Category: Technology

A 10 cm cube racing across the sky at 27,000 km/h – and you can transmit through it. CubeSats have democratized amateur radio satellite communication: Where once huge budgets and years of development were necessary, today universities, schools, and amateur radio organizations worldwide enable their own satellite missions. In this article, you’ll learn which CubeSats…

Let’s be honest: who hasn’t spent an entire evening typing repeater data into a new radio? Frequency, offset, CTCSS tone, name… channel by channel. Fifty repeaters later, your eyes are tired, your fingers are stiff, and you wonder: does it really have to be this way? Then comes the next radio. Or a firmware update…

A real-time map for the Meshtastic network in Austria and Europe – open, live, and without tracking. We’ve all been there: your Meshtastic node is running, happily transmitting away – and then you wonder: can anyone actually see me? Where are the other nodes? And how far does my signal really reach? That’s exactly what…

How we connect Meshtastic nodes via the internet – and how you can join in. Meshtastic is brilliant. Small LoRa nodes that communicate without internet, without a provider, and without monthly costs. Locally via radio, point to point, as it should be. But what if two nodes are 200 kilometres apart? Even the best antenna…

Hello everyone! Hermann here, OE8HSF, from Knappenberg near Hüttenberg – at a good 1,000 metres above sea level. You probably know the feeling: you stumble across a topic on the internet, think “I’ll just have a quick look” – and three weeks later you’ve got three nodes on your terrace, a BME280 sensor on a…

You know the feeling? Standing in the garden, 42 metres of wire in one hand, coffee in the other, wondering: where is all this supposed to go? That is exactly how my adventure with the MFJ-1982MP started. An end-fed antenna that promises to cover everything from 80 to 6 metres. I set it up, measured…

He knows no boundaries. No mountains. No rivers. No lakes. The OE8RADIO dog is on the move in Carinthia, spreading the good word – at a solid 80 km/h, straight across the landscape, through forests, over mountain peaks and right through Lake Wörthersee. Obstacles? He doesn’t know them. Breaks? He doesn’t need them. He just…

BandWacht is a new open-source tool for automatic band monitoring for radio amateurs. The software connects to any WebRX receiver on the internet, analyses the spectrum in real time, and notifies you immediately when activity is detected on a monitored frequency. The goal: Never miss a QSO again. BandWacht is currently in Beta (v0.1.0) and…

The OE8CKK APRS Service is an interactive APRS service for radio amateurs that delivers a wide range of information directly to your radio via APRS message – no smartphone app, registration, or internet required. Everything works directly over the air to your radio. The service runs server-side and responds to APRS messages sent to the…

oeradio.at is more than a website – it’s a live dashboard for everyone who’s into radio. Whether you’re a licensed radio amateur, CB radio operator, or PMR user – right on the homepage you can see at a glance what’s happening in the radio world: propagation conditions including the 11m band, DX spots, satellite passes,…