#radiohacks — Public Fediverse posts

Building a Low-Cost Satellite Tracker https://hackaday.com/2025/11/26/building-a-low-cost-satellite-tracker/ #RadioHacks #satellite #tracking #antenna #433mhz #radio #data #LoRa

A Solar-Only, Battery-Free Device That Harvests Energy from a BPW34 Photodiode https://hackaday.com/2025/08/10/a-solar-only-battery-free-device-that-harvests-energy-from-a-bpw34-photodiode/ #BQ25504ultra-low-powerboostconverter #BPW34SiliconPINphotodiode #bluetoothlowenergy #WirelessHacks #RadioHacks #SolarHacks #NordicnRF #hardware #mosfet

A Solar-Only, Battery-Free Device That Harvests Energy from a BPW34 Photodiode - Normally when you think solar projects, you think of big photovoltaic cells. But a... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/10/a-solar-only-battery-free-device-that-harvests-energy-from-a-bpw34-photodiode/ #bq25504ultra-low-powerboostconverter #bpw34siliconpinphotodiode #bluetoothlowenergy #wirelesshacks #radiohacks #solarhacks #nordicnrf #hardware #mosfet

Intercepting and Decoding Bluetooth Low Energy Data for Victron Devices https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/intercepting-and-decoding-bluetooth-low-energy-data-for-victron-devices/ #bluetoothlowenergy #Microcontrollers #SoftwareHacks #WirelessHacks #ArduinoHacks #RadioHacks #ESP32wroom #Victron #ble

Intercepting and Decoding Bluetooth Low Energy Data for Victron Devices - [ChrisJ7903] has created two Ardiuno programs for reading Victron solar controller... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/intercepting-and-decoding-bluetooth-low-energy-data-for-victron-devices/ #bluetoothlowenergy #microcontrollers #softwarehacks #wirelesshacks #arduinohacks #radiohacks #esp32wroom #victron #ble

Does a Radome Affect Radio? https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/does-a-radome-affect-radio/ #RadioAstronomy #geodesicdome #RadioHacks #radome

Does a Radome Affect Radio? - Not too far away from where this is being written is one of Uncle Sam’s NATO outpo... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/does-a-radome-affect-radio/ #radioastronomy #geodesicdome #radiohacks #radome

Motorized Coil Tunes Your Ham Antenna on a Budget https://hackaday.com/2025/01/19/motorized-coil-tunes-your-ham-antenna-on-a-budget/ #RadioHacks #tuningcoil #motorized #inductor #amateur #antenna #tuner #wiper #yaesu #ATAS #ham

Motorized Coil Tunes Your Ham Antenna on a Budget - When it comes to amateur radio, one size definitely does not fit all. That’s espec... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/19/motorized-coil-tunes-your-ham-antenna-on-a-budget/ #radiohacks #tuningcoil #motorized #inductor #amateur #antenna #tuner #wiper #yaesu #atas #ham

Is a Cheap Frequency Standard Worth It? - In the quest for an accurate frequency standard there are many options depending o... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/06/is-a-cheap-frequency-standard-worth-it/ #crystaloscillator #frequencystandard #crystaloven #radiohacks

Is a Cheap Frequency Standard Worth It? https://hackaday.com/2025/01/06/is-a-cheap-frequency-standard-worth-it/ #crystaloscillator #FrequencyStandard #crystaloven #RadioHacks

It’s Numbers All The Way Down With This Tape Measure Number Station Antenna - For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world p... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/06/its-numbers-all-the-way-down-with-this-tape-measure-number-station-antenna/ #cryptography #tapemeasure #radiohacks #espionage #shortwave #radio #sdr #spy

RF Remote Made Easy - The 433 MHz spectrum is a little bit of an oddball. It’s one of the few areas of t... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/31/rf-remote-made-easy/ #remotecontrol #fourchannel #radiohacks #switching #arduino #atmega8 #433mhz #radio

A Quick and Easy Tape Measure Turnstile Antenna for MILSAT Snooping - The number of satellites whizzing by over our heads at any moment is staggering, a... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/30/a-quick-and-easy-tape-measure-turnstile-antenna-for-milsat-snooping/ #circularpolarization #tapemeasure #radiohacks #satellite #turnstile #phasing #pirates #milsat #satcom #lhcp #rhcp

Open-Source Passive Radar Taken Down For Regulatory Reasons - Open-source technology brings a world that laws and regulations are not quite prep... - https://hackaday.com/2022/11/19/open-source-passive-radar-taken-down-for-regulatory-reasons/ #passiveradar #radiohacks #krakensdr #rtl-sdr #kraken #rtlsdr #itar

Just How Good is a Tape Measure Antenna Anyway? - Amateur radio operators have played a longstanding game of “Will It Antenna?” If t... - https://hackaday.com/2022/08/14/just-how-good-is-a-tape-measure-antenna-anyway/ #finiteelementmethodmagnetics #permittivity #carbonsteel #tapemeasure #radiohacks #skineffect #copper #femm

Wind-Up Tape Measure Transformed into Portable Ham Antenna - If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it’s turning just a... - https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/wind-up-tape-measure-transformed-into-portable-ham-antenna/ #end-fedhalfwave #amateurradio #tapemeasure #radiohacks #hamradio #portable #radiator #antenna #efhw #qrp

FM Radio, The Choice Of An Old Generation - Had the pandemic not upended many of this summer’s fun and games, many of my frien... - https://hackaday.com/2021/08/26/fm-radio-the-choice-of-an-old-generation/ #hackadaycolumns #broadcasting #analogradio #radiohacks #vhf #fm

Hacking a PIC to Redefine a Microphone’s Transmit Frequency - Software defined radio and widespread software-controlled PLL synthesis for RF has... - https://hackaday.com/2021/08/01/hacking-a-pic-to-redefine-a-microphones-transmit-frequency/ #wirelessmicrophone #microchippic #radiohacks #sennheiser #pic #pll

The $50 Ham: A Cheap Antenna for the HF Bands - So far in the $50 Ham series, I’ve concentrated mainly on the VHF and UHF bands. The reason for this... - https://hackaday.com/2021/01/19/the-50-ham-a-cheap-antenna-for-the-hf-bands/ #hackadaycolumns #originalart #radiohacks #impedance #the$50ham #antenna #ferrite #toroid #balun #unun

Homebrew Loop Antenna Brings the Shortwave World to You - Radio may be dead in terms of delivering entertainment, but it’s times like these when the original ... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/04/12/homebrew-loop-antenna-brings-the-shortwave-world-to-you/ #radiohacks #shortwave #coaxial #balun #noise #oroid #radio #coax #loop #unun #sdr

Shoot the Moon with this Homebrew Hardline RF Divider - You can say one thing for [Derek]’s amateur radio ambitions — he certainly jumps in with both feet... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/03/31/shoot-the-moon-with-this-homebrew-hardline-rf-divider/ #earth-moon-earth #amateurradio #transformer #radiohacks #dielectric #moonbounce #impedance #hardline #coax #eme #ham

A Simple Science Fair AM Transmitter - A crystal radio is a common enough science fair project, but the problem is, there isn’t much on a... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/01/23/a-simple-science-fair-am-transmitter/ #crystaloscillator #amtransmitter #sciencefair #radiohacks