Everyone tends to use it to measure long distances, except for those rare moments when it comes loose and angrily snaps back into position. It's a fairly simple tool that hasn't changed a great deal ...

If you want to try to figure out what’s going on for yourself, all you need is a pair of tape measures and a software defined radio (SDR), as [Tom Farnell] demonstrates. Tape measure antennas ...

challenge. In keeping with that, he chose a 50-meter steel tape measure as the basis of the build. This isn’t one of those retractable tape measures, mind you — just a long strip of flexible ...