Hacker News with Generative AI: Radio

Tiny Ten DSP-Based HF Transceiver (janbob.com)
This all started while on a backpack in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. We enjoyed the beautiful scenery of our alpine valley. The lake in front of the tent was crystal clear and reflected the surrounding mountains. But, radio signals were all shielded from us. Not only were there no Cell signals, but we could only receive one weak FM broadcast station.

Radio, Electronics, DIY, Transceivers, Ham Radio

67 points by wglb 4 days ago | 19 comments

The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us (scd31.com)
For the past two weeks or so, I've been working on constructing the Taylorator. The Taylorator is a piece of software which allows me to flood the FM broadcast band with Taylor Swift's music. No matter where you tune your radio, you will only be able to listen to her!

Software, Radio, Music, Taylor Swift

332 points by todsacerdoti 38 days ago | 98 comments

NTS Radio: ad-free, 24/7 radio that plays an eclectic range of music (nts.live)

Music, Radio, Streaming, Entertainment

3 points by thunderbong 42 days ago | 0 comments

Sleep Baseball (sleepbaseball.com)
Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio is a full-length fake baseball game.

Sports, Radio, Entertainment

13 points by gaws 47 days ago | 0 comments

All-Band Receiver Lets You Listen to All the Radio at Once (hackaday.com)
There are many ways to build a radio receiver, but most have a few things in common, such as oscillators, tuned circuits, detectors, mixers, and amplifiers.

Radio, Electronics, Hardware, DIY, Projects

27 points by darkswordreams 54 days ago | 11 comments

Stephen King's rock radio station won't go silent after all (apnews.com)
Horror author Stephen King’s rock ‘n’ roll radio station is going to continue rocking around the clock and into the new year.

Stephen King, Music, Radio

4 points by cf100clunk 64 days ago | 1 comments

Power up and tear down of a Rohde and Schwarz SKTU BN 4151/2/5 noise generator (makertube.net)
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Electronics, Hardware, DIY, Testing, Radio

9 points by butz 66 days ago | 0 comments

For > 50 years BBC Somali service inadvertently broadcasted anti-colonial msg (theguardian.com)
The British Broadcasting Corporation’s Somali service theme tune is one of the most popular and recognisable sounds for people in Somalia and the diaspora. With a whistling rhythm and melody, it is authoritative and catchy. The words that follow the music haven’t changed for more than 60 years: “Halkaniwaa BBC – this is the BBC.”

Radio, History, Somalia, Colonialism, Media

7 points by erehweb 72 days ago | 0 comments

Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn't Know Were There (hackaday.com)
Analog radio broadcasts are pretty simple, right? Tune into a given frequency on the AM or FM bands, and what you hear is what you get. Or at least, that used to be the way, before smart engineers started figuring out all kinds of sneaky ways for extra signals to hop on to mainstream broadcasts.

Radio, Technology, Engineering, Hacking

13 points by pkaeding 73 days ago | 5 comments

SignalSDR Pro: A rugged, compact, high-performance SDR (crowdsupply.com)
SignalSDR Pro combines portability and performance. With roughly the footprint of a credit card or a Raspberry Pi SBC, SignalSDR Pro is the perfect companion for anyone who needs powerful tools without the bulk. From signal processing and spectrum analysis to communication systems and beyond, SignalSDR Pro allows you to tackle complex SDR projects quickly.

Software, Electronics, Hardware, Radio, Open Source

5 points by Lwrless 77 days ago | 0 comments

Russian UVB-76 radio station broadcasts burst of mysterious messages (meduza.io)
Russia’s mysterious UVB-76 radio station, known for its constant buzzing and occasional cryptic messages, sent out a near record number of transmissions on December 11.

Russia, Radio, Mystery, Cold War, International Relations

18 points by mudil 79 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: I built an HTML5 RTL-SDR application (ea1iti.es)

Radio, Software, HTML5, Open Source

104 points by jtarrio 89 days ago | 61 comments

Stephen King shuts down money-losing radio stations after 40 years (bangordailynews.com)
Zone Corporation, Stephen King’s radio station company, announced on Monday that it will cease operations at the end of this month.

Media, Business, Stephen King, Radio

10 points by ilamont 94 days ago | 2 comments

Software-defined (Internet) radio with Liquidsoap (2023) (yossarian.net)
This is going to be another short “how-to” blog post on music management, this time on declarative Internet radio streaming with Liquidsoap. I couldn’t find a ton of great examples of Liquidsoap online while defining my own radio stream (besides the project’s own excellent docs), so I figured I’d write one.

Software, Music, Streaming, Radio, Tutorials

59 points by walterbell 108 days ago | 9 comments

Show HN: World's Radio – Listen to Radio Stations Worldwide (worldsradio.com)

Radio, Entertainment, Technology, Web Applications

22 points by shinjuku 109 days ago | 13 comments

In 1924, the US Turned Off Their Radios to Search for Life on Mars (iflscience.com)

History, Space, Mars, Science, Radio

18 points by pizza 115 days ago | 2 comments

Project: Verdad–tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5 (simonwillison.net)
I’m starting a new interview series called Project. The idea is to interview people who are building interesting data projects and talk about what they’ve built, how they built it, and what they learned along the way.

Data Projects, AI, Radio, Misinformation

7 points by speckx 119 days ago | 0 comments

Practical Radio Circuits (2003) [pdf] (fracassi.net)

Electronics, Radio, Engineering, DIY

157 points by _Microft 125 days ago | 47 comments

I discovered mysterious hidden signals on a public radio channel (2013) [video] (media.ccc.de)
How I discovered mysterious hidden signals on a public radio channel and eventually found out their meaning through hardware hacking, reverse engineering and little cryptanalysis.

Radio, Hacking, Cryptography, Reverse Engineering, Video

273 points by joebig 131 days ago | 67 comments

Long wave radio fans mourn fading frequencies (2023) (bbc.com)
As he turned the dial gently but purposefully, the sound of people speaking in foreign languages and the lilt of unfamiliar music burst through a haze of crackle and buzz.

Radio, Technology, History, Culture

79 points by austinallegro 131 days ago | 43 comments

Polish radio station ditches DJs, journalists for AI-generated college kids (theregister.com)
A Polish radio station has ditched its on-air talent for AI in what its editor-in-chief calls an experiment on the effect of AI in society, though it looks like a bid to save cash.

Artificial Intelligence, Media, Radio, Poland, Experimentation

25 points by Brajeshwar 132 days ago | 15 comments

Parks on the Air (parksontheair.com)

Parks, Radio, Broadcasting

112 points by thepuppet33r 136 days ago | 57 comments

Why does FM sound better than AM? (johndcook.com)
The original form of radio broadcast was amplitude modulation (AM). With AM radio, the changes in the amplitude of the carrier wave carries the signal you want to broadcast.

Radio, Audio, Technology, Sound

261 points by zdw 144 days ago | 267 comments

The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018) (theradiohistorian.org)

Radio, History, Broadcasting

122 points by 8bitsrule 181 days ago | 19 comments

What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower (jeffgeerling.com)
A few months ago, our [AM radio hot dog experiment](https://www.instagram.com/insights/media/3333127873529510767/) went mildly viral.

Electromagnetism, Experiments, Radio, Social Media

385 points by _Microft 182 days ago | 131 comments

The 'Freakish Radio Writings' of 1924 (centauri-dreams.org)
All this comes to mind this morning because of an intriguing story sent along by my friend Al Jackson, whose work on interstellar propulsion is well known in these pages, as is his deep involvement with the Apollo program.

History, Space Exploration, Radio

82 points by JPLeRouzic 182 days ago | 7 comments

Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process (digitalpreservation-blog.nb.no)

Digital Preservation, Archives, Radio, Data Management

144 points by todsacerdoti 189 days ago | 36 comments

How a tiny radio station came to play a continuous loop since the late-1990s (northjersey.com)

Radio, History, Music, New Jersey

41 points by geox 192 days ago | 16 comments

The END OF 900Mhz (NexNav proposes removing band from amateur and LoRa) [video] (youtube.com)

Radio, Technology, Amateur Radio, Regulations, LoRa

5 points by hi-v-rocknroll 200 days ago | 0 comments

ANTSDR: Low-cost SDR Alternatives for Ettus Research and Lime Microsystems (github.com/MicroPhase)

Software, Radio, Open Source

46 points by teleforce 208 days ago | 12 comments