via HACKADAY: Breadboard SDR Doesn’t Need Much
built a simple Tayloe mixer and detector on a breadboard. He decided to…
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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: Wireless All the Things!
Neither Tom Nardi nor I are exactly young anymore, and we can both remember a time when…
via HACKADAY: Pi Pico Enhances RadioShack Computer Kit
While most of us now remember Radio Shack as a store that tried to force…
via HACKADAY: No Inductors Needed for This Simple, Clean Twin-Tee Oscillator
If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are passionate about, it’s the search for…
via HACKADAY: Tandy Pocket Computer Assembly is… Weird
Radio Shack had a long history of buying things overseas, having their name slapped on…
via HACKADAY: Parts We Miss: The Mains Transformer
About two decades ago there was a quiet revolution in electronics which went unnoticed by…
via HACKADAY: Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference Needs a Big Pocket
We always admire when companies produce useful tools or documentation that aren’t specific to their…
via HACKADAY: They Want To Put A Telescope In A Crater On The Moon
When we first developed telescopes, we started using them on the ground. Humanity was yet…
via HACKADAY: Satellite Provides Detailed Data on Antarctic Ice
Ever since the first satellites started imaging the Earth, scientists have been using the data…