Release Date: September 21, 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, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:46:03
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1334
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. RW: Radio Club of America Announces 21 Award Recipients and Fellows
2. AMSAT: F. Brent Abbott, NA7D, Chief Revenue Officer of Rogue Space Systems, to Keynote Space Symposium
3. WIA: Traffic Increased Four-Fold During Paris Games
4. RAC: Phil A. McBride, VA3QR / HP3QR Radio Amateurs of Canada President and Chair Resigns
5. WIA: Amazon Is Poised To Unveil A Significant Overhaul of Alexa
6. WIA: Nokia To Introduce 5G Enabled Space Suits For Astronauts, And Aims To Build A Network On The Moon
7. WIA: Global Positioning Satellite Now 13 Years Old
8. IR: Hurricane Francine Silences Five Louisiana Stations, FCC Says
9. NASA: Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration
10. HACK: NASA’s Solar Sail Reflect Brightly In The Night Sky
11. ARRL: Club Grant Program Update
12. NASA: NASA To Develop Lunar Time Standard For Exploration Initiatives
13. RI: AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act Passed House Floor Vote
14. NEWS: ICOM IC-V82 Radios Exploding In Lebanon, Following Exploding AR-924 Pagers
15. RSGB: Radio Society Of Great Britian To End Paper Based License Exams
16. ARRL: ARRL Announces Partnership With Grouper
17. ARRL: ARRL Philanthropist, Radar Detector Pioneer, Michael Valentine, W8MM, Silent Key
18. ARRL: ARRL Section Managers Gather for Training at Headquarters
19. ARRL: National Preparedness Month – Station Readiness
20. ARRL: Get Ready for JOTA/JOTI
21. ARRL: Amplitude Modulation International (AMI) Jamboree 2024 Coming Up
22. Emergency Alerts Are Improved Over DAB+ Receivers
23. Privatization Of The 900 Megahertz Band
24. Amateur Radio Assists One Man Find His Relatives After Fifty-Years
25. New Rural Networking In The United Kingdom
26. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional ARRL Convention Listings
27. TAPR:Tuscon Amateur Packet Radio calls for nominations for its Board of Directors
28. ACMA: The Australian Communications & Media Authority Issues New Amateur Radio Fees
29. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
30. WIA: New frontier for radio broadcasting as they announce “Zonecasting:
31. FCC: FCC adopts new Asymmetrical Sideband rules for high definition radio
32. ARRL: ARRL defends 902-928 megahertz band
33. Teenage Canadian Students gain their amateur radio license after ham radio course work
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 history of amateur radio from an Australian perspective.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, RadioSport contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers – K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Hiram Percy Maxim’s main goal was to establish reliable relaying of messages across the entire country. Will takes us back to the early days of amateur radio in a segment he entitled “Trunk Lines”.
—–
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.