From whip antenna to shark fin and beyond, engineers struggle with expanding wireless requirements for automobiles.

It’s a skill that radio amateurs pick up over years but which it sometimes comes as a surprise to find that is not shared by everyone, the ability to casually glance at an antenna on a mast or a ...

His recent video shows how to put up a workable basic HF antenna in a small backyard. The center of the system is a 49:1 unun. An unun is like a balun, but while a balun goes from balanced line to ...

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Edison also experimented with communication on a vehicle in 1901 [2], using a thick cylindrical antenna placed on the roof of the vehicle. Real mobile communication services started with wireless ...

Diversity polarization is where two antennas provide two separate orthogonal polarizations. An improvement in reception is obtained by combining the signals from the two elements. This type of ...

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T-Mobile customers in areas affected by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton will now be able to send SMS texts over ...

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Mint Mobile vs T-Mobile is a question that's no doubt in the minds of many a cell phone user over the past few months, given the incredibly high-profile ads campaign of the former. Both being on ...

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