Collaborate Disseminate
When all else fails, there’s radio. Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction through Appalachia stripped away every shred of modern infrastructure in some areas, leaving millions of residents with no ability …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 20, 2024
There was movement in the “AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act” last week, with the bill advancing out of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee and heading …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 29, 2024
Begun, the Spectrum Wars have. First, it was AM radio getting the shaft (last item) and being yanked out of cars for the supposed impossibility of peaceful coexistence with rolling …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 7, 2024
We’ve been harping a lot lately about the effort by carmakers to kill off AM radio, ostensibly because making EVs that don’t emit enough electromagnetic interference to swamp broadcast signals …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 9, 2024
Most hams can tell you that it’s possible to get a nasty RF burn if you accidentally touch an antenna while it’s transmitting. However, you can also cop a nasty …read more Continue reading Radio Frequency Burns, Flying a Kite, and You
If you’re in the commercial AM radio business, you want to send your signal as far and wide as possible. More listeners means you can make more ad revenue, after …read more Continue reading AM Radio Broadcast Uses Phasor To Let Eight Towers Spray One Big Signal
There are plenty of hobbies around with huge price tags, and ham radio can certainly be one of them. Experienced hams might have radios that cost thousands of dollars, with …read more Continue reading Pico-Sized Ham Radio
There’s a quirk of broadcasting in Europe left over from the earliest days of the medium, which our American readers may not have encountered. As well as the familiar AM …read more Continue reading Portrait of a Long Wave Station in its Twilight Years
The humble transistor radio is one of those consumer devices that stubbornly refuses to go away, but it’s fair to say that it’s not the mover and shaker in the …read more Continue reading Transistor Radio Repair, More Complex Than It Seems
The reports of the death of automotive AM radio may have been greatly exaggerated. Regular readers will recall us harping on the issue of automakers planning to exclude AM from …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 21, 2023