Bouncing Signals off of Satellites Other than the Moon
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/bouncing-signals-off-of-satellites-other-than-the-moon/

The moon is a popular target for ham radio operators to bounce signals since it’s fairly large and follows a predictable path. There are some downsides, though; it’s not always …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/bouncing-signals-off-of-satellites-other-than-the-moon/)

A Modem as a Cassette Interface
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/a-modem-as-a-cassette-interface/

At least some in the audience will at some time in the distant past have loaded or saved a program on cassette, with an 8-bit home computer. The machine would …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/a-modem-as-a-cassette-interface/)

Making the Longest-Distance Radio Contact Possible
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/making-the-longest-distance-radio-contact-possible/

One of the more popular activities in the ham radio world is DXing, which is attempting to communicate with radio stations as far away as possible. There are some feats …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/making-the-longest-distance-radio-contact-possible/)

AI Mistakes Are Different, and That’s a Problem
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/ai-mistakes-are-different-and-thats-a-problem/

People have been making mistakes — roughly the same ones — since forever, and we’ve spent about the same amount of time learning to detect and mitigate them. Artificial Intelligence …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/ai-mistakes-are-different-and-thats-a-problem/)

Networking History Lessons
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/networking-history-lessons/

Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the Forgotten Internet series, on UUCP. The short summary is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/networking-history-lessons/)

Preventing AI Plagiarism With .ASS Subtitling
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/preventing-ai-plagiarism-with-ass/

Around two years ago, the world was inundated with news about how generative AI or large language models would revolutionize the world. At the time it was easy to get …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/preventing-ai-plagiarism-with-ass/)

Soviet Wired Radio, How It Worked
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/25/soviet-wired-radio-how-it-worked/