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 ...

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.