This lovely hand-made component, built as part of a crystal radio set Instructables user Jezan assembled for his son, started out as a sheet of 1.5 mm aluminum that looks like it may have come from the side of an old file cabinet. Jezan used minimal tools…
Radio hacker extraordinaire Greg Charvot recently finished constructing this homebrew radio transceiver for the 20 M SSB ham radio band
Spotted on the MAKE Flickr pool, this funky-fine Morse code straight key made with a Two Pence piece. 2p Straight Key More: Sew a cute Morse code key leg strap
Diana Eng runs through the basics of how to set up a traditional HF amateur radio station at home.
Mobile radios are like DIY cellphones. They can communicate across the world without the infrastructure of cellphone carriers or the internet. And sometimes, there’s a lot of satisfaction in being able to do something all by yourself. Here I am at Hamvention 2010 in Dayton, Ohio checking out all of the mobile radios. There was […]
Communicate with satellites in space with this portable yagi antenna.
Diana Eng shows how to make your own End-Fed Half-Wavelength Antenna (EFHWA) for portable radio operations.
