https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Sat, 19 Apr 2025 01:59:32 +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/2025/04/18/via-amateur-radio-daily-amsat-suggests-makers-as-candidates-for-amateur-radio/ https://twiar.net/2025/04/18/via-amateur-radio-daily-amsat-suggests-makers-as-candidates-for-amateur-radio/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=31313 In a recent news bulletin, AMSAT encouraged amateur radio clubs to focus on Makers as...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/04/18/via-amateur-radio-daily-amsat-suggests-makers-as-candidates-for-amateur-radio/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/08/09/via-hackaday-saildrones-searching-the-sea-for-clues-to-hurricane-behavior/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 02:17:55 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22285 Hurricanes can cause widespread destruction, so early forecasting of their strength is important to protect...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/06/via-hackaday-youve-got-the-portable-radio-now-what-about-the-antenna/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:17:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22281 There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community that when it comes to antennas...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/08/04/via-hackaday-an-antenna-to-throw-you-for-a-loop/ Sun, 04 Aug 2024 14:33:19 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22283 It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/30/via-hackaday-ask-hackaday-is-shortwave-on-life-support/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:22:37 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22270 Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/28/via-hackaday-fauxtrs-is-definitely-not-a-trash-80/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:27:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22189 Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/27/via-hackaday-coax-stub-filters-demystified/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:32:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22187 Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/26/via-hackaday-a-nostalgic-look-at-a-kids-shortwave-resistor/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:47:27 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22128 [Mikrowave1] had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/25/via-hackaday-cw-not-hard-enough-try-this-tiny-paddle/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:32:50 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22193 For a long time, a Morse code proficiency was required to obtain an amateur radio...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/24/via-hackaday-seiko-had-a-smartwatch-in-1984/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:08:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22118 You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/23/via-hackaday-dme-with-a-twist-of-limesdr/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:32:21 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22116 Navigating aircraft today isn’t like the old days. No more arrows painted on a barn...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/23/via-hackaday-making-a-solid-state-6ak8-tube/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:56:25 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22191 [M Caldeira] had a project in mind: replacing a common vacuum tube with a solid-state equivalent....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/22/via-hackaday-are-hackers-the-future-of-amateur-radio/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:13:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22124 If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/20/via-hackaday-smart-ball-technology-has-reached-football-but-the-euros-show-us-its-not-necessarily-for-the-better/ Sun, 21 Jul 2024 01:13:32 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22112 The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/20/via-hackaday-hackable-ham-radio-gives-up-its-mechanical-secrets/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 06:37:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22010 Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/19/via-hackaday-how-the-bell-system-was-built/ Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:33:25 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22093 We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/18/via-hackaday-hacking-airline-wifi-the-hard-way/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:17:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22016 We’ve all been there. You are on a flight, there’s WiFi, but you hate to...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/17/via-hackaday-tiny-transceiver-gets-it-done-with-one-transistor/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:07:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22064 When we first spotted the article about a one-transistor amateur radio transceiver, we were sure it...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/16/via-hackaday-going-ham-mobile-on-a-bicycle/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:32:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22006 It’s said that “Golf is a good walk spoiled,” so is attaching an amateur radio to...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/16/via-hackaday-solar-dynamics-observatory-our-solar-early-warning-system/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:08:26 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22008 Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/15/via-hackaday-pcb-design-review-hab-tracker-with-atmega328p/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:48:10 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22014 Welcome to the Design Review Central! [VE3SVF] sends us their board, and it’s a HAB...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/13/via-hackaday-meccano-based-hellschreiber-machine/ Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:07:42 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21907 [ZXGuesser] has pulled off a true feat of Meccano engineering: building a Meccano Hellschreiber machine. The...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/12/via-hackaday-a-trip-down-electronic-toy-memory-lane/ Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:07:33 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21917 Like many of us, [MIKROWAVE1] had a lot of electronic toys growing up. In a...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/11/via-hackaday-so-much-going-on-in-so-few-components-dissecting-a-microwave-radar-module/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 22:20:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21905 In the days before integrated circuits became ubiquitous, providing advanced functionality in a single package,...]]> 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/2024/07/09/via-hackaday-vhf-uhf-antennas-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-even-worse/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:07:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21915   When you buy a cheap ham radio handy-talkie, you usually get a little “rubber...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/07/08/via-hackaday-hacking-a-quansheng-handheld-to-transmit-digital-modes/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 07:02:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21951 Have you ever thought about getting into digital modes on the ham bands? As it...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/06/28/via-hackaday-decoding-meshtastic-with-gnu-radio/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:32:38 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21815 Meshtastic is a way to build mesh networks using LoRa that is independent of cell...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/06/26/via-hackaday-uv-k5-all-band-mod-part-2-easier-install-better-audio-and-two-antennas/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:12:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21728 OK, it’s official: the Quansheng UV-K5 is the king of hackable ham radios — especially...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/06/25/via-hackaday-learning-morse-code-with-a-diy-trainer/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:37:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21776 Morse code, often referred to as continuous wave (CW) in radio circles, has been gradually...]]>