Amidst the recent news about the Hubble Space Telescope’s troubles (and triumphant resurrection), it is sometimes easy to forget that although...
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In 2021 all our electronics are solid state, in that they exclusively use semiconductor devices as their active components. Some...
knows there are at least two things wrong with the cheap antennas you get with most SDR dongles. First, they...
We don’t normally embrace the supernatural here at Hackaday, but when the topic turns to the radio frequency world, Arthur...
A significant event in the history of technology happened yesterday, and it passed so quietly that we almost missed it. The...
Dipoles are a classic builder’s antenna, after all they are usually little more than two pieces of wire and a...
These days, we are spoiled for choice with regard to SDRs for RF analysis, but sometimes we’re more interested in...
The arrival of LoRa a few years ago gave us at last an accessible licence-free UHF communication protocol with significant...
An SDR add-on for the Raspberry Pi isn’t a new idea, but the open source cariboulite project looks like a great...
For the first time since its inception, the Korea Communications Commission this week revoked the regulatory approvals of 1,696 telecommunications devices from...
Before smartphones and Internet of Things devices were widely distributed, the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) was the way to...
Some of you may remember a recent project that featured on these pages, a 555 timer reproduced using vacuum tubes....
In the annals of technical achievement originating from the United Kingdom there lies a forgotten success story that should have...
The 90s were a dark time for audio equipment, literally and figuratively. Essentially the only redeeming quality from the decade...
A Baofeng radio is often one of the first purchases a new ham radio operator makes these days due to...
If you’ve been following the world of mobile phone technology of late, you may be aware that Apple’s latest IPhones...
What do you do with floral wire and balloons from Dollar Tree? If you are , you make a ham radio...
LoRa is great for sending short data packets over long ranges but is not normally suitable for voice communications. is...
In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t all that long ago that the entire body of knowledge of our...
It’s easy to get caught up in a build and forget that the final version usually needs some sort of...
There’s no shortage of cheap weather stations on the market that pull in data from several wireless sensors running in...
Your airplane has crashed at sea. You are perched in a lifeboat and you need to call for help. Today...
On July 4th, 1976, as Americans celebrated the country’s bicentennial with beer and bottle rockets, a strong signal began disrupting...
IEEE Spectrum had an interesting read about circuits using silicon carbide as a substrate. and colleagues say that circuits based on...
If you’ve got 10 minutes, how about a quick break to watch a video about renewable clean electric power? Must...
