ARDC grant enables Bradley University students to develop an open-source, 915 MHz digital transceiver system. DAEMod-915 is a Bradley University...
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It’s true that this TRS-80 Model 4P “luggable” was in better shape than many of the vintage machines that pass...
The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual suspects jumped...
It was a melancholy Monday this week in the Big Apple as the last public payphone was uprooted from midtown Manhattan near...
When one mulls the possibility of detecting pulsars, to the degree that one does, thoughts turn to large dish antennas...
Affordable and reliable cell phones have revolutionized the way we communicate over the last two decades or so, and this...
It’s not uncommon for a radio enthusiast to have multiple antennas for the same radio, so as you might expect...
At one point or another, we’ve probably all wished we had a VR headset that would allow us to fly...
Artificial satellites have transformed the world in many ways, not only in terms of relaying communication and for observing the...
We always enjoy videos, although many of them aren’t much about technology. However, when he does cover tech topics, he...
Thursday, May 19th 2022, 4:51 am - Weather balloons are essential to weather forecasting, but it takes a lot of...
It is with sadness that we note the passing of John Birkett, proprietor of the legendary eponymous surplus radio and electronics store on...
Despite what it looks like in the movies, it is hard to communicate with astronauts from Earth. There are delays,...
Calling all hams! Hamvention 2022 is underway and runs through the weekend at the Greene County Fair and Expo Center in Xenia,...
If you were asked to name the coldest spot in the solar system, chances are pretty good you’d think it...
Drones have revolutionized the world of videography in perhaps the biggest way since the advent of digital hardware. They’re used...
Most crystal radio receivers have a decidedly “field expedient” look to them. Fashioned as they often are from a few...
84 years ago, a teenager built a TV set in a basement in Hammond, Indiana. The teen was a radio...
We ran an article this week about RS-485, a noise resistant differential serial multidrop bus architecture. (Tell me where else you’re...
Hi, my name is Dan and I’m a crimpoholic. Honestly, I didn’t know I was a serial abuser of crimping...
decided to build a wideband SDR – for satellite communication research and monitoring, you know, the usual. He decided on a battery...
Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could...
If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it’s turning just about anything into an antenna. And...
It’s a problem we all have at one time or another: your five-meter radio astronomy dish gets out of calibration...
While Internet based streaming services appear to be the future of television, there are still plenty of places where it...
