Release Date: November 9, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, 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: 1:32:32
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1341
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: AMSAT AO-7 To Celebrate 50th Anniversary
2. AMSAT: Voyager 1 Spacecraft Phones Home With Transmitter That Hasn’t Been Used Since 1981
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Broadcast Radio Towers Continue To Fall
5. WIA: Singapore’s 4300 KiloMeter Undersea Transmission Line With Australia Clears Regulatory Hurdle
6. WIA: China Discovers That Starlink Satellites Could Un-stealth Stealth Aircraft
7. Arecibo Science Education Center Opening Is Delayed
8. IEEE Honors Educator For Using Wireless Signals In Weather Data Collecting
9. Scientists Find A Possible Cause Of The Arecibo Telescope Collapse
10. Amateurs In Spain Provide Communications For Deadly Floods
11. A Satellite Made Of Wood Is Launched By Japan
12. Alaskan Island Gets A New Connection Via Amateur Radio
13. Radio Independence Is The 2025 HamVention Theme
14. ARRL: Amateur Radio Activated For Late Season Hurricane
15. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Results Published
16. ARRL: Rare California Island To Be Activated For Armed Forces Day, First Time In 53 Years
17. Court Debates FCC’s Power Over Net Neutrality
18. ARRL: YouTubers raise funds for ARRL Teachers Institute
19. ARRL: Upcoming contests and conventions listing
20. AMSAT: Reflect Orbital To Sell Sunlight Using Space Mirrors
21. WIA: New edition of FreeDV now available
22. ARRL: $47K raised for AR Stem Education through ARRL online auction
23. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarship program now accepting applications
24. HamSci program receives $1.8 million dollar grant from the National Science foundation/HamSci solar eclipse win
25. Planned changes to the UK amateur licensing system is delayed by Ofcom
26. 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 tell us how amateur radio has many Unexpected Miracles.
* 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, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the early days of amateur radio to witness the first radio regulations, as a process forms around the new 1912 law, in an episode entitled, Regulations and Enforcement, Both Hard and Soft.
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