https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:58:49 +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/2026/03/28/inside-the-creepy-cold-war-radio-broadcast-sending-secret-codes-into-iran/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:56:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40942 An untraceable, unbreakable analog broadcast is piercing Iran's digital blackout. ]]> https://twiar.net/2026/03/17/is-the-us-behind-cold-war-style-coded-radio-messages-being-sent-to-iran/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:10:44 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=40658 In the hours after the first US and Israeli attacks on Iran, with the world’s attention...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1386-full-version-with-repeater-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/ https://twiar.net/2025/09/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1386-full-version-with-repeater-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:44:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35787 Release Date: September 20, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1386-full-version-with-repeater-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/feed/ 35 https://twiar.net/2025/09/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1386-truncated-1-hour-version/ https://twiar.net/2025/09/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1386-truncated-1-hour-version/#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:38:31 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35785 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1386-truncated-1-hour-version/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/09/21/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1386-lpfm-version-no-commercial-breaks/ Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:30:18 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35783 Release Date: September 20, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/13/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1385-full-version-with-repeater-id-breaks-every-10-minutes/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:07:33 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35560 Release Date: September 13, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/13/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1385-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:02:46 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35558 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/13/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1385-lpfm-version-no-commercial-breaks/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:00:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35556 Release Date: September 13, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/09/13/a-cold-war-era-russian-radio-transmitter-just-broadcast-a-new-encrypted-message-no-ones-been-able-to-decipher/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:41:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35496 A mysterious shortwave radio signal that has puzzled intelligence agencies and amateur radio enthusiasts for...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/08/26/the-mysterious-shortwave-radio-station-stoking-us-russia-nuclear-fears/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:11:45 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=35020 A popular shortwave Russian radio station dubbed UVB-76 has been an enigma for decades. But its recent messages have turned it into a tool for Kremlin saber-rattling.]]> https://twiar.net/2024/05/30/dead-hand-or-something-else-a-possible-explanation-for-strange-numbers-station-uvb-76/ Thu, 30 May 2024 14:56:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21445 Imagine for a moment you’re a ham radio enthusiast, alone at night, idly working your way through...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/03/22/via-hackaday-creating-a-numbers-station-of-your-very-own/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:32:05 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=20307 Numbers stations are a weird phenomenon where odd voices read out long strings of numbers...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/11/29/via-hackaday-mystery-signal-are-you-ready-for-your-mystery-signal/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:07:44 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=18525 Like many people [Dan Greenall] spent a lot of time in the 1970s listening to...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/09/09/via-hackaday-its-numbers-all-the-way-down-with-this-tape-measure-number-station-antenna/ Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:09:56 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=17363 For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/02/13/spy-radio-stations-that-still-broadcast-today/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:59:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=14412 Featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Imagine you’re an amateur radio operator in the 70s...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/11/18/via-hackaday-number-stations-gone-wild/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:12:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=13080 [Ringway Manchester] has an interest in numbers stations. These mysterious stations send presumably coded numbers...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/01/21/pirates-spammed-an-infamous-soviet-short-wave-radio-station-with-memes/ Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:47:19 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=7365 Pirates hijacked an infamous short-wave radio station, which dates from the Soviet era but is...]]>