It is sort of the American dream: start a company in your garage and have it get crazy big. After all, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and even Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard did it. Seems hard to do these ...

Like almost everything else in electronics, radios are becoming processors with software that communicate via a small amount of RF I/O circuitry. Surely, then, the rise of software-defined radio (SDR) ...

The legendary 6502 microprocessor recently turned 50 years old, and to celebrate this venerable chip which brought affordable computing and video gaming to the masses [AndersBNielsen] decided to put ...

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is “a radio communication system where components that have been typically implemented in hardware are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or ...

The newest trend in American communication isn't another smartphone from Apple or Google but one of the elder statesmen of communication: Ham radio licenses are at an all time high, with over 700,000 ...

I recently spoke with David Sumner (K1ZZ), the CEO of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), at the Dayton Hamvention, the big ham conference held every year in Dayton, Ohio. If you’re a ham, you know ...

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