Although the designation ‘Air Force One’ is now commonly known to refer to the airplane used by the President of...
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Time zones are a complicated but necessary evil. Humans like the numbers on the clock to vaguely match up with...
One of the most sought after substances in the Universe is water – especially in its liquid form – as...
There are many forms of human interface device beyond the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse, but when it comes to fine-tuning...
How hard is it to make a fully standalone SDR? shows you how to take a breadboard, a PI Pico,...
There’s something inspiring about echos. Who among us hasn’t called out or clapped hands in a large space just to...
The decline of AM broadcast radio is a slow but inexorable process over much of the world, but for regions...
Anyone who has done an electronic engineering qualification will at some point have had to get to grips with transmission...
Fluke meters have been around for a long, long time. Heck, we’ve got a Fluke 73 that we bought back...
Hurricanes can cause widespread destruction, so early forecasting of their strength is important to protect people and their homes. The...
There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community that when it comes to antennas all you need is a...
It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when you need them. Back in...
Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple receiver, you could listen to...
Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction to computing for many wasn’t...
Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs seem a bit baffling to...
had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the 1960s using germanium and silicon transistors....
For a long time, a Morse code proficiency was required to obtain an amateur radio license in many jurisdictions around...
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you might think back to those...
Navigating aircraft today isn’t like the old days. No more arrows painted on a barn roof or rotating airway beacons....
had a project in mind: replacing a common vacuum tube with a solid-state equivalent. The tube in question was an EABC80...
If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the exclusive preserve of old men...
The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams of eleven, plus a few...
Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool hardware hacks. We don’t get...
We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it was just the flashiest of...
We’ve all been there. You are on a flight, there’s WiFi, but you hate to pay the few bucks just...
