The microwaves were easy to use. Set the dial to the desired time and press Start. Then everything became digital and the average microwave now takes between four and six button presses in the right order, just to start heating. Music players have taken a similar path, and those who grew up in the vinyl …
What do they say about death and taxes? Obviously, this maxim does not apply to Flash, at least when it comes to tax. As we noted last week, the end of the Adobe Flash era, brought with it an application for planning and routing the railway system in a Chinese city. This time it is …
As many radio amateurs will tell you, ham radio is a hobby with as many aspects as there are radio amateurs. It should be an exciting and dynamic place, but as those who enter it sometimes sadly find, it can be anything else. Tightly connected communities whose interests lie in the use of $ 1000 …
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Amateur radio is the only hobby that offers its licensed operators the chance to legally design, build and operate high-power radio transmitters connected to unlimited antenna arrays for communication anywhere in the world. The most complex part of this communication system is the single frequency (SSB) high frequency (HF) transceiver. In fact, due to the …
Several of the authors you read on Hackaday are ham radio operators, and we’ve often been pushed into a hacker chat about “Why be ham today?” After all, you can talk to anyone in the world online or on the phone, right? ? What is a draw? The British Radio Society apparently had the same …
