https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:55:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://twiar.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-twiarlogo512px-32x32.jpg https://twiar.net 32 32 https://twiar.net/2026/04/15/via-hackaday-retro-weather-display-acts-like-its-windows-95/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:45:37 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40681 Sometimes you really need to know what the weather is doing, but you don’t want...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/14/one-less-option-the-deadline-to-purchase-repaired-econco-tubes-is-approaching/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:55:34 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41424 An important source for rebuilt power tubes is going away. Microwave Power Products plans to close...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/14/via-amateur-radio-daily-roc-ham-radio-network-celebrates-11th-annual-world-amateur-radio-day-2026/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:43:35 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41374 The following is a message from ROC-HAM Radio Network: Join us on April 18th for...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/14/via-hackaday-testing-a-soviet-1000-volt-insulation-tester-from-1985/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:45:39 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40623 Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/13/via-hackaday-a-voltage-regulator-before-electronics/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:45:38 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40616 Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/12/via-hackaday-take-pi-for-a-spin-in-this-orbital-simulator/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:45:39 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40572 It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/12/morse-code-event-to-honour-titanic-hero/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:57:40 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41368 An event is to be held to celebrate the birthday of a Surrey man who...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/12/via-amsat-ans-102-amsat-news-service-weekly-bulletins/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:49:47 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41346 ANS is a weekly news service provided by AMSAT. Visit them at AMSAT.org]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/12/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1415-full-version-with-repeater-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:39:54 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41364 Release Date: April 11, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/12/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1415-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:38:13 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41362 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/12/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1415-lpfm-version-no-commercial-breaks/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:37:27 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41360 Release Date: April 11, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/11/via-the-arrl-arrl-announces-change-in-central-division-leadership/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41297 Read more at ARRL.org]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/11/via-hackaday-934-mhz-when-the-government-really-doesnt-want-you-to-have-cb/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41222 In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/11/via-the-rsgb-gb2rs-news-script-for-12-april-2026/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:16:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41300 Read more at RSGB.co.uk]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-hackaday-reflecting-on-microsoft-windows-vista-in-2026/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:55:58 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41284 It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-the-arrl-register-now-for-the-2026-arrl-youth-rally-at-dayton-hamvention/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:53:17 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41298 Read more at ARRL.org]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-the-arrl-2026-arrl-field-day-merch-now-shipping-celebrate-america250-with-a-commemorative-design/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:50:41 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41299 Read more at ARRL.org]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-the-rac-world-amateur-radio-day-2026-saturday-april-18/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:45:53 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41304 On Saturday, April 18, 2026, Radio Amateurs of Canada is once again organizing a special...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-the-arrl-the-arrl-solar-update-26/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:40:43 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41309 Read more at ARRL.org]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-amateur-radio-daily-amsat-announces-hamvention-2026-activities-and-events/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41237 AMSAT has announced their lineup of events and activities for Hamvention 2026: Dinner at Tickets...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-hackaday-what-is-a-computer/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:45:37 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40569 On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-the-arrl-elecraft-donates-amateur-radio-station-to-w1aw/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:45:36 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41245 Read more at ARRL.org]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/10/via-amateur-radio-daily-open-hamclock-backend-now-independent-of-clear-sky-proxy-data/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:19:46 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41225 The following is a message from Open HamClock Backend contributor Chris Smith (G1FEF), with light...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/09/via-hackaday-the-shockley-4-layer-diode-in-2026/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:45:35 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40567 The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/08/via-hackaday-porting-ms-dos-2-0-to-the-apple-iie/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:45:39 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40559 Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/07/via-hackaday-how-would-a-field-sequential-home-computer-have-worked/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:45:40 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40489 The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/07/via-hackaday-heathkit-tuner-saved-from-junk-pile/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:45:36 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41100 We miss the old Heathkit. You could build equipment that rivaled or even surpassed commercial...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/06/talking-to-the-world-from-a-rooftop-in-dhaka-the-story-of-bangladeshs-amateur-radio-community-bangladesh/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:27:19 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41217 The room looks rather unassuming from outside. On the first floor of a residential building...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/06/collinsville-radio-operator-connected-vietnam-war-soldiers-to-families-back-home-alabama/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:39:57 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41215  Before cell phones and video calls, many soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War went without...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/04/06/ham-radio-operators-began-hearing-strange-persian-numbers-broadcast-twice-a-day-until-they-traced-the-signal-to-a-u-s-base-in-germany-and-realized-it-may-be-a-coded-wartime-message/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:34:54 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41213 War has devastated the world throughout our long history. Recent events in the Middle East...]]>