Collaborate Disseminate
Love them or hate them, the crop of cheap hand-held amateur radio transceivers is here to stay. They’re generally horrible radios, often smearing spurious emissions across the spectrum, but they’re …read more Continue reading Inexpensive Ham Radio Gets Upgrades Thanks to a Trojan
[Helge Fyske (LA6NCA)] may not be an actual spy — then again, he may be; if he’s good at it, we wouldn’t know — but he has built a couple …read more Continue reading Spy Radio Setup Gets a Tiny Power Supply for Field Operations
Is it really a dystopian future if the robots are radio-controlled? That’s what came to mind reading this article on a police robot out of Singapore, complete with a breathless …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 25, 2023
For those of us licensed in other countries it comes as something of a surprise to find that American radio amateurs now have to run RF exposure calculations as part …read more Continue reading Ham Almost Cooks ‘Dog
Let’s be honest — there are some not very pleasant stereotypes associated with amateur radio, at least if you ask outsiders. Hams are often thought of as being in two …read more Continue reading Passionate Hams Make Their Mark On The Hack Chat
Like any hobby, amateur radio has no upper bounds on what you can spend getting geared up. Shacks worth tens of thousands of dollars are easy to come by, and …read more Continue reading Listening to the ISS on the Cheap
A report released this week suggests that 50 flights into its five-flight schedule, the Mars helicopter might be starting to show its age. The report details a protracted communications outage …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 4, 2023
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
Crystals are key to a lot of radio designs. They act as a stable frequency source and ensure you’re listening to (or transmitting on) exactly the right bit of the …read more Continue reading Building a Receiver With The ProgRock2 Programmable Crystal
Dirty little secret time: although amateur radio operators talk a good game about relishing the technical challenge of building their own radio equipment, what’s really behind all the DIY gear …read more Continue reading Low-Cost RF Power Sensor Gets All the Details Right