During the first half of the 20th century radio technology was booming, albeit restricted by the vacuum tube technology of...
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These days, paying for TV programming is a fact of life. You pay your cable company or some streaming service...
A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted by police after he recited...
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...
Sometimes, you can’t help but wonder how some things got their name. Porcupines. Balloons. Ham radio. What do you even...
The speculation was fast and furious when AT&T’s cellular network went down recently. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) indicated that it...
A homeowner has been left baffled after he came across a mysterious electrical box in a brickwork crawl space under his...
When you think of a big rig truck driver going down the road, how do you picture him? If you...
Crafton Hills College (CHC) Theatre Department will perform “HAM,” an original play written by Chris Coon and directed by CHC Theatre...
About two decades ago there was a quiet revolution in electronics which went unnoticed by many, but which overturned a...
A new threat to privacy has emerged, as scientists in the US have found a way to spy on video...
We always admire when companies produce useful tools or documentation that aren’t specific to their products. For example, consider LTSpice....
The Federal Communications Commission is making it illegal for robocalls to use AI-generated voices. The ruling, issued on Thursday, gives state...
...Back in 1970, a man named Hugo Doyle Owens was at a crossroads. Born and raised in Scottsboro, Owens had...
From behind-the-scenes videos to just-released set photos, it’s apparent that in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, iconic film props such as the Proton...
We love a good deal, especially when it comes to scavenging parts for projects. Cheap outdoor solar lights are more...
https://youtu.be/IjJpbKqjlPc?si=x2CYlLtmwGtRTuJz Maintaining a “junk box” — a collection of odds and ends that can be used in future projects and...
If you were an alien from TRAPPIST-1, a star some 40 light-years away from Earth, searching for signs of intelligent...
In 1982, a World’s Fair was held in Knoxville Tennessee. Dubbed the “Energy Exposition”, there was a full six months...
FPV drones are a signature weapon of the Ukraine conflict, and jammers to stop them are a matter of life...
On December 14, China launched an experimental, reusable spaceplane into low Earth orbit, the Spaceship third trip to space. China is tight-lipped...
In the “don’t try this at home” category, builds a spark gap transmitter with a twist. The twist is that the drive...
Back in 1978, the world was a bit different. There was no Raspberry Pi, no Internet, and not even an...
Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from Earth, is sending back a repetitive jumble of 1s and 0s that...
