For decades, the magnetic stripe has been ubiquitous on everything from credit cards to tickets to ID badges. But the...
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We’ve all got our favorite hand tools, and while the selection criteria are usually pretty subjective, it usually boils down...
North Korea is one of the most isolated and secretive countries in the world. Its 26 million residents are cut...
In today’s value-engineered world, getting a decade of service out of a cordless tool is pretty impressive. By that point...
Everyone likes a good lunar landing simulator, and wrote a fun take on the idea: your goal is to write...
Entangled photons are an ideal choice for large-scale networks employing quantum encryption or similar, as photons can use fiber-optical cables...
Remember when dead batteries were something you’d just toss in the trash? Those days are long gone, thankfully, and rechargeable...
Although the designation ‘Air Force One’ is now commonly known to refer to the airplane used by the President of...
One of the most sought after substances in the Universe is water – especially in its liquid form – as...
Fluke meters have been around for a long, long time. Heck, we’ve got a Fluke 73 that we bought back...
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you might think back to those...
The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams of eleven, plus a few...
It’s said that “Golf is a good walk spoiled,” so is attaching an amateur radio to a bike a formula for spoiling...
Ever played poker over FT8? YouTuber Steve McGrane, KM9G (@temporarilyoffline), and his friends at the YouTube channel Coffee and Ham...
Imagine for a moment you're a ham radio enthusiast, alone at night, idly working your way through the radio spectrum when you...
We’ve all been there. You left your Walkman at home and only have your trusty Game Boy. You want to...
On our travels round the hardware world we’ve encountered more than one group pursuing the goal of making their own...
Most hams can tell you that it’s possible to get a nasty RF burn if you accidentally touch an antenna...
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found, nor was the plane. It...
As part of my reporting for a story last week about the new NJR Media Group podcast, “MOVIES WITH…,” I...
Sources report a site for Amateur Operators to show pics and videos of their stations is coming soon: OnlyHams will...
Every 26 months, Earth and Mars come tantalizingly close by virtue of their relative orbits. The closest they’ve been in...
With the recent string of lunar landing attempts, it’s interesting to consider how much things have changed – or stayed...
Numbers stations are a weird phenomenon where odd voices read out long strings of numbers or random codewords to the...
Last month, many Americans woke up to an unexpected problem. No cell service. No text messages, phone calls, or data...
