After decades of delays and false starts, NASA is finally returning to the Moon. The world is eagerly awaiting the launch of...
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Sometimes when you need a component, the best way to get it is by building it yourself. did just that,...
specializes in making textile based, electronic instruments and sculptures using embroidery, and this little hoop packs some serious sound (Nitter). The circuit...
It stands to reason, that should you wish to communicate with a satellite, whatever antenna you use should point at...
A lot of people had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. This was a “home computer” built into a keyboard...
In the “old” days, people were used to the idea that radio communication isn’t always perfect. AM radio had cracks...
Running a radio station is, on the face of it, a straightforward technical challenge. Build a studio, hook it up...
PCB design starts off being a relatively easy affair — you create a rectangular outline, assign some component footprints, run...
There is always some hype surrounding an Apple product announcement, and while maybe it’s not in the same league as...
When Frank Drake began his astronomy career in the late 1950s, this was an incredibly exciting time for the field....
One of the global news stories this week has been the passing of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Since...
The advent of cheap software-defined radio hardware means that what would have once been an exotic expensive undertaking can now...
One of the best ways to learn about radios is to build your own, even in the age of cheap...
In the old days, a shortwave radio was a major desk fixture. These days, you can get truly diminutive radios....
Amateur radio operators have played a longstanding game of “Will It Antenna?” If there’s something even marginally conductive and remotely...
There are many ways to test HF antennas ranging from simulation to various antenna analyzers and bridges. However, nothing can...
There are two ways to deal with improving ham radio receivers, or — for that matter — any sort of...
With high-altitude ballooning, you are at the mercy of the winds, which can move your payload hundreds of kilometers and...
When it comes to an engineering marvel like the James Webb Space Telescope, the technology involved is so specialized that...
The term “phased array” has been around for a long time, but in recent years we’ve heard more and more...
Sometimes you need to know the temperature of something from a ways away. That might be a smoker, a barbecue,...
As ferrite technology has progressed into a mastery of magnetic permeability, the size of inductors has gone down to the...
The average person’s perception of a ham radio operator, assuming they even know what that means, is more than likely...
The proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology has been a godsend for RF hobbyists. SDR-based receivers and transmitters have gotten...
Before the days of MP3 players and smartphones, and even before portable CD players, those of us of a certain...
