In the early 1900s, radio beacons were created with the aim of tracking ships and planes. Prior to this innovation, pilots and ships’ captains usually relied on celestial navigation, and anyone who ...

In the 1950s and 60s, WANN Radio in Annapolis became a beacon for Black listeners by playing music and broadcasting voices ...

Early Friday evening, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended a search for a commercial fishing boat that had begun Thursday evening after a signal from an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon ...

While they aren’t specifically focused on communicating via meteor bounce, The UK Meteor Beacon Project hopes to leverage amateur radio operators and amateur radio astronomers to research more ...