via Hackaday: Random Wire Antenna Uses No Wire
Ideally, if you are going to transmit, you want a properly-tuned resonant antenna. But, sometimes,…
Category: News
Via AMSAT: ANS-315 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
ANS is a weekly news service provided by AMSAT. Visit them at AMSAT.org
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1341 – Full Version
Release Date: November 9, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week…
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1341 – Truncated 1-hour version
This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio….
Indoor Attic Antennas — Always Surprise Me!
An “eHam Classic” by N2LK
Via the RSGB: 146/147MHz NoV extension agreed by Ofcom
Read more at RSGB.co.uk
via Amateur Radio Daily: AO-7 Satellite to Celebrate 50 Years in Orbit
Designed by radio amateurs, AO-7 launched in November of 1974 and is now marking 50…
via the ARRL: Amateur Radio Activated for Late Season Hurricane
Read more at ARRL.org
via the ARRL: Rare California Island to be Activated for Armed Forces Day, First Time in 53 Years
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Cornell microchip designers inspire students with ‘fox hunt’ (New York)
Searching through bushes, between rocks, under benches and near trees, 15 local high school students…
via Hackaday: Tiny LoRa GPS Node Relies on ESP32
Sometimes you need to create a satellite navigation tracking device that communicates via a low-power…
via Hackaday: Zinc Creep and Electroplasticity: Why Arecibo Collapsed
It’s been nearly four years since the Arecibo Telescope collapsed, an event the world got…
RSGB launches its 2025 Construction Competition
The RSGB has launched its Construction Competition for 2025. Entries to this annual competition will again be judged online...
Watch more great RSGB 2024 Convention content
The RSGB has released some more great content from its recent Annual Convention. In its ‘Discussion with the Board’...
RSGB Contest Club to enter World Wide Award 2025
The RSGB Contest Club is excited to announce that the second World Wide Award event will be taking place...
RSGB represented at hybrid IARU R3 Conference
The 19th International Amateur Radio Union Region 3 Conference was hosted by the Thailand national society in Bangkok and...
146/147MHz NoV extension agreed by Ofcom
Ofcom has agreed to the RSGB request to extend the 146/147MHz NoV for a further year. It is available...
via Hackaday: Few Things Are Cheaper than This Antenna
As far as hobbies go, ham radio tends to be on the more expensive side….
via Hackaday: Flirting With Kessler: why Space Debris Physics Make it Such an Orbital Pain
Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now…
via Hackaday: Amazon Receives FAA Approval for MK30 Delivery Drone
It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to…
via Amateur Radio Daily: Special Event Celebrates Father of Wireless Communication, Jagadish Chandra Bose
Special event station AU2JCB will be paying homage to the Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose…
via Hackaday: Solve: An ESP32-Based Equation Solving Calculator
We’re suckers for good-looking old-school calculators, so this interesting numerical equation-solving calculator by caught…
via Hackaday: Turning a Quansheng Handheld Into A Neat Desktop Transceiver
The Quansheng UV-K5 is a popular handheld radio. It’s useful out of the box, but…
Meet the ham radio enthusiasts who help keep the New York Marathon running smoothly
‘If the phones are down, the hams are up.’
via Hackaday: PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer…