PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1330

This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1330 - Full Version Release Date: August 24, 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 Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:40:57 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1330 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RW: Voice Of America Is Shuttering Its Marianas Shortwave Site 2. FCC: FCC Proposes Modernizing 3.5 GHz Band Rules for Citizens Broadband Radio Service 3. HACK: Canadarm2 Scores Milestone With Catching Its 50th Spacecraft 4. AMSAT: Upcoming AMSAT Symposium Issues Its First Call for Papers 5. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Election Underway 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 7. FCC: FCC Approves Launch Of V Band Satellites 8. WIA: Alabama Broadcasters Association Name Carl Sampieri As Its 2024 Engineer Of The Year 9. WIA: Moon Is Moving Away From Earth Will Lengthen The Hours In A Day 10. FCC: FCC Clears SpaceX To Upgrade First Generation Starlink Satellites 11. ARRL: ARRL Board Establishes Information Technology Advisory Committee 12. ARRL: Candidates Named for ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections 13. ARRL: ARRL IT Security Incident - Report to Members 14. ARRL: Hurricane Ernesto Operations Come To A Conclusion 15. ARRL: Club Grant Program Update From The ARRL Foundation 16. ARRL: ARRL Expands Publications Archive 17. ARRL: Lost and Found: Earth Moon Earth Worked All Continents Award Application 18. New repeater system to serve emergency communications constructed in British Columbia, Canada 19. International Young Ladies Group renew friendships in Europe 20. The HEMA awards are launched in New Zealand 21. 2024 Slidell, Louisiana, EOC Hamfest is announced 22. The 17th annual Ohio State Parks On The Air contest will be held September 7th 23. Upcoming contests and regional conventions listing 24. AMSAT: NASA seeks student missions to send to space in 2026 and beyond 25. WIA: Radio Amateurs of Canada reports phishing attempts 26. WIA: Radio New Zealand Pacific activates new shortwave transmitters 27. ARRL: ARRL urges protecting the amateur radio 902-908 megahertz band 28. ARRL: Solar Cycle 25 producing record high sunspot numbers 29. Feedback is sought on new proposed radio rules in India 30. Longwave radio broadcasts to debut from the Arctic Circle from Finland Radio 252 31. Stranded ISS astronauts will finally ride home on a Dragon Spacecraft in 2025 32. Bidding opens for World Radiosport Team Championships 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 explain what he means when he says, "In The Beginning There Was The Contact". * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on active or upcoming DXpeditions, RadioSport, DX in general, upcoming contests, and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - This week, Will takes us back in time to the early issues of QST magazine and talks about how humor played a prominent role in QST, in a segment he entitled, Humor, Poetry, and Rotten Rants. ----- 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 [e-mail]. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.