You never know when you’ll be called upon to your way out of an emergency. We can’t imagine what kind...
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The round bottom of a proper wok is the key to a decent stir fry, but it also makes it...
For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put an awful lot of effort...
Back in 2020, students from Universidad Del Valle De Guatemala (UVG) pulled off a really impressive feat, designing and building a...
In this edition: * June 15 is Deadline for 2023 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Nominations * IARU Coordinates Sapling...
After passing an exam and obtaining a license, an amateur radio operator will typically pick up a VHF ratio and...
While there’s little in the way of hard rules dictating what constitutes a cyberdeck, one popular opinion is that it...
Intellectually, we all know that we exist in a complex soup of RF energy. Cellular, WiFi, TV, public service radio,...
Ever since the first artificial satellite was launched into orbit, radio operators around the world have been tuning in to...
In the old days, scanners would listen to a bunch of channels in a round-robin fashion. If a signal breaks...
If you have an RTL-SDR compatible radio there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard of the rtl_433 project, which lets you...
When was looking at setting up environmental sensors around their home to keep track of temperature, humidity and such, the...
Time is of the essence in almost every emergency situation, especially when it comes to wildfires. A wind-driven fire can...
Open-source technology brings a world that laws and regulations are not quite prepared for. As a result, every now and...
We imagine that if told us he was listening to the HF bands, we might ask him which one? His...
With an ever-growing constellation of Starlink satellites whizzing around over our heads, you might be getting the urge to start...
Even though not every Hackaday reader is likely to be a radio enthusiast, it’s a fair guess that many of...
When one mulls the possibility of detecting pulsars, to the degree that one does, thoughts turn to large dish antennas...
At one point or another, we’ve probably all wished we had a VR headset that would allow us to fly...
We always get excited when we buy a new tablet. But after a few months, it usually winds up at...
Hopefully by now most of us know better than to rent a modem from an internet service provider. Buying your...
The days when software defined radio techniques were exotic are long gone, and we don’t miss them one bit. A...
Release Date: May 29, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
There’s no shortage of cheap weather stations on the market that pull in data from several wireless sensors running in...
There’s no doubt that the RTL-SDR project has made radio hacking more accessible than ever, but there’s only so far...
