Persekutuan Tanah Melayu: Federation of Malaya History and Amateur Radio
The Federation of Malaya (Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, 1948-1963) was the political cradle of modern Malaysian…
H-Mode: An Open HF Digital Mode That Turns Errors Into Ionospheric Measurements
H-Mode, a new open HF digital mode from N2OSW, deliberately skips payload FEC so every…
5D Web Programmer: A Free, In-Browser Codeplug Editor for the Yaesu FT-5D
A free, open-source HTML file from Beaty Consultancy edits Yaesu FT-5D memory channels in any…
Someone Turned a Sony PSP Into an RTTY Encoder
A Sony PSP homebrew app from r/amateurradio turns the 2004 handheld into an AFSK RTTY…
The Casio G-Shock: From a Broken Father’s Watch to the Wrist of Every Navy SEAL
The Casio G-Shock started as one engineer's guilt over a broken father's watch in 1981…
Geogram: Off-Grid Peer-to-Peer Communication Without Servers, Accounts, Or Cloud
Geogram is an open source Apache-2.0 peer-to-peer communications platform that connects phones, laptops, and ESP32…
The Zippo Lighter: Vietnam War Icon, Limited Edition Collectibles, and the Brand Today
The Zippo windproof lighter became an icon of the Vietnam War, engraved by GIs with…
How Amateur Radio Built the Indonesian Internet: PaguyubanNet, Packet Radio and the Pioneers of 1986-1994
Long before commercial ISPs, the Indonesian Internet was built by amateur radio operators experimenting with…
The Crown Antenna: A Wire Loop That Hugs the Roof and Works the World
The Crown Antenna is a folded wire loop with peaks and valleys, born in a…