https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:21:28 +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/2024/11/11/via-hackaday-compact-dedicated-news-reader-always-brings-you-cbc/ Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:17:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25087 Your phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/08/helene-trapped-asheville-broadcasters-in-their-station-theyve-stayed-on-air-ever-since-north-carolina/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:27:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=24390 Trapped in the station by fallen trees, offline, with no power, no water and negligible...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/04/27/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1313-full-version/ Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:29:02 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21019 Release Date: April 27, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/04/27/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1313-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:25:51 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21017 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/01/24/why-we-need-shortwave-2-0/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:21:58 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19359 Debate about the future of shortwave broadcasting focuses on the correct observation that shortwave listening...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/01/11/via-hackaday-a-very-21st-century-receiver-for-a-very-20th-century-band/ https://twiar.net/2024/01/11/via-hackaday-a-very-21st-century-receiver-for-a-very-20th-century-band/#comments Fri, 12 Jan 2024 04:42:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19163 The FM broadcast band has been with us since the middle of the 20th century,...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/01/11/via-hackaday-a-very-21st-century-receiver-for-a-very-20th-century-band/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/01/07/fcc-appears-ready-to-mandate-dirs-reporting-by-radio-stations/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:46:20 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19153 The FCC has announced a tentative agenda for its January meeting. It includes an item...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/11/29/the-truth-was-out-there-on-the-legacy-of-art-bell/ https://twiar.net/2022/11/29/the-truth-was-out-there-on-the-legacy-of-art-bell/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:09:47 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=13313 ON THE NIGHT of September 11, 1997, the phone lines on the Coast to Coast AM radio...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/11/29/the-truth-was-out-there-on-the-legacy-of-art-bell/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2022/09/14/anything-is-possible-interview-with-tim-berry-wb4gbi-tennessee/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:49:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=11873 On a personal level, Tim Berry is one of those you should be privileged to know and...]]> https://twiar.net/2021/11/08/alike-but-not-alike-broadcast-vs-ham-radio/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 02:24:46 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=5998 Starting in the 1920s and through the ’60s, almost every broadcast engineer was a licensed...]]> https://twiar.net/2021/11/06/broadcaster-in-ham-radio-40m-band/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 08:10:39 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=5985 DARC describes how a case of interference in the Primary amateur radio 40m band, by...]]> https://twiar.net/2021/03/18/us-broadcaster-khts-issues-apology-after-ham-radio-cb-confusion/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 03:20:05 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=2801 Broadcaster KHTS published a news item which confused Amateur Radio with CB radio, they have...]]> https://twiar.net/2021/03/07/via-hackaday-the-digital-radio-era-partially-ends-in-ireland/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 03:00:11 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=2694 It’s commonly agreed that the future of broadcast radio lies in the eventual replacement of...]]> https://twiar.net/2020/10/31/this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1131/ Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:01:01 +0000 http://twiar.net/?p=1588 This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1131 Release Date: October 31, 2020 Here is a...]]>