Release Date: November 16, 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, Joshua Turner, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:36:47
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1342
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. HACK: First Microsatellite By Chinese, Russian University Students Launched
2. RW: College Radio Station WKHS Makes International Contact With Amateur Radio
3. AMSAT: Celebrating AO-7 First Earth – Space – Space – Earth Relay Communications
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: Amateur Radio Pico Balloon Is Heard Over The Antarctic
6. SARL: BACAR Balloon Carrying Amateur Radio Is Launched
7. WIA: Several Amateur Radio Satellites Nearing End Of Life Re Entry
8. RW: FCC Commissioner Carr Says FCC Should Stop Work On Partisan Matters
9. ARD: VLF Transmitter SAQ To Transmit CW For 100th Anniversary
10. FCC: FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Launches New Podcast Series
11. ARRL: ARRL November Sweepstakes Phone Is This Weekend
12. ARRL: YouTube Telethon To Raise Money For ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless
13. ARRL: ARRL Delegates Attend International Amateur Radio Union Region 3 Conference
14. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Two Pool Questions From Use
15. FCC: FCC Considers Broadcaster Transparency Over Advertisements With AI Generated Content
16. SBE: Jim Dalke W7PB Wins Society of Broadcast Engineers Award
17. IARU: International Amateur Radio Union Youth Excellence Award
18. Rotuma Island DXpedition Is Taken On By A Youth Operator Group
19. CW Club Bug Roundup Is Coming Up
20. Emergency Alert System Upgrades For Three Broadcasters Funded By CPB Grant
21. Facebook Group Combines Life On The Road With Amateur Radio
22. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Board of Directors Election Results Are Announced
23. ARRL: Upcoming Radio Sport Contests and Regional Convention Listing
24. AMSAT: AMSAT AO-7 to celebrate its 50th anniversary in orbit
25. AMSAT: Voyager One spacecraft phones home on an S-Band transmitter that hasn’t been used since 1981
26. WIA: Singapore’s 4300 kilometer undersea electrical transmission line with Australia clears regulation hurdles
27. Arecibo Science Education Center opening is delayed
28. Scientist researchers find a possible cause of the Arecibo Telescope Collapse
29. Radio independence is the 2025 Hamvention Theme
30. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day results are announced
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 a new radio every week.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on current and upcoming DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more..
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the solar prognosticator Tadd Cook, K7RA
* Will Rogers – K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio – Will returns with another new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will piles us all into The Wayback Machine to take us back in time to the end of World War One to witness the slow reactivation of amateur radio. The Navy well understood how much it had benefited from all the trained amateurs ready to volunteer for service during the war and the likelihood of needing them again someday.
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