https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:14:25 +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/2026/01/05/via-amateur-radio-daily-hamsci-speaker-series-explores-wspr-spectral-width/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:45:34 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=38616 HamSCI‘s first Speaker Series of 2026 will be presented by Dr. Barry Johnson (W4WB) and...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/22/via-hackaday-cheap-vhf-antenna-can-do/ Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=37327 The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/09/via-the-arrl-new-book-release-arrl-on-the-air-yearbooks/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:45:48 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35299 Read more at ARRL.org]]> https://twiar.net/2025/05/18/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1368-full-version-with-repeater-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/ https://twiar.net/2025/05/18/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1368-full-version-with-repeater-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/#comments Sun, 18 May 2025 06:38:19 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=32210 Release Date: May 17, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/05/18/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1368-full-version-with-repeater-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/05/18/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1368-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 18 May 2025 06:34:49 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=32207 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2025/05/18/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1368-full-version-lpfm-no-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/ Sun, 18 May 2025 06:21:40 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=32205 Release Date: May 17, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/03/31/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-one-step-closer-to-being-found-10-years-after-vanishing-thanks-to-ham-radio-breadcrumbs/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:13:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=29547 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace over a decade ago. Malaysia’s government announced last...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/01/25/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1352-full-version/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 04:03:13 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=27777 Release Date: January 25, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/01/25/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1352-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 03:59:55 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=27774 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2025/01/05/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1349-full-version/ Sun, 05 Jan 2025 07:05:32 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=27150 Release Date: January 4, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/01/05/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1349-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 05 Jan 2025 07:04:28 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=27153 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/23/how-ghost-radio-signals-could-hold-the-key-to-finding-missing-flight-mh370/ https://twiar.net/2024/12/23/how-ghost-radio-signals-could-hold-the-key-to-finding-missing-flight-mh370/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:35 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26800 Malaysian government resumes search for passenger jet’s wreckage using WSPR transmissions ]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/23/how-ghost-radio-signals-could-hold-the-key-to-finding-missing-flight-mh370/feed/ 2 https://twiar.net/2024/11/01/via-amateur-radio-daily-hamsci-program-gets-boost-from-1-8-million-nsf-grant/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 04:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25123 Nathaniel Frissell, Ph.D. (W2NAF), associate professor physics and engineering at The University of Scranton was...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/28/via-amsat-ans-301-amsat-news-service-weekly-bulletins/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:55:16 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25050 ANS is a weekly news service provided by AMSAT. Visit them at AMSAT.org]]> 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/2024/06/17/via-hackaday-a-super-simple-standalone-wspr-beacon/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:37:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21668 We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: being able to build your own...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/04/26/via-hackaday-the-hunt-for-mh370-goes-on-with-barnacles-as-a-lead/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:25:48 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=20912 On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found,...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/04/16/via-the-rsgb-psc-member-gwyn-griffiths-g3zil-interviewed-by-the-bbc/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:48:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=20701 On Monday 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse gripped North America as radio amateurs...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/04/15/via-hackaday-wspr-to-the-wind-with-a-pi-pico-high-altitiude-balloon/ Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:22:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=20686 They say that if you love something, you should set it free. That doesn’t mean...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/09/via-the-rsgb-5-february-2024-propagation-at-hf-what-can-we-learn-using-digital-modes-wspr-and-fst4w-by-gwyn-griffiths-g3zil/ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:23:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19575 The presentation Gwyn says: “This presentation is a story of learning-as-I-went-along with the Weak Signal...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/05/via-hackaday-hf-in-small-spaces/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:07:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19563 Generally, the biggest problem a new ham radio operator will come across when starting out...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/12/07/via-hackaday-pico-wspr-tx-does-it-in-software/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:07:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=18669 What do you need to make a radio transmitter? There are builds that work with...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/11/09/via-the-rsgb-5-february-propagation-at-hf-what-can-we-learn-using-digital-modes-wspr-and-fst4w-by-gwyn-griffiths-g3zil/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:14:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=18224 “This presentation is a story of learning-as-I-went-along with the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR) mode...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/10/08/via-amsat-ans-281-amsat-news-service-weekly-bulletins/ Sun, 08 Oct 2023 04:06:50 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=17825 In this edition: * Symposium Registration Deadlines Drawing Near * ARISS SSTV Event Rescheduled to...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/09/16/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1281/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 20:27:10 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=17588 Release Date: September 16, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/09/07/mh370-location-revealed-as-radio-technology-detects-doomed-planes-final-flight-path/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:39:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=17394 The location of a missing Malaysia Airlines flight which disappeared after contact was lost in...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/05/13/via-amsat-ans-134-amsat-news-service-weekly-bulletins/ Sun, 14 May 2023 03:26:54 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=15700 In this edition: * Call for Nominations – 2023 AMSAT Board of Directors Election *...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/02/19/via-hackaday-the-usaf-almost-declares-war-on-illinois-radio-amateurs/ Sun, 19 Feb 2023 05:02:11 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=14502 Every week the Hackaday editors gather online to discuss the tech stories of the moment,...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/02/16/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 03:48:39 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=14453 Since the famous takedown of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, US jets have shot down...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/11/19/via-hackaday-supercon-balloon-w6mrr-26-continues-its-world-tour/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:08:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=13107 Martin Rothfield] and other amateur radio operators from San Francisco High Altitude Ballooning (SF-HAB) treated conference attendees...]]>