via HACKADAY: A Practical Guide To Understanding How Radios Work
How may radios do you own? Forget the AM/FM, GMRS/FRS radios you listen to or…
Category: Makers
via HACKADAY: A NanoVNA as a Dip Meter
A staple of the radio amateur’s arsenal of test equipment in previous decades was the…
via HACKADAY: LoRA, With No Radio
A LoRa project has traditionally required a dedicated radio module, because it’s a commercially licenced…
via HACKADAY: Automatic Position Reporting Over HF Radio
While most of us carry cell phones that have GPS and other location services, they…
via HACKADAY: A 65-in-1 the 2024 Way
If necessity is the mother of invention, nostalgia must be its stepmother, or its aunt…
The Most Hackable Handheld Ham Radio Yet
All right, confession time. I don’t use my handheld ham radio for much more than eavesdropping on…
via HACKADAY: Open HT Surgery Gives Cheap Transceiver All-Band Capabilities
Watch out, Baofeng; there’s a new kid on the cheap handy talkie market, and judging…
via HACKADAY: Breadboard SDR Doesn’t Need Much
built a simple Tayloe mixer and detector on a breadboard. He decided to…
via HACKADAY: The Hunt For Alien Radio Signals Began Sooner Than You Think
Every 26 months, Earth and Mars come tantalizingly close by virtue of their relative orbits….
via HACKADAY: RNODE: A Portable Unrestricted Digital Radio
RNode is an open source, unrestricted digital radio transceiver based on — but not limited to…
via HACKADAY: The Lunar Odyssey: Moon Landings From the 1960s to Today’s Attempts
With the recent string of lunar landing attempts, it’s interesting to consider how much things…
via HACKADAY: The Long Strange Trip to US Color TV
We are always fascinated when someone can take something and extend it in a clever…
via HACKADAY: Creating a Numbers Station Of Your Very Own
Numbers stations are a weird phenomenon where odd voices read out long strings of numbers…
via HACKADAY: The Perils of Return Path Gaps
The radio frequency world is full of mysteries, some of which seem to take a…
via HACKADAY: Arduino Turned Into Something Kinda Like A Pager
Video may have killed the radio star, but cell phones and smart phones all but…
via HACKADAY: CATS: A New Communication and Telemetry System
CATS is a new communication and telemetry standard intended to surpass the current Automatic Packet Reporting…
via HACKADAY: A Look Inside a 70-GHz Electromechanical Attenuator
It might not count as “DC to daylight,” but an electromechanical attenuator that covers up…
via HACKADAY: Stressless Shortwave Reviewed
picked up a shortwave receiver known as the “stressless” receiver kit. We aren’t sure…
via HACKADAY: Custom Library Rescues Good LoRa Hardware from Bad Firmware
The range of hardware that comes on some dev boards these days is truly staggering….
via HACKADAY: Making a Crystodyne Radio With Zinc Oxide and Cat’s Whiskers
During the first half of the 20th century radio technology was booming, albeit restricted by…
via HACKADAY: Inside America’s Last Morse Code Station
The Titanic famously (or infamously) used Morse code to call out in distress at the…
via HACKADAY: Retro Gadgets: Pay TV in the 1960s
These days, paying for TV programming is a fact of life. You pay your cable…
via HACKADAY: GPS Antenna Mods Make Starlink Terminal Immune To Jammers
The Starlink receivers need positioning and precise timing information to function, and currently the best…
via HACKADAY: Pager Lives Again Thanks to Python And Mastodon
Pagers were a big deal for a while there, even if they never quite made…
via HACKADAY: Building Your Own 4G LTE Base Station
We’ve seen quite a few DIY 2G networks over the years, but the 4G field…