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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 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 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 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 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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