Software-defined radio is all the rage these days, and for good reason. It eliminates or drastically reduces the amount of...
Offbeat
A Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy is under investigation after being heard over her radio possibly engaged in sexual activities when...
Up until about a decade ago, an average of 80 to 100 satellites per year were launched into varying orbits....
Hacks that bring a vintage flair to modern electronics never get old, and delivers with his Project Clean Slate inspired by vintage...
Car makers have been phasing out AM radios in their cars for quite some time. Let’s face it, there isn’t...
Humans have left a lot of stuff in space. There is so much stuff that space junk has become a serious problem....
ON THE NIGHT of September 11, 1997, the phone lines on the Coast to Coast AM radio show were open and unscreened,...
There was a time when, if you were handy with a soldering iron, you could pretty easily open up a...
Plugging in something like an antique radio to see if it works is a good way to have a bad...
With the rise in voice-driven virtual assistants over the years, the sight of people talking to various electrical devices in...
Throughout the 80s and 90s, you couldn’t swing a stapler around any size office without hitting a fax machine. But...
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...
As we returned from Supercon 2022, we noticed many airlines offer free in-flight messaging. While the messages are handy for...
Martin Rothfield] and other amateur radio operators from San Francisco High Altitude Ballooning (SF-HAB) treated conference attendees to the 2022 Hackaday Supercon to the...
I don’t think there was ever a correspondence school called the “Close Cover Before Striking School” but since book matches...
As far as interesting problems go, few can really compete with the perennial question: “Are we alone?” The need to...
It’s a skill that radio amateurs pick up over years but which it sometimes comes as a surprise to find...
First, it was the WiFi router: my ancient WRT54G that had given me nearly two decades service. Something finally gave out in...
To call a vintage computing enthusiast would be an understatement. Who else would add the ability to control and address multiple VGA monitors...
Sometimes when you need a component, the best way to get it is by building it yourself. did just that,...
Expect to see it – it’s huge and bright The problem is, it might outshine all stars and planets On...
ARRL report one of their members, Oscar Norris W4OXH, of Gastonia, North Carolina, will turn 105 on September 25, 2022, and...
In the movie “Independence Day” the disorganized pilots across the world were reduced to communicating with help of amateur radio...
An airport worker stole a plane in Tupelo and threatened to crash it into a Walmart store. The situation began...
