https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:17:42 +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/2025/05/12/via-hackaday-onkyo-receiver-saved-with-an-esp32/ Mon, 12 May 2025 20:45:39 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=31529 [Bill Dudley] had a problem. He had an Onkyo AV receiver that did a great...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/04/29/via-hackaday-atomic-clock-trades-receiver-for-an-esp8266/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:45:47 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=31056 The advantage of a radio-controlled clock that receives the time signal from WWVB is that...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/03/29/via-the-rsgb-tonight8-using-a-glue-stick-in-a-homemade-40m-receiver/ Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:28:33 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=29429 Read more at RSGB.co.uk]]> https://twiar.net/2025/01/22/via-hackaday-forget-the-coax-wire-up-your-antennas-with-cat-6-cable/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:45:58 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=27454 These days, anything with copper in it is expensive. If you doubt that, a walk...]]> https://twiar.net/2025/01/20/secret-listeners-revealing-the-life-of-amateur-radio-heroes-uk/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:22:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=27579 The Voluntary Interceptors, amateur radio enthusiasts, helped break Axis codes in WW2, secretly listening for crucial intelligence from home]]> https://twiar.net/2025/01/19/via-hackaday-no-ham-license-listen-anyway-in-your-browser/ https://twiar.net/2025/01/19/via-hackaday-no-ham-license-listen-anyway-in-your-browser/#comments Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:45:57 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=27450 Full disclosure: ham radio isn’t for everyone, and there are many different facets to it....]]> https://twiar.net/2025/01/19/via-hackaday-no-ham-license-listen-anyway-in-your-browser/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2025/01/10/via-hackaday-all-band-receiver-lets-you-listen-to-all-the-radio-at-once/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=27234 There are many ways to build a radio receiver, but most have a few things...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/11/29/via-hackaday-gnss-reception-with-clone-sdr-board/ https://twiar.net/2024/11/29/via-hackaday-gnss-reception-with-clone-sdr-board/#comments Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25283 We love seeing the incredible work many RF enthusiasts manage to pull off — they...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/11/29/via-hackaday-gnss-reception-with-clone-sdr-board/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/11/27/via-hackaday-humble-television-tubes-make-an-fm-regenerative-radio/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25312 The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/29/via-hackaday-a-new-chinese-radio-breaks-cover-is-it-worth-it/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:45:38 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25034 Scanning the firehose of new electronic kits and modules coming from the usual Chinese suppliers...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/02/via-hackaday-cyberpack-puts-all-the-radios-right-on-your-back/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=23934 A disclaimer: Not a single cable tie was harmed in the making of this backpack...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/09/29/via-hackaday-repairing-a-hallicrafters-s-120/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:45:43 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=23355 [MIKROWAVE1] claims he’s not a radio repair guy, but he agreed to look at a...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/09/04/via-hackaday-a-simple-but-effective-receiving-loop-antenna/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:45:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=22933 There’s a joke in the world of radio that all you need for a HF...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/03/17/via-hackaday-stressless-shortwave-reviewed/ https://twiar.net/2024/03/17/via-hackaday-stressless-shortwave-reviewed/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:12:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=20199 [Dan Robinson] picked up a shortwave receiver known as the “stressless” receiver kit. We aren’t sure...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/03/17/via-hackaday-stressless-shortwave-reviewed/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2023/09/14/am-listening-is-better-than-ever-in-my-tesla/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:51:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=17513 What was once called radio is now referred to as audio. RF is being replaced...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/05/05/via-hackaday-half-crystal-radio-half-regenerative-radio/ Fri, 05 May 2023 17:27:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=15411 A rite of passage in decades past for the electronics experimenter was the crystal radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2023/04/24/via-hackaday-tiny-three-tube-receiver-completes-spy-radio-suite/ https://twiar.net/2023/04/24/via-hackaday-tiny-three-tube-receiver-completes-spy-radio-suite/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2023 23:22:47 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=15370 In our surface-mount age, it’s easy to be jaded about miniaturization. We pretty much expect...]]> https://twiar.net/2023/04/24/via-hackaday-tiny-three-tube-receiver-completes-spy-radio-suite/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2023/03/23/via-hackaday-review-xhdata-d-219-short-wave-radio-receiver/ https://twiar.net/2023/03/23/via-hackaday-review-xhdata-d-219-short-wave-radio-receiver/#comments Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:52:22 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=14867 As any radio amateur will tell you, the world of radio abounds with exciting possibilities....]]> https://twiar.net/2023/03/23/via-hackaday-review-xhdata-d-219-short-wave-radio-receiver/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2023/01/31/via-hackaday-inside-a-1940s-spy-radio/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:13:05 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=14220 The RCA CR-88 was a radio receiver made to work in top-secret government eavesdropping stations. As you...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/08/05/via-hackaday-ham-radio-hacking-thinking-inside-the-box/ Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:17:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=10664 There are two ways to deal with improving ham radio receivers, or — for that...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/05/05/via-hackaday-multiband-crystal-radio-set-pulls-out-all-the-stops/ Thu, 05 May 2022 23:30:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=8693 Most crystal radio receivers have a decidedly “field expedient” look to them. Fashioned as they...]]> https://twiar.net/2021/08/30/via-hackaday-regen-receiver-with-few-parts/ Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:16:09 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=4933 We like regenerative receivers. They perform well and they are dead simple to create. Example?...]]> https://twiar.net/2021/03/20/via-hackaday-the-raspberry-pi-pico-as-an-sdr-receiver/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 08:03:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=2787 With the profusion of cheap RTL-SDR devices and the ever-reducing prices of more capable SDRs...]]> https://twiar.net/2021/03/07/via-the-arrl-quantum-receiver-can-detect-huge-swath-of-the-rf-spectrum/ Sun, 07 Mar 2021 05:47:40 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=2664 US Army researchers have built a so-called “quantum sensor,” which can analyze the full RF...]]>