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This Week in Amateur Radio is North America's premier news magazine of the airwaves.
We're coming back from hiatus!
Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!
We're coming back from hiatus!
Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1312 - Full Version
Release Date: April 20, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulcik, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:59:59
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1312
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. NEWS: Famous Pittsburgh Inventor (You Probably Haven’t Heard Of) Celebrates 150th Birthday
2. AMSAT: NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return From International Space Station
3. AMSAT: New NASA Strategy Envisions Sustainable Future For Space Operations
4. AMSAT: Trash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. WIA: What Is The State Of Broadcast Radio In The United States Today?
7. BOSTON: Going The Extra Mile - Amateur Radio Connects all 26.2 Miles Of The Boston Marathon
8. ARRL: New England QSO Party — 2024
9. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 Messe Friedrichshafen - Celebrating 60 Years Of Islands On The Air
10. ARRL: Start Your Field Day Planning Today
11. ARRL: Club Grant Program To Return
12. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention -- Program and App Available
13. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test May 11, 2024
14. ARRL: Special Event W7G To Celebrate The 155th Anniversary Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike
15. ARRL: Students In Marietta, Georgia, Hold An Amateur Radio Contact With The International Space Station
16. Bouvet Dxpedition Is Reassessed And Put On Hold
17. Silent Keys: Elpidio "Pete" Cobian, N6VJD, and Larry Staples, WØAIB
18. Oregon Amateur Radio Simulated Crisis Draws A Large Response
19. The Courage Handi-Ham Systems Celebrates 57 Years
20. SOS Radio Week Coming Up
21. ARRL Contest Sheet and Upcoming Convention Listings
22. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With 2024 Hamvention AMSAT Booth
23. WIA: Belgium Proposes Restriction To The 23 Centimeter Band
24. ARRL: Amateur Radio Saves Family In Death Valley National Park
25. ARRL: Active Hurricane Season Predicted For 2024
26. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology Applications Due Before May 1st
27. ARRL: Recipients Of The 2023 Cass Awards Have Been Announced
28. Hytera Radios Banned From Sales In The United States
29. NASA Locates Faulty Memory Chip That Is Garbling Voyager's Data Transmissions
30. Violent Windstorm Takes Down West Virginia Broadcast Towers
31. Spanish Amateurs Receive Privileges On The 8 Meter Band (40mHz)
32. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet At Hamvention To Be Held Friday May 17th
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us that RF is all around us. And how to start your own station's frequency survey.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. Expanded Edition
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to 1977 when the FCC was backlogged with over 500,000 11 meter license applications per month. And when in print, it was charged that the Commission was staffed by Ham Radio Henchmen who conspired with the the then 300,000 hams to keep nine million 11 meter operators from acquiring expanded frequencies.
* SPECIAL FEATURE: The microphone world has never been quite the same since the late Bob Heil, K9EID discovered what was missing in modern-day mics, putting the audio world on it virtual ear decades ago. We will here from Bob as he wraps up his three part talk he entitled Facts About Microphones.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1311 - Full Version
Release Date: April 13, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:58:13
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1311
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With 2024 Hamvention AMSAT Booth
2. AMSAT: ESA Unveils Proba-3 Mission: Artificial Solar Eclipses On Demand
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Belgium Proposes Restriction To The 23 Centimeter Band
5. ARRL: Ham Radio Active During Eclipse - An Overview
6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Saves Family In Death Valley National Park
7. ARRL: Active Hurricane Season Predicted For 2024
8. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology Applications Due Before May 1st
9. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day 2024 Coming Up April 18th
10. ARRL: Courage Kenny Handiham Program To Celebrate Its 57th Anniversary
11. ARRL: Nashua Area Radio Society Will Be Holding An Online Ham Bootcamp
12. ARRL: Recipients Of The 2023 Cass Awards Have Been Announced
13. Hytera Radios Banned From Sales In The United State
14. NASA Locates Faulty Memory Chip That Is Garbling Voyagers Data Transmissions
15. GNU Radio Conference Is Seeking Presenters
16. Violent Windstorm Takes Down West Virginia Broadcast Towers
17. Omik Scholarship Fund Appication Deadline Approaching
18. Researchers Develop Three Dimensional Filters For Wireless
19. Spanish Amateurs Receive Privileges On The 8 Meter Band (40mHz)
20. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet At Hamvention To Be Held Friday May 17th
21. ARRL Upcoming Contest Sheet and Convention Listing
22. FCC: FCC’s Pirate Hunt Leads Field Agents To New York’s Hudson Valley
23. FCC: FCC Set To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules This Month
24. ARDC: M17 Announces New Open Source Hardware For Amateur Radio Enthusiasts
25. ARRL: Register Now For The 2024 ARRL Youth Rally
26. ARRL: ARRL Seeking Applicants For Assistant Education and Learning Manager
27. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Poster Released
28. ARRL: ARRL Resumes Accepting Life Membership Applications
29. Baltimore Bridge Disaster Puts Local Amateurs On Alert
30. The Importance Of Amateur Radio Is Highlighted During Storm Related Network Outage
31. Candidates Prepare For Germany's New Amateur License
32. World's First Canadian Century Club Winner Is A New York Amateur
33. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be hear with a talk he entitled "It's all just text".
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill takes us on an adventure to look at the rarest of amateur radio atmospheric phenomenon...that would be Long Delayed Echoes.
* SPECIAL FEATURE: The microphone world has never been quite the same since the late Bob Heil, K9EID discovered what was missing in modern-day mics, putting the audio world on it virtual ear decades ago. We will here from Bob in this part two of a three part talk he entitled Facts About Microphones.
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Website: https://www.twiar.net
X: @twiar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari
RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2
Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly)
Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly)
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1310 - Full Version
Release Date: April 6, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:36:08
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1310
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. FCC: FCC’s Pirate Hunt Leads Field Agents To New York’s Hudson Valley
2. FCC: FCC Set To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules This Month
3. ARDC: M17 Announces New Open Source Hardware For Amateur Radio Enthusiasts
4. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL Proposes Next Generation GEO/MEO Amateur Radio Payload
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. FCC: FCC Looks At cell phone Satellite Access To Satellites From Foreign Countries
7. WIA: Weird and Wonderful - A Martian Tale
8. ARRL: Ham Radio's Many Roles During The Solar Eclipse - PART ONE
9. ARRL: Ham Radio's Many Roles During The Solar Eclipse - PART TWO
10. ARRL: Register Now For The 2024 ARRL Youth Rally
11. ARRL: ARRL Seeking Applicants For Assistant Education and Learning Manager
12. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Poster Released
13. ARRL: ARRL Resumes Accepting Life Membership Applications
14. ARRL: The National Trail Amateur Radio Club Commemorates Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
15. The Annual 13 Colonies Special Event Organizers Are Looking For Amateur Radio Volunteers
16. Baltimore Bridge Disaster Puts Local Amateurs On Alert
17. The Importance Of Amateur Radio Is Highlighted During Storm Related Network Outage
18. Candidates Prepare For Germany's New Amateur License
19. Voice Of America Museum Will Have Expanded Hours During HamVention
20. Expected Traffic Jams At Eclipse Epicenter Will Be Assisted By Amateurs
21. Northern California DX Foundation Funds Upcoming Jarvis Island DxPedition
22. World's First Canadian Century Club Winner Is A New York Amateur
23. New Jersey Amateurs Emergency Response Role Is Recognized
24. World Autism Awareness Day Special Event
25. ARRL Contest Sheet and Upcoming Conventions and HamFest
26. AMSAT: AMSAT-NA Prepares For HamVention 2024
27. WIA: New Zealand Amateurs Will Be Keeping Portions Of The 3.3 GigaHertz Band
28. FCC: FCC Pushes Back On SpaceX's Request For More StarLink Spectrum
29. ARRL: Amateur Radios Importance Is Highlighted At The National Hurricane Conference
30. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Is Coming Up On April 18th, 2024
31. Relabeling Of Parks On The Air Global Parks Is Complete. China Returns To Parks On The Air
32. Online Retailers Sale Of Illegal Jammers Make National Network News
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Satellite Report with news on all the satellites in orbit.
* Australia's own Onno Benschop VK6FLAB with Foundations of Amateur Radio asks if you are ready for a Global Party.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Will Rogers, K5WLR will be here with an extended look back in amateur radio history, with a special edition of 'A Century of Amateur Radio'. This week, Will takes The Wayback Machine back to look at the early editions of QST, with an article he calls, 'Humor, Poetry, and Rotten Rants'.
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Website: https://www.twiar.net
X: @twiar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari
RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2
Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly)
Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly)
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1309 - Full Version
Release Date: March 30, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:59:44
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1309
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: AMSAT Prepares For Hamvention 2024
2. AMSAT: METEOR M2-4 Meteorology Satellite Readying For Operation
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: New Zealand Amateurs Keep Partial Access To 3.3 GigaHertz Band
5. WIA: YASME Foundation Presents Supporting Grants and Awards
6. FCC: FCC Pushes Back On SpaceX's Request For More Starlink Spectrum
7. ARRL: Amateur Radio's Importance Highlighted at National Hurricane Conference
8. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Is April 18th, 2024
9. ARRL: Reminder: Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024
10. ARRL: New Training Course Offered By The ARRL Puerto Rico Section
11. ARRL: Blind Operator, Tower Climber, and SE Repeater Association President Wade Hampton Jr. K4ITL, SK
12. Relabeling Of Parks On The Air Global Parks Is Complete, China Returns To POTA
13. Online Retailers Sale Of Illegal Jammers Make Network News
14. Simplex Operation Resilience Is Tested By Pennsylvania's Skywarn Team
15. Comet Hunting Amateur Is Honored By NASA's SunGrazer Program
16. Grant Program Expands Islands On The Air Program To More Locations
17. Adam Farson, VA7OJ/AB7OJ, HamVention 2022 Award Winner, SK
18. Weekend Workshop For Citizen Scientists Held By HamSci
19. Emmy Award Presented To The FCC Spectrum Auction Program
20. NASA: NASA to Launch Sounding Rockets Into Moon’s Shadow During Solar Eclipse
21. NASA: NASA Is Accepting Applications For Astronauts
22. Upcoming Contests and HamFest Convention Listing
23. FCC: FCC proposes framework to ease satellite to smartphone coverage from space
24. ARRL: FCC to require two factor authentication for CORES users
25. ARRL: Get ready for the upcoming 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - Part One
26. ARRL: Get ready for the upcoming 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - Part Two
27. Parks On The Air begins park prefix update
28. Last Low Power broadcast FM frequency allocation in San Francisco is assigned
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will be here to talk about keyboards.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will look at the question "What's With All That Lack Of Noise?"
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to August 15th, 1952 when the FCC confirmed the new temporary amateur radio service they entitled RACES, The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service.
* The Facts About Microphones - Part One of a three-part interview conducted by Hap Holly, KC9RP with the late Bob Heil, K9EID, for the Classic RAIN Report.
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Website: https://www.twiar.net
X: @twiar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari
RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2
Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly)
Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly)
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1308 - Full Version
Release Date: March 23, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:45:10
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1308
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: Starship Lifts Off On Third Test Flight
2. AMSAT: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Returns to Earth
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. FCC: FCC Proposes Framework To Ease Satellite-To-Smartphone Supplemental Coverage From Space
5. Stay Tuned — New Radio Station Coming To Wilmington Ohio
6. ARRL: FCC To Require Two-Factor Authentication For CORES Users
7. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - PART ONE
8. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - PART TWO
9. ARRL: International Marconi Day April 27th 2024
10. ARRL: The 2024 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Western Conference Will Be Held In Dallas, Texas
11. ARRL: The Third Annual Lewis and Clark Trail On The Air Event Is Coming Up June 1-16, 2024
12. Parks On The Air Begins Park Prefix Updates
13. Radio Network Convention To Be Hosted By Radio Society of Sri Lanka
14. HAREC License Examinations To Be Offered By The Irish Radio Transmitters Society
15. FCC Action Adopts Rules For Cellular CONUS Satellite Coverage / Questions Security Threats Via Satellite
16. Last Low Power Broadcast FM Frequency In San Francisco Is Assigned
17. Upcoming DxPedition Will Also Be A Mock Disaster Drill
18. Celebrated QRP'er Dieter Gentzow, W8DIZ - SK
19. Germany's Amateur Radio Regulations Celebrate 75th Year
20. Upcoming ARRL Contest and Convention Listing
21. IARU/RAC: World Amateur Radio Day theme is announced
22. ARRL: Amateur Radio stands ready to support eclipse operations
23. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Theme is announced: "Be Radio Active"
24. ARRL: Dayton HamVention Award Winners are announced
25. DARC: New N Class license holders in Germany will receive DN9 callsigns
26. Space Junk from the ISS re-enters Earth's atmosphere without a problem
27. Orlando HamCation sets new attendance record
28. FCC: FCC has finally decreed that 25/3 is not broadband speed anymore
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about old computers in his studio, he will answer the question, "Are Solid State Drives Reliable?", and asks if your new smart TV is spying on you.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, talks about "The Skyhook Dilemma".
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with a long lost Ancient Amateur Archive segment that travels back to the Cold War era, and takes a look at the old Emergency Notification System known as CONELRAD.
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Website: https://www.twiar.net
X: @twiar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari
RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2
Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly)
Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly)
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1307 - Full Version
Release Date: March 16, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:42:41
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1307
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. SPACEX: SpaceX Transporter 10 Successfully Launches Over Fifty Satellites
2. AMSAT: Vostochny Spaceport Sends Meteor-M2-4 Weather Satellite Into Orbit
3. AMSAT: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launches To International Space Station
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. FCC: Two US Politicians Propose Legislation To Restore FCC Spectrum Auctions
6. FCC: FCC Clears SpaceX To Use E-Band For Starlink Capacity Improvements
7. IARU: World Amateur Radio Day Theme Announced By The International Amateur Radio Union
8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Stands Ready To Support Eclipse Operations
9. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Theme: Be 'Radio Active'
10. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2024 Award Winners Are Announced
11. ARRL: The 2024 Baker to Vegas Race Is Set To Run On March 23 and 24
12. New N Class License Holders In Germany Will Receive DN9 Callsigns
13. New Small Satellite Has Amateur Radio Aboard
14. Space Junk From The ISS Re-Enters Earth's Atmosphere Without A Problem
15. Landlords Are Charged By The FCC For Supporting Radio Piracy
16. YASME Foundation Grants and Awards Are Presented
17. Islands On The Air Chaser Honor Roll Is Published
18. 2009 Dayton Hamvention Amateur Of The Year Danny Hampton, SK
19. Orlando HamCation Sets New Attendance Record
20. Hams In Halifax North Carolina Resolve Upcoming Special Event Station
21. Canadian Amateur Radio Club Will Hold Unique Special Event Station
22. Upcoming Conventions and select Contests from the ARRL Contest Calendar
23. ARRL: FCC Announces Job Opportunities For Recent Engineering Graduates
24. ARRL: National Council Of Volunteer Examiners Removes One General Class Question
25. Australia's new amateur licensing system expands overseas hams privileges
26. Luxembourg adds a new class of license for entry level operators
27. Islands On The Air celebrate its 60th anniversary with the theme of Friedrichshafen
28. Amateur Radio Digital Communications sets April 1st deadline for grant applications
29. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about how you can stay safe online when using free open wifi connections.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about "Technology At Its Finest"
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers, K5WLR returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1915 for an amateur radio journey entitled "A Patriotic and Dignified Effort".
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You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1306 - Full Version
Release Date: March 9, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:38:14
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1306
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. The man who defined the sound of live rock 'n' roll music and brought audio engineering principles into mainstream amateur radio use, Doctor Bob Heil, K9EID, has passed away at the age of 83. We will have the details
2. AMSAT: ARISS 40th Anniversary Celebration Held at Kennedy Space Center
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. NASA: NASA Has Opened The Call For A Simulated Yearlong Mars Mission
5. ICASA: From The Land Of The Free To The Land Of The Fees
6. WIA: New Zealand Launches A Demonstration Satellite To Clean Up Space Junk
7. FCC: The FCC Puts More East Coast Broadcast Pirates In Its Sights
8. IARU: World Amateur Radio Day Coming Up
9. ARRL: FCC Job Opportunity For Recent Engineering Graduates
10. ARRL: Solar Eclipse Is One Month Away, Get Involved Now
11. ARRL: Bob Vallio, W6RGG, Named ARRL Honorary Vice President
12. ARRL: Pi Day Is On The Menu For Amateur Radio On March 14, 2024
13. ARRL: National Council of Volunteer Examiners Remove One General Class Question
14. Transfering Wireless Power Via Infrared
15. Australia's New Amateur Licensing System Expands Overseas Hams Privileges
16. Amateurs Assist By Getting Medicine To Rail Passenger
17. Luxembourg Adds A New Class Of License For Entry Level Operators
18. IOTA/Islands On The Air 60th Anniversary Selects Friedrichshafen Theme
19. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Sets April First Deadline For Grant Applications
20. Helicopter On MARS Is Retired By NASA
21. Amateurs Needed Worldwide For Autism Awareness Week Special Event
22. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report
23. Upcoming Contests and Conventions From The League
24. FCC: FCC approves 6 gigahertz wifi management system
25. ARRL: Preparation underway across the US for the spring severe weather season
26. NASA: US Lunar Lander is functioning despite landing issues
27. FCC: FCC Honors program is seeking engineering applicants
28. FCC: A Cybercriminal Group Built A Duplicate Webpage Used By FCC Employees To Validate Credentials
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, tells us that millenials have discovered what they are calling a TV hack, a fantastic new discovery...free TV..Over The Air...and talks about new viruses circulating on the net.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about "The Art Of Finding An Operating Location, and spontaneously going out in the field to make some noise."
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, we board The Wayback Machine for a trip back to 1962 when the hot words in amateur radio circles was "OSCAR" and TELSTAR. An it was the year that the FCC first proposed licensing fees.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1305 - Full Version
Release Date: March 2, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:39:56
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1305
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. Amateur Radio and Audio Innovator Bob Heil, K9EID, SK
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. FCC: FCC Moves To Add 13 New Languages To Emergency Alert System On Radio
4. ARRL: HAARP Needs Ham Help
5. ARRL: Preparation Underway For Severe Spring Weather
6. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League Celebrates International Women's Day With Special Event
7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Celebrate Launch Of USS Midway
8. ARRL: HamSci First Festival of Eclipse Ionospheric Science Event Results Announced
9. FCC: FCC Chair Announces Missing and Endangered Persons Alert Code To Emergency Alert System
10. US Lunar Lander Is Functioning Despite Landing Issues
11. Amateur Radio on the ISS Celebrates 40 Years Of Ham Radio In Space
12. Indian Island DxPedition Draws Attention To Cyclone Caused Problems
13. AMSAT Announces FunCube Will Be Silent Though Mid-March
14. FCC Honors Program Is Seeking Engineering Applicants
15. Older Starlink Satellites Are Scheduled For De-orbiting
16. Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum Station Back On The Air
17. FCC: FCC Approves 6 GigaHertz Wi-Fi Management Systems
18. Upcoming ARRL Conventions and HamFest Listing
19. RAC: Potential exists for Canada To Ban SDR devices
20. ARRL: Amateur radio operators needed for help with the upcoming solar eclipse project
21. ARRL: Winter Section Manager election results announced
22. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day theme is chosen
23. New amateur radio regulations go into effect in Australia
24. New amateur radio regulations go into effect in the United Kingdom
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about new FCC regulations to keep robo-calls off your cellphone, and that the FCC has taken a positive step on net neutrality
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk amateur radio operators getting things done...or not.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us in The Wayback Machine to 1958 when the key word was satellites. And he will look at other actions taking place on the ham bands in the late 1950's.
* RAIN Report, will present a talk given by the late Bob Heil, K9EID, who will talk about ham radio’s influence on his music and audio careers.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1304 - Full Version
Release Date: February 24, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Mike LaFountain, KE2AWY, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:50:22
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1304
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: SpaceX Delays Crew-8 Astronaut Launch to Make Way for Private Moon Mission
2. AMSAT: Upcoming Rideshare Launch to Include Amateur Payloads
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. RAC: Potential for Canada to Ban SDR Devices
5. WIA: 100 New DAB+ Transmitters On The Air Across France
6. WIA: New Summits On The Air Group Is Growing For West Malaysian Hams
7. TECH: Anywhere There's A Camera, Now There Is A New Security Risk
8. ARRL: Line Up And Sign Up Club Activity To Generate Club Funds
9. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Needed For Help With Solar Eclipse Project
10. ARRL: Winter Season Section Manager Election Results
11. ARRL: Former Vice Director Of The ARRL Hudson Division, Bill Hudzik, W2UDT, Silent Key
12. ARRL: 105th Anniversary Of The American Legion To Be Celebrated With A Special Event Station
13. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Theme Is Chosen
14. Girl Scouts Contact The ISS / The ISS Digipeater Is Back On The Air
15. New Amateur Radio Regulations Are Now In Effect In The United Kingdom
16. FOLLOW UP: Lingering Questions Surround Missing Radio Tower
17. New Amateur Radio Regulations Now In Effect In Australia
18. VHF Repeater Abilities Tested During Indian DxPedition
19. Trained Skywarn Weather Spotters Needed For Upcoming Hurricane Season
20. ISS Crew 8 Astronauts Delayed By Launch Of Lunar Lander
21. Amateur Radio Software Award Honors The Innovative Spirit
22. Award Honors DX Century Club Elmers
23. Why Was The Eiffel Tower Kept?
24. SCI: Earth Has Received Power Beamed From A Satellite In Space For The First Time
25. ARRL: Senators Wicker & Blumenthal Introduce S.3690 To Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on AR
26. RAC: Barrie Crampton, VE3BSB, appointed to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
27. ARRL: Amateur Radio As An Educational Tool Represented To Policymakers In Washington DC
28. ARRL: Highlights From The 2024 Orlando HamCation
29. ARRL: Registration Deadline For The HamSCI Sixth Annual Workshop Is March 1st
30. ESA: European Space Agency Proposes New Ham Satellite Payload, Seeks Comments
31. ARRL: Amateur Antennas Would Be Protected Under Proposed New Law In South Carolina
32. Upcoming Conventions and Contest Announcement
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to talk about shared computing programs, and Internet Service Providers with data caps.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how to write to your countries regulator about beacon and repeater licenses.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us in The Wayback Machine to the mid and late 1940's to discuss what the post war amateur bands were like after the big frequency shuffle, and how amateurs learned about something called TVI, and a little invention called an amplifying crystal.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1303 - Full Version
Release Date: February 17, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon. W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 2:03:56
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1303
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: GreenCube IO-117 Continues Operations Beyond Expected February 5th Passivation
2. AMSAT: JS1YMG: Decoding The First Moon Based Ham Radio Station’s Telemetry Signals
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. FCC: The FCC Bans Robocalls With AI Generated Voices
5. Earth Has Received Power Beamed From A Satellite In Space For The First Time
6. ARRL: Senators Wicker & Blumenthal Introduce S.3690 To Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on AR
7. RAC: Barrie Crampton, VE3BSB, appointed to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
8. ARRL: Amateur Radio As An Educational Tool Represented To Policymakers In Washington DC
9. ARRL: Highlights From The 2024 Orlando HamCation
10. ARRL: Veteran DXpedition Leader Bob Allphin, K4UEE, SK
11. ARRL: Registration Deadline For The HamSCI Sixth Annual Workshop Is March 1st
12. ARRL: Errata to the 2024 - 2028 Amateur Extra-Class Question Pool Released (Updated)
13. WIA: Hams In Australia Have New License Procedures Taking Effect
14. European Space Agency Proposes New Ham Satellite Payload, Seeks Comments
15. Amateur Antennas Would Be Protected Under Proposed New Law In South Carolina
16. DMR TGIF Founder EA7KDO, Mitch Savage, SK
17. L3 Harris Technologies Prototype Antenna System and Satellites Receive High Marks
18. Jose Jacob VU2JOS Receives Lifetime Award
19. Hawaii Amateurs To Develop Emergency Simplex Radio Net
20. First Responders In West Virginia Organize A New Ham Radio Club
21. FCC: FCC Moves To Add 13 New Languages To Emergency Alert System On Radio
22. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors Meets - Headquarters To Close on Presidents Day
23. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests
24. ARRL: Amateur Radio goes to high school in New York City
25. ARRL: George Washington's Birthday will be celebrated by three separate radio clubs
26. ARRL: The DX Mentor Recognition Program is announced
27. RSGB: Amateur radio license changes begin this month in the United Kingdom
28. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Program Report.
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, takes a look at why you really don't need certain types of software on your computer.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, answers the question, "What is an Amateur Radio Emergency Response?"
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us in The Wayback Machine to December 7th, 1941 during World War Two when the FCC issued Order 87 which shuts down amateur radio in the US, and creates, WERS, the War Emergency Service.
* RAIN: The Rain Report we will hear an interview with Alex Muzyka, the man and mind behind the his KQ2H 10 Meter FM repeater in the Catskill mountains of New York.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1302 - Full Version
Release Date: February 10, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:26:24
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1302
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: AO-92 Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere
2. AMSAT: Lunar Excursion Vehicle (LEV–1) Amateur Telemetry Received
3. WIA: New Indian Documentary Is A Collection Of Nostalgic Stories Of Radio Enthusiasts
4. Plan For Europe's Huge New Particle Collider Takes Shape
5. An Entire 200 Foot Tower Stolen From WJLX-AM Jasper Alabama
6. ARRL: California Storms: Amateur Radio Is Ready
7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Goes To High School In New York City
8. ARRL: World Radio Day 2024
9. ARRL: George Washington's Birthday Will Be Celebrated By Three Amateur Radio Clubs
10. ARRL: Georgia Elementary School Contacts The International Space Station
11. ARRL: DX Mentor Recognition Program Is Announced
12. Developing Nations CubeSats Are Getting A Ride To Orbit
13. Amateur Radio License Changes Begin This Month In The United Kingdom
14. Contester Slavko Celarc, S57DX, A Silent Key
15. International YL Club Plans A Czech Contest Station
16. Pluto's Discovery Celebrated On The Amateur Bands
17. Silicon Valley Explores Its Amateur Radio Past
18. A Major Festival In North Bengal Supported By Amateurs
19. WIA: Amelia Earhart's Long Lost Plane Possibly Detected By Sonar
20. Upcoming Select Contests and Conventions
21. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring System Report
22. ARRL: The first amateur radio signal originating on the moon JS1YMG is on the air
23. ARRL: Heil Sound makes a large donation to the W1AW stations
24. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications
25. ARRL: Volunteer Examiner Coordinators issues an Errata to the 2024-2028 Amateur Extra Class Question Pool
26. FCC: FCC submits its annual report on illegal radio enforcement to Congress
27. DLARC: The DLARC announces that Ham Radio & More program is added to its digital library
28. RAC: Canada strengthens its use it or lose it spectrum policy
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT talks about how computers are getting better, but how keyboards are getting worse.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "What is the right mode for Emergency Communications?'
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers, K5WLR, our amateur radio historian, will take the wayback machine to December of 1915 to take a look at the first edition of a little magazine called QST.
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You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1301
Release Date: February 3, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 2:01:00
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1301
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: New Portable Satellite Antenna Design is Perfect for Emergency Communications
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. WIA: Why We Need Shortwave 2.0
4. FCC: FCC Is Giving Greater Privileges On 6 GigaHertz To Very Low Power Devices
5. FCC: FCC Updates Rules To Allow 70/80/90 Gigahertz Spectrum Bands For Ships and Aircraft
6. Morse Code Is Alive and Well at KPH
7. ARRL: The First Amateur Radio Station On The Moon, JS1YMG, Is Now Transmitting
8. ARRL: ARRL Midwest Division Convention, Winterfest
9. ARRL: Heil Sound Donates Equipment To W1AW
10. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications In February
11. ARRL: Winter Field Day A Success For Ohio Club
12. ARRL: Errata To The 2024 Thru 2028 Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Released
13. ARRL: 160th Anniversary Of The Sinking Of The USS Housatonic
14. FCC: FCC Submits Annual Report on Illegal Radio Enforcement
15. Winter Field Day Statistics Released
16. State QSO Club Challenge Is Launched
17. Two Are Arrested For Theft Of Copper From KITX Destroyed Radio Tower
18. DLARC Announces Ham Radio and More Program Joins The Digital Library Collection
19. DxPeditioners Present A Memorial For A Friend
20. West Malaysian Amateurs Start A New Summits On The Air Group
21. Amateur Radio Education Part Of Curriculum At Staten Island School
22. RAC: Canada Strengthens Its Use It Or Lose It Spectrum Policy
23. Upcoming Contests and National Convention Listing
24. ARRL Board Approves Free Membership For Students, New Vice President Elected, and more - Part One.
25. ARRL: ARRL January Board of Directors Meeting Actions (continued) Part Two
26. ARRL: ARRL January Board of Directors Meeting Actions (continued) Part Three
27. FCC: FCC To Host Webinar Showcasing An Overview Of The FCC Experimental Licensing Program
28. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Needed For The 2024 Running Of The Boston Marathon
29. IEEE: IEEE Article Credits Amateur Radio For The Current Wireless Revolution
30. FCC Will Add Vehicles and Personnel For Enforcement Of The PIRATE Radio Act In Several Major Markets
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will discuss when is it time to buy a new router, you should look at MESS Technology, and talks about the advantages of Network Attached Storage.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "What is a repeater or a beacon, really?"
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us back to June 4, 1940 when the FCC issued an order that hams could not make contacts off shore, and then In December issue another order that took the amateurs totally off the air.
* RAIN/QSO TODAY: We will conclude our two part interview with Gordon West, WB6NOA, and how he began his amateur radio journey.
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This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1300
Release Date: January 27, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Patrick Huba, N2WWW, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 2:06:05
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1300
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: All-Ham Axiom Crew Launched For Commercial Visit To The International Space Station
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. WIA: WRC-2023 Final Acts Document Signed
4. ARRL: ARRL Board Approves Free Membership For Students, New Vice Presidents Elected - PART ONE
5. ARRL: ARRL January Board Meeting Actions (Continued) - PART TWO
6. ARRL: ARRL January Board Meeting Actions (Continued) - PART THREE
7. FCC: Webinar Showcases Overview of FCC Experimental Licensing Program
8. DX: SouthWest Ohio DX Association DX Dinner Announced For Dayton HamVention
9. ARRL: YLISSB Celebrates 61 Years On the Air
10. ARRL: Doctor Philip Erickson, W1PJE, New Director Of MIT Haystack Observatory
11. ARRL: 75th Anniversary Of The US Being Gifted 40 and 8 Merci Train Boxcars
12. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Are Needed For The 2024 Boston Marathon
13. ARRL: Amateur Radio On The International Space Station News
14. IEEE Article Credits Amateur Radio For The Current Wireless Revolution
15. Amateurs Asked To Participate In ROTA - Racing On The Air
16. Humanitarian Effort In The Ukraine Is Assisted With Donations Of Radios For Communication
17. Youth Outreach To Be Performed By RSGB Volunteers In The UK
18. Creator Of Network Time Protocol Dave Mills, W3HCF - SK
19. Summits On The Air Chaser, KU4R, Bob Warden, SK
20. 8R7X DxPedition To Guyana Is A Go
21. AMSAT: AMSAT Responds To The Planned Decommissioning Of The IO-117 Satellite GreenCube
22. FCC: The FCC Will Add Vehicles and Personnel For Pirate Radio Enforcement
23. Ghostbusters Producers Worry About Cosplayers Using New Baofeng Radios In The New Movie
24. Upcoming Contests and Conventions Listing
25. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With Its Booth At The Upcoming 2024 Orlando HamCation
26. ARRL: ARRL Is Now Publisher Of Gordon West, WB6NOA License Manuals
27. ARRL: Mississippi Amateur Radio Club Makes Large Donation To The Mississippi Library System
28. ARRL: Radio Help Wanted: Must Like Geysers, Bison, and Helicopter Rides
29. ARRL: 30th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner Is Announced For Upcoming HamVention
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss why you should regulary back up your data.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about the New Arrangements For Amateur Radio In Australia.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, will sets The Wayback Machine to the early 1900's when amateur radio clubs were first getting organized.
* Part One of an interview with Gordon West, WB6NOA as he relates for the first time, how he began his amateur radio career. Eric Guth 4Z1UG conducts this interview from 2019.
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You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1299
Release Date: January 20, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Patrick Huba, N2WWW, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:39:44
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1299
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: ARISS Announces NASA Astronaut Tony England WØORE As Speaker For 40th Celebration
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With AMSAT Booth At 2024 HamCation In Orlando Florida
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
4. WIA: World Radiosport Team Championship Receives YASME Foundation Grant
5. Winter Field Day Is Coming Up
6. ARRL: ARRL Is New Publisher Of Gordon West, WB6NOA
7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Club Donation Helps Mississippi Library System
8. ARRL: Second Annual Georgia State Parks On The Air 2024
9. ARRL: Radio Help Wanted: Must Like Geysers, Bison, and Helicopter Rides
10. ARRL: 2024 Quartzfest Is This Week In Arizona
11. ARRL: 30th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner Is Announced
12. ARRL: Hams Will Be Able To Contact The USS Iowa During The Ships 81st Anniversary
13. StarLink Makes Text Messaging Via Satellite A Reality
14. Amateurs In Australia Facing New Class License Structuring
15. Copper Thieves Cut Down Oklahoma Broadcast Radio Tower
16. Three Astronauts Are Featured In ARISS Anniversary Conference
17. Workshop At HamSci Is Reviewing Annular Eclipse Data
18. Six Gigahertz Very Low Power Devices Are Coming On Line
19. Upcoming Contests and Convention Listing
20. QRZ - QRZ Is Hiring Looking For A Software Engineer
21. Congressman Bill Johnson Re-Introduces Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
22. The 2024 CQ DX Marathon Is Up And Running
23. ARRL: 2024 Orlando HamCation Awards Are Announced
24. ARRL: ARRL Responds To FCC Proposals On Removing Symbol Rate Limits
25. Six Month Extension Is Granted For 160, 6, and 4 Meter Bands For German Amateurs
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, discusses a brand new fast and secure DNS service you can use, and the results of a new study on cell phone radiation.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how you can visualize 56 MegaHertz of Bandwidth.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill sets The Wayback Machine for September 1st, 1939 while the third radio telegraph conference is held in Cairo, Egypt. The United States fights to retain amateur radio allocations, but concedes that shortwave broadcasting will invade the amateur HF bands later in the year.
* Interview with morse code historian, Lewis Coe, W9CN/SK, Morse Code certainly left its mark on the American frontier even before the Civil War. Though the FCC dropped Morse code from the entry level Amateur Radio exam in the early 1990s, American history was forever changed by dits and dots. Courtesy of The Rain Report.
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You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1298
Release Date: January 13, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Patrick Huba. N2WWW, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael LaMountain, KE2AWY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:44:43
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR-1298
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. QRZ - QRZ Is Hiring Looking For A Software Engineer
2. WBCQ Relies On High-Power Shortwave Antenna
3. WIA: Turkey's First Astronaut Will Communicate with the National Call Sign
4. Congressman Bill Johnson Re-Introduces Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
5. FCC: FCC Appears Ready To Mandate Disaster Information Reporting System Reporting By Radio Stations
6. The Lost Cosmonauts Of The USSR. Dramatic Transmissions Picked Up From Outer Space
7. The 2024 CQ DX Marathon Is Up And Running
8. ARRL: Marty on the Mountain Engstrom, N1ARY (SK)
9. ARRL: ARRL Responds To FCC Proposals On Removing Symbol Rate Limits
10. ARRL: 2024 Orlando HamCation Awards Are Announced
11. ARRL: ARRL Kids Day A Success In Nebraska
12. ARRL: Winter Field Day 2024 Is Coming Up
13. ARRL: ARISS Is Seeking Educational and Other Organizations To Host ISS Contacts
14. Teen Amateurs Score A Direct Contact With The International Space Station
15. Six Month Extension Is Granted For 160, 6, and 4 Meter Bands For German Amateurs
16. Tom Molyneaux Jr, KE3GK, From East Coast Reflectors, SK
17. Earth-Moon-Earth Conference Is Searching For Presentations
18. ARDC: Ham Radio Village In Colorado Receives Grant For STEM and STEAM Outreach
19. Amateurs Provide Communications And More At Religious Pilgrimage In India
20. Starlink To Enable Experimental Texting Via Space
21. Westchester Emergency Communications Association Hosting General and Extra Classes Online
22. FCC: FCC Set To Wind Down The Affordable Connectivity Program
23. FCC: FCC Chair Asks Automakers About Plans To Secure Car Location Data
24. Upcoming Contests and Conventions
25. ARRL: Teenage amateurs appear on NBC's Today Show During Contact With The Space Station
26. ARRL: HamSci 2024 Workshop is coming up soon
27. Expanded frequency use worldwide expands to include Mobile Base Stations
28. Free online seminars for extra class is offered by The Electronics Museum
29. FCC: FCC opens 2024 hunting in the New York City hotbed of broadcast radio pirates
30. Latest edition of the Volunteer Monitoring Report
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, says that the FBI wants you to reboot your router...now!
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present a talk on The Art of Operating QRP.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to March 4th, 1929, to talk about life during The Great Depression and the frivolous hobby of amateur radio.
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This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1297
Release Date: January 6, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Patrick Huba, N2WWW, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:47:47
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1297
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
2. Christmas Drop Operations From Guam Not The North Pole
3. QRP Satellite Now In Orbit
4. ARRL: Teenage Hams On NBC's TODAY Show
5. ARRL: HamSCI 2024 Workshop Upcoming
6. ARRL: ARISS Announces The Schools And Organizations Selected For Contacts With The ISS Crew
7. ARRL: YouTube Telethon Raises Money For Leagues Teachers Institute
8. ARRL: Radio Luxembourg Celebrated 90th Anniversary
9. Expanded Frequency Use Worldwide Expands To Include Mobile Base Stations
10. Free Online Seminars For Extra Class Is Offered By Electronics Museum
11. Sri Lankan Amateurs Recall Help Provided During Tsunami Disaster
12. Conference In India Welcomed Satellite Enthusiasts
13. Vintage Equipment From KW Electronics Is Celebrated On The Bands
14. Veteran Broadcaster Charles Edward Rich, W8GCW, SK
15. FCC Opens 2024 Hunting Pirate Broadcasters In New York City
16. ARRL Kids Day is coming up. The specifications for Kids Day.
17. Upcoming Contests and ARRL Conventions and HamFests
18. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Program Report
19. Inside The Magic Radio Protecting Russian Drones From Jamming
20. ARRL: ARRL's Year Of The Volunteer Declared A Success
21. KPH To Broadcast an Over The Air Cryptographic Challenge
22. Publication Is Suspended At CQ Magazine
23. Year Long Ten Meter Challenge Is Set For SOTA Activators
24. Eastern New York Section News - Office Changes for 2024
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to explain domain names and how the Domain Name System works.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about how to Find The Right Frequency - How allocations differ around the world.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Our new amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR returns with the third edition of our new history series entitled, A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will sets The Wayback Machine to the early 1900's and how the very first radio regulations were put in place, and ended the era of free range hams.
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This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1296
Release Date: December 30, 2023
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael LaMountain, KE2AWY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:38:42
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1296
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. FCC To Reinstate Council Tasked With Studying AI’s Impact On Communications Networks
2. Inside The Magic Radio Protecting Russian Drones From Jamming
3. AMSAT: ClarkSat-1 Deployed From The International Space Station
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. ARRL: ARRL's Year of the Volunteers Success
6. ARRL: ARRL Straight Key Night 2024
7. KPH Over the Air Cryptographic Challenge
8. FCC Approves Ownership of U.S. Station by Canadian Broadcasters
9. Publication Is Suspended At CQ Magazine
10. Advisor For HamSci Appointed Director Of Haystack Observatory
11. DxPedition To Peter One Island Is In The Planning Stages
12. National Kids' Day On The Air Is Coming Up
13. QuartzFest Comes Alive In The Arizona Desert
14. Year Long Ten Meter Challenge Is Set For SOTA Activators
15. Amateurs In France Prepare To Honor Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe
16. Conference To Celebrate Forty Years Of Amateur Radio Aboard The ISS
17. Grimeton SAQ Christmas Message Retrospective
18. ARRL: Changes In The Eastern New York Staff For 2024 announced
19. ARRL: World Radiocommunication Conference 23 concludes with wins for amateur radio and agenda items for '27
20. WRC: Low Earth Orbit satellite transmit power battle drags on after WRC-23 concludes
21. ARRL: The Intrepid DX group has announced the winners of their 2023 Dream Rig Essay Contest
22. RW: Amateur radio operators hel restore LPFM KYNO back on the ait after tower collapse and lightning strike
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will be here to discuss wifi, and why its really bad to send or receive email attachments.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how its the little things in amateur radio that count the most.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill sets The Wayback Machine to May of 1970 and The Student Information Network, where amateur radio on college campuses was used to organize anti-war news and protests.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1295 * * EXPANDED ANNUAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL EDITION * *
Release Date: December 23, 2023
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Michael Lamontain, KE2AWY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 2:36:21
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1295
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: HADES-D Satellite: Successful Telecommand Response and FM Repeater Tests Ongoing
2. AMSAT: How the 18th Space Defense Squadron Averts Catastrophe at 17,000 Miles Per Hour
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. ARRL: WRC-23 Concludes With Wins For Amateur Radio and Agenda Items Designated For Next Two Events
5. WRC: Satellite Transmission Power Battle Drags On After WRC-23 Concludes
6. ARRL: ARRL's Year of the Volunteers Success Story
7. ARRL: Volunteers On The Air - Badges on the Air
8. ARRL: ARRL Straight Key Night 2024
9. ARRL: YouTube Telethon To Raise Money For ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology
10. ARRL: Status of CQ Magazine
11. ARRL: The Intrepid-DX Group Has Announced The Winners Of The 4th Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest
12. Amateurs Help LPFM radio station KYNO Get Back On The Air
13. Ireland's First Satellite Receives Global Reception Reports
14. NASA Receives First Ultra-HD Cat Video Via Laser From Space
15. Campus Of A Technical School In India Becomes Fluent In Emergency Response
16. Upcoming Digital Conference In Utah Is In Need Of Presenters
17. Clubs Repeater Evolution Is Captured On New YouTube Video
18. Trip To Vanuatu Planned By DxPeditioners / Remote Operation Is Added To DxPedition To Bouvet Island
19. Daniel Lamoureux, VE2KA, Former President Of The Radio Amateurs of Canada, SK
20. You can make Christmas Contacts with Santa
21. USI Island Awards
22. Upcoming Conventions and Contests from the ARRL
23. AMSAT: A proposal is submitted to the ESA for a Geostationary Microwave amateur radio payload
24. OFCOM: Ofcom UK nabs an individual causing harmful interference on the amateur radio bands
25. ARRL: The ARRL National Convention is coming to the Dayton HamVention 2024 in Xenia
26. WIA: Class license format changes are coming to amateurs in Australia in 2024
27. OFCOM: Ofcom is proposing amateur radio licensing changes in 2024 for amateurs in the United Kingdom
28. A New Year long award program is launched by the US Islands Program
29. NASA: Voyager One is returning a mish-mash of 1's and 0's from space that has NASA baffled
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will be here to discuss slide rules, and securing your Internet Of Things, or 'IOT' devices..
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will address what he calls The Visibility Of Our Radio Community"
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill has the Wayback Machine programmed for the mid-seventies as he returns for part two of his look at the FCC's proposed Dual Ladder Licensing Path, which eventually led to the Incentive Licensing that we have now.
* HOLIDAY SPECIAL: As is our tradition during the holiday week, we will present a monologue by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS, as he talks about having a serious case of the radio bug when he was in high school, and how it affected his life.
* HOLIDAY SPECIAL: A tribute to the late Orrin Brand with two of his popular segments, the first on a tongue-in-cheek look at hamfests, and his annual read of "A Hams Night Before Christmas" Courtesy of The Rain Report.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1294
Release Date: December 16, 2023
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael Lamontain, KE2AWY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:57:28
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1294
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. WRC-23: WRC-23 Days 11+12/Week 3: The Future Beckons
2. AMSAT: Proposal Submitted To The European Space Agency For Geostationary Microwave Amateur Payload
3. AMSAT: ARISS Celebrates 40th Anniversary Of Owen Gariott’s Landmark STS-9 Operation
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. Ofcom UK: Ofcom Nabs Individual Causing Harmful Interference On The Amateur Bands
6. WIA: Historic Transmitter In Sweden To Transmit Traditional Christmas Message
7. WRC-23: WRC-23 Reaches Acceptable Conclusion On 23 Centimeter Issue
8. NASA: NASA Receives Laser Beamed Message From 10 Million Miles Away
9. RW: Ham Radio Operators Give KNYO A Boost After Tower Collapse
10. QRZ: 12 Days Of Christmas On Air Special Event
11. ARRL: ARRL National Convention Coming To HamVention 2024 In Xenia
12. ARRL: Harborcreek Student Led ARISS Contact A Success
13. YOTA: Youth On The Air Summer Camp 2024 To Be Held In Americas
14. WIA: Class License Format To Begin On New Years In Australia
15. UK Ofcom: Ofcom Amateur Radio Licensing Changes Upcoming In 2024 For UK Amateurs
16. DLARC Has A Christmas Wish List And More
17. Have A World Radiosport Team Championship Organizer At Your Next Club Meeting
18. European Space Agency Looking At Possible Amateur Payload On An Upcoming Satellite
19. Australian Amateur Makes A New Online Study Guide Available
20. New Year Long Award Program Is Launched By US Islands Program
21. "A Hams Christmas" read by Bill Contineeli, W2XOY
22. Upcoming conventions, hamfests, and contest listing
23. ARRL: ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 million for the next generation of Amateur Radio - Part One
24. ARRL: ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 million for the next generation of Amateur Radio - Part Two
25. FCC: FCC Senators Markey, Blackburn send a letter to the FCC on the 12 gigahertz proceeding
26. NCVEC: New amateur extra class question pool is released to be become effective on July 01, 2024
27. ARRL: Bandwidth limits replace symbol rates on the HF bands, other bands now open for comment
28. New Willy Wonka movie celebrated by upcoming special event station W0NKA
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to talk about staying safe with the help of a VPN, and will discuss the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will take a look at Reporting On Radio Harmonic Power.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill programmed The Wayback Machine for 1974. In the first of two parts, Bill explains that 1974 was the year the FCC introduced its convoluted amateur radio restructuring plan.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1293
Release Date: December 9, 2023
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:41:59
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1293
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. WRC: Discussions On 40 Through 50 MegaHertz Radar Sounders Continues
2. WRC-23: Week 2 Update / Future Topics
3. FCC: FCC Modernizes Amateur Radio Service Rules
4. AMSAT CA: AMSAT Canada Officially Incorporated
5. ARRL: ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 Million For The Next Generation Of Amateur Radio - Part One
6. ARRL: ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 Million For The Next Generation Of Amateur Radio - Part Two
7. HamSCI: HamSCI Announces Initial Observations From October 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse
8. FCC: Senators Markey, Blackburn Send Letter To FCC On 12 GigaHertz Proceeding
9. ARRL: New Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Released Effective July 01, 2024
10. ARRL: Volunteers On The Air Red Badges On Air Event December 17th, 2023
11. ARRL: Bandwidth Limits Replace Symbol Rates On The HF Bands, Other Bands Open For Comment
12. WRC: (ARRL): International Amateur Radio Union and ARRL Attending WRC-23 In Dubai, UAE
13. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Grad Prepares Students For Ham Radio Contact With Astronaut
14. ARRL: New Book Celebrates 40 Years of Amateur Radio in Space
15. FCC: Radio Piracy Warnings Are Issued To Land Owners By The FCC
16. Free Download Of Irish HAREC Syllabus Is Now Available
17. New Willy Wonka Movie Celebrated By Special Event Station W0NKA
18. India's Cyclone Prone Island Region Gets New Amateur Radio Station
19. Upcoming ARRL Conventions and Contests of interest
20. AMSAT At WRC-23: ITU RA-23 Adopts Resolution For Space Spectrum
21. ARRL RF Safety Committee Develops New Guidelines To Communicate RF Exposure To Your Neighbors
22. ARRL: Summits On The Air Is Offering A 10 Meter Challenge During 2024
23. ARRL: National Council of Volunteer Examiners Question Pool Committee Has Removed 2 General Questions
24. New International Space Station Spotting App Is Released By NASA
25. Sweden's Alexandersson Alternator To Transmit A Christmas Message
26. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Program Report
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, agrees with Elon Musk, in that we should be very afraid of the upcoming Artificial Intelligence systems.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, asks 'what about promoting the hobby?'
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes The Wayback Machine back in time to take a look at the history of amateur radio repeaters, with Part Two of his special report.
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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.
You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.
This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.
This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.
You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!
This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.
Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!
Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.