Collaborate Disseminate
The amateur radio community often gets stereotyped as a hobby with a minimum age requirement around 70, gatekeeping airwaves from those with less experience or simply ignoring unfamiliar beginners. While …read more Continue reading Long-Distance Gaming Over Packet Radio
Those who have worked with high voltage know well enough that anything can be a conductor at high enough voltages. Similarly, amateur radio operators will jump at any chance to …read more Continue reading Enormous Metal Sculpture Becomes an Antenna
For all their supposed benefits, homeowner’s associations (HOAs) have a reputation of quickly turning otherwise quaint neighborhoods into a sort of Stanford prison experiment, as those who get even the …read more Continue reading Antenna Hidden in Holiday Lights Skirts HOA Rules
Ever since the first artificial satellite was launched into orbit, radio operators around the world have been tuning in to their space-based transmissions. Sputnik 1 only sent back pulses of …read more Continue reading Hunting for Space Pirates
For anyone new to the world of ham radio, one of the things that takes a little getting used to is visiting the websites of authoritative experts in various fields …read more Continue reading A Linux Distro For All Your Ham Needs
When the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by …read more Continue reading Translating and Broadcasting Spoken Morse Code
Looks like it’s lights out on Mars for the InSight lander. The solar-powered lander’s last selfie, sent back in April, showed a thick layer of dust covering everything, including the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 25, 2022
In amateur radio circles, almost no single piece of equipment serves as more of a magnet for controversy than the humble Baofeng handheld transceiver. It’s understandable — the radio is …read more Continue reading Getting to the Heart of a Baofeng
Direction-finding, or fox hunting, is a popular activity in ham radio circles where a group of people armed with radios attempt to locate a broadcasting source. Besides being a hobby …read more Continue reading Direction-Finding With Help From the Steam Deck
Sometimes when you need a component, the best way to get it is by building it yourself. [North Carolina Prepper] did just that, creating his own trombone-style variable capacitor by …read more Continue reading Making Variable Capacitors By Stretching Aluminium Cans