https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:08:58 +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/2025/10/16/via-hackaday-tips-for-homebrewing-inductors/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:45:54 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35285 How hard can it be to create your own inductors? Get a wire. Coil it...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/06/26/via-hackaday-a-number-of-microphones-er-inductors-rather/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 02:46:14 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=33142 There’s a famous old story about [Charles Steinmetz] fixing a generator for [Henry Ford]. He...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/11/via-hackaday-cavity-filters-the-black-art-you-have-a-chance-of-pursuing/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:12:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21923 A tuned circuit formed by a capacitor and an inductor is a familiar enough circuit,...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/03/16/via-hackaday-how-to-make-a-larger-air-cored-inductor/ https://twiar.net/2023/03/16/via-hackaday-how-to-make-a-larger-air-cored-inductor/#comments Fri, 17 Mar 2023 03:37:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=14760 Radio amateurs often have a love-hate relationship with home-made inductors, sharing all kinds of tips...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/03/16/via-hackaday-how-to-make-a-larger-air-cored-inductor/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2022/07/20/via-hackaday-beautiful-inductors-now-not-such-a-lost-art/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 02:22:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=10243 As ferrite technology has progressed into a mastery of magnetic permeability, the size of inductors...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/02/26/via-hackaday-winding-your-own-small-coils/ Sat, 26 Feb 2022 06:46:53 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=7846 Depending on what you build, you may or may not run into a lot of...]]>