If you’ve been following the world of mobile phone technology of late, you may be aware that Apple’s latest IPhones...
Makers
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...
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...
There’s no doubt that the RTL-SDR project has made radio hacking more accessible than ever, but there’s only so far...
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after an unexplained course change sent it flying south over the Indian Ocean...
In a world with software-defined radios and single-chip receivers, a superheterodyne shortwave radio might not exactly score high on the...
I was having a chat recently with someone, and it surprised me that she had an amateur radio license. I...
With the profusion of cheap RTL-SDR devices and the ever-reducing prices of more capable SDRs there might seem to be...
If you are a ham radio operator, the idea of sending pictures and data over voice channels is nothing new....
Artificially constrained designs can be among the most challenging projects to build, and the most interesting to consider. The amateur...
In a time when multi-channel digital TV is the norm it’s a surprise to find that a few low-power analog...
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...
