The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods — after a technical issue caused a days-long communications blackout with the historic mission, which is ...

Sometimes, it is useful to transmit a low-power radio signal to create a beacon, to send a signal carrier to a near receiver, to transmit in QRP or QRPP mode, and so on. The circuit shown here is very ...

Solid-state technology has taken over the major AM broadcast transmitter manufacturers, and up to 40kW of solid-state power is available in FM. When making the decision to buy a new transmitter, there ...

Let’s start off with proof. Below is an animation of a measurement of airplanes and meteors I made using a radar system that I built with a few simple easily available pieces of hardware: two $8 RTL ...

Suppose you traveled back in time—say 40,000 years into the past—and then you got stuck. What would you do? How would you rebuild all the stuff that you like? That's the premise of the book How to ...

One of the great things about the Hackaday community is how quickly you find out what you don’t know. That’s not a bad thing, of course; after all, everyone is here to get smarter, right? So let’s ...

Tuning in: interfering laser light could soon be used to generate terahertz signals. (Courtesy: iStock/arttanja) A new type of microwave radio transmitter built by physicists in the US could lead to ...

The 185-foot masts and flattop antenna dwarf the transmitter building at the “new” 1931 WHK transmitting plant. Ever since Marconi began playing with radio at his family villa, there have been many ...

Half the population of Syria has been displaced. Hundreds of thousands have died in the conflict and millions are fleeing. For those who remain in the country, critical infrastructure is unstable and ...

This two-part article series reviews new developments in the Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution (4G-LTE) cellular standard. The series explores LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Release-12 (Rel-12) features and ...

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