https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Tue, 24 Jun 2025 05:13:16 +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/2025/06/30/via-hackaday-eulogy-for-the-satellite-phone/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=33273 We take it for granted that we almost always have cell service, no matter where...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/14/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1346-full-version/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 04:07:40 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26563 Release Date: December 14, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/14/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1346-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 04:04:01 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26560 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/08/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1345-full-version/ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 05:59:36 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26267 Release Date: December 7, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/08/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1345-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 05:55:32 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26265 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/11/22/via-hackaday-crowdsourcing-ionosphere-data-with-phones/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:22:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25732 How do you collect a lot of data about the ionosphere? Well, you could use...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/30/via-hackaday-gps-tracking-in-the-trackless-land/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=24392 https://twiar.net/2024/10/19/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1338-full-version/ https://twiar.net/2024/10/19/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1338-full-version/#comments Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:28:01 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=24798 Release Date: October 19, 2024 ATTENTION: Due to the DDOS Cyberattack on Internet Archive, our...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/19/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1338-full-version/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/10/19/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1338-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:10:28 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=24796 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/08/through-hurricanes-helene-and-milton-amateur-radio-triumphs-when-all-else-fails/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:24:26 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=24421 The morning after Hurricane Helene pummeled the eastern seaboard of the US, Thomas Witherspoon inspected...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/09/12/via-the-arrl-arrl-defends-902-928-amateur-radio-band/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 02:15:17 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=23431 Read more at ARRL.org]]> https://twiar.net/2024/09/09/amid-wildfires-and-spotty-cell-service-northstate-residents-turn-to-ham-radios-california/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:51:19 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=23353 The Northstate is no stranger to disasters or bad reception, but when a phone call...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/15/via-the-arrl-arrl-urges-protecting-the-amateur-radio-902-928-mhz-band/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 02:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22546 Read more at www.arrl.org]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/11/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1328-full-version/ Sun, 11 Aug 2024 04:14:31 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22459 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/11/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1328-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 11 Aug 2024 04:10:57 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22456 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/05/12/fcc-fines-big-three-carriers-196m-for-selling-users-real-time-location-data/ Sun, 12 May 2024 04:51:49 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21168 The Federal Communications Commission today said it fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon $196 million “for...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/04/11/via-hackaday-emails-over-radio/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:12:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=20648 The modern cellular network is a marvel of technological advancement that we often take for...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/03/03/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1305-full-version/ Sun, 03 Mar 2024 06:36:05 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=20075 Release Date: March 2, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/27/fbi-and-homeland-security-are-looking-into-the-att-cellular-outage-white-house-says/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:19:15 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19989 A sudden cellular outage left tens of thousands of AT&T customers without service on Thursday — and...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/25/att-outage-how-to-communicate-when-networks-go-down/ https://twiar.net/2024/02/25/att-outage-how-to-communicate-when-networks-go-down/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2024 06:16:54 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19947 A massive AT&T cell phone service outage impacted millions of people and also extended to other cell...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/25/att-outage-how-to-communicate-when-networks-go-down/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2023/12/03/via-hackaday-mobile-phones-and-the-question-of-declining-sperm-quality/ Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:18:52 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=18574 In a world increasingly reliant on technology, a pressing question arises: can our dependence on...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/09/17/amateur-radio-operators-to-assist-with-ultra-marathon-race-this-weekend-georgia/ Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:20:02 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=17608 During this weekend’s Georgia Jewel ultra-marathon in Dalton, runners will be trekking across the Johns...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/06/09/motorola-ditched-cell-phones-and-found-a-lucrative-second-act-now-its-one-of-techs-biggest-turnaround-stories/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:17:29 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=16090 Last August, not long after the devastating school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, officials in Houston—like...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/12/11/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1241/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 07:06:19 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=13522 Release Date: December 10, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/08/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1225/ https://twiar.net/2022/08/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1225/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2022 05:53:04 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=11211 Release Date: August 20, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/08/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1225/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2022/07/09/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1219/ Sun, 10 Jul 2022 03:09:01 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=10001 Release Date: July 9, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/06/19/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1216/ https://twiar.net/2022/06/19/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1216/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2022 04:58:34 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=9534 Release Date: June 18, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/06/19/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1216/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2022/06/12/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1215/ Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:14:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=9346 Release Date: June 11, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/03/30/via-hackaday-replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:40:46 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=8304 Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/02/19/via-hackaday-mon-dieu-french-parent-kills-cell-service-for-an-entire-town-to-stop-kids-surfing/ Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:34:21 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=7822 It used to be that having technical skills meant that fixing the computer problems of...]]>