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[rafii6312]’s Corsair HS80 wireless headset had a big problem: short range. The sound quality was great, but the wireless range wasn’t winning any friends. Fortunately, the solution was just to …read more Continue reading Headset’s Poor Range Fixed By Replacing Antenna
Sometimes antennas can seem like black magic. However, when you see things like a dish antenna, it sort of makes sense, right? Just like a mirror focuses light, the parabola …read more Continue reading Cornering the Antenna Market
While the few minutes it takes for a spacecraft’s booster rocket to claw its way out of Earth’s gravity well might be the most obviously hazardous period of the mission, …read more Continue reading ESA’s Jupiter-bound Probe Hits Antenna Snag
Most ham radio operators will build an antenna of some sort when they first start listening or transmitting, whether it’s a simple dipole, a beam antenna like a Yagi, or …read more Continue reading Don’t Let The Baluns Float Over Your Head
Multimeters are indispensable tools when working on electronics. It’s almost impossible to build any but the most basic of circuits without one to test and troubleshoot potential issues, and they …read more Continue reading Your Multimeter Might Be Lying To You
Yagi-Uda antennas, or simply “Yagis”, are directional antennas that focus radio waves to increase gain, meaning that the radio waves can travel further in that direction for a given transmitter …read more Continue reading Printing Antennas on Circuit Boards
With a UHF antenna, it is easy to rotate a directional antenna to find the bearing to a transmitter. But at HF, it is more common to use an array …read more Continue reading Cold War Listening Post Antennas
Anyone with more than one cat can tell you that the joy mischief they bring into your life is much more than twice that of a single cat. And if …read more Continue reading Cat Feeder Depends on RFID to Keep the Peace at Dinnertime
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