You’d be forgiven for thinking that receiving data transmissions from orbiting satellites requires a complex array of hardware and software,...
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Space is hard, especially if you haven’t done it before. A growing number of CubeSats are launched by small, inexperienced...
It sometimes seems as though antennas and RF design are portrayed as something of a Black Art, the exclusive preserve...
What attracts a lot of people to amateur radio is that it gives you the ability to make your own...
Analogue TV is something that most of us consider to have been consigned to the history books about a decade...
After a journey of a decade, what started as Project Loon by Google is no more. Promoted as a way...
If there’s anything about amateur radio that has more witchcraft in it than the design and implementation of antennas, we...
When took apart his Starlink dish back in November, he did his best to explain the high-level functionality of the...
Hackaday has among its staff a significant number of writers who also hold amateur radio licenses. We’re hardware folks at...
Raspberry Pi was synonymous with single-board Linux computers. No longer. The $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board is their attempt to...
The United Kingdom is somewhat unique in the world for requiring those households which view broadcast television to purchase a...
NASA is always keen to highlight the space agency’s many successes, and rightly so — those who pay for these...
On November 8th, 2020 the Sun exploded. Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly...
An Australian radio telescope picked up unusual signals back in 2019 and thinks they originated from Proxima Centauri, a scant...
Normally we like hearing about old military gear going on the surplus market. But if you encounter some late-model Russian...
Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components...
Today the National Science Foundation released a pair of videos that document the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory with incredible...
A solar eclipse is coming up in just a few weeks, and although with its path of totality near the...
As many a radio amateur will tell you, ham radio is a hobby with as many facets as there are...
Few telescopes will get an emotional response from the general public when it is ultimately announced that they will be...
For the casual breadboard experimenter with a microcontroller and a few peripherals, there’s little concern over interconnects as a set...
The good news is that as of today RadioShack has officially been purchased by Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), giving the...
It is with a heavy heart that we must report the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to dismantle the...
Today we’re sad to report that one of the primary support cables at the Arecibo Observatory has snapped, nudging the...
Ham radio operators love to push the boundaries of their equipment. A new ham may start out by making a...
