There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community that when it comes to antennas…
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via HACKADAY: An Antenna to Throw You for a Loop
It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Ask Hackaday: Is Shortwave on Life Support?
Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple…
Read morevia HACKADAY: FauxTRS Is Definitely Not A Trash 80
Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Coax Stub Filters Demystified
Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs…
Read morevia HACKADAY: A Nostalgic Look at a Kid’s Shortwave Resistor
[Mikrowave1] had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the…
Read morevia HACKADAY: CW Not Hard Enough? Try This Tiny Paddle
For a long time, a Morse code proficiency was required to obtain an amateur radio…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you…
Read morevia HACKADAY: DME with a Twist of LimeSDR
Navigating aircraft today isn’t like the old days. No more arrows painted on a barn…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Making a Solid State 6AK8 Tube
[M Caldeira] had a project in mind: replacing a common vacuum tube with a solid-state equivalent….
Read morevia HACKADAY: Are Hackers The Future of Amateur Radio?
If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Smart Ball Technology Has Reached Football, But The Euros Show Us It’s Not Necessarily For The Better
The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams…
Read morevia HACKADAY: Hackable Ham Radio Gives Up Its Mechanical Secrets
Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool…
Read morevia HACKADAY: How the Bell System Was Built
We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it…
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