Release Date: October 26, 2024
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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, Terry Walker, KI5ODE, 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: 1:35:20
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Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: SpaceX Achieves First Super Heavy Booster Catch in Landmark Starship Flight
2. AMSAT: NASA’s Europa Clipper Embarks on Epic Journey to Explore Alien Ocean World
3. AMSAT: European Spacecraft Launches to Investigate NASA’s Asteroid Defense Test
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
5. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union to Celebrate Its Centenary In 2025
6. SN: Intelsat 33e Breaks Up in Geostationary Orbit
7. RW: Helicopter Tower Collision Takes Four Lives in Houston
8. ARRL: Handbook 101: A New Generation of Amateur Radio
9. ARRL: Dream Rig Contest Underway
10. ARRL: ARRL Systems Service Disruption Update
11. ARRL: 2024 Pacificon Inspires Next Generation of Radio Amateurs
12. ARRL: Online Ham Bootcamp Coming Up on Saturday, November 9th, 2024
13. ARRL: 86th Anniversary of The Orson Welles Broadcast of War of the Worlds
14. YASME Grant Presented to Tunisian Amateur Radio Camp for Youngsters
15. Shortwave Broadcaster in Austria Faces Shutdown
16. French Experiment in Laser Communications Is a Success
17. Another Of the Navajo Code Talkers John Kinsel Senior Passes At 107
18. Amateurs In New Zealand Put Volcanoes on The Air
19. 76 Years of Air Force MARS Marked by November Special Event Station
20. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention/Hamfest Listings
21. WIA: 40 Meter band plan harmonization – WIA announces next steps
22. WIA: Russian state media radio and television targeted in cyberattack
23. ARS: SpaceX tells the FCC that it has plans to make Starlink about 10 times faster
24. FCC: FCC proposes fine against ESPN for violation of the Emergency Alert Rules
25. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications announces its new Director of Technology
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 amateur radio connects us in unexpected ways
* 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 – A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, this week, Will puts us all into The Wayback Machine to the early nineteen hundreds. In a segment Will calls The Lid: It’s war in 1917 and amateurs across the country are totally shut down, putting the lid on both transmitting and receiving by the government
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