On July 28, the FCC issued a Citation to The Spy Store for marketing unauthorized radio frequency devices. According to the Commission, these devices were in violation of the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended and the Commission's Rules, as well as United States Customs and Border Patrol regulations.

THE Cape Byron Lighthouse will be just one of more than 380 locations from more than 46 countries to host the 2009 International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend on August 15 and 16.

In an emergency they are always there transmitting vital information to those who need it most.

When it's not an emergency, local amateur radio enthusiasts just enjoy having fun.

RadioShack will reposition itself as "The Shack" in an expansive marketing campaign that launches this Thursday.

But the company insists the effort, which will encompass TV, print and digital media, merely underscores an existing nickname, and isn't about changing the brand.

A year-long course in amateur radio has ended in eight pupils from a Cheshire school winning licences from the Radio Society of Great Britain.

The Brownhills Maths and Computing College students all took part in the establishments first broadcasting course, which allowed them to contact other amateur radio users around the world.

Other kids are consumed with cell phones, text messages, Tweets, e-mails and Facebook postings. But 75 teenagers in Cala-basas, 25 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, have become licensed amateur radio operators and hope to lead a new wave of shortwave enthusiasts.

On July 28, the FCC approved a modification that expands the ARRL's 500 kHz experimental license WD2XSH. According to Experiment Coordinator Fritz Raab, W1FR, the expansion allows for more frequencies, more stations and portable operations.

After reading the August 2005 QST article by Chris Ormsby, K0CAO, and Bob Witte, K0NR, I thought what fun a HF low power (QRP) operation from a Colorado 14er (A mountain over 14,000 feet high.) would be. The carrot would be that an out-of-state 14er to 14er HF contact had yet to be made.1 After the N7UN and WG0AT fun-packed hike through the Canyonlands National Park in April 2008, Steve and I made plans to participate in this unique Colorado operating event. 2 It was after we heard that Brian Boschma, N6IZ, was planning to HF QRP activate Mt Whitney (14,491 feet) the same weekend as the Colorado 14er event that our mutual plans solidified. We would take a crack at making the first out-of-state summit HF QRP contact between a Colorado 14er and Mt Whitney in California.

As the International Space Station floated hundreds of miles above the Earth Thursday, a group of children in New Providence got a chance to say hello to an astronaut on board.

RADIO ham Robert Dodson is fighting calls to remove a 27ft mast from his back garden despite complaints from neighbours.

Mr Dodson, 59, of Daffodil Leaze, King's Stanley, who uses the mast to communicate with fellow enthusiasts across the globe, was served an enforcement notice for its removal after he erected it without permission last September.