A LoRa project has traditionally required a dedicated radio module, because it’s a commercially licenced protocol. But as the way...
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While most of us carry cell phones that have GPS and other location services, they require a significant amount of...
If necessity is the mother of invention, nostalgia must be its stepmother, or its aunt at the very least. The...
Watch out, Baofeng; there’s a new kid on the cheap handy talkie market, and judging by this hardware and firmware upgrade...
built a simple Tayloe mixer and detector on a breadboard. He decided to extend it a bit to be a full-blown...
Every 26 months, Earth and Mars come tantalizingly close by virtue of their relative orbits. The closest they’ve been in...
RNode is an open source, unrestricted digital radio transceiver based on — but not limited to — the Reticulum cryptographic networking stack....
With the recent string of lunar landing attempts, it’s interesting to consider how much things have changed – or stayed...
We are always fascinated when someone can take something and extend it in a clever way without changing the original...
Numbers stations are a weird phenomenon where odd voices read out long strings of numbers or random codewords to the...
The radio frequency world is full of mysteries, some of which seem to take a lifetime to master. And even...
Video may have killed the radio star, but cell phones and smart phones all but killed the pager. They still...
CATS is a new communication and telemetry standard intended to surpass the current Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) standard by leveraging...
It might not count as “DC to daylight,” but an electromechanical attenuator that covers up to 70 GHz is pretty...
picked up a shortwave receiver known as the “stressless” receiver kit. We aren’t sure if the stress is from building a...
The range of hardware that comes on some dev boards these days is truly staggering. Those little LoRa boards are...
During the first half of the 20th century radio technology was booming, albeit restricted by the vacuum tube technology of...
The Titanic famously (or infamously) used Morse code to call out in distress at the end of its final voyage....
These days, paying for TV programming is a fact of life. You pay your cable company or some streaming service...
The Starlink receivers need positioning and precise timing information to function, and currently the best way to get that information...
Pagers were a big deal for a while there, even if they never quite made it into the pantheon of...
We’ve seen quite a few DIY 2G networks over the years, but the 4G field has been relatively barren. Turns...
For those of us who remember Radio Shack as more than just an overpriced cell phone store, a lot of...
Neither Tom Nardi nor I are exactly young anymore, and we can both remember a time when joysticks were actually connected with...
While most of us now remember Radio Shack as a store that tried to force us to buy batteries and...
