https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:38:13 +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/2025/11/21/via-hackaday-building-a-desk-display-for-time-and-weather-data/ https://twiar.net/2025/11/21/via-hackaday-building-a-desk-display-for-time-and-weather-data/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:45:52 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=36026 Just about every laptop, desktop, and smartphone in your life can tell you the date,...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/21/via-hackaday-building-a-desk-display-for-time-and-weather-data/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/10/16/via-hackaday-tips-for-homebrewing-inductors/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:45:54 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35285 How hard can it be to create your own inductors? Get a wire. Coil it...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/14/via-the-arrl-arkansas-club-shares-ham-radio-at-maker-faire/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:47:12 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35491 Read more at ARRL.org]]> https://twiar.net/2025/04/18/via-amateur-radio-daily-amsat-suggests-makers-as-candidates-for-amateur-radio/ https://twiar.net/2025/04/18/via-amateur-radio-daily-amsat-suggests-makers-as-candidates-for-amateur-radio/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=31313 In a recent news bulletin, AMSAT encouraged amateur radio clubs to focus on Makers as...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/04/18/via-amateur-radio-daily-amsat-suggests-makers-as-candidates-for-amateur-radio/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/12/22/via-hackaday-unexpectedly-interesting-payphone-gives-up-its-secrets/ https://twiar.net/2024/12/22/via-hackaday-unexpectedly-interesting-payphone-gives-up-its-secrets/#comments Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:06:21 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26389 Reverse engineering a payphone doesn’t sound like a very interesting project, at least in the...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/22/via-hackaday-unexpectedly-interesting-payphone-gives-up-its-secrets/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/12/15/via-hackaday-how-corroded-can-a-motherboard-be/ https://twiar.net/2024/12/15/via-hackaday-how-corroded-can-a-motherboard-be/#comments Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:45:52 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26223 We will admit it. If we found a 386 motherboard as badly corroded as the...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/15/via-hackaday-how-corroded-can-a-motherboard-be/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/12/14/via-amateur-radio-daily-m17-foundation-established/ https://twiar.net/2024/12/14/via-amateur-radio-daily-m17-foundation-established/#comments Sun, 15 Dec 2024 04:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26380 Zero Retries reports the establishment of the M17 Foundation: Note that this new website is...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/14/via-amateur-radio-daily-m17-foundation-established/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/10/23/new-tech-enables-3d-printing-electronics-without-semiconductors/ Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:24:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=24870 Researchers at MIT have unexpectedly stumbled upon a way to 3D print active electronics –...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/09/25/via-hackaday-how-hot-is-that-soldering-iron/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:15:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=23322 It is common these days to have a soldering iron where you can set the...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/09/07/via-hackaday-swd-interface-simplifies-debugging/ Sat, 07 Sep 2024 09:02:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=23009 The proliferation of microcontrollers has made it easier than ever to add some smarts to...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/09/03/via-hackaday-using-a-2d-scanner-to-make-3d-things/ Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22884 [Chuck Hellebuyck] wanted to clone some model car raceway track and realised that by scanning...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/31/via-hackaday-comparing-aliexpress-vs-lcsc-sourced-mosfets/ Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:28:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22881 These days, it’s super-easy to jump onto the World Wide Web to find purported replacement...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/15/via-hackaday-pi-pico-sdr-on-a-breadboard/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22480 How hard is it to make a fully standalone SDR? [101 Things] shows you how...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/09/via-hackaday-saildrones-searching-the-sea-for-clues-to-hurricane-behavior/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 02:17:55 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22285 Hurricanes can cause widespread destruction, so early forecasting of their strength is important to protect...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/06/via-hackaday-youve-got-the-portable-radio-now-what-about-the-antenna/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:17:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22281 There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community that when it comes to antennas...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/04/via-hackaday-an-antenna-to-throw-you-for-a-loop/ Sun, 04 Aug 2024 14:33:19 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22283 It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/30/via-hackaday-ask-hackaday-is-shortwave-on-life-support/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:22:37 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22270 Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/28/via-hackaday-fauxtrs-is-definitely-not-a-trash-80/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:27:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22189 Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/27/via-hackaday-coax-stub-filters-demystified/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:32:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22187 Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/26/via-hackaday-a-nostalgic-look-at-a-kids-shortwave-resistor/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:47:27 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22128 [Mikrowave1] had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/25/via-hackaday-cw-not-hard-enough-try-this-tiny-paddle/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:32:50 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22193 For a long time, a Morse code proficiency was required to obtain an amateur radio...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/24/via-hackaday-seiko-had-a-smartwatch-in-1984/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:08:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22118 You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/23/via-hackaday-dme-with-a-twist-of-limesdr/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:32:21 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22116 Navigating aircraft today isn’t like the old days. No more arrows painted on a barn...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/23/via-hackaday-making-a-solid-state-6ak8-tube/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:56:25 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22191 [M Caldeira] had a project in mind: replacing a common vacuum tube with a solid-state equivalent....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/22/via-hackaday-are-hackers-the-future-of-amateur-radio/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:13:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22124 If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/20/via-hackaday-smart-ball-technology-has-reached-football-but-the-euros-show-us-its-not-necessarily-for-the-better/ Sun, 21 Jul 2024 01:13:32 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22112 The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/20/via-hackaday-hackable-ham-radio-gives-up-its-mechanical-secrets/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 06:37:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22010 Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/19/via-hackaday-how-the-bell-system-was-built/ Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:33:25 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22093 We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/18/via-hackaday-hacking-airline-wifi-the-hard-way/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:17:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22016 We’ve all been there. You are on a flight, there’s WiFi, but you hate to...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/17/via-hackaday-tiny-transceiver-gets-it-done-with-one-transistor/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:07:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22064 When we first spotted the article about a one-transistor amateur radio transceiver, we were sure it...]]>