PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1328 - Full Version Release Date: August 10, 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:41:20 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1328 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ROBUSTA-3A Is Now In Orbit 2. AMSAT: Small Satellites of the Future Grow Larger 3. AMSAT: ASRTU-1 Scheduled for November Launch 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Dog day Afternoon IS Coming To Amateur Radio 6. ARRL: Andy Milluzzi, KK4LWR, Appointed Vice Director Of ARRL Southeastern Division 7. ARRL: W1AW To QSY On 17 Meters For CW 8. ARRL: Carter Craigie, N3AO, Silent Key 9. ARRL: Amateur Radio Serves As Hurricane Debby Dumps Heavy Rain On The East Coast 10. ARRL: New York High School Helps License Young Hams 11. ARRL: 27th Annual International Lighthouse / Lightship Weekend Coming Up August 17/18 12. ARRL: Navajo Code Talkers Day Coming Up 13. FCC: FCC Approves Missing and Endangered Alert Code 14. FCC: FCC Fines New York City Individual $2.3 Million For Unlicensed Broadcasting On FM 15. Straight Key Night Founder Barry Kirkwood, ZL1DD SK 16. Southern India Landslides Have Hams Assisting Rescue Efforts 17. New Satellites For Cellular Broadband Is Approved By The FCC 18. Flannan Islands DXPedition Cancelled Due To Weather Hazards 19. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions. 20. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 21. FCC: Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking for reallocation of portions of the 900 MegaHertz band 22. ARRL: David Galletly, KM2O, is named Vice Director of the Hudson Division 23. AMSAT: SpaceX to develop Enhanced Dragon Spacecraft For Deorbiting The International Space Station 24. WIA: Adidas develops a new RF trackable Soccer Ball 25. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology adds a new third level 26. ARRL: Generational legacies are carried on in the new ARRL Teachers Institute Beta Program 27. ARRL: 2024 USA and IARU Region 2 Radio Orienteering Championship Set 28. ARRL: 2024 Olympics special event station is on the air now 29. RAC: Canada wildfires communications preparedness strategies 30. FCC: FCC releases updated wireless speed test app to improve mobile broadband 31. FCC: Senate advances $7 billion bill renewing the popular internet discount program for low income help 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 answer the question "What kind of a hobby is amateur radio?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, RadioSport, upcoming contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - The Century Of Amateur Radio - This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1916, when everyone was sharing very little spectrum and QRM was everywhere, and to witness something called The 9XE Rock Island Test. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1327 - Full Version Release Date: August 3, 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, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:37 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1327 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: TEVEL Satellites Begin Atmospheric Reentry and Decommissioning 2. AMSAT: Ariane 6 Launches PariSat: Young Engineers Test Heat Dissipation 3. AMSAT: SpaceX to Develop Enhanced Dragon Spacecraft For ISS Deorbit 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: So Who Listens To BBC Content Internationally? 6. WIA: A New Emergency Alert System Event Code Is Coming Soon In The United States 7. WIA: Adidas Develops RF Trackable Soccer Ball 8. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology Adds Third Level 9. ARRL: Generational Legacy Carried On In ARRL Teachers Institute 10. ARRL: 2024 USA and IARU Region 2 Radio Orienteering Championships Set For October 11. ARRL: 2024 Olympics Special Event Station On The Air Now 12. ARRL: Rule Changes Announced for ARRL International EME Contest 13. Indian Ham Radio Advocate, Sudip Kumar Nanda, Passes During Visit To The US - SK 14. Canada Wildfires Communications Preparedness Strategies 15. DxPedition To Bouvet Island 3Y0K Interviewing For Transport Ship 16. UK Feast Of Amateur Radio Convention Sponsored By The RSGB 17. New Hampshire Radio Club Hosted By Telephone Museum 18. FCC: US Court Blocks Biden Administration Net Neutrality Rules 19. FCC: FCC Releases Updated Speed Test App To Improve Mobile Broadband Accuracy 20. FCC: Senate Advances $7 Billion Bill Renewing Popular FCC Internet Discount Program 21. AMSAT: AMSAT mail alias service to end August 31st, 2024 22. WIA: US/European broadcasters in talks with car manufacturers to keep AM Medium Wave Broadcast In Cars 23. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors completes second meeting for 2024 and approves reports - PART ONE 24. ARRL: ARRL: Board of Directors completes second meeting for 2024 and approves reports - PART TWO 25. ARRL: Special Report: Ham Radio during the upcoming Hurricane Season - PART ONE 26. ARRL: Special Report: Ham Radio during the upcoming Hurricane Season - PART TWO 27. Intercontinental traffic net is looking for new net controls 28. UK Regulator Ofcom seeks input on shared amateur radio spectrum 29. ARRL: 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 answer the question, Does The International Amateur Union Actually Represent You? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, RadioSport DX, upcoming contests, and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR - The History of Amateur Radio - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us on board The Wayback Machine to go back to, the early nineteen hundreds. Where we will be witnessing the beginnings of QST Magazine. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1326 - Full Version Release Date: July 27, 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:35:20 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1326 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Mail Alias Service to End August 31st, 2024 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: US and European Broadcasters In Talks With Car Manufacturers To Keep AM Radio 4. ARRL: ARRL Board Completes 2024 Second Meeting, Approves Report To Advance A 3 Year Strategy-PART 1 5. ARRL: ARRL Board Completes 2024 Second Meeting, Approves Report To Advance A 3 Year Strategy-PART 2 6. ARRL: Massachusetts Maritime Academy Advanced Studies and Leadership Program Gets Radio Training 7. ARRL: ARRL Southeastern Division Vice Director Jeff Beals, WA4AW, SK 8. ARRL: Ted Rappaport, N9NB, Elected to IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Hall of Fame 9. ARRL: Ham Radio During Hurricane Season - PART ONE (By Sierra Harrup, W5DX) 10. ARRL: Ham Radio During Hurricane Season - PART TWO 11. ARRL: Field Day Entries Deadline Was July 23, 2024 12. Special Event Honoring Elmers Is Searching For Activators 13. Amateur Radio Is Added To A College Curriculum In India 14. Radio Waves Emitted By Solar Flares Are Tracked By NASA 15. First N Class License Issued In Germany 16. Intercontinental Traffic Net Is Looking For Net Controls 17. Mobile Direct To Device Is Explored By Ofcom In The United Kingdom 18. Indonesia's 79th Year Of Independence Is Celebrated By A DXpedition 19. United Kingdom Regulator Ofcom Seeks Input On Shared Spectrum 20. Boeing Starliner Astronauts Remain Stranded On The International Space Station 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 22. RAC: Call for nominations for RAC Board of Directors 23. ARW: Super long range Wi-Fi works at a range of 1.8 miles 24. SPACEX: 20 Starlink satellites rained down on earth 25. ARRL: ARRL announces leadership changes in the Hudson Division / WB0JJK Delaware Section Manager, SK 26. ARRL: Amateur radio supports the Oregon Disaster Airlift Team during joint exercise 27. ARRL: Amateur radio participates in the world's largest naval exercise 28. ARRL: 32 amateurs from clubs across central New York support the Boilermaker Road Race 29. OFCOM: UK Ofcom posts a video offering a close up look at recent amateur radio licensing changes 30. FCC: New York City FCC Field Office charges 13 landowners that are connected with broadcast radio pirates 31. NASA: NASA finds Plasma Bubbles in the ionosphere are tied to radio frequency interference 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 talk about how "Being A Maverick Is Part Of The Deal." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming Radio Sport contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with a brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to visit 1915 and the establishment of amateur radio trunk lines. When the ARRL main goal was to establish reliable relaying across the entire country. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1325 - Full Version Release Date: July 20, 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:33:42 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1325 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RAC: Call For Nominations Of Candidates For Board Of Directors Of Radio Amateurs of Canada 2. AMSAT: NASA Discovers Strange Spectral Formations Cover LEO Orbits 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Texas Radio Stations and Cell Sites Still Off Air From Hurricane Beryl 5. ARW: Super Long Range Wi-Fi Works At A Range Of 1.8 Miles 6. SPACEx: US Court Rejects Challenges To FCC Approval Of SpaceX Satellites 7. SPACEx: 20 Starlink Satellites Rained Down On Earth 8. NASA: Happy Birthday, Meatball! NASA’s Iconic Logo Turns 65 9. ARRL: ARRL Announces Leadership Changes In The Hudson Division / WB0JJX Former Delaware SM, SK 10. ARRL: Amateur Radio Supports Oregon Disaster Airlift Response Team 11. ARRL: ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator Services Update During Systems Disruption 12. ARRL: Voices From The ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology 13. ARRL: Get On The Air During VHF Contest Season 14. ARRL: HamCon: Zion 2024 15. ARRL: Amateur Radio Participates In World’s Largest Naval Exercise 16. ARRL: 32 Hams From Clubs Across Central NY Provide Communications For The Boilermaker Road Race 17. ARRL: Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure Will Participate In A Special Event As K3Y On July 27th, 2024 18. ARRL: ARRL Cyberattack Exposed Employees' Sensitive Data 19. UK Ofcom Video Offers A Close Up Look At License Changes 20. New York FCC Offices Charges Thirteen Landowners Connected With Radio Pirates 21. NASA Finds Plasma Bubbles In The Ionosphere Is Tied To Interference 22. CW Operators In New Zealand Demonstrate Basic CW Sending 23. Saint Paul Island DxPedition Team Makes Preparations 24. GQRP Club, a low-power amateur radio club in the UK will celebrate its 50 year anniversary in September 2024 25. ARRL: The ARRL Club Grant deadline is fast approaching 26. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 27. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada grants and scholarships are now available 28. RAC: Innovation Science & Economic Development Canada Updates amateur radio exam questions 29. AMSAT: Scientists discover that moon dust can be made into lego bricks to construct buildings on the moon 30. WIA: Ham Radio Friedrichshafen held at Lake Constance In Germany sets a new record 31. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Log deadline is approaching 32. Brazilian amateurs mark their radio leagues 90th anniversary 33. Student built satellites are launched from California Space Command 34. WIA: Wireless Institute seek input on the future of the 40 meter band plan 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 how to Plan for contest success! * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on Radio Sport, DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of The Century Of Amateur Radio. This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1900's, as we witness amateurs getting organized, and the early formation of the American Radio Relay League. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1324 - Full Version Release Date: July 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, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1324 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RAC: RAC Grants and Scholarships Available Now! 2. RAC: Innovation Science & Economic Development Canada Gives Notice of Update of HR Radio Exam Questions 3. AMSAT: Firefly Delivers New Amateur Satellites to Orbit 4. AMSAT: LEGO Bricks Printed out of Space Dust 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Ham Radio Friedrichshafen Held At Lake Constance Germany Sets Records 7. WIA: Perseids Meteor Shower Is Coming Up 8. ARRL: Hurricane Beryl Aftermath and Update 9. ARRL: ARRL Appears On The Weather Channel 10. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Log Deadline Approaching 11. ARRL: Celebrating the invention of Software Defined Radio 12. ARRL: Oscar Norris W4OXH Becomes A Silent Key 13. ARRL: Special Event W3A To Activate To Commemorate Live TV Transmission From The Moon 14. Brazilian Amateurs Mark Their Radio Leagues 90th Anniversary 15. Youth On Youth Violence Is Intervened By Indian Amateur Radio Club 16. Radio and Communications Museum Encounters Unexpected Expenses 17. Student Built Satellites Launched From California 18. Amateurs In Texas Prepare For Moon Day Demonstration 19. AMSAT: Argentine Satellite May Be Dying...Can You Help? 20. Youth On The Air National radio shack renamed to honor Bob Heil, K9EID 21. ARRL Upcoming radio sport contests and national convention listing 22. WIA - US Congress may mandate AM radio in cars. Manufacturers respond 23. ARRL - The ARRL issues a Call For Nominations for ARRL Director and Vice Director - Part One 24. ARRL - The ARRL issues a Call For Nominations for ARRL Director and Vice Director - Part Two 25. ARRL - The ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinators services update during the league service disruption 26. ARRL - New ARRL Section Managers are announced 27. ARRL - Monthly Volunteer Monitor 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 tell us all about Australian Callsigns * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on Radio Sport, DXpeditions, DX in general, 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 back to the witness the very first radio regulations being put into place in an episode he calls The First Regulations, The end of free range hams ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1323 - Full Version Release Date: July 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, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulcik, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:42:53 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1323 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha “Noise of Summer” Mission Rescheduled 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Successfully Launches GOES-U Satellite 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: United States Congress May Mandate AM Radio In Cars 5. FCC: FCC Proposes Rule Requiring Carriers To Unlock All Cellphones 6. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director - PART ONE 7. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director - PART TWO 8. ARRL: ARRL VEC Services Update During Systems Disruption 9. ARRL: YOTA Camp Ham Shack Renamed For Bob Heil, K9EID, (SK) 10. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Are Announced 11. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union HF World Championship Occurs Next Weekend 12. ARRL: Logbook of The World Returns To Service 13. ARRL: The New Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Has Been Released 14. Ham Radio Event Held Annually In Friedrichshafen Germany A Big Success 15. Two Lithuanian-American Aviators Remembered In Upcoming Special Event 16. New Challenge Is Added By RSGB To This Years IARU HF Championship 17. ARRL: Amateurs activate the Hurricane Watch Net and provide communications for Hurricane Beryl 18. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and upcoming Conventions 19. The monthly Volunteer Monitor Report 20. FCC - ISP's Nationwide urge US Courts to block the FCC's Net Neutrality Regulations 21. AMSAT - AMSAT Board of Directors Nominees are announced 22. AMSAT - The AMSAT Mail Alias Service will end on August 01, 2024 23. WIA - Germany grants remote operation, DARC to build stations for remote use around the country 24. ARRL: ARRL and Momobeam introduce a dual beam antenna for both six and ten meters 25. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Program application deadline is approaching 26. Four Meter privileges granted to amateurs in Germany are extended to the end of 2024 27. NASA hires SpaceX to build a craft to purposely deorbit the International Space Station 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 explain exactly How Does The International Amateur Radio Union Work? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on Radio Sport, DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more.. * The Weekly Propagation Forecast from Tad Cook, K2RA * Will Rogers, K5WLR - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Will goes back to the days of The Spark Gap with an article entitled The Squeak Box. Where we find that among pre-teens, mostly boys took to radio. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1322 - Full Version Release Date: June 29, 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, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:31:28 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1322 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: ISPs Urge Court To Block FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Nominees Announced 3. AMSAT: UPDATE: AMSAT Mail Alias Service To End August 1, 2024 4. WIA: Germany To Grant Remote Operation, DARC To Build Stations Around The Country 5. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Monitoring System Report 6. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Wrap Up 7. ARRL: ARRL and Momobeam Introduce Dual Band Beam Antenna for Six and Ten Meters 8. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Program, Application Deadline Approaching 9. ARRL: 25th Anniversary Of Route 66 On The Air 10. ARRL: Zion 2024 A New Amateur Radio Convention and Expo Event Takes Place July 12/13 In St. George, Utah 11. Australian Court Delivers Decision On Amateur Radio Death 12. Thirteen Colonies Special Event Operation Coming Up 13. Japan's Wartime Raids Over Australia Marked By Upcoming Special Event 14. Earthquake Awareness Added To Clubs Field Day 15. Australian Regulator ACMA Seeks Input On Proposed Repeater and Beacon Licensing 16. Listeners Via Shortwave Give Aid At Train Mishap 17. 4 Meter Privileges In Germany Are Extended Until The End Of 2024 18. California Amateur Documentary Film May Become A TV Series 19. Alexanderson Alternator Will Be On The Air 20. SpaceX Is Building A Craft To Intentionally Destroy The International Space Station 21. Upcoming Contests in RadioSport and Convention and Hamfest listings 22. AMSAT: Starliner brings another ham to the International Space Station 23. ARDC: ARDC announces Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE, Joins ARDC Board 24. FCC: FCC approves mysterious Space X device - The Starlink Mini Backpack Dish 25. ARRL: Amateurs are now gaming on the amateur radio digital modes (FT8) 26. A popular Massachusetts electronics retailer announces shutdown 27. Wifi router manufacturer receives FCC fine for selling overpower routers 28. NORAD improves tracking of amateur radio and civilian balloons 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 how to access a radio remotely. * Bill Salyers, AJ8B - The DX Corner with all the latest radio sport news on DXpeditions, working DX, upcoming contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY (SK) - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill continues with the history of amateur radios Fallen Flags with a look back at the Hammerlund Radio Corporation * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will looks back at how one article published in the very first edition of QST, went on to organize relay stations ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1321 - Full Version Release Date: June 22, 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, Mike LaMontain, KE2AWY, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:39:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1321 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Starliner Brings Another Ham To International Space Station 2. AMSAT: Voyager 1 Is Back To Life, But For How Long? 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Mail Alias Service To End August 1st, 2024 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications, Announces Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE, Joins Board of Directors 6. WIA: Alexanderson Alternator To Transmit Message On June 30th, 2024 7. FCC: FCC Approves Mysterious SpaceX Device: Is It For The Starlink Mini Dish? 8. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Is Here 9. ARRL: New Hampshire ARES Serves Mount Washington Road Race 10. ARRL: Colorado Teacher and Ham Accepted To The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program 11. ARRL: Gaming The Amateur Radio Digital Modes 12. ARRL: Meme Appreciation Month Is Being Billed As Not Your Average Special Event 13. ARRL: A Unique Special Event, Open To All Amateur Radio Operators, Will Take Place July 1 - November 30th 14. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Club Grant Update 15. Popular Massachusetts Electronics Retailer Announces Shuts Down 16. Wi-Fi Router Manufacturer Receives FCC Fine For Over Power Routers 17. YASME Foundation Announces Award Winners 18. US Military Improves Tracking Of Amateur Radio and Hobbyist Balloons 19. Queens Of The Mountains Ascend For Summits On The Air 20. Young Amateurs In Turkey Take Up Parks On The Air Activations 21. Upcoming RadioSport contests and conventions listing 22. AMSAT: The AMSAT mail alias service will end on August 01, 2024 23. WIA: The Square Kilometer Array under construction in a radio quiet zone, while overhead satellites shout 24. WIA: The South African Radio League takes the first steps toward World Radio Conference 2027 25. ARRL: Amateur Radio connects family members during a boating accident in Utah 26. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute kicks off summer cohorts 27. ARRL: The new Extra Class License Question Pool is released 28. Another cyberattack brings down the Society of Broadcast Engineers web page 29: Germany's new N class license makes its testing session debut at Ham Radio Friedrichshafen 30. A robust lineup of vendors and speakers will be at the upcoming 2024 Northeast Ham Exposition 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 take a look at 'Identity In Amateur Radio'. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateuar radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This time out, we discover that vacuum tubes revolutionized radio, changing it more than any other single invention. He will have a close up look at Lee DeForest and the Audion. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1320 - Full Version Release Date: June 15, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, William Savocool, K2SAV, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:20:54 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1320 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Mail Alias Service To End August 1st, 2024 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Square Kilometre Array Under Construction In Radio Quiet Zone As More Satellites Shout From Above 4. WIA: South Africa Takes First Steps To World Radio Conference 2027 5. WIA: A Wiki For Open Source In Amateur Radio 6. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day is Next Weekend! 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Connects Family Members During Utah Boating Emergency 8. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Kick Off Summer Cohorts 9. ARRL: New Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Has Been Released 10. Another Cyber Attack Brings Down Society Of Broadcast Engineers Webpage 11. Deadly Bangladesh Cyclone Remal Causes A Reunion 12. The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club Remote Operations In Development 13. Germany's New Class N License Exams Will Be Available At Ham Radio Friedrichshafen 14. World Wide Flora and Fauna Sees Russia Withdraw 15. 3D Printer Homebrews A Relationship 16. Amateur Radio Operators and Amateur Astronomers To Share Facility 17. Celebrate Inclusion On The Air With The Pride Radio Group 18. Silent Keys In India Include A Noted Author and A Photographer 19. Robust Lineup Of Vendors and Speakers At The 2024 Northeast HamXposition 20. Scanning Software Developer N5JMZ SK 21. IARU: International Amateur Radio Union Region One Ham Challenge is announced 22. WIA: The fun that's Ham Radio WInlink has the final word 23. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 International Amateur Radio Exhibition Will Be Held June 28-30 In Friedrichshafen 24. ARRL: Annual Lighthouse and Lightship weekend is coming up in August 25: ARRL: Special Event Station Operation to celebrate Flag Day 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 talk about "Long Wave Radio" * 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 a look at the history of Hallicrafters. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1319 - Full Version Release Date: June 8, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:23 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1319 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Setting Up Your Own Satellite Ground Station With SatNOGS 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Aims For Successful Reentry In Fourth Starship Test Flight 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. IARU: International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 HAMChallenge 2024 5. WIA: Peeking Underground With Giant Flying Antennas 6. WIA: The Fun That's Ham Radio Winlink Has The Final Word 7. Japanese AM Broadcast Stations Begin Suspensions 8. ARRL: ARRL Systems Service Disruption Update 9. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Is Two Weeks Away, Free Shipping on Field Day Merch 10. ARRL: HAM RADIO 2024 International Amateur Radio Exhibition Will Be Held June 28-30 In Friedrichshafen 11. ARRL: ARRL Affiliated Club In MS Donates 3D Printer, Books, To Local Library 12. ARRL: The 13 Colonies Special Event Is Announced 13. AMSAT Is On The Receiving End Of Project OSCAR Shutdown and Assumes Satellite Duties 14. Parks On The Air Sweeps Across Puerto Rico 15. Summits On The Air Explodes Across The EU 16. STEM Amateur Radio Club Launches Radio Equipped Balloon 17. Special Delivery From The Moon Is Underway 18. Boeing's Starliner Successfully Docks With The Space Station After Challenging Rendezvous 19. International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend Registration Heats Up 20. Orlando HamCation Now Accepting 2025 Award Nominees 21. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Area Conventions and HamFests Listing 22. International Style On-Foot T-Hunt Wraps Up In California 23. ARRL: FCC opens comments about Coronal Mass Ejections communications impacts 24. ARRL: How to find a Field Day Site 25. ARRL: Section Manager Election results 26. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation announces the return of the club grant program for 2024 27. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Kids Day event will take place June 15th and June 22-23, 2024 28. FCC: FCC Chairman proposes new rules for accidental space explosion risks 29. ARRL: June Volunteer Monitor 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 talk about the "ARRL Incident of May 2024" * 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 begins a four part series on the history of several legacy radio companies. This week, Bill begins with an in depth look at The National Radio Company. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1318 - Full Version Release Date: June 1, 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, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:57:44 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1318 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Project OSCAR Discontinues Operations, Donates Remaining Funds to AMSAT 2. WIA: Happy 99th Birthday To The South African Radio League 3. WIA: WSJT-X SuperFox Mode Is Announced 4. ARRL: ARRL Volunteer Examination Coordinator Services Update During Systems Disruption 5. ARRL: Solar Activity Significantly Affecting The Ionosphere and Propagation 6. ARRL: FCC Opens Comments About Coronal Mass Ejection Communications Impacts 7. ARRL: How To Find A Field Day Site 8. ARRL: Section Manager Election Results 9. ARRL: Cliff Ahrens, K0CA, Former ARRL Midwest Division Director, Silent Key 10. ARRL: SEA-PAC Hosting ARRL Northwestern Division Convention May 31st through June 2nd 11. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation Announces The Return Of The Club Grant Program For 2024 12. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Kids Day Event Will Take Place June 15th and June 22nd and 23rd 13. CQ: 2024 CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inductees Announced 14. HamCation Accepting 2025 Award Nominations 15. India Experiences First Major Cyclone Of 2024, Amateurs Were Ready 16. Renovation Is The Keyword As Radio Caroline Plans Improvements 17. Operators In New Zealand Warm Up For Their Straight Key Night 18. Innovative Antenna Design and Its Military Potential Sees Engineer Suing An Ex-Employer 19. Amateurs Donate A "Shack" To A Non-Profit Campground In Missouri 20. A Couple Of Amateur Radio News Shorts From All Over 21. Ham Exemption Restored To Pennsylvania Hands Free Law - CW Going Mobile 22. FCC: FCC Chairman Proposes New Rules For Accidental Space Explosion Risk 23. June Volunteer Monitor Report 24. Upcoming Hamfests and Upcoming Conventions 25. AMSAT: AMSAT At Hamvention 26. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention Hosted at Dayton Hamvention Concludes 27. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Youth Rally A Success at Dayton Hamvention 28. WWVB Operating At Reduced Power Due To Antenna Damage 29. Omnispace and Starlink Battle Over Frequency Coordination and Interference 30. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention a Success 31. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention Forums Available On YouTube 32. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union Elections Recap 33. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention Attendance Is Announced and a New Record Is Set 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 discuss the origins of our amateur radio bands. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation and Solar Weather Forecast from the ARRL. * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to explore the history of amateur radio repeaters in part two of this special report. * SPECIAL REPORT: From the just concluded Dayton Hamvention, we will hear a talk given by Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH ARRL Volunteer Monitor Program Administrator at the 2024 Dayton Hamvention during the Good Operators and Interference Forum. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1317 - Full Version Release Date: May 25, 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, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:29:11 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1317 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT At Hamvention 2. AMSAT: Lost and Found: Missing Satellite Rediscovered 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention Hosted at Dayton Hamvention Concludes 5. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Youth Rally A Success at Dayton Hamvention 6. ARRL: ARRL Headquarters Based Computer Systems Fall To Hackers 7. Right To Repair Law For Electronics To Debut In California 8. WWVB Operating At Reduced Power Due To Antenna Damage 9. Omnispace and Starlink Battle Over Frequency Coordination and Interference 10. Theresa Cruz Aniceto DW3TRZ SK 11. World Cup Cricket Tournament Is Seeking Amateur Radio Operators 12. Leo McHugh EI8BR, CW Mentor SK 13. Permit Is Granted For USA Radio Orienteering Event 14. Youth Operators To Be Featured In Rotuma DXpedition 15. Two Amateur Radio Projects Receive Software Awards 16. Radio Caroline, Britain's Pirate Radio Station Broadcasting From Sea, Turns 60 Years Strong 17. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention a Success 18. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention Forums Available On YouTube 19. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day is One Month Away! 20. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union Elections Recap 21. Northeast HamXposition and ARRL New England Division Convention announced a major addition to its program 22. Two dozen amateur radio groups will be activating different parks in and around Puerto Rico on May 26, 2024. 23. Beginning June 1, 2024, amateur radio clubs will activate special event stations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. 24. ARRL Contest sheet and upcoming hamfests and conventions 25. FCC: FCC Votes To Reestablishes Net Neutrality Rules 26. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT Board of Directors Election – Call for Nominations 27. WIA: Researchers Say Satellite May Imperil The Earth's Magnetosphere 28. FCC: FCC Launches New Spectrum Steering Team To Implement White House National Spectrum Policy 29. US National Weather Service Suggests Amateurs Prepare For Upcoming Hurricane Season 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 discuss The Nature Of Inspiration * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest 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 all aboard The Wayback Machine to look at Part One of his series on the History of Amateur Radio Repeaters. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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) ----- 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. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1316 - Full Version Release Date: May 18, 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, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:27:01 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1316 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Votes To Reestablishes Net Neutrality Rules 2. Engineers Embrace Repair Culture As New Law Takes Shape In California 3. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT Board of Directors Election – Call for Nominations 4. AMSAT: Wanted: Your AO-7 Experiences and Memories 5. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassador Program Re-Introduced at Hamvention 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: Researchers Say Satellite May Imperil The Earth's Magnetosphere 8. FCC: FCC Launches New Spectrum Steering Team To Implement White House National Spectrum Policy 9. Solar Storms – Not HAARP – Created Recent Intense Auroral Display 10. Solar Storms Cause Widespread Aurura and Shuts Down HF Communications World Wide 11. US National Weather Service Suggests Amateurs Prepare For Upcoming Hurricane Season 12. Annual Earhart Special Event To Also Honor Local Silent Key In Ireland 13. New Plaque Installed Outside VOA Museum Honors Amateur 14. Hams In India Hold First Of Its Kind Disaster Drill 15. Amateur Radio Software Award Goes To OpenWebRX Project 16. ARRL: The 2024 Dayton HamVention is underway! 17. ARRL: Solar Storms, result in world wide auroras, and disruptions to HF and Satellite Communications 18. ARRL: The 2024 Museum Ships Weekend is announced 19. ARRL: 80th Anniversary of D-Day special event stations announce operation plans 20. ARRL: Upcoming events in Radio Sport and upcoming conventions and hamfests 21. AMSAT: NASA reveals SpaceX's innovative plan for Starship refueling in orbit 22. ARRL: ARRL Learning Center features two new Emergency Communications Training Courses 23. ARRL: ARRL Volunteers obtain ham exemption to Pennsylvania Hands Free Law 24. ARRL: International Museum Weekend will take place June 15/16 and 22/23 25. ARRL: Dick Rutan, KB6LQS record setting pilot has become a silent key 26. ARRL: Fair Radio Sales - Electronic Military Surplus Store is officially closing on June 28th 27. One year anniversary in orbit is celebrated by a pico balloon 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 discuss "Automatic FM DX Decoding." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920's as he presents this latest edition entitled, Aerials, Attachments, and Audibility. A close up look at Wires, Gaps, and phones. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/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) ----- 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. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1315 - Full Version Release Date: May 11, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:27:25 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1315 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Chang’e-6 Successfully Launches: China’s Historic Lunar Mission Begins 2. AMSAT: NASA Reveals SpaceX’s Innovative Plan For Starship Refueling In Orbit 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL Learning Center Features Two New Emergency Communication Training Courses 5. ARRL: Focus On Public Safety Relationship Building At The 2024 ARRL National Convention 6. ARRL: ARRL Volunteers Obtain Ham Exemption To Pennsylvania Handsfree Law 7. ARRL: YL Summits On The Air Event Queens Of The Mountain Coming Up 8. ARRL: International Museums Weekends 2024 Will Take Place June 15 - 16 and 22 - 23 9. ARRL: Dick Rutan, KB6LQS, Record Setting Pilot, Has Become A Silent Key 10. ARRL: Fair Radio Sales, Electronic Military Surplus Store In Lima, Ohio, Officially Closing On June 28th, 2024 11. GreenCube Satellite Saved BY AMSAT Italia 12. Successful Bluetooth Connection With A Satellite Announced 13. HamVention Weekend To Feature TAPR, D-STAR and The Voice of America 14. One Year Anniversary In Orbit For A Pico Balloon 15. Trafficked Woman In India Is Returned Thanks To Amateur Radio 16. Tuskegee Airmen To Be Honored By New York Special Event 17. HamSci To Showcase Eclipse Findings During HamVention 18. Upcoming Radio Sport Contests and Conventions 19. Drone Maker DJI is facing a possible ban in the United States 20. ARRL: CQ Publisher Dick Ross K2MGA has become a silent key 21. ARRL: Students to promote collegiate amateur radio at the 2024 ARRL National Convention at HamVention 22. ARRL: Changes announced in the ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section 23. ARRL: Amateur Radio is ready for the upcoming severe storms and tornado season 24. ARRL: FCC is seeking to hire people for the role of Electronics Engineer Field Agent in the Los Angeles area 25. Proposed distracted driving law in Pennsylvania has amateur radio operators there concerned 26. KOTA: Kids On The Air - Newly formed organization to makes its national debut at the upcoming HamVention 27. ARRL: ARRL Field Day Swag is now available 28. FCC: FCC Volunteer Monitor Program 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, asks if your shack has a place for everything, and everything in its place. * 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 the late seventies and early 1980's where we find WARC-79 coming to an end with hams on top as they keep all of their current bands and receive additional allocations at 10, 18, and 24 MegaHertz. And the FCC approves ASCII on the amateur bands. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/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) ----- 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. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1314 - Full Version Release Date: May 4, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:35:21 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1314 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. Microwaves In The News 2. Drone Maker DJI Facing A Possible Ban In The United States 3. AMSAT: AO-109 Re-Enters Earths Atmosphere 4. AMSAT: Robusta-3A With Store & Forward Repeater Scheduled For Launch 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: SiOTA - Silos On The Air 7. ARRL: CQ Magazine Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, SK 8. ARRL: Students Promote Collegiate Amateur Radio At The 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention 9. ARRL: MFJ Ceasing On-Site Production 10. ARRL: Changes In The ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section 11. ARRL: Storms and Tornadoes: Amateur Radio Ready 12. ARRL: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HAARP To Conduct New Research Campaign 13. ARRL: FCC Is Seeking To Hire Two People For The Role Of Electronics Engineer Field Agent In Los Angeles 14. Laser Transmission Hits Earth From 140 Million Miles Away, But It's Not Aliens 15. Proposed Distracted Driving Law Worries Hams In Pennsylvania 16. FCC Charging Six With Radio Piracy Proposes $850K In Fines 17. John Hays, K7VE Outreach Manager For Amateur Radio Digital Communications/ARDC - SK 18. On The Air "RagChew" Made History 100 Years Ago 19. Jarvis Island N5J DxPedition Welcome Veteran Operator 20. HamVention Debut Of Kids On The Air Coming Up 21. AMSAT: AMSAT Italia Enters Into the Ownership of IO-117 GreenCube Satellite 22. ARRL Field Day Training Sessions for Field Day Public Information Officers 23. Radio Sport: Upcoming contests and area conventions / hamfests 24. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report 25. AMSAT: AMSAT Engineering Team is powering up for HamVention 26. Voyager One is now transmitting viable data once again via NASA's Deep Space Communications Network 27. ARRL: The ARRL announces that Field Day 2024 merchandise is now available 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 take a look at the origins of the International Amateur Radio Union, IARU. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The late Bill Continelli, W2XOY with The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1978 where we find the FCC very busy banning 23 Channel CB Transceivers while hams buy them up and convert them to 10 meters. The FCC bans all RF amplifiers covering 27 to 30 MegaHertz, and in May of '78, technicians finally get access to all of 2 and 6 meters. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/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) ----- 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.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1313 - Full Version Release Date: April 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 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: 1:56:03 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1313 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Nine US Schools Moved Forward In ARISS Contact Selection Process 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Engineering Team Powering Up For Hamvention 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Washington Tasks NASA To Come Up With A Lunar Centric Time System 5. ARRL: MFJ To Cease On Site Production Next Month 6. ARRL: T-Minus Three Weeks: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Hamvention 7. ARRL: Colorado Students Contact The International Space Station 8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Contact In Space And On The Ground 9. ARRL: National Voice Of America Museum of Broadcasting Will Be Open During Dayton Hamvention Weekend 10. ARRL: Youth On The Air Is Accepting Donations Of Eclipse Glasses 11. ARRL: National World War One Museum In Kansas Missouri To Activate Special Event Station 12. Voyager One Transmitting Data Again Via Deep Space Network Station 43 13. Santa Barbara California Radio Club Finds Itself Homeless 14. US Congress To Reopen Debate About AM Radios Future In Cars 15. Early Eclipse Data Released By HamSci - Time Signals Affected By Eclipse 16. Wireless Institute of Australia Annual Meeting And Radio Convention 17. SOS Radio Week In Coming Up 18. Amateurs In India Assist In The Nations Elections 19. FCC votes to restore Net Neutrality Rules 20. ARRL Field Day Supplies now available 21. Big Bear California Mini-HamCation is coming up 22. ARRL Radio Sport Listings and Upcoming conventions and hamfests 23. AMSAT: Trash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida 24. WIA: What Is The State Of Broadcast Radio In The United States Today? 25. ARRL: Going The Extra Mile - Amateur Radio Connects all 26.2 Miles Of The Boston Marathon 26. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 Messe Friedrichshaven - Celebrating 60 Years Of Islands On The Air 27. ARRL: Start Your Field Day Planning Today 28. ARRL: Club Grant Program To Return 29. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention -- Program and App Available 30. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test May 11, 2024 31. ARRL: Special Event W7G To Celebrate The 155th Anniversary Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike 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 you how to successfully weave amateur radio into your lifestyle * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and this week Bill completes his look back at the 2023 World of DX. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio History. Our amateur radio historian Will Rogers, K5WLR will be here with an expanded edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us in The Wayback Machine to the early days of radio to take a quick look at the technical writing of the time, and a comprehensive look at Spark. What was it? And how did it work? ----- 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) ----- 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.

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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 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. ----- 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) ----- 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.

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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 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. ----- 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) ----- 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. 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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 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'. ----- 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) ----- 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.

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