In a time when multi-channel digital TV is the norm it’s a surprise to find that a few low-power analog...
Makers
The amateur radio community has exploded with activity lately especially in the software-defined radio (SDR) area since it was found...
It’s commonly agreed that the future of broadcast radio lies in the eventual replacement of AM and FM analogue transmissions...
If you’ve got a half-hour or so to spare, you could do worse than this video trip through a Philips...
The perfect antenna is the holy grail of amateur radio. But antenna tuning is a game of inches, and since...
2020 and all its ills have claimed another stalwart among PC builders and electronics hobbyists: Fry’s announced yesterday that they...
There’s a satisfaction in watching someone else at work, particularly when they are demonstrating a solution to a soldering problem...
Building antennas is a time-honored ham radio tradition. Shortwave antennas tend to be bulky but at VHF frequencies the antenna...
Modern life has its conveniences. Often, those conveniences lead to easier hacks. A great example of that is the rise...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that receiving data transmissions from orbiting satellites requires a complex array of hardware and software,...
Space is hard, especially if you haven’t done it before. A growing number of CubeSats are launched by small, inexperienced...
It sometimes seems as though antennas and RF design are portrayed as something of a Black Art, the exclusive preserve...
What attracts a lot of people to amateur radio is that it gives you the ability to make your own...
Analogue TV is something that most of us consider to have been consigned to the history books about a decade...
After a journey of a decade, what started as Project Loon by Google is no more. Promoted as a way...
If there’s anything about amateur radio that has more witchcraft in it than the design and implementation of antennas, we...
When took apart his Starlink dish back in November, he did his best to explain the high-level functionality of the...
Hackaday has among its staff a significant number of writers who also hold amateur radio licenses. We’re hardware folks at...
Raspberry Pi was synonymous with single-board Linux computers. No longer. The $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board is their attempt to...
The United Kingdom is somewhat unique in the world for requiring those households which view broadcast television to purchase a...
On November 8th, 2020 the Sun exploded. Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly...
An Australian radio telescope picked up unusual signals back in 2019 and thinks they originated from Proxima Centauri, a scant...
Normally we like hearing about old military gear going on the surplus market. But if you encounter some late-model Russian...
Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components...
Today the National Science Foundation released a pair of videos that document the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory with incredible...
