A two-way radio can be a great way to keep in touch with family and friends when camping and hiking and can even help keep you safe in the wilderness.

Many different websites that provide ham radio courses meant to help prepare people for a ham radio test have also acknowledged an increase in the number of people enrolling.

"They have all kinds of radios because they believe that the system is going to collapse and the only way to communicate is going to be through the air with a CB or a HAM radio." ...

Somehow [hvde] wound up with a CB radio that does AM and SSB on the 11 meter band. The problem was that the radio isn’t legal where he lives. So he decided to change the radio over to work on… ...

There was a time when one of the perks of having a ham radio in your car (or on your belt) was you could make phone calls using a “phone patch.” In the 1970s, calling someone from inside your ...

Forsyth said he first tried citizen’s band when CB radio was popular in the 1970s, but eventually wanted to advance to ham radios 30 years ago because they had greater power, access to more ...

‘Listen to this,” the Michigan State Police trooper told me as he turned on a CB radio mounted in his Plymouth Gran Fury police car in 1985. The cop was parking on the side of Interstate 96 ...

It was a crystal radio set that pulled Kurt Stefans in. He was in 5th grade and, like many youths in the 1950s, '60s and '70s ...

So in 2003, Loudoun County enlisted the Loudoun Amateur Radio Group -- a collection of about 60 volunteers -- to provide communications backup during a natural disaster or a terrorist attack.