https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:43:09 +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/2025/03/14/fcc-allows-a-power-boost-for-spacexs-direct-to-smartphone-service/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:38:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=29034 SpaceX secured permission March 7 to provide direct-to-smartphone satellite services at higher power levels to...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/01/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1344-full-version/ https://twiar.net/2024/12/01/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1344-full-version/#comments Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:15:11 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26120 Release Date: November 30, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/12/01/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1344-full-version/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/12/01/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1344-truncated-1-hour-version/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:11:33 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=26117 This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio....]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/19/via-amsat-ans-294-amsat-news-service-weekly-bulletins/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:52:55 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=24793 ANS is a weekly news service provided by AMSAT. Visit them at AMSAT.org]]> https://twiar.net/2024/10/08/through-hurricanes-helene-and-milton-amateur-radio-triumphs-when-all-else-fails/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:24:26 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=24421 The morning after Hurricane Helene pummeled the eastern seaboard of the US, Thomas Witherspoon inspected...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/05/12/fcc-fines-big-three-carriers-196m-for-selling-users-real-time-location-data/ Sun, 12 May 2024 04:51:49 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=21168 The Federal Communications Commission today said it fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon $196 million “for...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/25/att-outage-how-to-communicate-when-networks-go-down/ https://twiar.net/2024/02/25/att-outage-how-to-communicate-when-networks-go-down/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2024 06:16:54 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=19947 A massive AT&T cell phone service outage impacted millions of people and also extended to other cell...]]> https://twiar.net/2024/02/25/att-outage-how-to-communicate-when-networks-go-down/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2022/09/10/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1228/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 21:26:12 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=11788 Release Date: September 10, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]>