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The Most Hackable Handheld Ham Radio Yet

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I don’t use my handheld ham radio for much more than eavesdropping on the subway dispatcher when my train rumbles to a mysterious halt in a dark tunnel. In 2012 Baofeng made waves with its UV-5R radio , upending the sleepy handheld-transceiver market. Like Baofeng’s 5R, Quansheng’s K5 as a radio transceiver is fine.

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Tesla Invests in R&D, Not Advertising, & the Results Speak for Themselves

CleanTechnica EVs

Automakers advertise in every conceivable medium, from TV to radio to print to billboards to the internet — […]. Originally posted on EVANNEX. By Charles Morris Automobiles and advertising are symbiotic industries.

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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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Normally, when it comes to radio-related projects, my home of New York City is a terrible place to be. If we could see and hear radio waves, it would make an EDM rave feel like a sensory deprivation tank. Radio interference plagues the metropolis. Instead, it uses ambient signals. James Provost.

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Engineering Lunar Network 2.0

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When Neil Armstrong uttered one of the most famous sentences in human history, he did so via a microphone in his helmet and a 3-kilogram VHF-band radio in his backpack. The radio linked to a rig in the lunar lander, which launched microwave signals on a 325,000-kilometer journey to Earth. That radio was a tech marvel.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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The TV era ends The television market was quite different back in 1960. The Evolution of Zenith (and the TV Industry) 1918. Chicago Radio Laboratory established; later adopts as its trade name Z-Nth, the identification of an amateur radio station. the sole surviving U.S. Its tube plant in Melrose Park, Ill.,

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U.S. lawmakers need to bar automakers from getting rid of AM radio in brandnew automobiles

Baua Electric

The Alliance for Automobile Innovation, a business staff representing main automakers, stated “mandating AM radios in all vehicles is unnecessary. Congress has never mandated radio features in vehicles ever before. Automakers remain 100 percent committed to ensuring drivers have access to public alerts and safety warnings.”

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EV Interference Doesn’t Have to Kill AM Radio

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AM radio could very easily fit into the hallowed category of “perfected technology.” However, AM radio remains widely used in many parts of the world—including the United States—and still plays a significant role in both day-to-day life and emergency communications for hundreds of millions of people.

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