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There’s a joke in the world of radio that all you need for a HF antenna is a piece of wet string, but the truth is that rudimentary antennas rarely …read more Continue reading A Simple But Effective Receiving Loop Antenna
How hard is it to make a fully standalone SDR? [101 Things] shows you how to take a breadboard, a PI Pico, and two unremarkable chips to create a capable …read more Continue reading Pi Pico SDR on a Breadboard
The decline of AM broadcast radio is a slow but inexorable process over much of the world, but for regions outside America there’s another parallel story happening a few hundred …read more Continue reading The First New Long Wave Radio Station Of This Millennium
The QN8066 is a fun little FM transmitter chip. It covers the full FM broadcast band and has built-in DSP. You would find this sort of part in car cell …read more Continue reading Be your own DJ with QN8066 and an Arduino Library
The QN8066 is a fun little FM transmitter chip. It covers the full FM broadcast band and has built-in DSP. You would find this sort of part in car cell …read more Continue reading Be your own DJ with QN8066 and an Arduino Library
Anyone who has done an electronic engineering qualification will at some point have had to get to grips with transmission lines, and then if they are really lucky, waveguides. Perhaps …read more Continue reading The Waveguide Explanation You Wish You’d Had At School
The classic crystal radio was an oatmeal box with some wire and a few parts. [Michael Simpson] has something very different. He found an assembled Philmore “selective” radio kit. The …read more Continue reading Vintage Crystal Radio Draws the Waves
There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community that when it comes to antennas all you need is a piece of wet string. This may be a little fanciful, …read more Continue reading You’ve Got The Portable Radio, Now What About The Antenna?
Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple receiver, you could listen to the world. Some of it, of course, was entertainment, and …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Is Shortwave on Life Support?
For a long time, a Morse code proficiency was required to obtain an amateur radio license in many jurisdictions around the world, which was a much higher bar of entry …read more Continue reading CW Not Hard Enough? Try This Tiny Paddle