A Radio Emergency Communications Training Event will take place on the 10th and 11th of April between 1600 and 2359UTC...
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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...
We are starting to see some nice geomagnetic activity building up right now as a high speed solar wind stream...
Modern life has its conveniences. Often, those conveniences lead to easier hacks. A great example of that is the rise...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that receiving data transmissions from orbiting satellites requires a complex array of hardware and software,...
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...
