Release Date: December 28, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:27:24
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1348
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. TVT: FCC Fines Paramount Global $244,952 For Emergency Alert Violations
2. AMSAT: Taiwan’s PARUS-T1A Launch Failed
3. AMSAT: NASA Astronauts Face More Time In Space With Return Delayed
4. AMSAT: NASA Now Knows Why Its Mars Helicopter Crashed
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Identifies Non Amateur Signals On HF
7. WIA: SARL/South Africa Radio League Announces Centenary Technical Symposium
8. WIA: HamSci Finds Atmospheric Gravity Waves
9. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarships – Final Weeks to Apply
10. Bill To Keep AM Radio In US Vehicles Hits A New Obstacle
11. Solar Storm Impact On Satellites May Be Cause For Concern
12. A New GMRS Repeater Is Established By Hams For A Local California Community
13. Scout Jamboree In Australia To Be Calling CQ
14. Deutsche Amateur Radio Club Programming To Debut On BBC Shortwave
15. An Infusion Of New Equipment Helps Rescue Group In Upstate New York
16. ARRL Systems Service Disruption – DXCC Update
17. AMSAT: Five CubeSats are successfully deployed from the Kiba Module on the space station
18. AMSAT: European Space Agency Proba 3 satellite are launched to create artificial eclipses
19. FCC: FCC Chairwoman looks to allocate more spectrum for space launches ground control
20. ARRL: ARRL asks hams to send radiograms vias the web
21. ARRL: ARRL 2025 Annual Awards recognize excellence in amateur radio
22. ARRL: ARRL Kids Day is coming up soon on January 4th, 2025
23. ARRL: The Intrepid DX Group has announced the winners of the 5th annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest
24. ARRL: Straight Key Night is January 1st, 2025
25. Nominees for the CQ Hall of Fame is sought by IndexA
26. Scanner radio manufacturer The Whistler Group shuts down operations
28. Use of HF Radio across Alaska is on the rise with the Civil Air Patrol
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 discuss his ongoing open source project entitled, ‘The Bald Yak’. This is week four of the project entitled, ‘Time’.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers – K5WLR returns with another edition of ‘A Century Of Amateur Radio’. This time, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the end of World War One as amateurs are slowly getting back on the air. This week’s episode is entitled, ‘Naval Maneuvers’.
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