For more than a month, ham radio operators ferried food and supplies to relief ... on top of UAB’s Jefferson Tower—which took the place of a key backup amateur radio repeater antenna that went down on ...

This is an exciting day for me — we finally get to build some ham radio gear ... Sure, it’s cool to buy a radio, even a cheap one, and be able to hit a repeater that you think is unreachable.

The city-wide GMRS (General Mobile Radio System) repeater system is operational. GMRS is a neighborhood backup for cell phone ...

The radio can also be set up as a cross-band repeater, which holds some interesting possibilities for me. Almost all FM mobile ham rigs these days are digital, and many of them support one or the ...

In fact, the only limit to amateur radio is your imagination, according to John Maag, call sign KD9QDL, and John Chalmers, ...

Also known as ham radio, this old-school method of technology ... Gold said. Many of the repeaters, which are automated relay stations that have broad coverage, were offline because of Helene.