The Solar Eclipse QSO Party provided hams an opportunity to operate during both the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses. In...
Year: 2024
If you’ve ever had to suffer through a call tree and a 9,000 hour wait on hold to cancel a...
has started a new video series to show his latest recreation of a Commodore VIC-20. The core of the machine...
It’s not uncommon for a new distro version to come out, and a grudging admission that maybe a faster laptop...
If you’ve ever designed a battery-powered device with a Pi Zero, you have no doubt looked into decreasing its power...
It's time for ham radio clubs to move away from the PDF based newsletter as a primary publishing format. The...
We’ve often heard you should do everything twice. The first time is to learn what you need to do, and...
The latest version of FreeDV includes a new digital voice over HF mode titled Radio Autoencoder (RADE). Previous updates have...
As Hackaday writers we don’t always know what our colleagues are working on until publication time, so we all look...
Some time ago, while designing the PCB for the Sony Vaio replacement motherboard, I went on a quest to find...
It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable...
Researchers at MIT have unexpectedly stumbled upon a way to 3D print active electronics – meaning transistors and components for...
If you need an amplifier, has some advice. Don’t design your own; grab cheap and tiny RF amplifier modules and...
ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, is experiencing a power outage this morning, Tuesday, October 22, 2024. The local utility company...
The Intelsat 33e satellite has broken up in geostationary orbit (GEO) and lost power, ceasing communications services for customers across...
Although initially defined as an issue with GPIO inputs when configured with the internal pull-downs enabled, erratum RP2350-E9 has recently...
It is hard to imagine that a handful of decades ago, TV wasn’t a thing. We’ve talked a few times...
When are jumper wires on a breadboard entirely optional? When it’s the latest version of ’s Jumperless, which uses a...
When it comes to Nixie tubes, the most common usage these days seems to be in clocks. That has people...
If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository, congratulations! You’re a winner!...
The 23rd USA and 12th IARU Region 2 Radio Orienteering Championships, held October 5 - 13, 2024, brought together more...
The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but...
In a joint statement on Oct. 15th, NASA and NOAA announced that Solar Maximum is underway. If you saw last...
Today, ICOM released a new video celebrating 60 years of business innovationof. This brand new video looks back on the...
An old form of communication is vital in hurricane recovery efforts as amateur radio operators across North Carolina and Florida...