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Lee Badman
Personal blog · wirednot.wordpress.comhardwaresystems
Lee Badman writes wirednot, a personal blog at wirednot.wordpress.com about hardware and systems. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Lee Badman's blog covers radio spectrum regulation and RF interference, including FCC rules and what a homemade 5.5 GHz radar could interfere with. HN readers cite it as a source for those points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lee Badman's *Mostly* Wi-Fi Blog- opinions are my own, and I speak only for me.
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/01/07/what-else-is-in-the-5-ghz-spectrum-hint-its-not-just-weather-radar/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-22
What Hacker News says?
Contrary to the common interpretation, I've yet to see where in the new rules it is required that manufacturers implementing the new 5GHz U-NII device software security requirements is required to forbid 3rd-party firmware. Yes, there is an administrative document that asks questions about how such updates are prevented, but if you read the full document in context it also asks a lot of other redundant questions, an…
Comment linking /2014/01/07/what-else-is-in-the-5-ghz-spectrum-hint-its-not-just-weather-radar/
on “The FCC Might Ban Specific Operating Systems”Submitted The Long Chain of Wi-Fi Dysfunction Gets Longer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPrevious discussion of a similar project, by [evidently] the same person: http://hforsten.com/6-ghz-frequency-modulated-radar.html As before, this is totally awesome---until the FCC (or other national spectrum regulator) shows up at your door... Here is an assortment of things that the author might be interfering with in the neighborhood of his 5.5 GHz carrier frequency: https://wirednot.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/wha…
Comment linking /2014/01/07/what-else-is-in-the-5-ghz-spectrum-hint-its-not-just-weather-radar/
on “Homemade synthetic aperture radar”