Nearly three years after the rapid unplanned disassembly of the Arecibo radio telescope, we finally have a culprit in the collapse:...
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Low-power radios, often referred to in the amateur radio community as QRP radios, have experienced a resurgence in popularity lately....
Dipole antennas are easy, right? Just follow the formula, cut two pieces of wire, attach your feedline, and you’re on...
Cyberdecks rock because their homebrewed nature lets them feature all kinds of nifty additional functionality. has built his deck with...
What exactly constitutes a cyberdeck is up for debate, but for us, one thing is clear: A cyberdeck needs to...
If you’ve been making up for lost years of travel in 2023, you might have seen a fellow traveler in...
I recently dropped in on one of the Vintage Computer Festival events, and it made me think about why people...
The new hotness in cheap radios this year has been the Quansheng UV-K5, a Chinese handheld transceiver with significant RF...
Digital modes are all the rage these days in amateur radio — hams are using protocols like WSPR to check...
There’s a common critique in science fiction series like Star Trek about the extraterrestrial species not looking ‘alien’ enough, as...
The 433 MHz spectrum is a little bit of an oddball. It’s one of the few areas of the radio spectrum...
Trunked radio systems can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around, and that’s partially by design. They’re typically used by...
has been curious about the innards of Tivoli Audio’s Model One radio, but was reluctant to shell out $200 just...
Encrypted communications are considered vital for many organizations, from military users to law enforcement officers. Meanwhile, the ability to listen...
Up first is Zenbleed, a particularly worrying speculative execution bug, that unfortunately happens to be really simple to exploit. It leaks...
Detecting gravity waves isn’t easy. But what if you had a really big detector for a long time? That’s what...
With the recent passing of Don Lancaster, I took a minute to reflect on how far things have come in a...
There are a huge number of products available in the modern world that come with network connectivity now, when perhaps...
Here in 2023 the field of electronics covers a breathtaking variety of devices and applications, but if we were to...
It started with looking into paints or coatings for passive or radiative cooling, and in the process he decided to DIY...
Decades ago, electronic components were not as easy to acquire as they are today. Sure, you could get some things...
While the Fourier transform gets all the attention, there are other transforms that engineers and mathematicians use to transform signals...
Cyberdecks are all about custom builds, and ’s YAHRC (Yet Another Ham Radio Cyberdeck) takes its ruggedization and power seriously. There are...
Which Russian weather satellite has the name Meteor 2? According to , pretty much all of them. He showed how...
You’ve got to love the aesthetics of dystopian cyberpunk video games, where all the technology looks like it’s cobbled together...
