Video may have killed the radio star, but cell phones and smart phones all but killed the pager. They still...
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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...
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...
If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are passionate about, it’s the search for the perfect sine wave. Oscillators...
Radio Shack had a long history of buying things overseas, having their name slapped on them, and selling them in...
About two decades ago there was a quiet revolution in electronics which went unnoticed by many, but which overturned a...
We always admire when companies produce useful tools or documentation that aren’t specific to their products. For example, consider LTSpice....
When we first developed telescopes, we started using them on the ground. Humanity was yet to master powered flight, you...
Ever since the first satellites started imaging the Earth, scientists have been using the data gathered to learn more about...
When Japan’s SLIM lunar lander made a rather unconventional touch-down on the lunar surface, it had already disgorged two small...
Generally, the biggest problem a new ham radio operator will come across when starting out on the high frequency (HF)...
When you think of satellite communications, you probably think of a dish. But that’s not the only option —...
AM radios were easy to understand. The strength of the signal goes up and down, and the audio follows. FM...
We love a good deal, especially when it comes to scavenging parts for projects. Cheap outdoor solar lights are more...
As far as timekeeping goes, there’s nothing more accurate and precise than an atomic clock. Unfortunately, we can’t all have...
