Meshtastic has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately, as the off-grid, long-range radio text messaging protocol gains a...
LoRa
After the swivel by Helium Inc. towards simply running distributed WiFi hotspots after for years pushing LoRaWAN nodes, many of...
If you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you may have noticed a certain fondness for Meshtastic devices, and the LoRa...
AMSAT News Service ANS-341 December 7, 2025 In this edition: * KSLV-II Mission Deploys 13 Satellites, Including New Amateur Radio...
Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind ’s clever...
The Cornell Alpha CubeSat mission is seeking assistance in receiving telemetry from its light sail ChipSats which will be transmitting...
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s news script News script for 14 September 2025 (MS Word...
This month is all about amateur radio and coding for the RSGB. Two exciting activities have been developed for you...
National Coding Week takes place in the third week of September, and the RSGB is once again dedicating a whole...
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s news script News script for 27 July 2025 (MS Word...
There’s been a lot of buzz about Meshtastic lately, and with good reason. The low-power LoRa-based network has a ton...
LoRa gear can be great for doing radio communications in a light-weight and low-power way. However, it can also work...
The 2025 Band Plans can be found in the March edition of RadCom. These incorporate further VHF and UHF changes in response to...
It’s a fair bet that most of us have a ton of wireless doo-dads around the house, from garage door...
Sometimes you need to create a satellite navigation tracking device that communicates via a low-power mesh network. was in just...
What do you get when you cross WiFi and LoRa? Researchers in China have been doing this, and they call...
Meshtastic is a way to build mesh networks using LoRa that is independent of cell towers, hot spots or traditional...
A LoRa project has traditionally required a dedicated radio module, because it’s a commercially licenced protocol. But as the way...
AMSAT News Service ANS-091 March 31, 2024 In this edition: AMSAT-DL Proposes Next Generation GEO/MEO Amateur Radio Payload AMSAT-DL’s ERMINAZ...
RNode is an open source, unrestricted digital radio transceiver based on — but not limited to — the Reticulum cryptographic networking stack....
The range of hardware that comes on some dev boards these days is truly staggering. Those little LoRa boards are...
We love a good deal, especially when it comes to scavenging parts for projects. Cheap outdoor solar lights are more...
LoRa is often talked about as a potentially useful solution for emergency communication. The problem is, few of us are...
FPV drones are a signature weapon of the Ukraine conflict, and jammers to stop them are a matter of life...
The LoRa radio communication system is useful for low-bandwidth communication, and as many readers will be aware its special skill...
