Following on from his talk Advances in Amateur Television at the RSGB 2016 convention, Noel Matthews, G8GTZ presents the latest developments in...
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When we were kids we rode bicycles without pads and helmets. We drank sugary drinks. We played with chemistry sets...
Often, mere curiosity is sufficient to do something. This is also the case with people trying to analyze the communication...
Old radios didn’t have much in the way of smarts. But as digital synthesis became more common, radios often had...
The Starlink beta has semi-officially ended, but it seems as though the global chip shortage is still limiting how many...
When sat down to design a sideband transceiver for the 20 Meter (14 MHz) ham radio band, he eschewed the...
For busy people, keeping track of all the tasks on your to-do list can be a daunting task in itself....
Were it not for the thin sheath of water and carbon-based life covering it, our home planet would perhaps be...
Throughout history, people have devised ways to send information across long distances. For centuries we relied on smoke signals, semaphores,...
Perhaps the second most famous law in electronics after Ohm’s law is Moore’s law: the number of transistors that can be...
If you are under a certain age, you might not know the initialism VTVM. It stands for vacuum tube voltmeter....
To say the Heathkit name is well known among Hackaday readers would be something of an understatement. Their legendary kits...
If you work on old equipment, you know that there’s always that tense moment when you first plug it in...
In the 125 years since Marconi made his first radio transmissions, the spectrum has been divvied up into ranges and...
We always get excited when we buy a new tablet. But after a few months, it usually winds up at...
If you or someone you know is diabetic, it is a good bet that a glucose meter is a regular...
When the cool kids are showing off their SDRs it’s easy to forget that a radio receiver can be very...
Once launched, most spacecraft are out of reach of any upgrades or repairs. Mission critical problems must be solved with...
It is an age-old problem. You have a 2.5 GHz source and you want it at 5 GHz. You need...
Like a lot of hams, wanted an “on the air” sign. These signs often connect to a PTT switch or...
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With the push to having most of a radio receiver as part of a PC, it might seem odd to...
Probably the most interesting facets of amateur radio in 2021 lie in the realm of digital modes. Using the limitless...
It is with sadness that we note the passing of the British writer, engineer, home computer pioneer, and entrepreneur, Sir...
Our Hackaday team is spread across the world, but remains in easy contact through the magic of the Internet. A...
