545 miles of Arctic terrain, ...

Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. -- Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington (JFHQ-NCR/MDW) deployed their mobile command post on Fort ...

What’s old is new again across the vast contested region. The U.S. military is returning to an old friend to help conquer the tyranny of distance in an increasingly contested area. The Defense ...

With the development and fielding of satellite communications throughout the U.S. military, today’s warfighters rarely use high frequency communications within and between units. International events ...

Ham radio operators have been using the shortwave (“high-frequency” or HF) bands for data communications for over 50 years, but the data rates are much less than those available with dial-up modems.

BRENTWOOD — When a major disaster occurs, be it fire, earthquake or something else, neighborhoods could be cut off from rescue services and need to take care of themselves. Those trained in emergency ...

If anyone thinks ham radio is outdated, think again. When a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti in January and knocked out most communications — even cell phones — ham radio operators were able to ...

A scout in Tobago uses a Barrett Communications high-frequency radio. (Photo provided by TEMA.) The disaster management agency in the Caribbean island nation of Tobago is bolstering its emergency ...

A hurricane is about to batter this caribbean beach hut. Shutterstock: Drew McArthur Based in St Vincent & the Grenadines, the Rainbow Radio League (RRL) is a non-profit organisation bringing ...