https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:56:01 +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/2026/04/14/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/2026/04/11/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/2026/04/10/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/2026/04/07/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/2026/04/02/via-hackaday-see-the-computers-that-powered-the-voyager-space-program/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:22:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=41011 Have you ever wanted to see the computers behind the first (and for now only)...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/03/29/via-hackaday-computer-terminal-replica-inspired-by-70s-hardware/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:45:40 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40189 Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/03/28/dlarc-the-radio-geeks-doomscrolling-antidote/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:02:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40944 The internet has aged to the point where it is easy to fall into a...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/03/28/two-amateur-radio-operators-tapped-into-a-soviet-frequency-did-they-hear-a-woman-burning-alive-in-space/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:52:41 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40940 The brothers claimed to have captured secret audio of cosmonauts, including a horrific death.]]> https://twiar.net/2026/03/17/via-amateur-radio-daily-buckingham-army-airfield-special-event-w4lx/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:25:56 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40599 The Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club (FMARC) will be honoring Army Air Force members that...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/03/10/hamwaves-of-history-honoring-world-war-ii-heroes-at-the-historic-buckingham-army-airfield-florida/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:37:39 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40464 The Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club has announced the return of “Hamwaves of History,” a...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/02/20/via-hackaday-the-inner-workings-of-the-intel-8086s-arithmetic-logic-unit/ https://twiar.net/2026/02/20/via-hackaday-the-inner-workings-of-the-intel-8086s-arithmetic-logic-unit/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:45:49 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=39316 In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/02/20/via-hackaday-the-inner-workings-of-the-intel-8086s-arithmetic-logic-unit/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2026/02/10/via-hackaday-retrotechtacular-rca-loses-fight-to-ibm/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:45:41 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=39111 If you follow electronics history, few names were as ubiquitous as RCA, the Radio Corporation...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/01/13/what-happened-to-radio-shack/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:45:40 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=38912 For nearly a century, RadioShack was the “neighborhood technology store” where America went for everything...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/01/05/via-hackaday-reason-versus-sentimental-attachment-for-old-projects/ https://twiar.net/2026/01/05/via-hackaday-reason-versus-sentimental-attachment-for-old-projects/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:45:49 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=37810 We have probably all been there: digging through boxes full of old boards for projects...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/01/05/via-hackaday-reason-versus-sentimental-attachment-for-old-projects/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2026/01/04/a-radio-station-that-played-a-pivotal-role-in-the-history-of-wireless-communication-is-celebrating-its-125th-anniversary/ https://twiar.net/2026/01/04/a-radio-station-that-played-a-pivotal-role-in-the-history-of-wireless-communication-is-celebrating-its-125th-anniversary/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:39:12 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=38654 The Lizard Wireless Station in Cornwall opened on 1 January 1901 and was able to...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/01/04/a-radio-station-that-played-a-pivotal-role-in-the-history-of-wireless-communication-is-celebrating-its-125th-anniversary/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2026/01/04/via-hackaday-apollo-lunar-module-thrust-meter-lives-again/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:28:57 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=38621 [Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of...]]> https://twiar.net/2026/01/02/via-hackaday-only-known-copy-of-unix-v4-recovered-from-tape/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:22:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=38461 UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/12/27/125-years-later-cobb-island-honors-birthplace-of-wireless-voice-communication-maryland/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:13:10 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=38335 On a quiet shoreline in Southern Maryland, a simple sentence made history — and the...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/12/23/lockerbie-1988-amateur-radio-volunteers-pivotal-communication-in-disaster-response-remembered-in-2025/ https://twiar.net/2025/12/23/lockerbie-1988-amateur-radio-volunteers-pivotal-communication-in-disaster-response-remembered-in-2025/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:41 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=38332 Thirty-seven years after the devastating Lockerbie bombing, the extraordinary efforts of amateur radio enthusiasts who...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/12/23/lockerbie-1988-amateur-radio-volunteers-pivotal-communication-in-disaster-response-remembered-in-2025/feed/ 2 https://twiar.net/2025/12/18/via-hackaday-radio-apocalypse-survivable-low-frequency-communication-system/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:45:42 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=37176 In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/12/17/via-hackaday-morse-code-for-china/ https://twiar.net/2025/12/17/via-hackaday-morse-code-for-china/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:45:41 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=37175 It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/12/17/via-hackaday-morse-code-for-china/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/12/01/via-amateur-radio-daily-special-event-celebrates-father-of-wireless-communication-jagadish-chandra-bose-2/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:52:17 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=37680 Special event station AU2JCB will be paying homage to the Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/30/via-hackaday-restoring-a-vintage-computer-and-its-plotter/ https://twiar.net/2025/11/30/via-hackaday-restoring-a-vintage-computer-and-its-plotter/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:45:45 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35813 Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/30/via-hackaday-restoring-a-vintage-computer-and-its-plotter/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/11/23/earhart-search-records-declassified/ Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:05:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=37447 It has been 88 years since Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared over the South...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/20/via-hackaday-the-internet-we-didnt-get/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:45:42 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=36021 Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains,...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/17/via-hackaday-first-transistor-computer-reborn/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:45:39 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35811 Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/13/__trashed-242/ https://twiar.net/2025/11/13/__trashed-242/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:35:32 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=36106 Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader....]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/13/__trashed-242/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/11/09/via-hackaday-the-great-northeast-blackout-of-1965/ https://twiar.net/2025/11/09/via-hackaday-the-great-northeast-blackout-of-1965/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:33:23 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=36401 At 5:20 PM on November 9, 1965, the Tuesday rush hour was in full bloom...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/11/09/via-hackaday-the-great-northeast-blackout-of-1965/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/11/02/via-hackaday-forgotten-internet-the-story-of-email/ Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:45:38 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35650 It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/10/15/skynet-1a-military-spacecraft-launched-56-years-ago-has-been-moved-by-persons-unknown/ https://twiar.net/2025/10/15/skynet-1a-military-spacecraft-launched-56-years-ago-has-been-moved-by-persons-unknown/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=36390 A military spacecraft launched 56 years ago was moved from its orbit – and nobody is quite sure who did it, or why.]]> https://twiar.net/2025/10/15/skynet-1a-military-spacecraft-launched-56-years-ago-has-been-moved-by-persons-unknown/feed/ 1