Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to , yes you can. But should you? Well,...
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Ham radio enthusiasts, people looking to borrow their neighbors’ WiFi, and those interested in decoding signals from things like weather...
Transmissions from amateur radio enthusiasts may hold the key to locating the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished...
As part of a phosphorescence detector, has been working with photodiodes. The components, like all diodes, have some capacitance at...
Have you ever considered running your ham radio remotely? It has been feasible for years but not always easy. Recently,...
By Tom Pierce (K8EBR) Background The local ham club in my home town is the Mile High Radio Club or...
When we think of an m.2 slot in our laptop or similar, it’s usually in the context of its PCI...
We love seeing the incredible work many RF enthusiasts manage to pull off — they make it look so easy!...
If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the signal lives down in the...
Since their invention more than a century ago, crystal oscillators have been foundational to electronic design. They allow for precise...
As cheap microcontrollers have given us an impressive range of test equipment trinkets to play with, it’s easy to forget...
We’re not very far into the AI revolution at this point, but we’re far enough to know not to trust...
Dear Member, At the 2024 ARRL Annual Meeting held in January, the Board of Directors unanimously voted to approve the...
It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional systems require a steady source...
knows that real diodes you can buy don’t work exactly like we say they do. That’s actually pretty common. We...
Imagine this. A young person comes to you wanting to get started in the electronic hobby. They ask what five...
Yaesu quietly added three new mobile VHF/UHF transceivers to its website. The FT-3185RASP, FT-3165RASP, and FTM-150RASP all focus on Yaesu's...
Everyone knows those small bags of forbidden “Do not eat” candy that come with fresh rolls of FDM filament as...
To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a fast shutter. But alternately a...
In 1983, a 14-year-old saw an LED clock in The Sharper Image store. At $250, it stayed in the store....
The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee (QPC) has removed one Extra Class pool question and...
To commemorate the centenary of this historic contact made by Goyder and Bell, Mill Hill School will be hosting working...
Occasionally, we find fun new electronic instruments in the wild and can’t resist sharing them with our readers. The item...
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface debugging and testing tool. Scanning...
bought cheap clip leads online and, wisely, decided to check them. We’ve had the same experience that he’s had. Sometimes,...
