The human eye’s color perception is notoriously variable (see, for example, the famous dress), which makes it difficult to standardize...
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The Meshtastic project has released a special firmware build for users that are attending Hamvention. The dedicated firmware is designed...
Release Date: April 19, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition...
This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please...
April 13, 2025 In this edition: * Fram2Ham Mission A Success * ISS SSTV April 11-16 – Humans in Space...
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface debugging and testing tool. Scanning...
Apple’s Find My network has seen its fair of hacks to devices, but perhaps the most unusual we’ve seen is...
Should you be able to brick a keyboard just by writing a driver to flash the lights on it? We...
Have you ever thought about getting into digital modes on the ham bands? As it turns out, you can get...
In the world of cheap amateur radio transceivers, the Quansheng UV-K5 can’t be beaten for hackability. But pretty much every...
Watch out, Baofeng; there’s a new kid on the cheap handy talkie market, and judging by this hardware and firmware upgrade...
The range of hardware that comes on some dev boards these days is truly staggering. Those little LoRa boards are...
Over the past years, fitness trackers have gone from fairly unobtrusive bands that relied mostly on smartphone apps for interaction...
We’ve recently written about the Quansheng UV-K5 multiband radio which supports experimental firmware to work in a wider 18 MHz – 1300...
The new hotness in cheap radios this year has been the Quansheng UV-K5, a Chinese handheld transceiver with significant RF...
Love them or hate them, the crop of cheap hand-held amateur radio transceivers is here to stay. They’re generally horrible...
Over the past decade or so, amateur radio operators have benefited from an influx of inexpensive radios based around a...