Radio technology chose us before we knew what hit us. Markus grew up dismantling walkie-talkies in his parents' garage, convinced he could squeeze more range out of those cheap plastic boxes. Lori spent her teenage years pulling apart CB radios and wondering why nobody at school cared about spectrum analyzers. We met at a ham radio conference in 2014, bonded over our shared obsession with GNU Radio, and haven't shut up about waveforms since.
What started as weekend tinkering turned into something bigger. We began documenting our experiments with software-defined radios, posting teardowns of commercial gear that manufacturers probably wished stayed sealed. People started asking questions. Real questions, not the surface-level stuff you'd find regurgitated across tech blogs. They wanted to understand how modern wireless systems actually function beneath the marketing fluff.
This website exists because we got tired of the gap between what companies claim their radio tech can do and what's happening under the hood. We've spent years working with SDR platforms, from cheap RTL-SDR dongles to high-end Ettus Research rigs. Markus has consulted for telecommunications firms that needed someone to explain why their fancy new system kept dropping packets. Lori spent three years reverse-engineering proprietary protocols that vendors swore were "impossible" to decode.
The wireless industry loves its secrets, but radio waves don't lie. When we dig into OFDM implementations or tear apart the latest Wi-Fi 7 chipsets, we're showing you what manufacturers gloss over in their spec sheets. We've built our own frequency hopping systems and watched commercial automation platforms fail in ways their documentation never mentions.
Our approach isn't academic. We test everything ourselves, break stuff regularly, and admit when we're wrong. Last year, Markus spent two months chasing what he thought was a flaw in a beamforming algorithm, only to discover he'd misconfigured his antenna array. These mistakes teach us more than successes ever could.
Radio technology moves fast, and automation systems are reshaping how wireless networks operate. We're here to cut through the noise and show you what's real. No corporate-speak, no watered-down explanations, just two people who can't stop obsessing over electromagnetic waves and the silicon that shapes them.