Collaborate Disseminate
Analog radio broadcasts are pretty simple, right? Tune into a given frequency on the AM or FM bands, and what you hear is what you get. Or at least, that …read more Continue reading Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn’t Know Were There
On December 11th, the FCC announced that the band around 6GHz would be open to “very low-power devices.” The new allocation shares space with other devices already using these frequencies. …read more Continue reading The 6GHz Band Opens in the US
At the time of its construction in the 1950s, the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory was the largest rotatable telescope in the world with a dish diameter of 25 meters. It was …read more Continue reading Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals from Voyager 1
If you’re a fan of the Fallout series of games, you’ve probably come across a Radiation King radio before. In the game, that is, they don’t exist in real life. …read more Continue reading Creating A Radiation King Radio In The Real World
It might come as a surprise to some that IEEE, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, does more than send out mailers asking people to renew their memberships. In …read more Continue reading Pushing 802.11ah to the Extreme with Drones
Do you remember the fourth-place winner in the 2022 Hackaday Prize? If it’s slipped your mind, that’s okay—it was Boondock Echo. It was a radio project that aimed to make …read more Continue reading 2023 Hackaday Supercon: One Year of Progress for Project Boondock Echo
The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or radio enthusiasts seeking to make a simple receiver. It’s most often seen …read more Continue reading Humble Television Tubes Make An FM Regenerative Radio
As far as hobbies go, ham radio tends to be on the more expensive side. A dual-band mobile radio can easily run $600, and a high-end HF base station with …read more Continue reading Few Things Are Cheaper than This Antenna
The Quansheng UV-K5 is a popular handheld radio. It’s useful out of the box, but also cherished for its modification potential. [OM0ET] purchased one of these capable VHF/UHF radios, but …read more Continue reading Turning a Quansheng Handheld Into A Neat Desktop Transceiver
If aliens are watching Earth, they might be able to detect us from the radio signals we beam to Mars to control our rovers there. Astronomers have now listened in on the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system to check whether aliens are chattering between their own … Continue reading TRAPPIST planets bugged to listen in on alien radio comms