Something that all radio amateurs encounter sooner or later is the subject of impedance matching….
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via HACKADAY: Radio Caroline at 60
In the 1960s, if you were a teenager in the United States, a big…
Read morevia HACKADAY: The New Extremely Large Telescopes and The US’ Waning Influence In Astronomy
For many decades, the USA has been at the forefront of astronomy, whether with ground-based…
Read morevia HACKADAY: GitHub Hosts Ham Radio
[Alex R2AUK] has been busy creating version two of a homebrew all-band ham radio transceiver. The…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Spend an Hour in the Virtual Radio Museum
You have an hour to kill, and you like old communication technology. If you happen…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Matchbox Transceiver Pushes the Spy Radio Concept to Its Limits
The Altoids tin has long been the enclosure of choice for those seeking to show…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Ham Radio Paddles Cost Virtually Nothing
If you don’t know Morse code, you probably think of a radio operator using a…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Almost Making a Camera Sensor From Scratch
On our travels round the hardware world we’ve encountered more than one group pursuing the…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Farewell MFJ
We were sad to hear that after 52 years in operation, iconic ham radio supplier…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Reverse Engineering the Quansheng Hardware
In the world of cheap amateur radio transceivers, the Quansheng UV-K5 can’t be beaten for…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Downloading Satellite Imagery With a Wi-Fi Antenna
Over the past century or so we’ve come up with some clever ways of manipulating…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Radio Frequency Burns, Flying a Kite, and You
Most hams can tell you that it’s possible to get a nasty RF burn if…
Read morevia HACKADAY: AM Radio Broadcast Uses Phasor To Let Eight Towers Spray One Big Signal
If you’re in the commercial AM radio business, you want to send your signal as…
Read morevia HACKADAY: The Hunt for MH370 Goes On With Barnacles As A Lead
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found,…
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