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via Brick O'Lore The goTenna is a device the size of a ruler that purports to allow cellphone users to communicate over long distanc...

Saw this on Hackaday and had to share it. This guy has figured out how to embed a small copper wire in his extruded plastic from his 3d p...

Having to deal with this issue, again, lately gave me the idea for this post. Ever buy a radio programming cable, or a cheap USB-Serial adap...

Had some fun at the Hamvention today. Saw a lot of APRS equipment. This was also apparently the year of solar panels.. noticed a fair few of...

Found the cheap mobile I saw yesterday even cheaper, by way of someone selling it with a $10.55 shipping cost. http://www.aliexpress.com/i...

Just a little warning, I might go a little nuts posting over this weekend. I'm going to the Hamvention on Saturday, like many other peop...

http://qrper.com/2013/05/ten-tec-introduces-the-model-506-rebel-an-open-source-qrp-transceiver/ It's a 20/40m QRP CW radio. The neat ...

http://www.dhgate.com/vv-808-mobile-transceiver-10w15w-two-way/p-ff8080813bade0f0013bb685146e05d1.html#s1-1-1 $134 shipped ($65.71 of t...

http://www.kightradio.com/X1M-MKII-20-Watt-QRP-SSB-CW-Transceiver_p_319.html Wow, this looks pretty cool actually. They don't hav...

http://blog.jamesrhall.com/2013/04/msp430-morse-code-in-energia-part-2.html Posted on my other blog on my portfolio website. Now you can s...

I was browsing through the May 2013 issue of QST when this article caught my eye. "RemoteHamRadio Station Network" on page 59. Bas...

I noticed the teaser for this radio on 409shop's website when I was looking up the current prices for the UV-3R radios. I've actuall...

Lior is at it again, this time he's working on the Baofeng UV-3R radios. The MCU that runs the radio is flash programmable. Unfortunatel...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baofeng_uv5r/message/20888 This rather industrious individual has been working on replacing the main CPU in h...

I've been keeping an eye on the progress of codec2 more recently. There's a modem and mode for using codec2 over the air now. FreeDV...

Ran into a weird issue the other day on my TR-9000 when turning it on after a long time of being powered down. My band limits were set to 14...

Hailing frequencies open captain! http://nwdigitalradio.com/products/ Kidding, good talk. Skip a few minutes in to avoid an intro. I ...

I made a pretty nifty discovery the other night. While I had zero luck trying to talk to my TM-241a with only my Bus Pirate... It can talk t...

 Just a small project I worked on this past weekend 8/24-8/25. I have several of these cheap MSP430 Launchpad dev kits from TI. What a dea...

I'm kind of curious if there's any activity around modifying older radios. I have a couple of HTX-202's that I'm eyeing for ...

I know this isn't strictly Ham Radio but it could be useful for HSMM. These units are around $24 on ebay, shipped from China. Fou...

Not my video Alinco is bringing out a new HF radio that uses SDR technology. I have received a brochure in PDF form (not posted h...

http://blog.radioworld.ca/?p=2941 Found a copy of the brochure on the FT-1D radio at the above website. No real surprises for me. It's...

I caught the gibgab about this today. Looking forward to more details coming out of the Hamvention. (I'm probably not going, water heate...

Forgot about the simple logic analyzer mode on the Bus Pirate. Channel 1 is serial out. Channel 2 is clock. Channel 3 is serial in. Ch...

Doh, I feel like such an idiot. Looking over the schematics for the TM241a and RC-20 manuals I see something I dismissed a long time ago. Th...

http://hackaday.com/2012/03/30/working-software-defined-radio-with-a-tv-tuner-card/ I was going to hold off posting about this until I got...

Thought it'd be fun to post a picture of my radio with the probes on the mic jack. I'm using a plug I bought in a pack to make int...

Okay, here are all of the possible combinations of data that I've tried: (where I have "x" that's where I've stepped ...

I'd like to officially register my annoyance of all of the fake news stories that every tech site, and some stores, seem to love to post...