https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:33:28 +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/2025/12/16/american-public-media-settles-with-fcc-over-false-eas-tones/ https://twiar.net/2025/12/16/american-public-media-settles-with-fcc-over-false-eas-tones/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:33:26 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=38151 Unauthorized tones are a "threat to public safety," the commission said ]]> https://twiar.net/2025/12/16/american-public-media-settles-with-fcc-over-false-eas-tones/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/12/06/fcc-says-hackers-hijack-radio-gear-to-send-fake-alerts-obscenities/ Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:02:33 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=37844 Hackers are hijacking radio transmission equipment to broadcast bogus emergency messages and obscene language, the...]]> 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Alert System ]]> 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/2024/03/03/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1305-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 03 Mar 2024 06:20:05 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=20072 This is a 1 hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/28/fcc-chairwoman-proposes-new-missing-and-endangered-persons-emergency-alert-code/ https://twiar.net/2024/02/28/fcc-chairwoman-proposes-new-missing-and-endangered-persons-emergency-alert-code/#comments Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:13:50 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19987 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday announced she will submit a proposal...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/28/fcc-chairwoman-proposes-new-missing-and-endangered-persons-emergency-alert-code/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/02/28/fcc-moves-to-add-13-new-languages-to-eas-on-radio/ https://twiar.net/2024/02/28/fcc-moves-to-add-13-new-languages-to-eas-on-radio/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:03:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19983 With the debate around EAS distribution a core tenet of the fight to keep AM radio in...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/28/fcc-moves-to-add-13-new-languages-to-eas-on-radio/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2023/01/31/three-seconds-of-eas-audio-tones-could-end-up-costing-fox-500000/ https://twiar.net/2023/01/31/three-seconds-of-eas-audio-tones-could-end-up-costing-fox-500000/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:06:11 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=14232 Despite being a well-known illegal sound that many film and television productions have been fined...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/01/31/three-seconds-of-eas-audio-tones-could-end-up-costing-fox-500000/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2022/05/16/broadcasters-call-eas-vital-backup-to-web-based-alerts-and-urge-fcc-to-leave-it-unchanged/ Mon, 16 May 2022 17:48:01 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=8982 The message broadcasters are giving the Federal Communications Commission as it contemplates new updates to...]]>