You no doubt recall the incredible Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) reverse engineering and restoration project featured on the CuriousMarc YouTube channel a...
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We’ve seen a few interesting magnetic core memories on these fine pages over the years, but we don’t recall seeing...
To say that the World War II collectors market is popular would be the understatement of our young century. Ranging from the...
Company is set to kill support for its classic smartphones running on its own operating system on January 4 -...
The evening of Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1920, had come and gone. KDKA, 8MK, and perhaps others had taken to the...
The national amateur radio society of Finland, SRAL, has presented Iceland's IRA with an engraved KBX-380 Morse paddle to commemorate the 75th anniversary...
In a brief transmission across the Atlantic Ocean using a 150-watt wireless transmitter station, members of the Marconi Radio Club...
https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/a-conversation-with-author-nick-tusa/ Author Nick Tusa discusses his newest book, “Wes Schum: Amateur Radio’s Unsung Hero”. For more information go to jancarolpublishing.com...
The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and the ARRL – The National Association for Amateur Radio – have announced winners of...
THERE ARE MORE than 1,600 CubeSats in orbit around the Earth, with more than 1,000 of those launching in 2020 alone. But while...
As consumer electronics companies chase profits on tighter and tighter margins, it seems like quality is continually harder to find...
There has been world-wide reporting of the work done using amateur radio WSPR signals in an attempt to pinpoint the...
In honor of the 80th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club took over...
Restoring vintage computers is the favorite task of many hardware hackers. Retrocomputing probably makes you think of home computer brands...
The array of people I meet when giving tours of Oak Ridge never ceases to amaze me. Recently, I had...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of the first play by play broadcast in the United States. The...
How subcarrier radio signals made room for hidden FM stations—and helped ensure that everyone has access to the news A...
To say the Heathkit name is well known among Hackaday readers would be something of an understatement. Their legendary kits...
Our Hackaday team is spread across the world, but remains in easy contact through the magic of the Internet. A...
Had the pandemic not upended many of this summer’s fun and games, many of my friends would have made a...
We think of radio navigation and direction finding as something fairly modern. However, it might surprise you that direction finding...
On December 8, 1960, German TV broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) aired an 8 minute report about amateur radioThe radio amateur needs a...
In 2021 all our electronics are solid state, in that they exclusively use semiconductor devices as their active components. Some...
In the annals of technical achievement originating from the United Kingdom there lies a forgotten success story that should have...
In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t all that long ago that the entire body of knowledge of our...