Radio Design Group, Inc.

August is Inventors Month! We're proud to celebrate over 20 years of engineering excellence. From pagers and early cellular communication to ongoing support for the US Department of Defense, RDG's inventors are here! Let us know how we can make your life easier.

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This , we're excited to share a compilation of RDG's custom-engineered projects. These retro designs are a part of communications history, and we're not done yet!

RDG Products Throughout the Years: The Retro Technology That Made Us — RDGI Explore Radio Design Group’s innovative communication solutions from the 80s and 90s, including compact paging designs, emergency phones, and early IoT devices that set the stage for today’s technology.

Check out today's Wednesday Wisdom blog post on choosing engineering as a career path.

So You Want To Be An Engineer — RDGI Thinking about a long-term career as an engineer? Getting into engineering is not the easiest career path, but it can be quite rewarding. Read advice from our Chief Technical Office (and lead engineer) on getting started.

It's ! Here, Micah is pulling "kits" that are sent to our contracting manufacturer, Hi-Tek Electronics, in Salem, Oregon. These components will be used to complete the assembly of Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs). We generate long component lists using an MRP system.

These unassuming cardboard boxes are full of newly repaired RFDU-300 units that are on their way back to the U.S. Navy! 🛥️ 🇺🇸

It's , so we're showcasing a few of our patents from over the years. Join us as we celebrate throughout August and explore our remarkable in-house innovations. 🚀

It's , so here's an article about how RDG founder Jim Hendershot learned some valuable lessons when starting his business.

Becoming a Disruptive Entrepreneur: Looking Back on What Led Us Here — RDGI As Radio Design Group, Inc. celebrates its 30th year, I look back at all it took to get me to that starting line in 1992. Like Richard Branson, another disruptive entrepreneur says, “Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital so that you can do more of it and move forw...

How do you know what to look for when you're being told all kinds of various information about your RF design? 🤔 Read our on validating expert opinions and making the best decision for your project.

How to Validate Information For Your RF Idea and Know Good Advice From Bad — RDGI Sooner or later, almost everyone in a business environment winds up having to make decisions about some sort of wireless or RF system. The big challenge is making the right decision in a field that has so much specialized knowledge. So how do you tell the difference between reasonably correct inform

Today, we're celebrating 📻🥳📡 We are grateful for the connections we've made thanks to , not to mention the fun we're having building the LEGO Retro Radio! Stay "tuned" to see if we can get creative with our knowledge and this build...

Are you a DoD contractor looking for NAICS codes? 🌐 Our Capabilities Statement includes all the information you need to get started with us. Learn more here!

Government & DoD Capabilities — RDGI Capabilities Statement including NAICS codes, core capabilities, past performance, certifications and compliance, memberships, patents, and more information for government, Department of Defense, and military customers.

On , Nikola Tesla patented the Electrical Igniter for Gas Engines. Tesla was an incredibly prolific inventor! He was granted nearly 200 patents during his lifetime. This early version of a spark plug would be instrumental in the invention of the internal combustion engine and the automobile!⚡🔥 ❕

🌟 August 15th is ! What makes your organization great? Here at RDG, we're a small but mighty team that feels like family.

August 14th is . These brave US Marines from the Navajo Nation derived a code based on their complex, unwritten language. This unbroken code was instrumental in the Allied victory in .

INTEL - 1942: Navajo Code Talkers Every WWII combatant appreciated the need for an unbreakable code that would help them communicate while protecting their operational plans. The U.S. Marines knew where to find one: the Navajo Nation. Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based o...

🚀 Unlock the secrets of Frequency Modulation (FM) with our latest blog post! Discover how FM works, its advantages, and its applications in modern communication. 📡✨

Methods of Transmission: FM or Frequency Modulation — RDGI Frequency Modulation (FM) is a key technology in the world of radio communications, offering a unique way to modify a carrier signal. Unlike Amplitude Modulation (AM), which alters the signal's strength, FM changes the frequency of the carrier signal based on the modulating signal. This approach pro

We're looking forward to Thomas Wildenberg's webinar, "Fighting in the Electromagnetic Spectrum." Thank you to the Association of Old Crows for hosting this accomplished scholar! 🌐

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Geomagnetic waves travel fast. Did you know that the sun can impact our technology from 94 million miles away? ☀️ Check out this article from Business Insider to learn more about solar flares and terrestrial tech! ⤵️

The sun is getting more active than it has for a decade — and it could lead to power outages, grounded flights, and stunning auroras The sun is entering a peak of activity that will last a few years. This could disrupt grids and ground planes. Here's why.

Solar storms have some interesting terrestrial effects! In September 2022, Sunspot AR3098 caused a radio blackout over the Pacific. Check out the story here:

A sunspot 4 times the size of Earth let out a 10-million-degree-solar flare It caused a brief radio blackout over the Pacific.

Check out this new information about the nature of solar EMP threats. Interested in EMP-resistant communications systems? Give us a call and let us help!

Interplanetary shock wave angles are key to infrastructure threat Giant shock waves emanating from the Sun can give us some breathtaking auroras here on Earth. They can also cause energy surges that can damage our infrastructure, says a new study that looks at how their angles of impact shape their consequences.

It's ! Here's some information from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and Geomagnetic Disturbance. An event would be incredibly disruptive to our country's digital infrastructure—what can we do to protect our electronics before it becomes a problem?

Electromagnetic Pulse and Geomagnetic Disturbance | CISA Extreme electromagnetic incidents caused by an intentional electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack or a naturally occurring geomagnetic disturbance (GMD), caused by severe space weather, could damage significant portions of the Nation’s critical infrastructure, including the electri

Did you know there's a new satellite that monitors the sun's activity? ☀️ The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory - NRL launched the GOES-U NOAA Satellite to monitor solar flares and other coronal ejections, which are important for our daily use of electronic devices! 🛰️

NRL CCOR Launches on the GOES-U NOAA Satellite To Monitor Space Weather The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) was launched June 25, on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental

This , we remember voiceover legend Vin Scully. RDG's Founder Jim Hendershot recalls listening to Vin Scully call the Dodgers games on an old tube radio he'd fixed up in his youth:

"Vin started out in radio when live broadcasts were common, and he never lost that flair for being able to capture my attention, even when absolutely nothing was going on, which happens a lot in baseball games. I can still hear his 'high fly ball to left center field' in my head. Having spent time behind an AM station microphone in my younger days, I know how big an accomplishment Vin achieved." ⚾🎙️

Vin Scully, Dodgers fans and the transistor radio: How an unbreakable bond was formed For decades, listening to Vin Scully on a transistor radio became part of the quintessential experience for any fan attending a game at Dodger Stadium.

August is 💡and we're celebrating our founder, Chief Technical Officer, and in-house inventor, Jim Hendershot, for all his innovations that have kept RDG going for over 30 years! 🙌

From our nation's Independence Day 🇺🇸 to the 55th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, July has much to celebrate. Make sure you're subscribed to our newsletter to keep up to date with what's new with RDG! 📬

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It's ! RF engineers are electronic engineers whose focus is in the area of Radio Frequency (RF) circuit and system development. While there are a great many sub-disciplines to be found, the common aspect of RF engineering is that we work specifically with an eye towards the realization of a product that uses radio frequency or wireless signals.

The first Geosynchronous satellite, Syncom 2, was launched into a high-altitude orbit from Cape Canaveral, FL, on July 26, 1963. It was equipped with two-way telephone and one-way teletype channels. Learn more about Syncom 2 in this article from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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On July 25, 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone made history by successfully demonstrating their electric 6-wire telegraph machine, an early invention that paved the way for .

Revealing The Real Cooke And Wheatstone Telegraph Dial John Liffen, Curator of Communications, blogs about an important discovery to be displayed for the first time in our new Information Age gallery opening 25 October 2014.

Driven by curiosity, the philosophy of "Imagineering" is at the center of RDG's core principles, inspiring us to develop new ideas and designs for our ever-changing technological world.💡Contact us today to learn more about how we can turn your impossible ideas into reality!

Science fiction has always been a treasure trove of imaginative concepts that, over time, have evolved into real-world innovations. Here are some made-up inventions that became real — AND ones that could never work outside of fantasy. Read more on our blog!

The Greatest Invention That Futurists Missed (and Why It's Understandable) — RDGI Flying cars, voice command of computers, biometric recognition, beam weapons, self-driving cars, and artificial intelligence; there were futuristic predictions of all of these and more in the movies. But there was one thing that no one predicted, and for good reasons.

This , we are excited to share the MVSK (m-ary variable shift keying). Sometimes prototypes get fairly complicated. The MVSK provides a high speed, very jam-resistant, and very secure data path that works in the most adverse of conditions. Here's a prototype of an MVSK receiver we designed awhile back.

If you have a need for secure, jam-resistant communications, contact us to see if MVSK will work for your application.