SJSU Amateur Radio Club - W6YL

05/18/2022

We had an excellent event with this special collaboration with IEEE and Lockheed Martin panelists.

04/14/2022

W6YL is still active on campus in our little radio room in ENGR 376A. Most of our students and club members hangout on Discord nowadays! We're proud to be one of the oldest continuously operating clubs at SJSU!

W6YL's official Discord server: https://discord.gg/pTtpTgXW8J

02/24/2016

Don't forget, meeting tonight at 5:30 pm in radio room (ENG376A)

02/24/2016

http://hackaday.com/2016/02/23/breaking-simplisafe-security-systems-with-software-defined-radio/

The SimpliSafe home security system is two basic components, a keyboard and a base station. Sensors such as smoke detectors, switches, and motion sensors can be added to this system, all without a wi...

02/22/2016

Here's another cool idea for our routers: http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/

Broadband-Hamnet - Amateur Radio Mesh Networking

02/17/2016

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/why-modern-makers-are-bringing-1363811879927862.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw

Pretty soon, by the early 1920s, amateur radio operators were talking with, and even transmitting images to, complete strangers on the other side of the world. By the 1980s, ham radio was in decline. Right now, according to FCC records, there are roughly 800,000 ham radio operators in the United Sta…

02/10/2016

We are thinking about doing an Internet of Things Workshop using the ESP8266 chip. How many of you would be interested in something like this?

02/10/2016

First meeting of the semester tomorrow, 5:30 pm in ENG 376A!

02/04/2016

This seems like an awesome project: http://hackaday.com/2016/01/05/ten-mile-raspberry-pi-wifi-with-a-catch/ . What do all of you think?

How would you like to have a WiFi connection that covers 10 miles? Or how about an even wider network made up of a mesh of multiple nodes? It is possible, but there is a catch: you probably need a ham...

11/08/2015

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/toyota-to-invest-1-billion-in-ai-and-robotics-rd

The Japanese automaker is establishing a Silicon Valley research facility and hiring hundreds of engineers to advance AI for cars and robots

11/07/2015

http://makezine.com/2015/11/06/5-ham-radio-projects-with-diana-eng/

Here are five great ham radio projects from the Make: archive.

10/16/2015

http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/14/anti-drone-rifle-shoots-down-uavs-with-radio-waves/

This shoulder mounted device shoots drones with radio waves until they lose signal and come down.