via HACKADAY: You’ve Got The Portable Radio, Now What About The Antenna?
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…
via HACKADAY: Ask Hackaday: Is Shortwave on Life Support?
Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple…
via HACKADAY: FauxTRS Is Definitely Not A Trash 80
Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction…
via HACKADAY: Coax Stub Filters Demystified
Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs…
via HACKADAY: A Nostalgic Look at a Kid’s Shortwave Resistor
had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the…
via HACKADAY: CW Not Hard Enough? Try This Tiny Paddle
For a long time, a Morse code proficiency was required to obtain an amateur radio…
via HACKADAY: Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you…
via HACKADAY: DME with a Twist of LimeSDR
Navigating aircraft today isn’t like the old days. No more arrows painted on a barn…
via HACKADAY: Making a Solid State 6AK8 Tube
had a project in mind: replacing a common vacuum tube with a solid-state equivalent….
via HACKADAY: Are Hackers The Future of Amateur Radio?
If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the…
via 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…
via 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…
via HACKADAY: How the Bell System Was Built
We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it…
via HACKADAY: Hacking Airline WiFi the Hard Way
We’ve all been there. You are on a flight, there’s WiFi, but you hate to…
via HACKADAY: Tiny Transceiver Gets It Done with One Transistor
When we first spotted the article about a one-transistor amateur radio transceiver, we were sure it…
via HACKADAY: Going Ham Mobile on a Bicycle
It’s said that “Golf is a good walk spoiled,” so is attaching an amateur radio to…
via HACKADAY: Solar Dynamics Observatory: Our Solar Early Warning System
Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system…
via HACKADAY: PCB Design Review: HAB Tracker With ATMega328P
Welcome to the Design Review Central! sends us their board, and it’s a HAB…
via HACKADAY: Meccano-based Hellschreiber Machine
has pulled off a true feat of Meccano engineering: building a Meccano Hellschreiber machine. The…
via HACKADAY: A Trip Down Electronic Toy Memory Lane
Like many of us, had a lot of electronic toys growing up. In a…
via HACKADAY: So Much Going On In So Few Components: Dissecting A Microwave Radar Module
In the days before integrated circuits became ubiquitous, providing advanced functionality in a single package,…
via HACKADAY: Cavity Filters, The Black Art You Have A Chance Of Pursuing
A tuned circuit formed by a capacitor and an inductor is a familiar enough circuit,…
via HACKADAY: VHF/UHF Antennas, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Even Worse
When you buy a cheap ham radio handy-talkie, you usually get a little “rubber…
via HACKADAY: Hacking a Quansheng Handheld To Transmit Digital Modes
Have you ever thought about getting into digital modes on the ham bands? As it…