This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1337 - Full Version Release Date: October 12, 2024 ATTENTION: Due to the DDOS Cyberattack on Internet Archive, our host for files is offline until further notice, we are working to find a good alternative resource for the podcast until services are restored. Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Dave WIlson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:35:12 Podcast Download (temp): https://bit.ly/TWIAR1337 Podcast Download: https://shorturl.at/vQSVX Soundcloud link: https://on.soundcloud.com/NRoVXyFv8fzatFqY6 Jumpshare link: https://jmp.sh/qZKpv2vz Direct download: https://twiar.net/TWIAR_1337_NAT.mp3 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HACK: Voyager 2’s Plasma Spectrometer Turned Off In Power-Saving Measure 2. AMSAT: MESAT1 Designated MESAT1-OSCAR 122 (MO-122) 3. AMSAT: ARISS Slow Scan TV Transmissions Begin 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: South African Radio League To Exhibit Science & Technology In Amateur Radio At SASF 2024 6. WIA: Australian Federal Government Hires US Firm To Develop A New Subsea Pacific Cable 7. WIA: Voice of America To Move To New Headquarters In Washington 8. TWIT: Starlink's Unauthorized Voyage in to Navy Waters 9. ARS: FCC Lets Starlink Provide Service To Cell Phones In Areas Hit By Hurricane 10. ARRL: Hams Continue To Serve During Active Hurricane Season 11. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology Impacts 85 Educators In 2024; More Planned For 2025 12. ARRL: 2024 Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award Recipient: Kees Van Oosbree, WØAAE 13. ARRL: University of Scranton Will Dedicate A State Of The Art Amateur Radio Station 14. ARRL: Sasquatch Awareness Day Special Event 15. Broadcasters Receive Federal Funds to Strengthen Resiliency During Heavy Weather 16. Next Young Amateurs Camp Site Is Chosen 17. Internet Remote Station Pioneer Keith Lamonica, W7DXX, SK 18. Amputee Patient Finds His Way Home Thanks to India's Amateur Radio Operators 19. Jovan Bojdani, ZA1H, Albanian Amateur Radio Leader, SK 20. South Africa To Take Ham Payloads Aloft With A Near Space Balloon 21. Class Focuses on Radio As A Tool For Women's Well Being 22. DX: FT8 SuperFox mode has been cracked. 23. NASA: NASA gears up for clipper mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. 24. WIA: Scientists discover radio waves transmitted over eight million years ago. 25. ARRL: An incredible amateur radio rescue story. 26. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications through October 31, 2024. 27. Belarus and Russia are eligible once again for CQ Sponsored Awards. 28. A new science education center opens on the site of the old Arecibo Dish. 29. An exciting DXpedition YJ0VV, is coming up very soon 30. PARC uses WinLink for emergency communications. 31. Upcoming RadioSport contests and upcoming regional conventions. 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 answer the question, "What Does An Actual Minimal Setup Look Like?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on upcoming and active DXpeditions, DX, upcoming Radio Sport contests, and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - Will returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio, this week, Will takes us back to the early days of amateur radio and looks at descriptions of the radio laws and anecdotes about their enforcement during those early years, in a segment entitled Regulations and Enforcement, both Hard and Soft. ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1336 - Full Version Release Date: October 5, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:55 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1336 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. DX: FT8 - SUPERFOX Cracked 2. AMSAT: AMSAT-UK to Provide FUNcube Lite Payload for Jovian-1 Satellite 3. AMSAT: NASA Gears Up for Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa 4. AMSAT: Artificial Star Mission Aims To Help Unlock Secrets Of The Universe 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Scientists Discover Radio Waves From 8 Million Years Ago 7. ARRL: Candidate For ARRL Northwestern Division Director Disqualified; Tharp Declared Elected 8. ARRL: Ham Radio Serving Southeast US Recovery Efforts 9. ARRL: Simulated Emergency Test (SET) Scheduled for October 5th and 6th 10. ARRL: An Incredible Amateur Radio Rescue Story 11. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation Is Now Accepting Grant Applications Through October 31, 2024 12. ARRL: Craig Thompson, K9CT, Presenter At ARRL Collegiate Amateur Radio Program / Collegiate QSO Party 13. ARRL: The Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System News 14. Hurricane Helene Hits Broadcasters Hard In The South East 15. DeWayne Hendricks, WA8DZP, SK 16. Belarus and Russia Now Eligible Again For CQ Sponsored Awards 17. Science Education Center At Arecibo To Reopen 18. JOTA and JOTI Operations On The Air Is Coming Up 19. W5YC special event to be operated from Girl Scout Camp 20. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions / Braille edition of ARRL Letter now available 21. WIA: Scientists want to change solar reporting characteristics 22. ARRL: ARRL systems service disruption update 23. ARRL: Amateur radio and a robot play ball 24. ARRL: Changes take place in the ARRL West Texas Section 25. ARRL: Volunteers are the heart and soul of league headquarters 26. ARRL: Update to the ARRL affiliation with Grouper 27. ARRL: Dawn of Mass Global Communications will be re-enacted on October 28th, 2024 28. AM Radio in cars legislation waiting on US Lawmakers in Congress 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 try and answer the question, How Effective Is The International Amateur Radio Union? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming Radio Sport contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, Will takes us back to the early 1900s when radio regulations were first tried to be put in place, in a segment entitled Regulations and Enforcement, Hard and Soft; A process forms around the 1912 law. ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1335 - Full Version Release Date: September 28, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, 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: 1:30:56 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1335 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: MESAT1 Telemetry and Testing Update 2. AMSAT: MESAT1 Telemetry and Testing Update 3. AMSAT: GreenCube (IO-117) Ceases Functioning Due To Radiation Damage 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. IARU: Poland Requests Clear Frequencies For Flood Response 6. WIA: Scientists Want To Change Solar Reporting Characteristics 7. ARRL: ARRL Systems Service Disruption Update 8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Now Working Two Dangerous Hurricanes - PART ONE 9. ARRL: Amateur Radio Now Working Two Dangerous Hurricanes - PART TWO 10. ARRL: September Is National Preparedness Month - Get Involved 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio and Robot Play Baseball 12. ARRL: Changes in the ARRL West Texas Section 13. ARRL: Volunteers – The Heart and Soul Of ARRL Headquarters 14. ARRL: Indiana Statewide Communications Exercise, 10-4 Day, on Friday, October 4th, 2024 15. ARRL: Update To The ARRL Affiliation With Grouper - New Benefit 16. ARRL: 105th Anniversary Of WWV Will Be Celebrated By The WWV Amateur Radio Club WWØWWV 17. ARRL: Dawn Of Mass Global Communication, A Centenary Event, Will Be Re-enacted On October 28th, 2024 18. Young Ladies Group In New Zealand Calls It Quits 19. AM Radio In Cars Legislation Waiting On US Lawmakers 20. Wyoming To Be On The Air 21. KD5PLB Sunita Williams Takes Over Command Of The Space Station 22. APRS Foundation Looking For Membership Support 23. ARRL: Masonic Lodges On The Air Special Event 24. ARRL: WØD To Honor Lester Dent, WØCBL (SK), Prolific Writer Of Pulp Fiction 25. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and RadioSport, Upcoming National & Regional Conventions 26. RAC: Phil McBride VA3QR/HP3QR Radio Amateurs Of Canada President, Resigns 27. WIA: One Global Positioning Satellite Celebrates Its 13th Birthday. GPS runs off 90's technology 28. NASA: NASA Conducts A Tricky Main Thruster Reconfiguration with Voyager One 29. NASA: The White House Tasks NASA To Develop A Lunar Time Standard For Exploration Initiatives 30. RSGB: The Radio Society of Great Britain Announces The End To Paper Based Amateur License Exams 31. ARRL: ARRL Section Managers Gather At League Headquarters For Training, Operate W1AW 32: ARRL: September National Preparedness Month: Station Readiness Plus these Special Features This Week: * Weekly Propagation Forecast Report with Tadd Cook, K7RA * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about Dark Sky, for amateur radio * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, and upcoming Radio Sport contests, and more. * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - Will takes us back in time to the early 1900s for a look at Cooperation and QRM as the relaying of messages continues to develop across the United States. ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1334 - Full Version Release Date: September 21, 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, 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: 1:46:03 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1334 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RW: Radio Club of America Announces 21 Award Recipients and Fellows 2. AMSAT: F. Brent Abbott, NA7D, Chief Revenue Officer of Rogue Space Systems, to Keynote Space Symposium 3. WIA: Traffic Increased Four-Fold During Paris Games 4. RAC: Phil A. McBride, VA3QR / HP3QR Radio Amateurs of Canada President and Chair Resigns 5. WIA: Amazon Is Poised To Unveil A Significant Overhaul of Alexa 6. WIA: Nokia To Introduce 5G Enabled Space Suits For Astronauts, And Aims To Build A Network On The Moon 7. WIA: Global Positioning Satellite Now 13 Years Old 8. IR: Hurricane Francine Silences Five Louisiana Stations, FCC Says 9. NASA: Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration 10. HACK: NASA’s Solar Sail Reflect Brightly In The Night Sky 11. ARRL: Club Grant Program Update 12. NASA: NASA To Develop Lunar Time Standard For Exploration Initiatives 13. RI: AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act Passed House Floor Vote 14. NEWS: ICOM IC-V82 Radios Exploding In Lebanon, Following Exploding AR-924 Pagers 15. RSGB: Radio Society Of Great Britian To End Paper Based License Exams 16. ARRL: ARRL Announces Partnership With Grouper 17. ARRL: ARRL Philanthropist, Radar Detector Pioneer, Michael Valentine, W8MM, Silent Key 18. ARRL: ARRL Section Managers Gather for Training at Headquarters 19. ARRL: National Preparedness Month - Station Readiness 20. ARRL: Get Ready for JOTA/JOTI 21. ARRL: Amplitude Modulation International (AMI) Jamboree 2024 Coming Up 22. Emergency Alerts Are Improved Over DAB+ Receivers 23. Privatization Of The 900 Megahertz Band 24. Amateur Radio Assists One Man Find His Relatives After Fifty-Years 25. New Rural Networking In The United Kingdom\ 26. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional ARRL Convention Listings 27. TAPR:Tuscon Amateur Packet Radio calls for nominations for its Board of Directors 28. ACMA: The Australian Communications & Media Authority Issues New Amateur Radio Fees 29. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 30. WIA: New frontier for radio broadcasting as they announce "Zonecasting: 31. FCC: FCC adopts new Asymmetrical Sideband rules for high definition radio 32. ARRL: ARRL defends 902-928 megahertz band 33. Teenage Canadian Students gain their amateur radio license after ham radio course work 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 take a look at the history of amateur radio from an Australian perspective. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, RadioSport contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Hiram Percy Maxim's main goal was to establish reliable relaying of messages across the entire country. Will takes us back to the early days of amateur radio in a segment he entitled "Trunk Lines". ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1333 - Full Version Release Date: September 14, 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, 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: 1:29:33 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1333 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. TAPR: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) Calls For Nominations For Board of Directors 2. ACMA: The Australian Communications & Media Authority Issues New Amateur Radio Fees 3. AMSAT: Registration Continues for the 42nd Annual AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting 4. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL ERMINAZ Mission Postponed To 2025 5. AMSAT: Updated Software Available for NOAA Polar and Russian Meteor Weather Satellites 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: New Frontier For Radio Broadcasting Called "Zonecasting" 8. FCC: FCC Adopts New Asymmetric Sideband Rules for HD Radio 9. ARRL: ARRL Defends 902-928 Amateur Radio Band 10. ARRL: Ham Radio Volunteers Serve During Hurricane Francine 11. ARRL: National Preparedness Month Ensuring Family Safety 12. ARRL: Pennsylvania Clubs Plan A Special Centennial Event 13. Museum In Australia Reopens A Telecommunications Exhibit 14. Teenage Canadian Students Gain Licenses After Ham Radio Coursework 15. Solar Researchers Revise Their Latest Solar Storm Assessment 16. Cincinnati Hamfest Seeking Nominations For Honors 17. Longwave Radio Broadcasts To Scheduled To Debut From The Arctic Circle 18. Upcoming RadioSport Contests from the ARRL and Upcoming ARRL Regional Conventions 19. FCC: New FCC regulations grants drone operators spectrum access for navigation 20. BB: Los Angeles Transit Authority fears major revenue loss if FCC approves proposed 900Mhz spectrum plan 21. ARRL: ARRL Utah Section is expanding its emergency communications capabilities 22. ARRL: ARRL VEC Services update during on going services disruption 23. 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 talk about all of the adult fans of amateur radio * 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 out solar prognosticator Tadd Cook in Seattle, Washington. * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will tells us about whether it was for public service, or as a challenge worth attacking, transmitting information across ever greater distances is what drove members of the Relay League to organize. In a segment he entitles "The Relay's The Thing." ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1332 - Full Version Release Date: September 7, 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, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:44:53 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1332 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Rule Grants Drone Operators Spectrum Access For Navigation 2. AMSAT: Japanese Company Takes First Step Toward Removing Space Junk 3. AMSAT: The Starliner Spacecraft Has Started To Emit Strange Noises 4. AMSAT: Halibut Electronics Releases New EggNOGS Kit For Satellite Antennas 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Wireless Shimano Derailleurs Subject To Hacking 7. BB: Los Angeles Transit Agency Fears Revenue Hit If FCC Approves Spectrum Plan 8. ARRL: ARRL Utah Section Expanding Emergency Communication Capabilities 9. ARRL: Hams Respond As Hawaii Threatened By Three Major Storms 10. ARRL: September Is National Preparedness Month: Have A Go Kit 11. ARRL: Hawaiian Islands Grid Madness 2024 / Pacificon, Hosting The 2024 ARRL Pacific Division Convention 12. Czech Republic Youth On The Air Adventure Camp Winds Down 13. Incident Command System Adopted By ARES Into Its Traning 14. Patricia Nelson KE0QXD, Silent Key 15. Hams In India Reunite A Man With His Family Who Thought He Was Dead 16. $1 Million Payment Made By ARRL To Ransomware Hackers 17. A Spectrum Of Experience Is Provided By A Childrens Museum 18. MIssissippi Emergency Communicator 19. Faster, More Energy Efficient Operation Promised By New Transistor 20. ARRL: ARRL VEC Services Update During Systems Disruption 21. ARRL: Volunteer Monitoring Program Monthly Report 22. ARRL: Pacificon 2024 Convention Announced 23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contest Listing and Upcoming Conventions 24. AMSAT: Polaris Dawn is set for a historic launch and first commercial space walk 25. WIA: German Astronomer Johanness Kepler drew sunspots without knowing it 26. ITU: International Telecommunications Union updates its global treaty to enhance radio spectrum use worldwide 27. ARRL: ARRL Club Grants will be awarded in November 28. ARRL: Estate planning for hams - What happens to all your stuff? 29. ARRL: New England Vice Director K9HI presented with signed citation from Massachusetts Governor 30. Memorandum of Understanding is signed by the FCC and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News - Get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit *Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio finds Onno Implementing the KISS, or Keep It Simple Stupid, principle to amateur radio, and takes a look at what happens to a new piece of computer gear when you plug it in * 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 with Solar Prognosticator Tadd Cook, K7RA in Seattle, Washington * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to see how the vacuum tube revolutionized radio, changing it more than any other single invention. This week we take a close up look at the invention of The Audion ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1331 - Full Version Release Date: August 31, 2024 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:43:50 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1331 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: The Indian Space Research Organisation Successfully Launches Satellites 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Transporter-11 Launches 116 Satellites, Including OreSat0.5 3. AMSAT: Polaris Dawn Set For Historic Launch And First Commercial Spacewalk 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: The Fairy Tale Of 22 YLs And Their Friends 6. WIA: German Astronomer Johannes Kepler Drew Sunspots 7. ITU: International Telecommunications Union Updates Global Treaty To Enhance Radio Spectrum Use 8. ARRL: Resilience Through Amateur Radio For National Preparedness Month 9. ARRL: ARRL Club Grants Will Be Awarded In November 10. ARRL: Estate Planning for Hams (What happens to all your stuff?) 11. ARRL: The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory Provide Education Access 12. ARRL: New England Division Vice Director Phil Temples, K9HI, Presented Signed Citation From Mass.Governor 13. ARRL: The 25th Anniversary Of Route 66 On The Air Will Have A New Twist This Year 14. ARRL: The League Paid A Hefty Ransom In The Recent Cyberattack. We Bring You Their Press Release 15. A Spectrum Of Experience Is Provided By A Local Childrens Museum 16. Incident Command System Training Adopted By ARES 17. Czech Republic Adventure Had By Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) Camp 18. More Energy Efficient Operation Is Promised By New Faster Transistor 19. Volunteer Patricia Nelson, KE0QXD Trainer, Radio Host SK 20. Memorandum of Understanding Between The FCC And Privacy Commissioner Of Canada 21. Upcoming ARRL regional conventions, and upcoming contests listing 22. RW: Voice of America shutters its Marianas Shortwave transmission sites 23. FCC: FCC proposes modernizing the 3.5 GigaHertz band rules for CB radio service 24. HACK: CanadaArm 2 scores milestone by catching its 50th spacecraft 25. FCC: FCC approves launch of V band satellites for phone access 26. FCC: FCC clears SpaceX to upgrade its first generation Starlink Satellites 27. ARRL: Candidates named for ARRL Director and Vice Director elections 28. ARRL: ARRL IT Security incident report to members 29. ARRL: ARRL expands its online publication archive 30. ARRL: ARRL comments, and opens comment period on proposed changes to the 902-928 megahertz band 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 to lose more than half of your membership. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, Radio Sport, upcoming contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR will be here with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week he brings back in time to the nineteen twenties to look at Aerials, Attachments, and Audibility. ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1329 - Full Version Release Date: August 17, 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, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savacool, K2SAV, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:27:21 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1329 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Quarter Century Wireless Association Awards AMSAT Youth and Education Programs $2,500 2. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA’s GENESIS-A Launched 3. AMSAT: NASA Seeks Student Missions To Send To Space in 2026, and Beyond 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Radio Amateurs of Canada Report Phishing Attempts 6. WIA: Radio New Zealand Pacific Activates New Shortwave Transmitters 7. ARRL: ARRL Urges Protecting The Amateur Radio 902-928 MegaHertz Band 8. ARRL: Solar Cycle 25 Producing Record High Sunspot Numbers 9. ARRL: Amateur Radio Active As Hurricane Ernesto Heads For Bermuda 10. ARRL: HAARP Is Conducting A Research Campaign August 13-16 And Continuing On August 18-20 11. Feedback Is Sought On New Proposed Radio Rules In India 12. Longwave Radio Broadcasts To Debut From The Arctic Circle 13. Stranded ISS Astronauts May Finally Ride Home On A Dragon Spacecraft Next Year 14. Bidding Opens For World Radiosport Team Championships 15. Wireless Workshop Assists India's Police Communications 16. New Cubesats Give Amateurs More Options 17. FCC: FCC Fines New York City Individual $2.3 Million For Unlicensed Broadcasting On FM 18. ARRL: David Galletly, KM2O, Named Vice Director of the ARRL Hudson Division 19. K1USN CW contest is announced 20. Upcoming contests and regional convention listings 21. WIA: Dog Day Afternoon is coming to amateur radio 22. ARRL: Andy Milluzzi, KK4LWR is appointed Vice Director of the ARRL Southeastern Division 23. ARRL: W1AW will change frequency to 17 meters for CW practice 24. ARRL: New York City High School helps license young hams 25. FCC: FCC fines New York City individual $2.3 million for unlicensed broadcasting on FM 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 about internet access across the high frequency bands * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, Radio Sport, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - Will returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard the Wayback Machine to the year 1915 to witness how the amateurs of the era proposed offering communications in times of emergencies to the government, in a segment entitled, 'A Patriotic and Dignified Effort' ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1328 - Full Version Release Date: August 10, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:41:20 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1328 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ROBUSTA-3A Is Now In Orbit 2. AMSAT: Small Satellites of the Future Grow Larger 3. AMSAT: ASRTU-1 Scheduled for November Launch 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Dog day Afternoon IS Coming To Amateur Radio 6. ARRL: Andy Milluzzi, KK4LWR, Appointed Vice Director Of ARRL Southeastern Division 7. ARRL: W1AW To QSY On 17 Meters For CW 8. ARRL: Carter Craigie, N3AO, Silent Key 9. ARRL: Amateur Radio Serves As Hurricane Debby Dumps Heavy Rain On The East Coast 10. ARRL: New York High School Helps License Young Hams 11. ARRL: 27th Annual International Lighthouse / Lightship Weekend Coming Up August 17/18 12. ARRL: Navajo Code Talkers Day Coming Up 13. FCC: FCC Approves Missing and Endangered Alert Code 14. FCC: FCC Fines New York City Individual $2.3 Million For Unlicensed Broadcasting On FM 15. Straight Key Night Founder Barry Kirkwood, ZL1DD SK 16. Southern India Landslides Have Hams Assisting Rescue Efforts 17. New Satellites For Cellular Broadband Is Approved By The FCC 18. Flannan Islands DXPedition Cancelled Due To Weather Hazards 19. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions. 20. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 21. FCC: Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking for reallocation of portions of the 900 MegaHertz band 22. ARRL: David Galletly, KM2O, is named Vice Director of the Hudson Division 23. AMSAT: SpaceX to develop Enhanced Dragon Spacecraft For Deorbiting The International Space Station 24. WIA: Adidas develops a new RF trackable Soccer Ball 25. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology adds a new third level 26. ARRL: Generational legacies are carried on in the new ARRL Teachers Institute Beta Program 27. ARRL: 2024 USA and IARU Region 2 Radio Orienteering Championship Set 28. ARRL: 2024 Olympics special event station is on the air now 29. RAC: Canada wildfires communications preparedness strategies 30. FCC: FCC releases updated wireless speed test app to improve mobile broadband 31. FCC: Senate advances $7 billion bill renewing the popular internet discount program for low income help 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 answer the question "What kind of a hobby is amateur radio?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, RadioSport, upcoming contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - The Century Of Amateur Radio - This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1916, when everyone was sharing very little spectrum and QRM was everywhere, and to witness something called The 9XE Rock Island Test. ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1327 - Full Version Release Date: August 3, 2024 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:37 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1327 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: TEVEL Satellites Begin Atmospheric Reentry and Decommissioning 2. AMSAT: Ariane 6 Launches PariSat: Young Engineers Test Heat Dissipation 3. AMSAT: SpaceX to Develop Enhanced Dragon Spacecraft For ISS Deorbit 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: So Who Listens To BBC Content Internationally? 6. WIA: A New Emergency Alert System Event Code Is Coming Soon In The United States 7. WIA: Adidas Develops RF Trackable Soccer Ball 8. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology Adds Third Level 9. ARRL: Generational Legacy Carried On In ARRL Teachers Institute 10. ARRL: 2024 USA and IARU Region 2 Radio Orienteering Championships Set For October 11. ARRL: 2024 Olympics Special Event Station On The Air Now 12. ARRL: Rule Changes Announced for ARRL International EME Contest 13. Indian Ham Radio Advocate, Sudip Kumar Nanda, Passes During Visit To The US - SK 14. Canada Wildfires Communications Preparedness Strategies 15. DxPedition To Bouvet Island 3Y0K Interviewing For Transport Ship 16. UK Feast Of Amateur Radio Convention Sponsored By The RSGB 17. New Hampshire Radio Club Hosted By Telephone Museum 18. FCC: US Court Blocks Biden Administration Net Neutrality Rules 19. FCC: FCC Releases Updated Speed Test App To Improve Mobile Broadband Accuracy 20. FCC: Senate Advances $7 Billion Bill Renewing Popular FCC Internet Discount Program 21. AMSAT: AMSAT mail alias service to end August 31st, 2024 22. WIA: US/European broadcasters in talks with car manufacturers to keep AM Medium Wave Broadcast In Cars 23. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors completes second meeting for 2024 and approves reports - PART ONE 24. ARRL: ARRL: Board of Directors completes second meeting for 2024 and approves reports - PART TWO 25. ARRL: Special Report: Ham Radio during the upcoming Hurricane Season - PART ONE 26. ARRL: Special Report: Ham Radio during the upcoming Hurricane Season - PART TWO 27. Intercontinental traffic net is looking for new net controls 28. UK Regulator Ofcom seeks input on shared amateur radio spectrum 29. 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 answer the question, Does The International Amateur Union Actually Represent You? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, RadioSport DX, upcoming contests, and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR - The History of Amateur Radio - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us on board The Wayback Machine to go back to, the early nineteen hundreds. Where we will be witnessing the beginnings of QST Magazine. ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1326 - Full Version Release Date: July 27, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, 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: 1:35:20 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1326 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Mail Alias Service to End August 31st, 2024 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: US and European Broadcasters In Talks With Car Manufacturers To Keep AM Radio 4. ARRL: ARRL Board Completes 2024 Second Meeting, Approves Report To Advance A 3 Year Strategy-PART 1 5. ARRL: ARRL Board Completes 2024 Second Meeting, Approves Report To Advance A 3 Year Strategy-PART 2 6. ARRL: Massachusetts Maritime Academy Advanced Studies and Leadership Program Gets Radio Training 7. ARRL: ARRL Southeastern Division Vice Director Jeff Beals, WA4AW, SK 8. ARRL: Ted Rappaport, N9NB, Elected to IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Hall of Fame 9. ARRL: Ham Radio During Hurricane Season - PART ONE (By Sierra Harrup, W5DX) 10. ARRL: Ham Radio During Hurricane Season - PART TWO 11. ARRL: Field Day Entries Deadline Was July 23, 2024 12. Special Event Honoring Elmers Is Searching For Activators 13. Amateur Radio Is Added To A College Curriculum In India 14. Radio Waves Emitted By Solar Flares Are Tracked By NASA 15. First N Class License Issued In Germany 16. Intercontinental Traffic Net Is Looking For Net Controls 17. Mobile Direct To Device Is Explored By Ofcom In The United Kingdom 18. Indonesia's 79th Year Of Independence Is Celebrated By A DXpedition 19. United Kingdom Regulator Ofcom Seeks Input On Shared Spectrum 20. Boeing Starliner Astronauts Remain Stranded On The International Space Station 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 22. RAC: Call for nominations for RAC Board of Directors 23. ARW: Super long range Wi-Fi works at a range of 1.8 miles 24. SPACEX: 20 Starlink satellites rained down on earth 25. ARRL: ARRL announces leadership changes in the Hudson Division / WB0JJK Delaware Section Manager, SK 26. ARRL: Amateur radio supports the Oregon Disaster Airlift Team during joint exercise 27. ARRL: Amateur radio participates in the world's largest naval exercise 28. ARRL: 32 amateurs from clubs across central New York support the Boilermaker Road Race 29. OFCOM: UK Ofcom posts a video offering a close up look at recent amateur radio licensing changes 30. FCC: New York City FCC Field Office charges 13 landowners that are connected with broadcast radio pirates 31. NASA: NASA finds Plasma Bubbles in the ionosphere are tied to radio frequency interference 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 how "Being A Maverick Is Part Of The Deal." * 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, returns with a brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to visit 1915 and the establishment of amateur radio trunk lines. When the ARRL main goal was to establish reliable relaying across the entire country. ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1325 - Full Version Release Date: July 20, 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:33:42 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1325 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RAC: Call For Nominations Of Candidates For Board Of Directors Of Radio Amateurs of Canada 2. AMSAT: NASA Discovers Strange Spectral Formations Cover LEO Orbits 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Texas Radio Stations and Cell Sites Still Off Air From Hurricane Beryl 5. ARW: Super Long Range Wi-Fi Works At A Range Of 1.8 Miles 6. SPACEx: US Court Rejects Challenges To FCC Approval Of SpaceX Satellites 7. SPACEx: 20 Starlink Satellites Rained Down On Earth 8. NASA: Happy Birthday, Meatball! NASA’s Iconic Logo Turns 65 9. ARRL: ARRL Announces Leadership Changes In The Hudson Division / WB0JJX Former Delaware SM, SK 10. ARRL: Amateur Radio Supports Oregon Disaster Airlift Response Team 11. ARRL: ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator Services Update During Systems Disruption 12. ARRL: Voices From The ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology 13. ARRL: Get On The Air During VHF Contest Season 14. ARRL: HamCon: Zion 2024 15. ARRL: Amateur Radio Participates In World’s Largest Naval Exercise 16. ARRL: 32 Hams From Clubs Across Central NY Provide Communications For The Boilermaker Road Race 17. ARRL: Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure Will Participate In A Special Event As K3Y On July 27th, 2024 18. ARRL: ARRL Cyberattack Exposed Employees' Sensitive Data 19. UK Ofcom Video Offers A Close Up Look At License Changes 20. New York FCC Offices Charges Thirteen Landowners Connected With Radio Pirates 21. NASA Finds Plasma Bubbles In The Ionosphere Is Tied To Interference 22. CW Operators In New Zealand Demonstrate Basic CW Sending 23. Saint Paul Island DxPedition Team Makes Preparations 24. GQRP Club, a low-power amateur radio club in the UK will celebrate its 50 year anniversary in September 2024 25. ARRL: The ARRL Club Grant deadline is fast approaching 26. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 27. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada grants and scholarships are now available 28. RAC: Innovation Science & Economic Development Canada Updates amateur radio exam questions 29. AMSAT: Scientists discover that moon dust can be made into lego bricks to construct buildings on the moon 30. WIA: Ham Radio Friedrichshafen held at Lake Constance In Germany sets a new record 31. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Log deadline is approaching 32. Brazilian amateurs mark their radio leagues 90th anniversary 33. Student built satellites are launched from California Space Command 34. WIA: Wireless Institute seek input on the future of the 40 meter band plan 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 to Plan for contest success! * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on Radio Sport, DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of The Century Of Amateur Radio. This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1900's, as we witness amateurs getting organized, and the early formation of the American Radio Relay League. ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1324 - Full Version Release Date: July 13, 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, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1324 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RAC: RAC Grants and Scholarships Available Now! 2. RAC: Innovation Science & Economic Development Canada Gives Notice of Update of HR Radio Exam Questions 3. AMSAT: Firefly Delivers New Amateur Satellites to Orbit 4. AMSAT: LEGO Bricks Printed out of Space Dust 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Ham Radio Friedrichshafen Held At Lake Constance Germany Sets Records 7. WIA: Perseids Meteor Shower Is Coming Up 8. ARRL: Hurricane Beryl Aftermath and Update 9. ARRL: ARRL Appears On The Weather Channel 10. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Log Deadline Approaching 11. ARRL: Celebrating the invention of Software Defined Radio 12. ARRL: Oscar Norris W4OXH Becomes A Silent Key 13. ARRL: Special Event W3A To Activate To Commemorate Live TV Transmission From The Moon 14. Brazilian Amateurs Mark Their Radio Leagues 90th Anniversary 15. Youth On Youth Violence Is Intervened By Indian Amateur Radio Club 16. Radio and Communications Museum Encounters Unexpected Expenses 17. Student Built Satellites Launched From California 18. Amateurs In Texas Prepare For Moon Day Demonstration 19. AMSAT: Argentine Satellite May Be Dying...Can You Help? 20. Youth On The Air National radio shack renamed to honor Bob Heil, K9EID 21. ARRL Upcoming radio sport contests and national convention listing 22. WIA - US Congress may mandate AM radio in cars. Manufacturers respond 23. ARRL - The ARRL issues a Call For Nominations for ARRL Director and Vice Director - Part One 24. ARRL - The ARRL issues a Call For Nominations for ARRL Director and Vice Director - Part Two 25. ARRL - The ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinators services update during the league service disruption 26. ARRL - New ARRL Section Managers are announced 27. ARRL - Monthly Volunteer Monitor 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 all about Australian Callsigns * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on Radio Sport, DXpeditions, DX in general, upcoming contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR - returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to the witness the very first radio regulations being put into place in an episode he calls The First Regulations, The end of free range hams ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1323 - Full Version Release Date: July 6, 2024 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, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulcik, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:42:53 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1323 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha “Noise of Summer” Mission Rescheduled 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Successfully Launches GOES-U Satellite 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: United States Congress May Mandate AM Radio In Cars 5. FCC: FCC Proposes Rule Requiring Carriers To Unlock All Cellphones 6. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director - PART ONE 7. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director - PART TWO 8. ARRL: ARRL VEC Services Update During Systems Disruption 9. ARRL: YOTA Camp Ham Shack Renamed For Bob Heil, K9EID, (SK) 10. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Are Announced 11. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union HF World Championship Occurs Next Weekend 12. ARRL: Logbook of The World Returns To Service 13. ARRL: The New Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Has Been Released 14. Ham Radio Event Held Annually In Friedrichshafen Germany A Big Success 15. Two Lithuanian-American Aviators Remembered In Upcoming Special Event 16. New Challenge Is Added By RSGB To This Years IARU HF Championship 17. ARRL: Amateurs activate the Hurricane Watch Net and provide communications for Hurricane Beryl 18. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and upcoming Conventions 19. The monthly Volunteer Monitor Report 20. FCC - ISP's Nationwide urge US Courts to block the FCC's Net Neutrality Regulations 21. AMSAT - AMSAT Board of Directors Nominees are announced 22. AMSAT - The AMSAT Mail Alias Service will end on August 01, 2024 23. WIA - Germany grants remote operation, DARC to build stations for remote use around the country 24. ARRL: ARRL and Momobeam introduce a dual beam antenna for both six and ten meters 25. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Program application deadline is approaching 26. Four Meter privileges granted to amateurs in Germany are extended to the end of 2024 27. NASA hires SpaceX to build a craft to purposely deorbit the International Space Station 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 exactly How Does The International Amateur Radio Union Work? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on Radio Sport, DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more.. * The Weekly Propagation Forecast from Tad Cook, K2RA * Will Rogers, K5WLR - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Will goes back to the days of The Spark Gap with an article entitled The Squeak Box. Where we find that among pre-teens, mostly boys took to radio. ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1322 - Full Version Release Date: June 29, 2024 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, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:31:28 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1322 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: ISPs Urge Court To Block FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Nominees Announced 3. AMSAT: UPDATE: AMSAT Mail Alias Service To End August 1, 2024 4. WIA: Germany To Grant Remote Operation, DARC To Build Stations Around The Country 5. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Monitoring System Report 6. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Wrap Up 7. ARRL: ARRL and Momobeam Introduce Dual Band Beam Antenna for Six and Ten Meters 8. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Program, Application Deadline Approaching 9. ARRL: 25th Anniversary Of Route 66 On The Air 10. ARRL: Zion 2024 A New Amateur Radio Convention and Expo Event Takes Place July 12/13 In St. George, Utah 11. Australian Court Delivers Decision On Amateur Radio Death 12. Thirteen Colonies Special Event Operation Coming Up 13. Japan's Wartime Raids Over Australia Marked By Upcoming Special Event 14. Earthquake Awareness Added To Clubs Field Day 15. Australian Regulator ACMA Seeks Input On Proposed Repeater and Beacon Licensing 16. Listeners Via Shortwave Give Aid At Train Mishap 17. 4 Meter Privileges In Germany Are Extended Until The End Of 2024 18. California Amateur Documentary Film May Become A TV Series 19. Alexanderson Alternator Will Be On The Air 20. SpaceX Is Building A Craft To Intentionally Destroy The International Space Station 21. Upcoming Contests in RadioSport and Convention and Hamfest listings 22. AMSAT: Starliner brings another ham to the International Space Station 23. ARDC: ARDC announces Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE, Joins ARDC Board 24. FCC: FCC approves mysterious Space X device - The Starlink Mini Backpack Dish 25. ARRL: Amateurs are now gaming on the amateur radio digital modes (FT8) 26. A popular Massachusetts electronics retailer announces shutdown 27. Wifi router manufacturer receives FCC fine for selling overpower routers 28. NORAD improves tracking of amateur radio and civilian balloons 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 to access a radio remotely. * Bill Salyers, AJ8B - The DX Corner with all the latest radio sport news on DXpeditions, working DX, upcoming contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY (SK) - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill continues with the history of amateur radios Fallen Flags with a look back at the Hammerlund Radio Corporation * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will looks back at how one article published in the very first edition of QST, went on to organize relay stations ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1321 - Full Version Release Date: June 22, 2024 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Mike LaMontain, KE2AWY, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:39:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1321 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Starliner Brings Another Ham To International Space Station 2. AMSAT: Voyager 1 Is Back To Life, But For How Long? 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Mail Alias Service To End August 1st, 2024 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications, Announces Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE, Joins Board of Directors 6. WIA: Alexanderson Alternator To Transmit Message On June 30th, 2024 7. FCC: FCC Approves Mysterious SpaceX Device: Is It For The Starlink Mini Dish? 8. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Is Here 9. ARRL: New Hampshire ARES Serves Mount Washington Road Race 10. ARRL: Colorado Teacher and Ham Accepted To The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program 11. ARRL: Gaming The Amateur Radio Digital Modes 12. ARRL: Meme Appreciation Month Is Being Billed As Not Your Average Special Event 13. ARRL: A Unique Special Event, Open To All Amateur Radio Operators, Will Take Place July 1 - November 30th 14. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Club Grant Update 15. Popular Massachusetts Electronics Retailer Announces Shuts Down 16. Wi-Fi Router Manufacturer Receives FCC Fine For Over Power Routers 17. YASME Foundation Announces Award Winners 18. US Military Improves Tracking Of Amateur Radio and Hobbyist Balloons 19. Queens Of The Mountains Ascend For Summits On The Air 20. Young Amateurs In Turkey Take Up Parks On The Air Activations 21. Upcoming RadioSport contests and conventions listing 22. AMSAT: The AMSAT mail alias service will end on August 01, 2024 23. WIA: The Square Kilometer Array under construction in a radio quiet zone, while overhead satellites shout 24. WIA: The South African Radio League takes the first steps toward World Radio Conference 2027 25. ARRL: Amateur Radio connects family members during a boating accident in Utah 26. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute kicks off summer cohorts 27. ARRL: The new Extra Class License Question Pool is released 28. Another cyberattack brings down the Society of Broadcast Engineers web page 29: Germany's new N class license makes its testing session debut at Ham Radio Friedrichshafen 30. A robust lineup of vendors and speakers will be at the upcoming 2024 Northeast Ham Exposition 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 take a look at 'Identity In Amateur Radio'. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateuar radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This time out, we discover that vacuum tubes revolutionized radio, changing it more than any other single invention. He will have a close up look at Lee DeForest and the Audion. ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1320 - Full Version Release Date: June 15, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, William Savocool, K2SAV, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:20:54 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1320 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Mail Alias Service To End August 1st, 2024 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Square Kilometre Array Under Construction In Radio Quiet Zone As More Satellites Shout From Above 4. WIA: South Africa Takes First Steps To World Radio Conference 2027 5. WIA: A Wiki For Open Source In Amateur Radio 6. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day is Next Weekend! 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Connects Family Members During Utah Boating Emergency 8. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Kick Off Summer Cohorts 9. ARRL: New Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Has Been Released 10. Another Cyber Attack Brings Down Society Of Broadcast Engineers Webpage 11. Deadly Bangladesh Cyclone Remal Causes A Reunion 12. The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club Remote Operations In Development 13. Germany's New Class N License Exams Will Be Available At Ham Radio Friedrichshafen 14. World Wide Flora and Fauna Sees Russia Withdraw 15. 3D Printer Homebrews A Relationship 16. Amateur Radio Operators and Amateur Astronomers To Share Facility 17. Celebrate Inclusion On The Air With The Pride Radio Group 18. Silent Keys In India Include A Noted Author and A Photographer 19. Robust Lineup Of Vendors and Speakers At The 2024 Northeast HamXposition 20. Scanning Software Developer N5JMZ SK 21. IARU: International Amateur Radio Union Region One Ham Challenge is announced 22. WIA: The fun that's Ham Radio WInlink has the final word 23. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 International Amateur Radio Exhibition Will Be Held June 28-30 In Friedrichshafen 24. ARRL: Annual Lighthouse and Lightship weekend is coming up in August 25: ARRL: Special Event Station Operation to celebrate Flag Day 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 "Long Wave Radio" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes a look at the history of Hallicrafters. ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1319 - Full Version Release Date: June 8, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:23 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1319 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Setting Up Your Own Satellite Ground Station With SatNOGS 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Aims For Successful Reentry In Fourth Starship Test Flight 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. IARU: International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 HAMChallenge 2024 5. WIA: Peeking Underground With Giant Flying Antennas 6. WIA: The Fun That's Ham Radio Winlink Has The Final Word 7. Japanese AM Broadcast Stations Begin Suspensions 8. ARRL: ARRL Systems Service Disruption Update 9. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Is Two Weeks Away, Free Shipping on Field Day Merch 10. ARRL: HAM RADIO 2024 International Amateur Radio Exhibition Will Be Held June 28-30 In Friedrichshafen 11. ARRL: ARRL Affiliated Club In MS Donates 3D Printer, Books, To Local Library 12. ARRL: The 13 Colonies Special Event Is Announced 13. AMSAT Is On The Receiving End Of Project OSCAR Shutdown and Assumes Satellite Duties 14. Parks On The Air Sweeps Across Puerto Rico 15. Summits On The Air Explodes Across The EU 16. STEM Amateur Radio Club Launches Radio Equipped Balloon 17. Special Delivery From The Moon Is Underway 18. Boeing's Starliner Successfully Docks With The Space Station After Challenging Rendezvous 19. International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend Registration Heats Up 20. Orlando HamCation Now Accepting 2025 Award Nominees 21. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Area Conventions and HamFests Listing 22. International Style On-Foot T-Hunt Wraps Up In California 23. ARRL: FCC opens comments about Coronal Mass Ejections communications impacts 24. ARRL: How to find a Field Day Site 25. ARRL: Section Manager Election results 26. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation announces the return of the club grant program for 2024 27. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Kids Day event will take place June 15th and June 22-23, 2024 28. FCC: FCC Chairman proposes new rules for accidental space explosion risks 29. ARRL: June Volunteer Monitor 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 talk about the "ARRL Incident of May 2024" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill begins a four part series on the history of several legacy radio companies. This week, Bill begins with an in depth look at The National Radio Company. ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1318 - Full Version Release Date: June 1, 2024 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, 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: 1:57:44 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1318 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Project OSCAR Discontinues Operations, Donates Remaining Funds to AMSAT 2. WIA: Happy 99th Birthday To The South African Radio League 3. WIA: WSJT-X SuperFox Mode Is Announced 4. ARRL: ARRL Volunteer Examination Coordinator Services Update During Systems Disruption 5. ARRL: Solar Activity Significantly Affecting The Ionosphere and Propagation 6. ARRL: FCC Opens Comments About Coronal Mass Ejection Communications Impacts 7. ARRL: How To Find A Field Day Site 8. ARRL: Section Manager Election Results 9. ARRL: Cliff Ahrens, K0CA, Former ARRL Midwest Division Director, Silent Key 10. ARRL: SEA-PAC Hosting ARRL Northwestern Division Convention May 31st through June 2nd 11. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation Announces The Return Of The Club Grant Program For 2024 12. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Kids Day Event Will Take Place June 15th and June 22nd and 23rd 13. CQ: 2024 CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inductees Announced 14. HamCation Accepting 2025 Award Nominations 15. India Experiences First Major Cyclone Of 2024, Amateurs Were Ready 16. Renovation Is The Keyword As Radio Caroline Plans Improvements 17. Operators In New Zealand Warm Up For Their Straight Key Night 18. Innovative Antenna Design and Its Military Potential Sees Engineer Suing An Ex-Employer 19. Amateurs Donate A "Shack" To A Non-Profit Campground In Missouri 20. A Couple Of Amateur Radio News Shorts From All Over 21. Ham Exemption Restored To Pennsylvania Hands Free Law - CW Going Mobile 22. FCC: FCC Chairman Proposes New Rules For Accidental Space Explosion Risk 23. June Volunteer Monitor Report 24. Upcoming Hamfests and Upcoming Conventions 25. AMSAT: AMSAT At Hamvention 26. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention Hosted at Dayton Hamvention Concludes 27. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Youth Rally A Success at Dayton Hamvention 28. WWVB Operating At Reduced Power Due To Antenna Damage 29. Omnispace and Starlink Battle Over Frequency Coordination and Interference 30. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention a Success 31. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention Forums Available On YouTube 32. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union Elections Recap 33. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention Attendance Is Announced and a New Record Is Set 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 the origins of our amateur radio bands. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation and Solar Weather Forecast from the ARRL. * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to explore the history of amateur radio repeaters in part two of this special report. * SPECIAL REPORT: From the just concluded Dayton Hamvention, we will hear a talk given by Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH ARRL Volunteer Monitor Program Administrator at the 2024 Dayton Hamvention during the Good Operators and Interference Forum. ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1317 - Full Version Release Date: May 25, 2024 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:29:11 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1317 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT At Hamvention 2. AMSAT: Lost and Found: Missing Satellite Rediscovered 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention Hosted at Dayton Hamvention Concludes 5. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Youth Rally A Success at Dayton Hamvention 6. ARRL: ARRL Headquarters Based Computer Systems Fall To Hackers 7. Right To Repair Law For Electronics To Debut In California 8. WWVB Operating At Reduced Power Due To Antenna Damage 9. Omnispace and Starlink Battle Over Frequency Coordination and Interference 10. Theresa Cruz Aniceto DW3TRZ SK 11. World Cup Cricket Tournament Is Seeking Amateur Radio Operators 12. Leo McHugh EI8BR, CW Mentor SK 13. Permit Is Granted For USA Radio Orienteering Event 14. Youth Operators To Be Featured In Rotuma DXpedition 15. Two Amateur Radio Projects Receive Software Awards 16. Radio Caroline, Britain's Pirate Radio Station Broadcasting From Sea, Turns 60 Years Strong 17. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention a Success 18. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention Forums Available On YouTube 19. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day is One Month Away! 20. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union Elections Recap 21. Northeast HamXposition and ARRL New England Division Convention announced a major addition to its program 22. Two dozen amateur radio groups will be activating different parks in and around Puerto Rico on May 26, 2024. 23. Beginning June 1, 2024, amateur radio clubs will activate special event stations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. 24. ARRL Contest sheet and upcoming hamfests and conventions 25. FCC: FCC Votes To Reestablishes Net Neutrality Rules 26. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT Board of Directors Election – Call for Nominations 27. WIA: Researchers Say Satellite May Imperil The Earth's Magnetosphere 28. FCC: FCC Launches New Spectrum Steering Team To Implement White House National Spectrum Policy 29. US National Weather Service Suggests Amateurs Prepare For Upcoming Hurricane Season 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 The Nature Of Inspiration * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to look at Part One of his series on the History of Amateur Radio Repeaters. ----- 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1316 - Full Version Release Date: May 18, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:27:01 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1316 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Votes To Reestablishes Net Neutrality Rules 2. Engineers Embrace Repair Culture As New Law Takes Shape In California 3. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT Board of Directors Election – Call for Nominations 4. AMSAT: Wanted: Your AO-7 Experiences and Memories 5. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassador Program Re-Introduced at Hamvention 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: Researchers Say Satellite May Imperil The Earth's Magnetosphere 8. FCC: FCC Launches New Spectrum Steering Team To Implement White House National Spectrum Policy 9. Solar Storms – Not HAARP – Created Recent Intense Auroral Display 10. Solar Storms Cause Widespread Aurura and Shuts Down HF Communications World Wide 11. US National Weather Service Suggests Amateurs Prepare For Upcoming Hurricane Season 12. Annual Earhart Special Event To Also Honor Local Silent Key In Ireland 13. New Plaque Installed Outside VOA Museum Honors Amateur 14. Hams In India Hold First Of Its Kind Disaster Drill 15. Amateur Radio Software Award Goes To OpenWebRX Project 16. ARRL: The 2024 Dayton HamVention is underway! 17. ARRL: Solar Storms, result in world wide auroras, and disruptions to HF and Satellite Communications 18. ARRL: The 2024 Museum Ships Weekend is announced 19. ARRL: 80th Anniversary of D-Day special event stations announce operation plans 20. ARRL: Upcoming events in Radio Sport and upcoming conventions and hamfests 21. AMSAT: NASA reveals SpaceX's innovative plan for Starship refueling in orbit 22. ARRL: ARRL Learning Center features two new Emergency Communications Training Courses 23. ARRL: ARRL Volunteers obtain ham exemption to Pennsylvania Hands Free Law 24. ARRL: International Museum Weekend will take place June 15/16 and 22/23 25. ARRL: Dick Rutan, KB6LQS record setting pilot has become a silent key 26. ARRL: Fair Radio Sales - Electronic Military Surplus Store is officially closing on June 28th 27. One year anniversary in orbit is celebrated by a pico balloon 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 "Automatic FM DX Decoding." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920's as he presents this latest edition entitled, Aerials, Attachments, and Audibility. A close up look at Wires, Gaps, and phones. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1315 - Full Version Release Date: May 11, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:27:25 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1315 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Chang’e-6 Successfully Launches: China’s Historic Lunar Mission Begins 2. AMSAT: NASA Reveals SpaceX’s Innovative Plan For Starship Refueling In Orbit 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL Learning Center Features Two New Emergency Communication Training Courses 5. ARRL: Focus On Public Safety Relationship Building At The 2024 ARRL National Convention 6. ARRL: ARRL Volunteers Obtain Ham Exemption To Pennsylvania Handsfree Law 7. ARRL: YL Summits On The Air Event Queens Of The Mountain Coming Up 8. ARRL: International Museums Weekends 2024 Will Take Place June 15 - 16 and 22 - 23 9. ARRL: Dick Rutan, KB6LQS, Record Setting Pilot, Has Become A Silent Key 10. ARRL: Fair Radio Sales, Electronic Military Surplus Store In Lima, Ohio, Officially Closing On June 28th, 2024 11. GreenCube Satellite Saved BY AMSAT Italia 12. Successful Bluetooth Connection With A Satellite Announced 13. HamVention Weekend To Feature TAPR, D-STAR and The Voice of America 14. One Year Anniversary In Orbit For A Pico Balloon 15. Trafficked Woman In India Is Returned Thanks To Amateur Radio 16. Tuskegee Airmen To Be Honored By New York Special Event 17. HamSci To Showcase Eclipse Findings During HamVention 18. Upcoming Radio Sport Contests and Conventions 19. Drone Maker DJI is facing a possible ban in the United States 20. ARRL: CQ Publisher Dick Ross K2MGA has become a silent key 21. ARRL: Students to promote collegiate amateur radio at the 2024 ARRL National Convention at HamVention 22. ARRL: Changes announced in the ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section 23. ARRL: Amateur Radio is ready for the upcoming severe storms and tornado season 24. ARRL: FCC is seeking to hire people for the role of Electronics Engineer Field Agent in the Los Angeles area 25. Proposed distracted driving law in Pennsylvania has amateur radio operators there concerned 26. KOTA: Kids On The Air - Newly formed organization to makes its national debut at the upcoming HamVention 27. ARRL: ARRL Field Day Swag is now available 28. FCC: FCC Volunteer Monitor Program 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, asks if your shack has a place for everything, and everything in its place. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the late seventies and early 1980's where we find WARC-79 coming to an end with hams on top as they keep all of their current bands and receive additional allocations at 10, 18, and 24 MegaHertz. And the FCC approves ASCII on the amateur bands. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1314 - Full Version Release Date: May 4, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:35:21 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1314 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. Microwaves In The News 2. Drone Maker DJI Facing A Possible Ban In The United States 3. AMSAT: AO-109 Re-Enters Earths Atmosphere 4. AMSAT: Robusta-3A With Store & Forward Repeater Scheduled For Launch 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: SiOTA - Silos On The Air 7. ARRL: CQ Magazine Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, SK 8. ARRL: Students Promote Collegiate Amateur Radio At The 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention 9. ARRL: MFJ Ceasing On-Site Production 10. ARRL: Changes In The ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section 11. ARRL: Storms and Tornadoes: Amateur Radio Ready 12. ARRL: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HAARP To Conduct New Research Campaign 13. ARRL: FCC Is Seeking To Hire Two People For The Role Of Electronics Engineer Field Agent In Los Angeles 14. Laser Transmission Hits Earth From 140 Million Miles Away, But It's Not Aliens 15. Proposed Distracted Driving Law Worries Hams In Pennsylvania 16. FCC Charging Six With Radio Piracy Proposes $850K In Fines 17. John Hays, K7VE Outreach Manager For Amateur Radio Digital Communications/ARDC - SK 18. On The Air "RagChew" Made History 100 Years Ago 19. Jarvis Island N5J DxPedition Welcome Veteran Operator 20. HamVention Debut Of Kids On The Air Coming Up 21. AMSAT: AMSAT Italia Enters Into the Ownership of IO-117 GreenCube Satellite 22. ARRL Field Day Training Sessions for Field Day Public Information Officers 23. Radio Sport: Upcoming contests and area conventions / hamfests 24. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report 25. AMSAT: AMSAT Engineering Team is powering up for HamVention 26. Voyager One is now transmitting viable data once again via NASA's Deep Space Communications Network 27. ARRL: The ARRL announces that Field Day 2024 merchandise is now available 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 take a look at the origins of the International Amateur Radio Union, IARU. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The late Bill Continelli, W2XOY with The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1978 where we find the FCC very busy banning 23 Channel CB Transceivers while hams buy them up and convert them to 10 meters. The FCC bans all RF amplifiers covering 27 to 30 MegaHertz, and in May of '78, technicians finally get access to all of 2 and 6 meters. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1313 - Full Version Release Date: April 27, 2024 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, Don Hulcik, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:56:03 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1313 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Nine US Schools Moved Forward In ARISS Contact Selection Process 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Engineering Team Powering Up For Hamvention 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Washington Tasks NASA To Come Up With A Lunar Centric Time System 5. ARRL: MFJ To Cease On Site Production Next Month 6. ARRL: T-Minus Three Weeks: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Hamvention 7. ARRL: Colorado Students Contact The International Space Station 8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Contact In Space And On The Ground 9. ARRL: National Voice Of America Museum of Broadcasting Will Be Open During Dayton Hamvention Weekend 10. ARRL: Youth On The Air Is Accepting Donations Of Eclipse Glasses 11. ARRL: National World War One Museum In Kansas Missouri To Activate Special Event Station 12. Voyager One Transmitting Data Again Via Deep Space Network Station 43 13. Santa Barbara California Radio Club Finds Itself Homeless 14. US Congress To Reopen Debate About AM Radios Future In Cars 15. Early Eclipse Data Released By HamSci - Time Signals Affected By Eclipse 16. Wireless Institute of Australia Annual Meeting And Radio Convention 17. SOS Radio Week In Coming Up 18. Amateurs In India Assist In The Nations Elections 19. FCC votes to restore Net Neutrality Rules 20. ARRL Field Day Supplies now available 21. Big Bear California Mini-HamCation is coming up 22. ARRL Radio Sport Listings and Upcoming conventions and hamfests 23. AMSAT: Trash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida 24. WIA: What Is The State Of Broadcast Radio In The United States Today? 25. ARRL: Going The Extra Mile - Amateur Radio Connects all 26.2 Miles Of The Boston Marathon 26. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 Messe Friedrichshaven - Celebrating 60 Years Of Islands On The Air 27. ARRL: Start Your Field Day Planning Today 28. ARRL: Club Grant Program To Return 29. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention -- Program and App Available 30. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test May 11, 2024 31. ARRL: Special Event W7G To Celebrate The 155th Anniversary Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike 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 you how to successfully weave amateur radio into your lifestyle * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and this week Bill completes his look back at the 2023 World of DX. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio History. Our amateur radio historian Will Rogers, K5WLR will be here with an expanded edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us in The Wayback Machine to the early days of radio to take a quick look at the technical writing of the time, and a comprehensive look at Spark. What was it? And how did it work? ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1312 - Full Version Release Date: April 20, 2024 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, Don Hulcik, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1312 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. NEWS: Famous Pittsburgh Inventor (You Probably Haven’t Heard Of) Celebrates 150th Birthday 2. AMSAT: NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return From International Space Station 3. AMSAT: New NASA Strategy Envisions Sustainable Future For Space Operations 4. AMSAT: Trash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: What Is The State Of Broadcast Radio In The United States Today? 7. BOSTON: Going The Extra Mile - Amateur Radio Connects all 26.2 Miles Of The Boston Marathon 8. ARRL: New England QSO Party — 2024 9. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 Messe Friedrichshafen - Celebrating 60 Years Of Islands On The Air 10. ARRL: Start Your Field Day Planning Today 11. ARRL: Club Grant Program To Return 12. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention -- Program and App Available 13. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test May 11, 2024 14. ARRL: Special Event W7G To Celebrate The 155th Anniversary Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike 15. ARRL: Students In Marietta, Georgia, Hold An Amateur Radio Contact With The International Space Station 16. Bouvet Dxpedition Is Reassessed And Put On Hold 17. Silent Keys: Elpidio "Pete" Cobian, N6VJD, and Larry Staples, WØAIB 18. Oregon Amateur Radio Simulated Crisis Draws A Large Response 19. The Courage Handi-Ham Systems Celebrates 57 Years 20. SOS Radio Week Coming Up 21. ARRL Contest Sheet and Upcoming Convention Listings 22. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With 2024 Hamvention AMSAT Booth 23. WIA: Belgium Proposes Restriction To The 23 Centimeter Band 24. ARRL: Amateur Radio Saves Family In Death Valley National Park 25. ARRL: Active Hurricane Season Predicted For 2024 26. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology Applications Due Before May 1st 27. ARRL: Recipients Of The 2023 Cass Awards Have Been Announced 28. Hytera Radios Banned From Sales In The United States 29. NASA Locates Faulty Memory Chip That Is Garbling Voyager's Data Transmissions 30. Violent Windstorm Takes Down West Virginia Broadcast Towers 31. Spanish Amateurs Receive Privileges On The 8 Meter Band (40mHz) 32. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet At Hamvention To Be Held Friday May 17th 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 that RF is all around us. And how to start your own station's frequency survey. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. Expanded Edition * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to 1977 when the FCC was backlogged with over 500,000 11 meter license applications per month. And when in print, it was charged that the Commission was staffed by Ham Radio Henchmen who conspired with the the then 300,000 hams to keep nine million 11 meter operators from acquiring expanded frequencies. * SPECIAL FEATURE: The microphone world has never been quite the same since the late Bob Heil, K9EID discovered what was missing in modern-day mics, putting the audio world on it virtual ear decades ago. We will here from Bob as he wraps up his three part talk he entitled Facts About Microphones. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1311 - Full Version Release Date: April 13, 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:58:13 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1311 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With 2024 Hamvention AMSAT Booth 2. AMSAT: ESA Unveils Proba-3 Mission: Artificial Solar Eclipses On Demand 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Belgium Proposes Restriction To The 23 Centimeter Band 5. ARRL: Ham Radio Active During Eclipse - An Overview 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Saves Family In Death Valley National Park 7. ARRL: Active Hurricane Season Predicted For 2024 8. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology Applications Due Before May 1st 9. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day 2024 Coming Up April 18th 10. ARRL: Courage Kenny Handiham Program To Celebrate Its 57th Anniversary 11. ARRL: Nashua Area Radio Society Will Be Holding An Online Ham Bootcamp 12. ARRL: Recipients Of The 2023 Cass Awards Have Been Announced 13. Hytera Radios Banned From Sales In The United State 14. NASA Locates Faulty Memory Chip That Is Garbling Voyagers Data Transmissions 15. GNU Radio Conference Is Seeking Presenters 16. Violent Windstorm Takes Down West Virginia Broadcast Towers 17. Omik Scholarship Fund Appication Deadline Approaching 18. Researchers Develop Three Dimensional Filters For Wireless 19. Spanish Amateurs Receive Privileges On The 8 Meter Band (40mHz) 20. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet At Hamvention To Be Held Friday May 17th 21. ARRL Upcoming Contest Sheet and Convention Listing 22. FCC: FCC’s Pirate Hunt Leads Field Agents To New York’s Hudson Valley 23. FCC: FCC Set To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules This Month 24. ARDC: M17 Announces New Open Source Hardware For Amateur Radio Enthusiasts 25. ARRL: Register Now For The 2024 ARRL Youth Rally 26. ARRL: ARRL Seeking Applicants For Assistant Education and Learning Manager 27. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Poster Released 28. ARRL: ARRL Resumes Accepting Life Membership Applications 29. Baltimore Bridge Disaster Puts Local Amateurs On Alert 30. The Importance Of Amateur Radio Is Highlighted During Storm Related Network Outage 31. Candidates Prepare For Germany's New Amateur License 32. World's First Canadian Century Club Winner Is A New York Amateur 33. 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 be hear with a talk he entitled "It's all just text". * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill takes us on an adventure to look at the rarest of amateur radio atmospheric phenomenon...that would be Long Delayed Echoes. * SPECIAL FEATURE: The microphone world has never been quite the same since the late Bob Heil, K9EID discovered what was missing in modern-day mics, putting the audio world on it virtual ear decades ago. We will here from Bob in this part two of a three part talk he entitled Facts About Microphones. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1310 - Full Version Release Date: April 6, 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:36:08 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1310 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC’s Pirate Hunt Leads Field Agents To New York’s Hudson Valley 2. FCC: FCC Set To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules This Month 3. ARDC: M17 Announces New Open Source Hardware For Amateur Radio Enthusiasts 4. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL Proposes Next Generation GEO/MEO Amateur Radio Payload 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. FCC: FCC Looks At cell phone Satellite Access To Satellites From Foreign Countries 7. WIA: Weird and Wonderful - A Martian Tale 8. ARRL: Ham Radio's Many Roles During The Solar Eclipse - PART ONE 9. ARRL: Ham Radio's Many Roles During The Solar Eclipse - PART TWO 10. ARRL: Register Now For The 2024 ARRL Youth Rally 11. ARRL: ARRL Seeking Applicants For Assistant Education and Learning Manager 12. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Poster Released 13. ARRL: ARRL Resumes Accepting Life Membership Applications 14. ARRL: The National Trail Amateur Radio Club Commemorates Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln 15. The Annual 13 Colonies Special Event Organizers Are Looking For Amateur Radio Volunteers 16. Baltimore Bridge Disaster Puts Local Amateurs On Alert 17. The Importance Of Amateur Radio Is Highlighted During Storm Related Network Outage 18. Candidates Prepare For Germany's New Amateur License 19. Voice Of America Museum Will Have Expanded Hours During HamVention 20. Expected Traffic Jams At Eclipse Epicenter Will Be Assisted By Amateurs 21. Northern California DX Foundation Funds Upcoming Jarvis Island DxPedition 22. World's First Canadian Century Club Winner Is A New York Amateur 23. New Jersey Amateurs Emergency Response Role Is Recognized 24. World Autism Awareness Day Special Event 25. ARRL Contest Sheet and Upcoming Conventions and HamFest 26. AMSAT: AMSAT-NA Prepares For HamVention 2024 27. WIA: New Zealand Amateurs Will Be Keeping Portions Of The 3.3 GigaHertz Band 28. FCC: FCC Pushes Back On SpaceX's Request For More StarLink Spectrum 29. ARRL: Amateur Radios Importance Is Highlighted At The National Hurricane Conference 30. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Is Coming Up On April 18th, 2024 31. Relabeling Of Parks On The Air Global Parks Is Complete. China Returns To Parks On The Air 32. Online Retailers Sale Of Illegal Jammers Make National Network News Plus these Special Features This Week: * Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Satellite Report with news on all the satellites in orbit. * Australia's own Onno Benschop VK6FLAB with Foundations of Amateur Radio asks if you are ready for a Global Party. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Will Rogers, K5WLR will be here with an extended look back in amateur radio history, with a special edition of 'A Century of Amateur Radio'. This week, Will takes The Wayback Machine back to look at the early editions of QST, with an article he calls, 'Humor, Poetry, and Rotten Rants'. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1309 - Full Version Release Date: March 30, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:44 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1309 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Prepares For Hamvention 2024 2. AMSAT: METEOR M2-4 Meteorology Satellite Readying For Operation 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: New Zealand Amateurs Keep Partial Access To 3.3 GigaHertz Band 5. WIA: YASME Foundation Presents Supporting Grants and Awards 6. FCC: FCC Pushes Back On SpaceX's Request For More Starlink Spectrum 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio's Importance Highlighted at National Hurricane Conference 8. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Is April 18th, 2024 9. ARRL: Reminder: Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024 10. ARRL: New Training Course Offered By The ARRL Puerto Rico Section 11. ARRL: Blind Operator, Tower Climber, and SE Repeater Association President Wade Hampton Jr. K4ITL, SK 12. Relabeling Of Parks On The Air Global Parks Is Complete, China Returns To POTA 13. Online Retailers Sale Of Illegal Jammers Make Network News 14. Simplex Operation Resilience Is Tested By Pennsylvania's Skywarn Team 15. Comet Hunting Amateur Is Honored By NASA's SunGrazer Program 16. Grant Program Expands Islands On The Air Program To More Locations 17. Adam Farson, VA7OJ/AB7OJ, HamVention 2022 Award Winner, SK 18. Weekend Workshop For Citizen Scientists Held By HamSci 19. Emmy Award Presented To The FCC Spectrum Auction Program 20. NASA: NASA to Launch Sounding Rockets Into Moon’s Shadow During Solar Eclipse 21. NASA: NASA Is Accepting Applications For Astronauts 22. Upcoming Contests and HamFest Convention Listing 23. FCC: FCC proposes framework to ease satellite to smartphone coverage from space 24. ARRL: FCC to require two factor authentication for CORES users 25. ARRL: Get ready for the upcoming 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - Part One 26. ARRL: Get ready for the upcoming 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - Part Two 27. Parks On The Air begins park prefix update 28. Last Low Power broadcast FM frequency allocation in San Francisco is assigned Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will be here to talk about keyboards. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will look at the question "What's With All That Lack Of Noise?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to August 15th, 1952 when the FCC confirmed the new temporary amateur radio service they entitled RACES, The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service. * The Facts About Microphones - Part One of a three-part interview conducted by Hap Holly, KC9RP with the late Bob Heil, K9EID, for the Classic RAIN Report. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1308 - Full Version Release Date: March 23, 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, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:45:10 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1308 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Starship Lifts Off On Third Test Flight 2. AMSAT: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Returns to Earth 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. FCC: FCC Proposes Framework To Ease Satellite-To-Smartphone Supplemental Coverage From Space 5. Stay Tuned — New Radio Station Coming To Wilmington Ohio 6. ARRL: FCC To Require Two-Factor Authentication For CORES Users 7. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - PART ONE 8. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - PART TWO 9. ARRL: International Marconi Day April 27th 2024 10. ARRL: The 2024 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Western Conference Will Be Held In Dallas, Texas 11. ARRL: The Third Annual Lewis and Clark Trail On The Air Event Is Coming Up June 1-16, 2024 12. Parks On The Air Begins Park Prefix Updates 13. Radio Network Convention To Be Hosted By Radio Society of Sri Lanka 14. HAREC License Examinations To Be Offered By The Irish Radio Transmitters Society 15. FCC Action Adopts Rules For Cellular CONUS Satellite Coverage / Questions Security Threats Via Satellite 16. Last Low Power Broadcast FM Frequency In San Francisco Is Assigned 17. Upcoming DxPedition Will Also Be A Mock Disaster Drill 18. Celebrated QRP'er Dieter Gentzow, W8DIZ - SK 19. Germany's Amateur Radio Regulations Celebrate 75th Year 20. Upcoming ARRL Contest and Convention Listing 21. IARU/RAC: World Amateur Radio Day theme is announced 22. ARRL: Amateur Radio stands ready to support eclipse operations 23. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Theme is announced: "Be Radio Active" 24. ARRL: Dayton HamVention Award Winners are announced 25. DARC: New N Class license holders in Germany will receive DN9 callsigns 26. Space Junk from the ISS re-enters Earth's atmosphere without a problem 27. Orlando HamCation sets new attendance record 28. FCC: FCC has finally decreed that 25/3 is not broadband speed anymore Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about old computers in his studio, he will answer the question, "Are Solid State Drives Reliable?", and asks if your new smart TV is spying on you. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, talks about "The Skyhook Dilemma". * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with a long lost Ancient Amateur Archive segment that travels back to the Cold War era, and takes a look at the old Emergency Notification System known as CONELRAD. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1307 - Full Version Release Date: March 16, 2024 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:42:41 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1307 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. SPACEX: SpaceX Transporter 10 Successfully Launches Over Fifty Satellites 2. AMSAT: Vostochny Spaceport Sends Meteor-M2-4 Weather Satellite Into Orbit 3. AMSAT: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launches To International Space Station 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. FCC: Two US Politicians Propose Legislation To Restore FCC Spectrum Auctions 6. FCC: FCC Clears SpaceX To Use E-Band For Starlink Capacity Improvements 7. IARU: World Amateur Radio Day Theme Announced By The International Amateur Radio Union 8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Stands Ready To Support Eclipse Operations 9. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Theme: Be 'Radio Active' 10. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2024 Award Winners Are Announced 11. ARRL: The 2024 Baker to Vegas Race Is Set To Run On March 23 and 24 12. New N Class License Holders In Germany Will Receive DN9 Callsigns 13. New Small Satellite Has Amateur Radio Aboard 14. Space Junk From The ISS Re-Enters Earth's Atmosphere Without A Problem 15. Landlords Are Charged By The FCC For Supporting Radio Piracy 16. YASME Foundation Grants and Awards Are Presented 17. Islands On The Air Chaser Honor Roll Is Published 18. 2009 Dayton Hamvention Amateur Of The Year Danny Hampton, SK 19. Orlando HamCation Sets New Attendance Record 20. Hams In Halifax North Carolina Resolve Upcoming Special Event Station 21. Canadian Amateur Radio Club Will Hold Unique Special Event Station 22. Upcoming Conventions and select Contests from the ARRL Contest Calendar 23. ARRL: FCC Announces Job Opportunities For Recent Engineering Graduates 24. ARRL: National Council Of Volunteer Examiners Removes One General Class Question 25. Australia's new amateur licensing system expands overseas hams privileges 26. Luxembourg adds a new class of license for entry level operators 27. Islands On The Air celebrate its 60th anniversary with the theme of Friedrichshafen 28. Amateur Radio Digital Communications sets April 1st deadline for grant applications 29. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about how you can stay safe online when using free open wifi connections. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about "Technology At Its Finest" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1915 for an amateur radio journey entitled "A Patriotic and Dignified Effort". ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1306 - Full Version Release Date: March 9, 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, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:14 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1306 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. The man who defined the sound of live rock 'n' roll music and brought audio engineering principles into mainstream amateur radio use, Doctor Bob Heil, K9EID, has passed away at the age of 83. We will have the details 2. AMSAT: ARISS 40th Anniversary Celebration Held at Kennedy Space Center 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. NASA: NASA Has Opened The Call For A Simulated Yearlong Mars Mission 5. ICASA: From The Land Of The Free To The Land Of The Fees 6. WIA: New Zealand Launches A Demonstration Satellite To Clean Up Space Junk 7. FCC: The FCC Puts More East Coast Broadcast Pirates In Its Sights 8. IARU: World Amateur Radio Day Coming Up 9. ARRL: FCC Job Opportunity For Recent Engineering Graduates 10. ARRL: Solar Eclipse Is One Month Away, Get Involved Now 11. ARRL: Bob Vallio, W6RGG, Named ARRL Honorary Vice President 12. ARRL: Pi Day Is On The Menu For Amateur Radio On March 14, 2024 13. ARRL: National Council of Volunteer Examiners Remove One General Class Question 14. Transfering Wireless Power Via Infrared 15. Australia's New Amateur Licensing System Expands Overseas Hams Privileges 16. Amateurs Assist By Getting Medicine To Rail Passenger 17. Luxembourg Adds A New Class Of License For Entry Level Operators 18. IOTA/Islands On The Air 60th Anniversary Selects Friedrichshafen Theme 19. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Sets April First Deadline For Grant Applications 20. Helicopter On MARS Is Retired By NASA 21. Amateurs Needed Worldwide For Autism Awareness Week Special Event 22. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report 23. Upcoming Contests and Conventions From The League 24. FCC: FCC approves 6 gigahertz wifi management system 25. ARRL: Preparation underway across the US for the spring severe weather season 26. NASA: US Lunar Lander is functioning despite landing issues 27. FCC: FCC Honors program is seeking engineering applicants 28. FCC: A Cybercriminal Group Built A Duplicate Webpage Used By FCC Employees To Validate Credentials Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, tells us that millenials have discovered what they are calling a TV hack, a fantastic new discovery...free TV..Over The Air...and talks about new viruses circulating on the net. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about "The Art Of Finding An Operating Location, and spontaneously going out in the field to make some noise." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, we board The Wayback Machine for a trip back to 1962 when the hot words in amateur radio circles was "OSCAR" and TELSTAR. An it was the year that the FCC first proposed licensing fees. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1305 - Full Version Release Date: March 2, 2024 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:39:56 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1305 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. Amateur Radio and Audio Innovator Bob Heil, K9EID, SK 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. FCC: FCC Moves To Add 13 New Languages To Emergency Alert System On Radio 4. ARRL: HAARP Needs Ham Help 5. ARRL: Preparation Underway For Severe Spring Weather 6. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League Celebrates International Women's Day With Special Event 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Celebrate Launch Of USS Midway 8. ARRL: HamSci First Festival of Eclipse Ionospheric Science Event Results Announced 9. FCC: FCC Chair Announces Missing and Endangered Persons Alert Code To Emergency Alert System 10. US Lunar Lander Is Functioning Despite Landing Issues 11. Amateur Radio on the ISS Celebrates 40 Years Of Ham Radio In Space 12. Indian Island DxPedition Draws Attention To Cyclone Caused Problems 13. AMSAT Announces FunCube Will Be Silent Though Mid-March 14. FCC Honors Program Is Seeking Engineering Applicants 15. Older Starlink Satellites Are Scheduled For De-orbiting 16. Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum Station Back On The Air 17. FCC: FCC Approves 6 GigaHertz Wi-Fi Management Systems 18. Upcoming ARRL Conventions and HamFest Listing 19. RAC: Potential exists for Canada To Ban SDR devices 20. ARRL: Amateur radio operators needed for help with the upcoming solar eclipse project 21. ARRL: Winter Section Manager election results announced 22. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day theme is chosen 23. New amateur radio regulations go into effect in Australia 24. New amateur radio regulations go into effect in the United Kingdom Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about new FCC regulations to keep robo-calls off your cellphone, and that the FCC has taken a positive step on net neutrality * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk amateur radio operators getting things done...or not. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us in The Wayback Machine to 1958 when the key word was satellites. And he will look at other actions taking place on the ham bands in the late 1950's. * RAIN Report, will present a talk given by the late Bob Heil, K9EID, who will talk about ham radio’s influence on his music and audio careers. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1304 - Full Version Release Date: February 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Mike LaFountain, KE2AWY, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:50:22 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1304 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: SpaceX Delays Crew-8 Astronaut Launch to Make Way for Private Moon Mission 2. AMSAT: Upcoming Rideshare Launch to Include Amateur Payloads 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. RAC: Potential for Canada to Ban SDR Devices 5. WIA: 100 New DAB+ Transmitters On The Air Across France 6. WIA: New Summits On The Air Group Is Growing For West Malaysian Hams 7. TECH: Anywhere There's A Camera, Now There Is A New Security Risk 8. ARRL: Line Up And Sign Up Club Activity To Generate Club Funds 9. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Needed For Help With Solar Eclipse Project 10. ARRL: Winter Season Section Manager Election Results 11. ARRL: Former Vice Director Of The ARRL Hudson Division, Bill Hudzik, W2UDT, Silent Key 12. ARRL: 105th Anniversary Of The American Legion To Be Celebrated With A Special Event Station 13. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Theme Is Chosen 14. Girl Scouts Contact The ISS / The ISS Digipeater Is Back On The Air 15. New Amateur Radio Regulations Are Now In Effect In The United Kingdom 16. FOLLOW UP: Lingering Questions Surround Missing Radio Tower 17. New Amateur Radio Regulations Now In Effect In Australia 18. VHF Repeater Abilities Tested During Indian DxPedition 19. Trained Skywarn Weather Spotters Needed For Upcoming Hurricane Season 20. ISS Crew 8 Astronauts Delayed By Launch Of Lunar Lander 21. Amateur Radio Software Award Honors The Innovative Spirit 22. Award Honors DX Century Club Elmers 23. Why Was The Eiffel Tower Kept? 24. SCI: Earth Has Received Power Beamed From A Satellite In Space For The First Time 25. ARRL: Senators Wicker & Blumenthal Introduce S.3690 To Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on AR 26. RAC: Barrie Crampton, VE3BSB, appointed to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 27. ARRL: Amateur Radio As An Educational Tool Represented To Policymakers In Washington DC 28. ARRL: Highlights From The 2024 Orlando HamCation 29. ARRL: Registration Deadline For The HamSCI Sixth Annual Workshop Is March 1st 30. ESA: European Space Agency Proposes New Ham Satellite Payload, Seeks Comments 31. ARRL: Amateur Antennas Would Be Protected Under Proposed New Law In South Carolina 32. Upcoming Conventions and Contest Announcement Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to talk about shared computing programs, and Internet Service Providers with data caps. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how to write to your countries regulator about beacon and repeater licenses. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us in The Wayback Machine to the mid and late 1940's to discuss what the post war amateur bands were like after the big frequency shuffle, and how amateurs learned about something called TVI, and a little invention called an amplifying crystal. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1303 - Full Version Release Date: February 17, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon. W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:03:56 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1303 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: GreenCube IO-117 Continues Operations Beyond Expected February 5th Passivation 2. AMSAT: JS1YMG: Decoding The First Moon Based Ham Radio Station’s Telemetry Signals 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. FCC: The FCC Bans Robocalls With AI Generated Voices 5. Earth Has Received Power Beamed From A Satellite In Space For The First Time 6. ARRL: Senators Wicker & Blumenthal Introduce S.3690 To Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on AR 7. RAC: Barrie Crampton, VE3BSB, appointed to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 8. ARRL: Amateur Radio As An Educational Tool Represented To Policymakers In Washington DC 9. ARRL: Highlights From The 2024 Orlando HamCation 10. ARRL: Veteran DXpedition Leader Bob Allphin, K4UEE, SK 11. ARRL: Registration Deadline For The HamSCI Sixth Annual Workshop Is March 1st 12. ARRL: Errata to the 2024 - 2028 Amateur Extra-Class Question Pool Released (Updated) 13. WIA: Hams In Australia Have New License Procedures Taking Effect 14. European Space Agency Proposes New Ham Satellite Payload, Seeks Comments 15. Amateur Antennas Would Be Protected Under Proposed New Law In South Carolina 16. DMR TGIF Founder EA7KDO, Mitch Savage, SK 17. L3 Harris Technologies Prototype Antenna System and Satellites Receive High Marks 18. Jose Jacob VU2JOS Receives Lifetime Award 19. Hawaii Amateurs To Develop Emergency Simplex Radio Net 20. First Responders In West Virginia Organize A New Ham Radio Club 21. FCC: FCC Moves To Add 13 New Languages To Emergency Alert System On Radio 22. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors Meets - Headquarters To Close on Presidents Day 23. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests 24. ARRL: Amateur Radio goes to high school in New York City 25. ARRL: George Washington's Birthday will be celebrated by three separate radio clubs 26. ARRL: The DX Mentor Recognition Program is announced 27. RSGB: Amateur radio license changes begin this month in the United Kingdom 28. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Program Report. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, takes a look at why you really don't need certain types of software on your computer. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, answers the question, "What is an Amateur Radio Emergency Response?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us in The Wayback Machine to December 7th, 1941 during World War Two when the FCC issued Order 87 which shuts down amateur radio in the US, and creates, WERS, the War Emergency Service. * RAIN: The Rain Report we will hear an interview with Alex Muzyka, the man and mind behind the his KQ2H 10 Meter FM repeater in the Catskill mountains of New York. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1302 - Full Version Release Date: February 10, 2024 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:26:24 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1302 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AO-92 Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere 2. AMSAT: Lunar Excursion Vehicle (LEV–1) Amateur Telemetry Received 3. WIA: New Indian Documentary Is A Collection Of Nostalgic Stories Of Radio Enthusiasts 4. Plan For Europe's Huge New Particle Collider Takes Shape 5. An Entire 200 Foot Tower Stolen From WJLX-AM Jasper Alabama 6. ARRL: California Storms: Amateur Radio Is Ready 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Goes To High School In New York City 8. ARRL: World Radio Day 2024 9. ARRL: George Washington's Birthday Will Be Celebrated By Three Amateur Radio Clubs 10. ARRL: Georgia Elementary School Contacts The International Space Station 11. ARRL: DX Mentor Recognition Program Is Announced 12. Developing Nations CubeSats Are Getting A Ride To Orbit 13. Amateur Radio License Changes Begin This Month In The United Kingdom 14. Contester Slavko Celarc, S57DX, A Silent Key 15. International YL Club Plans A Czech Contest Station 16. Pluto's Discovery Celebrated On The Amateur Bands 17. Silicon Valley Explores Its Amateur Radio Past 18. A Major Festival In North Bengal Supported By Amateurs 19. WIA: Amelia Earhart's Long Lost Plane Possibly Detected By Sonar 20. Upcoming Select Contests and Conventions 21. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring System Report 22. ARRL: The first amateur radio signal originating on the moon JS1YMG is on the air 23. ARRL: Heil Sound makes a large donation to the W1AW stations 24. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications 25. ARRL: Volunteer Examiner Coordinators issues an Errata to the 2024-2028 Amateur Extra Class Question Pool 26. FCC: FCC submits its annual report on illegal radio enforcement to Congress 27. DLARC: The DLARC announces that Ham Radio & More program is added to its digital library 28. RAC: Canada strengthens its use it or lose it spectrum policy Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT talks about how computers are getting better, but how keyboards are getting worse. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "What is the right mode for Emergency Communications?' * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, our amateur radio historian, will take the wayback machine to December of 1915 to take a look at the first edition of a little magazine called QST. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari 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) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1301 Release Date: February 3, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:01:00 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1301 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: New Portable Satellite Antenna Design is Perfect for Emergency Communications 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Why We Need Shortwave 2.0 4. FCC: FCC Is Giving Greater Privileges On 6 GigaHertz To Very Low Power Devices 5. FCC: FCC Updates Rules To Allow 70/80/90 Gigahertz Spectrum Bands For Ships and Aircraft 6. Morse Code Is Alive and Well at KPH 7. ARRL: The First Amateur Radio Station On The Moon, JS1YMG, Is Now Transmitting 8. ARRL: ARRL Midwest Division Convention, Winterfest 9. ARRL: Heil Sound Donates Equipment To W1AW 10. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications In February 11. ARRL: Winter Field Day A Success For Ohio Club 12. ARRL: Errata To The 2024 Thru 2028 Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Released 13. ARRL: 160th Anniversary Of The Sinking Of The USS Housatonic 14. FCC: FCC Submits Annual Report on Illegal Radio Enforcement 15. Winter Field Day Statistics Released 16. State QSO Club Challenge Is Launched 17. Two Are Arrested For Theft Of Copper From KITX Destroyed Radio Tower 18. DLARC Announces Ham Radio and More Program Joins The Digital Library Collection 19. DxPeditioners Present A Memorial For A Friend 20. West Malaysian Amateurs Start A New Summits On The Air Group 21. Amateur Radio Education Part Of Curriculum At Staten Island School 22. RAC: Canada Strengthens Its Use It Or Lose It Spectrum Policy 23. Upcoming Contests and National Convention Listing 24. ARRL Board Approves Free Membership For Students, New Vice President Elected, and more - Part One. 25. ARRL: ARRL January Board of Directors Meeting Actions (continued) Part Two 26. ARRL: ARRL January Board of Directors Meeting Actions (continued) Part Three 27. FCC: FCC To Host Webinar Showcasing An Overview Of The FCC Experimental Licensing Program 28. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Needed For The 2024 Running Of The Boston Marathon 29. IEEE: IEEE Article Credits Amateur Radio For The Current Wireless Revolution 30. FCC Will Add Vehicles and Personnel For Enforcement Of The PIRATE Radio Act In Several Major Markets Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will discuss when is it time to buy a new router, you should look at MESS Technology, and talks about the advantages of Network Attached Storage. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "What is a repeater or a beacon, really?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us back to June 4, 1940 when the FCC issued an order that hams could not make contacts off shore, and then In December issue another order that took the amateurs totally off the air. * RAIN/QSO TODAY: We will conclude our two part interview with Gordon West, WB6NOA, and how he began his amateur radio journey. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1300 Release Date: January 27, 2024 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Patrick Huba, N2WWW, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:06:05 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1300 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: All-Ham Axiom Crew Launched For Commercial Visit To The International Space Station 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: WRC-2023 Final Acts Document Signed 4. ARRL: ARRL Board Approves Free Membership For Students, New Vice Presidents Elected - PART ONE 5. ARRL: ARRL January Board Meeting Actions (Continued) - PART TWO 6. ARRL: ARRL January Board Meeting Actions (Continued) - PART THREE 7. FCC: Webinar Showcases Overview of FCC Experimental Licensing Program 8. DX: SouthWest Ohio DX Association DX Dinner Announced For Dayton HamVention 9. ARRL: YLISSB Celebrates 61 Years On the Air 10. ARRL: Doctor Philip Erickson, W1PJE, New Director Of MIT Haystack Observatory 11. ARRL: 75th Anniversary Of The US Being Gifted 40 and 8 Merci Train Boxcars 12. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Are Needed For The 2024 Boston Marathon 13. ARRL: Amateur Radio On The International Space Station News 14. IEEE Article Credits Amateur Radio For The Current Wireless Revolution 15. Amateurs Asked To Participate In ROTA - Racing On The Air 16. Humanitarian Effort In The Ukraine Is Assisted With Donations Of Radios For Communication 17. Youth Outreach To Be Performed By RSGB Volunteers In The UK 18. Creator Of Network Time Protocol Dave Mills, W3HCF - SK 19. Summits On The Air Chaser, KU4R, Bob Warden, SK 20. 8R7X DxPedition To Guyana Is A Go 21. AMSAT: AMSAT Responds To The Planned Decommissioning Of The IO-117 Satellite GreenCube 22. FCC: The FCC Will Add Vehicles and Personnel For Pirate Radio Enforcement 23. Ghostbusters Producers Worry About Cosplayers Using New Baofeng Radios In The New Movie 24. Upcoming Contests and Conventions Listing 25. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With Its Booth At The Upcoming 2024 Orlando HamCation 26. ARRL: ARRL Is Now Publisher Of Gordon West, WB6NOA License Manuals 27. ARRL: Mississippi Amateur Radio Club Makes Large Donation To The Mississippi Library System 28. ARRL: Radio Help Wanted: Must Like Geysers, Bison, and Helicopter Rides 29. ARRL: 30th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner Is Announced For Upcoming HamVention Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss why you should regulary back up your data. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about the New Arrangements For Amateur Radio In Australia. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, will sets The Wayback Machine to the early 1900's when amateur radio clubs were first getting organized. * Part One of an interview with Gordon West, WB6NOA as he relates for the first time, how he began his amateur radio career. Eric Guth 4Z1UG conducts this interview from 2019. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1299 Release Date: January 20, 2024 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Patrick Huba, N2WWW, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:39:44 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1299 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ARISS Announces NASA Astronaut Tony England WØORE As Speaker For 40th Celebration 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With AMSAT Booth At 2024 HamCation In Orlando Florida 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 4. WIA: World Radiosport Team Championship Receives YASME Foundation Grant 5. Winter Field Day Is Coming Up 6. ARRL: ARRL Is New Publisher Of Gordon West, WB6NOA 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Club Donation Helps Mississippi Library System 8. ARRL: Second Annual Georgia State Parks On The Air 2024 9. ARRL: Radio Help Wanted: Must Like Geysers, Bison, and Helicopter Rides 10. ARRL: 2024 Quartzfest Is This Week In Arizona 11. ARRL: 30th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner Is Announced 12. ARRL: Hams Will Be Able To Contact The USS Iowa During The Ships 81st Anniversary 13. StarLink Makes Text Messaging Via Satellite A Reality 14. Amateurs In Australia Facing New Class License Structuring 15. Copper Thieves Cut Down Oklahoma Broadcast Radio Tower 16. Three Astronauts Are Featured In ARISS Anniversary Conference 17. Workshop At HamSci Is Reviewing Annular Eclipse Data 18. Six Gigahertz Very Low Power Devices Are Coming On Line 19. Upcoming Contests and Convention Listing 20. QRZ - QRZ Is Hiring Looking For A Software Engineer 21. Congressman Bill Johnson Re-Introduces Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act 22. The 2024 CQ DX Marathon Is Up And Running 23. ARRL: 2024 Orlando HamCation Awards Are Announced 24. ARRL: ARRL Responds To FCC Proposals On Removing Symbol Rate Limits 25. Six Month Extension Is Granted For 160, 6, and 4 Meter Bands For German Amateurs Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, discusses a brand new fast and secure DNS service you can use, and the results of a new study on cell phone radiation. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how you can visualize 56 MegaHertz of Bandwidth. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill sets The Wayback Machine for September 1st, 1939 while the third radio telegraph conference is held in Cairo, Egypt. The United States fights to retain amateur radio allocations, but concedes that shortwave broadcasting will invade the amateur HF bands later in the year. * Interview with morse code historian, Lewis Coe, W9CN/SK, Morse Code certainly left its mark on the American frontier even before the Civil War. Though the FCC dropped Morse code from the entry level Amateur Radio exam in the early 1990s, American history was forever changed by dits and dots. Courtesy of The Rain Report. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1298 Release Date: January 13, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Patrick Huba. N2WWW, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael LaMountain, KE2AWY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:44:43 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR-1298 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. QRZ - QRZ Is Hiring Looking For A Software Engineer 2. WBCQ Relies On High-Power Shortwave Antenna 3. WIA: Turkey's First Astronaut Will Communicate with the National Call Sign 4. Congressman Bill Johnson Re-Introduces Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act 5. FCC: FCC Appears Ready To Mandate Disaster Information Reporting System Reporting By Radio Stations 6. The Lost Cosmonauts Of The USSR. Dramatic Transmissions Picked Up From Outer Space 7. The 2024 CQ DX Marathon Is Up And Running 8. ARRL: Marty on the Mountain Engstrom, N1ARY (SK) 9. ARRL: ARRL Responds To FCC Proposals On Removing Symbol Rate Limits 10. ARRL: 2024 Orlando HamCation Awards Are Announced 11. ARRL: ARRL Kids Day A Success In Nebraska 12. ARRL: Winter Field Day 2024 Is Coming Up 13. ARRL: ARISS Is Seeking Educational and Other Organizations To Host ISS Contacts 14. Teen Amateurs Score A Direct Contact With The International Space Station 15. Six Month Extension Is Granted For 160, 6, and 4 Meter Bands For German Amateurs 16. Tom Molyneaux Jr, KE3GK, From East Coast Reflectors, SK 17. Earth-Moon-Earth Conference Is Searching For Presentations 18. ARDC: Ham Radio Village In Colorado Receives Grant For STEM and STEAM Outreach 19. Amateurs Provide Communications And More At Religious Pilgrimage In India 20. Starlink To Enable Experimental Texting Via Space 21. Westchester Emergency Communications Association Hosting General and Extra Classes Online 22. FCC: FCC Set To Wind Down The Affordable Connectivity Program 23. FCC: FCC Chair Asks Automakers About Plans To Secure Car Location Data 24. Upcoming Contests and Conventions 25. ARRL: Teenage amateurs appear on NBC's Today Show During Contact With The Space Station 26. ARRL: HamSci 2024 Workshop is coming up soon 27. Expanded frequency use worldwide expands to include Mobile Base Stations 28. Free online seminars for extra class is offered by The Electronics Museum 29. FCC: FCC opens 2024 hunting in the New York City hotbed of broadcast radio pirates 30. Latest edition of the Volunteer Monitoring Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, says that the FBI wants you to reboot your router...now! * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present a talk on The Art of Operating QRP. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to March 4th, 1929, to talk about life during The Great Depression and the frivolous hobby of amateur radio. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1297 Release Date: January 6, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Patrick Huba, N2WWW, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:47:47 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1297 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 2. Christmas Drop Operations From Guam Not The North Pole 3. QRP Satellite Now In Orbit 4. ARRL: Teenage Hams On NBC's TODAY Show 5. ARRL: HamSCI 2024 Workshop Upcoming 6. ARRL: ARISS Announces The Schools And Organizations Selected For Contacts With The ISS Crew 7. ARRL: YouTube Telethon Raises Money For Leagues Teachers Institute 8. ARRL: Radio Luxembourg Celebrated 90th Anniversary 9. Expanded Frequency Use Worldwide Expands To Include Mobile Base Stations 10. Free Online Seminars For Extra Class Is Offered By Electronics Museum 11. Sri Lankan Amateurs Recall Help Provided During Tsunami Disaster 12. Conference In India Welcomed Satellite Enthusiasts 13. Vintage Equipment From KW Electronics Is Celebrated On The Bands 14. Veteran Broadcaster Charles Edward Rich, W8GCW, SK 15. FCC Opens 2024 Hunting Pirate Broadcasters In New York City 16. ARRL Kids Day is coming up. The specifications for Kids Day. 17. Upcoming Contests and ARRL Conventions and HamFests 18. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Program Report 19. Inside The Magic Radio Protecting Russian Drones From Jamming 20. ARRL: ARRL's Year Of The Volunteer Declared A Success 21. KPH To Broadcast an Over The Air Cryptographic Challenge 22. Publication Is Suspended At CQ Magazine 23. Year Long Ten Meter Challenge Is Set For SOTA Activators 24. Eastern New York Section News - Office Changes for 2024 Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to explain domain names and how the Domain Name System works. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about how to Find The Right Frequency - How allocations differ around the world. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our new amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR returns with the third edition of our new history series entitled, A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will sets The Wayback Machine to the early 1900's and how the very first radio regulations were put in place, and ended the era of free range hams. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1296 Release Date: December 30, 2023 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael LaMountain, KE2AWY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:42 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1296 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC To Reinstate Council Tasked With Studying AI’s Impact On Communications Networks 2. Inside The Magic Radio Protecting Russian Drones From Jamming 3. AMSAT: ClarkSat-1 Deployed From The International Space Station 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. ARRL: ARRL's Year of the Volunteers Success 6. ARRL: ARRL Straight Key Night 2024 7. KPH Over the Air Cryptographic Challenge 8. FCC Approves Ownership of U.S. Station by Canadian Broadcasters 9. Publication Is Suspended At CQ Magazine 10. Advisor For HamSci Appointed Director Of Haystack Observatory 11. DxPedition To Peter One Island Is In The Planning Stages 12. National Kids' Day On The Air Is Coming Up 13. QuartzFest Comes Alive In The Arizona Desert 14. Year Long Ten Meter Challenge Is Set For SOTA Activators 15. Amateurs In France Prepare To Honor Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe 16. Conference To Celebrate Forty Years Of Amateur Radio Aboard The ISS 17. Grimeton SAQ Christmas Message Retrospective 18. ARRL: Changes In The Eastern New York Staff For 2024 announced 19. ARRL: World Radiocommunication Conference 23 concludes with wins for amateur radio and agenda items for '27 20. WRC: Low Earth Orbit satellite transmit power battle drags on after WRC-23 concludes 21. ARRL: The Intrepid DX group has announced the winners of their 2023 Dream Rig Essay Contest 22. RW: Amateur radio operators hel restore LPFM KYNO back on the ait after tower collapse and lightning strike Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will be here to discuss wifi, and why its really bad to send or receive email attachments. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how its the little things in amateur radio that count the most. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill sets The Wayback Machine to May of 1970 and The Student Information Network, where amateur radio on college campuses was used to organize anti-war news and protests. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1295 * * EXPANDED ANNUAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL EDITION * * Release Date: December 23, 2023 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Michael Lamontain, KE2AWY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:36:21 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1295 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: HADES-D Satellite: Successful Telecommand Response and FM Repeater Tests Ongoing 2. AMSAT: How the 18th Space Defense Squadron Averts Catastrophe at 17,000 Miles Per Hour 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL: WRC-23 Concludes With Wins For Amateur Radio and Agenda Items Designated For Next Two Events 5. WRC: Satellite Transmission Power Battle Drags On After WRC-23 Concludes 6. ARRL: ARRL's Year of the Volunteers Success Story 7. ARRL: Volunteers On The Air - Badges on the Air 8. ARRL: ARRL Straight Key Night 2024 9. ARRL: YouTube Telethon To Raise Money For ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology 10. ARRL: Status of CQ Magazine 11. ARRL: The Intrepid-DX Group Has Announced The Winners Of The 4th Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 12. Amateurs Help LPFM radio station KYNO Get Back On The Air 13. Ireland's First Satellite Receives Global Reception Reports 14. NASA Receives First Ultra-HD Cat Video Via Laser From Space 15. Campus Of A Technical School In India Becomes Fluent In Emergency Response 16. Upcoming Digital Conference In Utah Is In Need Of Presenters 17. Clubs Repeater Evolution Is Captured On New YouTube Video 18. Trip To Vanuatu Planned By DxPeditioners / Remote Operation Is Added To DxPedition To Bouvet Island 19. Daniel Lamoureux, VE2KA, Former President Of The Radio Amateurs of Canada, SK 20. You can make Christmas Contacts with Santa 21. USI Island Awards 22. Upcoming Conventions and Contests from the ARRL 23. AMSAT: A proposal is submitted to the ESA for a Geostationary Microwave amateur radio payload 24. OFCOM: Ofcom UK nabs an individual causing harmful interference on the amateur radio bands 25. ARRL: The ARRL National Convention is coming to the Dayton HamVention 2024 in Xenia 26. WIA: Class license format changes are coming to amateurs in Australia in 2024 27. OFCOM: Ofcom is proposing amateur radio licensing changes in 2024 for amateurs in the United Kingdom 28. A New Year long award program is launched by the US Islands Program 29. NASA: Voyager One is returning a mish-mash of 1's and 0's from space that has NASA baffled Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will be here to discuss slide rules, and securing your Internet Of Things, or 'IOT' devices.. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will address what he calls The Visibility Of Our Radio Community" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill has the Wayback Machine programmed for the mid-seventies as he returns for part two of his look at the FCC's proposed Dual Ladder Licensing Path, which eventually led to the Incentive Licensing that we have now. * HOLIDAY SPECIAL: As is our tradition during the holiday week, we will present a monologue by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS, as he talks about having a serious case of the radio bug when he was in high school, and how it affected his life. * HOLIDAY SPECIAL: A tribute to the late Orrin Brand with two of his popular segments, the first on a tongue-in-cheek look at hamfests, and his annual read of "A Hams Night Before Christmas" Courtesy of The Rain Report. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1294 Release Date: December 16, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael Lamontain, KE2AWY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:57:28 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1294 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. WRC-23: WRC-23 Days 11+12/Week 3: The Future Beckons 2. AMSAT: Proposal Submitted To The European Space Agency For Geostationary Microwave Amateur Payload 3. AMSAT: ARISS Celebrates 40th Anniversary Of Owen Gariott’s Landmark STS-9 Operation 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. Ofcom UK: Ofcom Nabs Individual Causing Harmful Interference On The Amateur Bands 6. WIA: Historic Transmitter In Sweden To Transmit Traditional Christmas Message 7. WRC-23: WRC-23 Reaches Acceptable Conclusion On 23 Centimeter Issue 8. NASA: NASA Receives Laser Beamed Message From 10 Million Miles Away 9. RW: Ham Radio Operators Give KNYO A Boost After Tower Collapse 10. QRZ: 12 Days Of Christmas On Air Special Event 11. ARRL: ARRL National Convention Coming To HamVention 2024 In Xenia 12. ARRL: Harborcreek Student Led ARISS Contact A Success 13. YOTA: Youth On The Air Summer Camp 2024 To Be Held In Americas 14. WIA: Class License Format To Begin On New Years In Australia 15. UK Ofcom: Ofcom Amateur Radio Licensing Changes Upcoming In 2024 For UK Amateurs 16. DLARC Has A Christmas Wish List And More 17. Have A World Radiosport Team Championship Organizer At Your Next Club Meeting 18. European Space Agency Looking At Possible Amateur Payload On An Upcoming Satellite 19. Australian Amateur Makes A New Online Study Guide Available 20. New Year Long Award Program Is Launched By US Islands Program 21. "A Hams Christmas" read by Bill Contineeli, W2XOY 22. Upcoming conventions, hamfests, and contest listing 23. ARRL: ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 million for the next generation of Amateur Radio - Part One 24. ARRL: ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 million for the next generation of Amateur Radio - Part Two 25. FCC: FCC Senators Markey, Blackburn send a letter to the FCC on the 12 gigahertz proceeding 26. NCVEC: New amateur extra class question pool is released to be become effective on July 01, 2024 27. ARRL: Bandwidth limits replace symbol rates on the HF bands, other bands now open for comment 28. New Willy Wonka movie celebrated by upcoming special event station W0NKA Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to talk about staying safe with the help of a VPN, and will discuss the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will take a look at Reporting On Radio Harmonic Power. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill programmed The Wayback Machine for 1974. In the first of two parts, Bill explains that 1974 was the year the FCC introduced its convoluted amateur radio restructuring plan. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1293 Release Date: December 9, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:41:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1293 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. WRC: Discussions On 40 Through 50 MegaHertz Radar Sounders Continues 2. WRC-23: Week 2 Update / Future Topics 3. FCC: FCC Modernizes Amateur Radio Service Rules 4. AMSAT CA: AMSAT Canada Officially Incorporated 5. ARRL: ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 Million For The Next Generation Of Amateur Radio - Part One 6. ARRL: ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 Million For The Next Generation Of Amateur Radio - Part Two 7. HamSCI: HamSCI Announces Initial Observations From October 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse 8. FCC: Senators Markey, Blackburn Send Letter To FCC On 12 GigaHertz Proceeding 9. ARRL: New Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Released Effective July 01, 2024 10. ARRL: Volunteers On The Air Red Badges On Air Event December 17th, 2023 11. ARRL: Bandwidth Limits Replace Symbol Rates On The HF Bands, Other Bands Open For Comment 12. WRC: (ARRL): International Amateur Radio Union and ARRL Attending WRC-23 In Dubai, UAE 13. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Grad Prepares Students For Ham Radio Contact With Astronaut 14. ARRL: New Book Celebrates 40 Years of Amateur Radio in Space 15. FCC: Radio Piracy Warnings Are Issued To Land Owners By The FCC 16. Free Download Of Irish HAREC Syllabus Is Now Available 17. New Willy Wonka Movie Celebrated By Special Event Station W0NKA 18. India's Cyclone Prone Island Region Gets New Amateur Radio Station 19. Upcoming ARRL Conventions and Contests of interest 20. AMSAT At WRC-23: ITU RA-23 Adopts Resolution For Space Spectrum 21. ARRL RF Safety Committee Develops New Guidelines To Communicate RF Exposure To Your Neighbors 22. ARRL: Summits On The Air Is Offering A 10 Meter Challenge During 2024 23. ARRL: National Council of Volunteer Examiners Question Pool Committee Has Removed 2 General Questions 24. New International Space Station Spotting App Is Released By NASA 25. Sweden's Alexandersson Alternator To Transmit A Christmas Message 26. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Program Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, agrees with Elon Musk, in that we should be very afraid of the upcoming Artificial Intelligence systems. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, asks 'what about promoting the hobby?' * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes The Wayback Machine back in time to take a look at the history of amateur radio repeaters, with Part Two of his special report. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1292 Release Date: December 2, 2023 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael Lamontain, KE2AWY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:04:35 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1292 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Happy 10th Birthday FUNcube-1 (AO-73) 2. AMSAT: SpaceX's Starship Flies Higher 3. AMSAT AT WRC-23: International Telecommunications Union RA-23 Adopts Resolution for Space Spectrum 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. NJIT: NJIT Scientists Uncover Aurora-Like Radio Emission Above a Sunspot 6. WRC-23: Day 6 (Monday November 27th) : 50 MHz and 23 Centimeter bands discussed 7. ARRL: ARRL RF Safety Committee Develops New Guidelines To Communicate RF Safety 8. ARRL: ARRL Advocacy Win: FCC Approves Request for Pearl Harbor Day Crossband Operations 9. ARRL: WX1AW Active For 2023 SKYWARN Recognition Day 10. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Has Removed Two General Class License Questions 11. ARRL: Summits On The Air Is Offering A 10 Meter Challenge In 2024 12. Nikola Tesla's Last Remaining Laboratory Is Destroyed By Fire 13. Amateurs In India Track Down Lifesaving Medicine For An Ill Child 14. SpaceX Has Told The FCC That StarLink Does Not Cause Radio Interference 15. Comment Period Still Open For Proposals For 2200 and 630 Meters 16. New ISS Spotting App Is Released By NASA 17. Sweden's Alexandersson Alternator To Transmit Christmas Message 18. Application Period For Youth On The Air Is Open 19. Amateurs and Broadcast Community Come Together For Australia's Technorama 20. Emergency Communications Radio Room named after Oregon SM David Kidd, KA7OZO 21. The December 2023 Volunteer Monitoring Report 22. Upcoming Contests and Convention listing from the ARRL 23. HACK: High altitude balloon to fly during upcoming solar eclipse - NASA recruiting ham citizen scientists 24. ARRL: Two Florida amateurs 100 miles apart, make contact via a ten meter FM repeater in Switzerland 25. ARRL: 2023 ARRL Fall Section Manager Election results are announced 26. University of Scranton's new amateur radio tower helps prepare new station for the upcoming eclipse 27. Well known amateur and Chicago broadcaster Orrin Brand, K9KEK, SK Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte W6TWT will take a look at dark fiber, and why he thinks bits should be free... * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, says we have failed to simulate. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill starts a series on the history of amateur radio repeaters. * Courtesy of The Rain Report, we'll travel back in time for a talk from Radio historian Scott Childers - W9CHI as he relates a short history of "The Big 89", in Chicago, WLS. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1291 Release Date: November 25, 2023 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Michael LaMontain, KE2AWY, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:01:22 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1291 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HACK: High Altitude Balloon To Fly During Solar Eclipse / NASA Recruiting Ham Citizen Science 2. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Proceedings Now Available 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches Ninth Rideshare Mission / Over 100 Satellites Deployed With Falcon 9 4. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA’s HADES-D Satellite Awaiting Deployment From ION Orbital Transfer Vehicle 5. AMSAT: ROM-3 Romanian High School Team’s Satellite Soars To Success In Latest SpaceX Launch 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: HD Radio Passes 100 Million Car Mark 8. ARRL: Florida Hams Make Contact 100 Miles Apart Via 10 Meter Repeater... In Switzerland. 9. ARRL: ARRL Announces The Results Of The 2023 ARRL Division Elections 10. ARRL: 2023 Fall Section Manager Election Results 11. ARRL: Giving Thanks In The Year Of The Volunteers 12. ARRL: Giving Tuesday: The Future Of Amateur Radio Needs You 13. ARRL: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Will Hold An Online Mini-Digital Communications Conference 14. University of Scranton New Amateur Radio Tower Helps Station Prepare For Upcoming Eclipse 15. Well Known Amateur And Chicago Broadcaster Orrin Brand, K9KEK, SK 16. West Bengal Amateurs Reunite Missing Father With His Family After 24 Years 17. Celebrating Growing Accessibility For Disabled Amateurs 18. The IEEE Says Radio Waves Can Diagnose Climate Issues 19. How About A QSO With The Winners Of The Krenkel Medal 20. Slovakian CubeSat Is Named After Businessman's Daughter..And It's Pink 21. World Radiocommunications Conference 2023 begins in Dubai 22. ARRL: Former Illinois Section Manager Tom Ciciora, KA9QPN, SK 23. ARRL: Clubs In Colorado To Host Santa On The Air 24. ARRL: ARRL hails FCC action to remove symbol rate restrictions 25. ARRL: The University of Scranton Amateur Radio Club, W3USR, gets a facelift 26. ARRL: The 16th annual santa net will be on the air between Thanksgiving and Christmas 27. U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration targets five bands for expanded spectrum use Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte W6TWT will take a look at dark fiber, and why he thinks bits should be free... * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, says we have failed to simulate. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill starts a series on the history of amateur radio repeaters. * Courtesy of The Rain Report, we'll travel back in time for a talk from Radio historian Scott Childers - W9CHI as he relates a short history of "The Big 89", in Chicago, WLS. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1290 Release Date: November 18, 2023 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, Mike LaMountain, KE2AWY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV,George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:53:22 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1290 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 2. WIA: Michigan Man Made Racist, Homophobic Slurs In Radio Transmissions To Coast Guard 3. WIA: ARRL DX Log Archive Now Online 4. WIA: Special Event Station To Honor Jagadish Chandra Bose 5. ARRL: ARRL Hails FCC Action To Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions 6. FCC: FCC Fines Three Pirate Radio Ops More Than $6 Million Dollars In Proposed Fines 7. ARRL: 2023 ARRL November Sweepstakes Continues 8. ARRL: The University of Scranton Amateur Radio Club, W3USR, Got A Facelift 9. ARRL: SKYWARN Recognition Day Is Ready to Go 10. ARRL: The 16th Annual Santa Net Will Be On Air Between Thanksgiving And Christmas 11. ARRL: News Shorts - Utah Club Supports Large Race - SETI Institute Granted $200 million From An Amateur 12. Veterans On Amateur Radio Honor Veterans 13. United States NTIA Targets Five Bands For Expanded Spectrum Use 14. Astronauts Drop A Bag Of Tools During Space Walk, It Becomes A Rogue Satellite 15. Influential YL Bharati Devapullavi Appears In New Movie With Her Radio 16. Wireless Institute of Australia Celebrates 90th Year In Print With Special Callsign 17. Eliminating Leap Seconds Is A Proposed Alternative At The Upcoming WRC-23 18. ARRL: ARRL Announces The Results Of The 2023 ARRL Division Elections 19. Upcoming Contests and Conventions 20. ARRL: Changes are announced in the ARRL Pacific Division 21. ARRL: The first Worked All States Certificate is awarded for the 33 centimeter band 22. ARRL: The FCC is hiring for its Maryland facility, ARRL is looking for a Senior Lab Engineer Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, says if you find that todays technology is hard for you to use, Leo explains that it is not your fault. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will have a few general antenna mounting tips for you to try. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, compares the same antenna in different locations and presents the results. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes the Wayback Machine back a few decades to take a look at the Technican Class Licensee and all the regulations they endured. * The RAIN Report, we present a flashback to FCC Special Enforcement Council, Riley Hollingsworth K4ZDH who was a household name and viewed by many as the man who brought some much-needed law and order to the U.S. Amateur Radio Service. This soft-spoken FCC bureaucrat brought a lot of respect back to the FCC that was missing during the 90’s. We will hear Riley’s first forum talk at the Dayton Hamvention in back in 1999. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1289 Release Date: November 11, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savacool, K2SAV, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Michael Lamontain, KE2AWY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:54:15 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1289 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Member And University Of Louisiana Apply For ELaNa Grant 2. AMSAT: Delfi-C3 – DO64 Deorbiting Soon 3. AMSAT: World Radiocommunication Conference To Consider Band Changes 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: HF Beacon CS3B iN Madeira Is Destroyed In A Wildfire 6. WIA: 26th International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 General Conference 7. FCC: FCC Commissioner Calls Biden Equity Plan For Internet Control Sweeping, And Unprecedented 8. FCC: FCC Adopts Improvements To Lifesaving Wireless Emergency Alerts System 9. ARRL: Changes Announced In The ARRL Pacific Section 10. ARRL: The First Worked All States Certificate Awarded For The 33 Centimeter Band 11. ARRL: FCC Hiring For Maryland Facility - ARRL Looking For Senior Lab Engineer 12. ARRL: Quarter Century Wireless Association Sponsoring The Third Annual W2MM Special Event Station 13. Launching A Crewed Space Flight Is In The Works For India 14. UK Bunkers On The Air Special Event Introduces An Advent Calendar Award 15. German Amateurs Have A New Way To Report Radio Frequency Interference 16. RSGB Foundation To Subsidize UK Entry Level License Exams 17. Bruce Kelley 1929 QSO Party Coming Up 18. UK Essex Activity Week Encourages CW Operation 19. Straight Key Contest Sponsored By The Straight Key Century Club 20. Upcoming Conventions and Contests 21. AMSAT: NASA uploads a software patch to extend the missions of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 22. BBC: The BBC World Service has launched a new medium wave service aimed at the people of Gaza 23. ARRL: The FCC extends the deadline to November 28, 2023 for comments on the proposed 60 meter changes 24. ARRL: The International Telecommunications Union will hold World Radiocommunication Conference this month 25. Radio Interference to radio astronomy is aledgely coming from the Starlink Satellite constellation 26. ARRL: November Volunteer Monitoring Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about why your wi-fi at 2.4 Gigahertz doesn't work like it used to, and that we should cancel that bi-annual time adjustment. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, returns to all things vertical this week and starts out with the basics by taking a look at climbing belts. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB will talk about reciprosity this week. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our new amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, will begin his new series entitled "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This first time out, Will takes The Wayback Machine all the way back to the late 1800's and early 1900's, to take a look at "The Beginings". The begining of spark, and the very first use of wireless by amateurs. * Rain HamCast: We will listen to a talk given at the Dayton HamVention by Bob Heil, K9EID talking about how it was ham radio that led his entire career in audio. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1288 Release Date: November 4, 2023 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, William Savocool, K2SAV, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:06:16 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1288 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ARISS Announces 40th Anniversary Conference At NASA Kennedy Space Center 2. AMSAT: NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft Receive Software Patch To Extend Their Mission 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: AI-Based Broadcast Radio Weather Service To Cover USA 5. WIA: World Wide Special Interest Groups Highlights Radio Amateur Young Timers - Youth On The Air 6. Himachal Pradesh Government Banks On Amateur Radio For Alternate Communication During Emergencies 7. RSGB: Amateur Exams To Shutdown Over Festive Season 8. FCC: FCC Grants Waiver For Connected Vehicle Spectrum Access 9. RSGB: Youngsters on the Air Month Is Coming Up 10. EVT: Edmund Fitzgerald Anniversary-Special Event Ham Radio Station At Dossin Museum 11. BBC: BBC World Service To Launch Emergency Shortwave Radio Service For Gaza 12. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Provide Post Hurricane Communications In Mexico 13. ARRL: Deadline Extended To November 28, 2023 For Sixty Meter Comments 14. ARRL: Veterans Day 2023 Special Event Stations Announced 15. ARRL: Great California ShakeOut Drill Reported A Success 16. ARRL: National Weather Service And NOAA Announce SkyWarn Recognition Day 17. ARRL: International Telecommunications Union To Hold World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 18. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Is Accepting Applications For Scholarships Through January 10, 2024 19. RFI To Radio Telescopes Linked To StarLink Satellites 20. Chicago Broadcast Legend Bill Crane, W9ZN - SK 21. Car Accident Victims In New Jersey Are Rescued By Repeater 22. Germany's First AM Radio Broadcast Is Honored As DARC Members Pay Tribute 23. FCC: FCC Seeks Input On Upgrading National Broadband Speeds 24. November Volunteer Monitoring Report 25. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests, and select contests 26. FCC to vote on removing symbol rate restrictions 27. Contacts with Russian amateurs on the six meter band is deemed legal 28. 80 years on the air is celebrated by the Woofferton Shortwave facility in the UK 29. Shortwave special event is being held by a shortwave station in Taiwan Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will take a look at why most people dislike logging into Captive Portals, and will discuss the rise of password vaults. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP, will conclude his special series on taking your amateur radio gear on a train trip across the country, with operating tips and more. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about noise a little more this week * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL and Tad Cook K7RA * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes the Wayback Machine across the decades to look at the history of the technician class license. * From RAIN, we will listen to Kent Peterson KC0DGY interview Roger Johnson N1RJ of Limington Maine. Roger was suffering from HF interference at his home. When he finally started to do some active direction finding in his neighborhood, he was quite surprised to discover the source of his interference. Roger had quite the story to tell. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1287 Release Date: October 28, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:24 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1287 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board Appoints Officers, Hears Reports 2. AMSAT: ESTCube-2 Fails To Deploy After Launch 3. AMSAT: Scientists Confirm Ancient Solar Storm 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: World Radio Conference 2023 Starts Next Month 6. WIA: Mysterious Radio Signals Coming From Space 7. FCC: FCC Seeks Alternative Delivery Options For Wireless Alerts 8. Lookout Mountain Wildfire Also Affected Ham Radio Operators; Fire Said To Be Contained 9. ARRL: FCC To Vote On Removing Symbol Rate Restrictions 10. ARRL: Speak Up For Your Spectrum: 60-Meter Band Comments Due To The FCC By October 30th, 2023 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio STEM Education Takes Center Stage At Pacificon 12. ARRL: $31k Raised For Education From ARRL Online Auction 13. ARRL: ARISS Is Planning Their 40th Anniversary Celebration Conference 14. QSO's With Russian Amateurs On The Six Meter Band Is Deemed Legal 15. Missouri Repeater System Receives Grant For Upgrades 16. YL's Throughout Australia Prepare For ALARA Meeting This November 17. 80 Years On The Air Is Celebrated By UK Shortwave Broadcast Site 18. Wisconsin Jamboree On The Air Weekend Earns Scout Merit Badges 19. Swedish Historic Station SAQ Transmitted On UN Day 20. Shortwave Event Is Being Held By Station In Taiwan 21. Ham Radio Boot Camp Is Coming Up 22. NASA: NASA announces the sun is in the process of losing (or reversing) its magnetic poles 23. ARDC is seeking volunteers to fill its committees for 2024 24. Gigaparts to open a 55,000 square foot super store in Huntsville, Alabama 25. ARRL: Amateurs show major concern about the Shortwave Modernization Proposal 26. FCC: October 2023 Volunteer Monitoring Program report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to discuss Moore's Law and its effect on tomorrows computer chips, and will ask exactly what is high tech? * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, puts aside his climbing gear and takes his amateur transceivers On The Rails as he talks about operating amateur radio while taking a cross country trip on a train. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, wants to talk about nise this week * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Anicent Amateur Archives, this week, this week, Bill takes The Wayback Machine back to April 5th, 1965 to the mid-sixties and takes a close-up look at Incentive Licensing. * Will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more.. * We will introduce you to John Brake who at an early age sold tools to HeathKit, one of which was the Nut Starter. So what happened to John Brake? And the little tool that could...and still does? John is currently CEO of Desko Industries in Chino, California. Hap Holly, KC9RP interviews John this week and gets all the details on the NutStarter. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1286 Release Date: October 21, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Height, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:09:40 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1286 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. The End Of The Long Dash: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/CBC Stops Broadcasting Official Time Signal 2. AMSAT: Estonia’s ESTCube-2 Digipeater In Orbit 3. NASA: NASA Announces Sun Is Losing Its Magnetic Poles 4. WIA: France Receives iPhone OS Updates Due To High Radiation Issue 5. WIA: Hams To Celebrate Military 75th Anniversary 6. The Arrival Of 5G Over The Air Broadcast Signals Is Secured - Over The Air To Your Phone 7. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeking Volunteers For 2024 Committees 8. FCC: FCC Pushes ‘Facts’ for Title II Net Neutrality Redux 9. FCC: FCC Confirms Record Breaking $2.3 Million Fine Against NYC Pirate Radio 10. GigaParts To Open 55,000 Square Foot Technology Superstore In Huntsville, Alabama 11. ARRL: HAMCHESS: Using Amateur Radio To Play Chess 12. ARRL: 2023 Chicago Marathon Supported By Amateur Radio 13. ARRL: A POTA/Parks On The Air Book For Park Activators And Hunters 14. ARRL: World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station, SAQ, Will Transmit A Peace Message 15. ARRL: United States Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) Will Be Celebrating 75 Years 16. Australian Public Broadcaster Marks 100 Years On The Air 17. Ham Radio University Announces Its Return To In Person Sessions 18. Amateurs Around The World Get On The Air For Solar Eclipse QSO Party 19. Amateurs Show Concern About Shortwave Proposal 20. Teletext in Ireland, Another Broadcasting Leftover Bites The Dust 21. Hurricane Watch Net Activates for Hurricanes Tammy and Norma 22. ARRL: Upcoming Contests, Conventions and Ham Fests 23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 24. ARRL: ARRL Urges Comments To The FCC On The Proposed Changes To The Sixty Meter Band 25. ARRL: JOTA/Jamboree On The Air Is October 20th Through October 22nd 26. ARRL: York County Amateur Radio Society Receives ARDC Project Grant 27. WRTC: World RadioSport Team Championship Announces Changes In Qualifying Criteria 28. ARRL: ARRL Launches The National Traffic System NewsLetter Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will take a close-up look at your modem and router settings * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard, KF9MP, puts aside his climbing gear and presents part two of his new series on taking amateur radio with you on a long trip onboard a train. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, tries to answer the question How Much Does Your Coax and Antenna Matter? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from K7RA and the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill sets the Wayback Machine for November 22, 1967, the date the FCC first presented Incentive Punishment...we mean Incentive Licensing. And how amateurs and the ham industry reacted to the proposal. * Courtesy of The RAIN HamCast, we will listen to a HamVention talk given by CBS Television Engineer Frosty Oden N6ENV on mountain top repeater operation and linking. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1285 Release Date: October 14, 2023 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:02:28 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1285 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 2. ARRL: ARRL Urges Comments to FCC On 60-Meter Band 3. ARRL: Local Amateur Community Rallies To Support Collegiate Club For QSO Party 4. ARRL: Jamboree On The Air Is On October 20th Through The 22nd, 2023 5. ARRL: 2023 ARRL Online Auction Is Ready To Go!!! 6. ARRL: Collegiate Amateur Radio Clubs Tune In To Chess Tournaments 7. ARRL: Radio Society of Great Britain Is Offering A Live Stream Of Their 2023 Convention 8. ARRL: York County Amateur Radio Society Receives ARDC Project Grant 9. ARRL: Allianz Partners Richmond Marathon Needs Experienced Amateur Radio Operators 10. Amateurs In India Help Transport People Stranded By Floods 11. Finding Missing Persons Is Top Issue For Israeli Amateurs 12. Amateurs Along A Historic Scenic Byway Have A Peak Experience 13. A Monster Hit With CW Ops - The Zombie Shuffle 14. DXpedition At Swains Island Is On The Air 15. World Radiosport Team Championship Announces Changes In Qualifying Criteria 16. HamSci conducting experiments this weekend during the solar eclipse 17. Upcoming contests, conventions and ham fest listings 18. WIA: Who Listens To The Radio? Countries Authorize DRM Broadcasting 19. ARRL: Comment Deadlines Set On Proposed 60 Meter Band Changes 20. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Applications For Grants In October 21. FCC: Turns Out The Government Can Fine You For Trashing Space 22. ARRL: ARRL Launches The NTS (National Traffic System) Monthly Newsletter 23. New Amateur At Age 10 Picks Up The Reigns Of A Weekly Two Meter Net 24. ARDC: Multimode Digital Voice Project Has A New Software Upgrade In The Works 25. FCC: FCC Issue Citations For Harmful Interference Traced to Surveillance Cameras Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, discusses a new type of GPS called "What Three Words", and talks about "Wear Leveling" on solid state memory devices.. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, puts aside his climbing gear and begins a new four part series on taking amateur radio on train trip, as Greg goes "On The Rails". * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will take a look at what he calls "Gadgets On Demand." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes The Wayback Machine to November 15th, 1945, the day amateurs in the US were waiting for. They were finally allowed back on the air as the military vacated the amateur bands. * Special Interview with Kay Savetz, K6KJN Curator at the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications, part of the Internet Archive, with Hap Holly, KC9RP from the Rain HamCast. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1284 Release Date: October 7, 2023 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, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, George, W2XBS and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:53:08 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1284 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Twiggs/Pugh Planning 30 ThinSat Launch For Schools 2. WIA: WRTC 2026 Becomes An RSGB Affiliated Special Interest Group 3. WIA: Who Listens To The Radio? Countries Authorize DRM Broadcasting 4. Air Force Seeks To Explore Terahertz Radio -- One Of The Last Frontiers In Military RF Communications 5. ARRL: Comment Deadlines Set On Proposed 60 Meter Band Changes 6. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Applications For Grants In October 7. FCC: FCC Remains Full With Carr and Starks Re-confirmations 8. FCC: Turns Out The Government Can Fine You For Trashing Space 9. ARRL: ARRL Launches The NTS (National Traffic System) Monthly Newsletter 10. ARRL: WestFest STEM Event Offers Hands On Experience 11. ARRL: Ham Radio Day At The Venice Public Library in Florida 12. World Wide Flora and Fauna Memorial Event Honors Serbian Ham Pioneer 13. New Amateur At Age 10 Picks Up The Reigns Of A Weekly Two Meter Net 14. 75th Anniversary Will Be Celebrated By US Military Radio Operators 15. Wisconsin Radio Club Successfully Restores Their Repeater 16. ARDC: Multimode Digital Voice Project Has A New Software Upgrade In The Works 17. ACMA: New Five Year Spectrum Forecast Is Released By Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) 18. FCC: FCC Issue Citations For Harmful Interference Traced to Surveillance Cameras 19. FCC: Current FCC Pitches Net Neutrality As A Public Safety Measure 20. Amateurs across the US prepare and execute the annual Simulated Emergency Test 21. Upcoming Contests, Conventions, and HamFests 22. ARRL: The Solar Eclipse QSO Party Seeks Amateurs and Radio Enthusiasts For Global Experiments 23. ARRL: Students are wanted to talk to astronauts onboard the International Space Station during 2024 24. ARRL: The Intrepid DX Group has announced their 4th annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 25. FCC: The FCC is looking to open the 6 Gigahertz band to Very Low Power (VLP) Devices Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk a little more about net neutrality, and how Elon Musk is very worried about Artificial Intelligence.. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss one of his favorite topics and that is How To Successfully Waterproof Coax Connections On Your Tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about "All The Power In The Observable Universe In Milliwatts" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The Ancient Amateur Archives - This week Bill concludes his in depth look at the VHF Frequency Allocation Battles of the mid-1940s, and how they resulted in the allocations we still enjoy today. * RAIN: In observance of the upcoming solar eclipses, we have an interview with Matt Hickman AF5FM, trustee of what is one of the first solar-powered UHF repeaters in Mississippi. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1283 Release Date: September 30, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:10:03 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1283 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT Symposium Keynote Speakers Announced 2. AMSAT: Russian Soyuz MS-24 Launches Crew To The International Space Station 3. AMSAT: Imperial College Develops Miniature Rocket Thruster For CubeSats 4. AMSAT: GOES-U Successfully Completes Environmental Testing For 2024 Launch 5. AMSAT: Sentinel-1 Satellite Reveals Shifts From Morocco Earthquake 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. RSGB: RSGB Board Director attempts Summits On The Air Challenge 8. FCC: FCC Announces Proposal to Bring Back Net Neutrality Rules 9. Radio Apocalypse: The BBC Radio Program That Could(n’t) Have Started World War III - The Waffle House Index 10. ARRL: Solar Eclipse QSO Party Seeks Amateurs and Radio Enthusiasts For Global Experiment 11. ARRL: Students Wanted: Talk To An Astronaut Via Amateur Radio In 2024 12. ARRL: Amplitude Modulation International (AMI) Jamboree Scheduled For November 13. ARRL: Intrepid-DX Group Has Announced Their 4th Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 14. ARRL: Reminder: FCC and FEMA Will Jointly Conduct A Nationwide Emergency Test On October 4th 15. International Conference of Amateurs To Be Hosted In Croatia 16. And Now, The Summits On The Air Eclipse 17. Rare Medical Condition Is Highlighted In Upcoming Special Event Station 18. Indian Epicenter Of Education Workshops Unite Amateurs 19. Tennessee Medical Reserve Corps Add Amateur Radio Skills 20. FCC: FCC Looking to Open 6 GigaHertz Band to Very Low Power Devices 21. ARRL: ARRL Issues A Reminder About The Upcoming SET/Simulated Emergency Test 22. ARRL: Upcoming Contests, Conventions and Ham Fests 23. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Needed for Marine Corps Marathon 24. TECH: WiFi-7 The Next Big Leap Or A Whole Lotta Nothing? 25. ARRL: ARRL Celebrates Fifty Years Of The ARRL Foundation 26. Emergency Radio Tower Is Proposed By An Amateur Radio Group In Maine Plus these Special Features This Week: * With net neutrality back in the news again, our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, explains just what exactly is net neutrality and why is it so important? * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, talks about tower safety and this week tells us how to avoid "The Sudden Stop". * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you the difference between Decibels and Milliwatts. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX in general, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine with the second part of what he calls the Great VHF Frequency Allocation Battle of The 1940's. * We will hear Part Two of a 1991 interview by RAINS Hap Holly, KC9RP, with Ed Juge, W5TOO former Marketing Director for Radio Shack, when the company introduced the HTX-202 hand held transceiver. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1282 Release Date: September 23, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:00:53 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1282 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Results of the 2023 AMSAT Board of Directors Election 2. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT Symposium Call for Papers 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Australia Post Releases New Centenary of Broadcasting Stamps 5. RSGB: Amateurs In The UK Prepare For A Month Of Activating Bunkers 6. WIA: Rewinding..The Smith Way 7. TECH: Wi-Fi 7: The Next Big Leap Or A Whole Lotta Nothing? 8. FCC: Radio Noise From Satellite Constellations Could Interfere With Astronomers 9. ARRL: Open Letter From The National Hurricane Center's WX4NHC Operators 10. ARRL: Celebrating 50 Years Of The ARRL Foundation 11. ARRL: Anna Gomez Confirmed As FCC Commissioner 12. ARRL: Fair Season In The Northeast Puts Ham Radio On Exhibition 13. ARRL: ARRL Was Represented At The 2023 National Championship Air Races and Air Show 14. Emergency Radio Tower Is Proposed By Amateurs In Maine 15. Emergency Radio Tower Is Proposed By Amateurs In Maine 16. RCA: Radio Club of America Honors Amateurs 17. Radio Campout Expands In Wisconsin 18. Amateurs In Missouri Add AED Defibrillators To Their Emergency Toolkits 19. Latvian Amateurs Celebrate The Mechanical Key 20. Come And Get Wyoming Special Event Station Is Up And Running 21. Upcoming Contest, Conventions and Hamfests 22. AMSAT: ARISS USA Team Names New Director of Education 23. AMSAT: Updated AMSAT Tri-Fold Hand Out Brochure Now Available 24. BIPT: Belgian Amateurs Gain Small Allocation On 40 Megahertz 25. DLARC: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Reaches 90,000 Items 26. ARRL: 2023 SET Exercise To Test Skills and Emergency Preparedness 27. ARRL: ARRL Has Announced That Certificates Are Now Available For New Club Level Awards 28. United States Military Is Eyeing The Possibility Of Using Wideband Above 100 GigaHertz 29. New Investors Are Interested In Purchasing HamTestOnLine Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will tell us how old operating systems allow malware on your system, and how millennials have discovered a new to them hack for television... * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will tell you how to have success with tower mounted electronics. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell the story of "Wet and Blue" Adventures with coax cable * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes the Wayback Machine all the way to the late 1940's for part one of what he calls The VHF Allocation Battle of the 1940's. Have you Playbills standing by... * Did you frequently shop at your local Radio Shack store in the 90s? In August, 1991 7,000 copies of the Fall Radio Shack catalog were mailed out with an ad on page 68 that drew the attention of ham radio enthusiasts worldwide. Here is a RAIN interview with Ed Juge, W5TOO, Former Director of Market Planning for Radio Shack talking about the legendary HTX-202 handheld transceiver. - Part One ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1281 Release Date: September 16, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:54:58 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1281 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: World Radio Conference 2023 Will Impact Amateur Satellite Service 2. AMSAT: ARISS USA Team Names New Director of Education 3. AMSAT: Updated AMSAT Tri-Fold Hand Out Brochure Now Available 4. BIPT: Belgian Amateurs Gain Small Allocation On 40 Megahertz 5. BBC: Radio Fans In The UK Launch Petition To Save BBC Longwave Service 6. WIA: Malaysia Airlines Missing Flight From 2014 May Have Been Found By WSPR 7. NZART: Celebrate Grandparents On The Air On The Grandparents Grandkids Amateur Radio Net 8. IOTA: Islands On The Air Establishes DXpedition Fund 9. FCC: Anna Gomez Confirmed As Fifth FCC Commissioner 10. DLARC: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Reaches 90,000 Items 11. ARRL: Hurricane Lee: Amateur Radio Service In State Of Readiness, Activations Planned 12. ARRL: 2023 SET Exercise To Test Skills and Emergency Preparedness 13. ARRL: Amateur Radio Serves In Large Utah Bike Race 14. ARRL: Changes Announced In The ARRL Louisiana Section 15. ARRL: ARRL Has Announced That Certificates Are Now Available For New Club Level Awards 16. ARRL: Steve Lang Will Become Head Of The U.S. Delegation To WRC-23 17. ARRL: 2023 Route 66 On the Air Special Event Is Up and Running 18. United States Military Is Eyeing The Possibility Of Using Wideband Above 100 GigaHertz 19. It Is Unclear If There Were Any Amateur Radio Deployments In The Moroccan and Libyan Disasters 20. The Planned Salvage Of The Titanic's Wireless Equipment Is Blocked By The US Government 21. New Investors Are Interested In Purchasing HamTestOnLine 22. New Experimental Low Pass Filter Makes Its London Debut 23. West Bengal Radio Club Reunites A Family After A Sixteen Year Absence 24. Radio Station In Germany Begins Full Time Artificial Intelligence Programming 25. Historic Town In Pennsylvania Celebrates Its 275th Birthday With A Special Event Station 26. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests 27. WOSH celebrates a birthday 28. RAC: September is Radio Amateurs of Canadas Straight Key Month 29. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 will hold its next general conference in November 30. ARRL: September is National Preparedness Month Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, reminisces about user groups, asks why do equipment manufacturers insist on ultra-bright LED's, and about his problems with drones. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News. * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will address climbing with and for other hams. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how how to check your attenuation numbers. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL. * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us back to the World Radio Conference of 1927 and looks at its effect on amateur radio. * The Rain Report we will listen to a talk by avid contester Mitch Stern/W1SJ, at the Dayton HamVention titled: "There is an art to cracking pile ups on the HF bands". ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1280 Release Date: September 9, 2023 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:52:18 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1280 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Astronaut Hams Complete ISS Crew Transition 2. AMSAT: Japan Scrubs Launch Of X-Ray Telescope and Moon Lander 3. AMSAT: India’s Lunar Lander Sparks Interest In The Moon 4. RAC: September Is Canadian Straight Key Month 5. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One Will Hold Its Next General Conference In November 6. ARRL: Dave Coons, WT8W, Former ARRL Great Lakes Division Director, SK 7. RAC: Call For Nominations for the RAC Amateur of the Year Award 8. ARRL: Changes in the ARRL Louisiana Section and Oregon Section 9. ARRL: USA Radio Orienteering Team Brings Home Silver and Bronze Medals 10. ARRL: North Carolina School Contacts the International Space Station 11. ARRL: September is National Preparedness Month 12. ARRL: Collins Amateur Radio Club Is Planning Special Event 13. ARRL: Deep Space Exploration Society Open House 14. NASA To Test Optical Laser Communications In Space 15. Amateurs Look Back At Lessons Learned During Hurricane Idalia 16. West Bengal Amateur Radio Club Raises Amateur Awareness Throughout India 17. Parks On The Air Activation Recalls Victims From Alabama Church Bombing 18. The Courage Handi-Ham Program Celebrates 56 Years Serving Amateurs With Disabilities 19. Amateurs Involved With the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Upgrade Licenses 20. FCC Is Looking For Members For Its Technology Advisory Council 21. Legacy Of Pirate Radio Station Radio Luxembourg Is Highlighted In Amateur Activation 22. Special Event Station To Highlight The Invictus Games 23. Upcoming Contests, Conventions and HamFests 24. New Jersey Section signs a Memorandum of Understanding with The American Red Cross 25. The new owners of Radio Shack are planning a new comeback utilizing and old strategy 26. Listeners to the BBC's Longwave service have a petition to keep the service on the air. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, says it's not your fault if you don't fully understand some of todays high technology. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will address lockout/tagout procedures if you have to climb a commercial tower to work on your repeater antenna. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will try an answer the question, how much attenuation is enough? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio: This week, Bill takes a look at callsigns throughout amateur radio history. * RAIN: A talk by David Knepper, W3SJ, publisher of the collins journal, on what to look for when purchasing and restoring old Collins gear.. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1279 Release Date: September 2, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:57:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1279 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Cast Your Vote: 2023 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Ending Soon 2. AMSAT: Chandrayaan-3 Makes Historic Soft Landing On Moon’s South Pole 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches Crew-7 Mission Aboard Crew Dragon Endurance 4. AMSAT: Teams Hack U.S. Air Force Satellite In Space Cybersecurity Contest 5. AMSAT: Progress MS-24 Cargo Ship Launched To The International Space Station 6. ARRL: Hurricane Idalia: FCC Approves ARRL Petition to Aid Emergency Communications 7. Two Men Held In Custody In Connection With Radio Stop Rail Incidents 8. NTIA: The Beautiful Complexity Of The United States Radio Spectrum 9. ARRL: Hurricane Idalia: Amateur Radio Serves Critical Functions 10. ARRL: ARRL New Jersey Sections Sign Agreement With American Red Cross 11. ARRL: Former ARRL Oregon Section Manager John Core, KX7YT, SK 12. ARRL: Changes To The ARRL Oregon Section 13. ARRL: Handiham Radio Club In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Will Operate A Day In The Park Special Event 14. RadioShack’s New Owner Plots Old Comeback Strategy 15. The Australian Communications and Media Authority Invites Amateur Comments On Proposed Licensing Changes 16. Pan-India Radio Convention Preparations Underway 17. Summits On The Air Activation In New Zealand Honors Memory Of SOTA Advocate 18. Two Missile Silos Are Connected By Amateur Radio 19. Petition To Save BBC Longwave Service Is Launched By Avid Listeners 20. Hams Are Going Back To School With The QSO Today Academy 21. National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Long Baseline Array Celebrates 30 Years 22. Upcoming contests, conventions and national hamfests 23. ARRL: W1AW celebrates its anniversary 24. FCC - FCC Announces Plan To Place US Cyber Trust Mark On All Approved Electronic Devices 25. ARRL - Candidates Named For The ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections 26. Arecibo Is Closing But Is Looking At Various Proposals To Keep The Facility Open For Research Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will discuss how young people, especially in the UK, are embracing the old vinyl analog technologies and setting up true, old fashion, stereo systems. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about replacing and maintaining the guy wires on your tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will discuss how he has begun to measure Spurious Emissions. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill travels from 1912 to the mid-twenties when the radio act of 1912 was hopelessly outdated, and the years of anarchy took over the AM broadcast band until Congress approved the new Radio Act of 1925 and created The Federal Radio Commission. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1278 Release Date: August 26, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:47:10 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1278 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: United States Authorities Warn SpaceX Among Companies Targeted by Espionage Efforts 2. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT Symposium Call for Papers 3. FCC: FCC Announces Plan To Place US Cyber Trust Mark On Devices 4. ARRL: Tropical Storm Hilary Hits The Southwestern US: Amateur Radio Activates 5. ARRL: Candidates Named For ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Responds To Disasters Across The United States 7. ARRL: Air Force and Marines Corps Marathons Need Amateur Radio Volunteers 8. ARRL: The World Association of Christian Radio Amateurs and Listeners Special Event 9. Parachute Mobile Ham Sets QSO Record, Unites Community 10. Emergency AM Radio Stations Set Up in Maui 11. India Successfully Lands On The Moon 12. Satellite Hacking Exercise Involves Amateur Radio Operators Won By The Hack-A-Roni Group From Italy 13. Abandon Pets Are Brought To The Forefront On Amateur Radio 14. Amateurs Prepare For The First World HEMA Day 15. Arecibo Is Closing But Is Looking At Various Proposals 16. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain Intruder Watch Service Volunteers Needed 17. AMSAT: SpaceX Crew 8 Mission To Include Three U.S. Radio Amateurs 18. WIA: Pakistan Building Massive Antenna To Launch Digital Radio Mondiale 19. FEMA: FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert System Test For Early October 20. FCC: The FCC Is Looking For Its Next Generation Of Attorneys 21. ARRL: The 2023 ARRL Simulated Emergency Test -- Emergency Preparedness Takes The Spotlight 22. ARRL: Iconic Ohio Electronics Surplus Store Fair Radio Sales To Close 23. FCC: Initiates Rulemaking About Commercial Spectrum Usage for AI and Other Purposes Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, reminisces about radio when he was a kid, and discusses what he calls the new iGeneration. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss what you should do when you perform your pre-winter tower and antenna inspections. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, looks at how he believes that hams should gather data rather than opinions. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us back to November 2, 1920 and the role radio station 2XB (later became KDKA) played in what many call the beginnings of the broadcast industry in the United States, and the role amateurs played because, at the time, it was legal for ham to broadcast ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1277 Release Date: August 19, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savacoll, K2SAV, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:18:12 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1277 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Devastating Hawaii Wildfires Prompt Response From Amateur Radio Emergency Service 2. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain Intruder Watch Service Volunteers Needed 3. AMSAT: AM1SAT Satellite Contest Coming Up In September 2023 4. AMSAT: SpaceX Crew 8 Mission To Include Three U.S. Radio Amateurs 5. AMSAT: Russia Reignites Its Moon Exploration Program, As Does India 6. WIA: Pakistan Building Massive Antenna To Launch Digital Radio Mondiale 7. WIA: Meta Begins Blocking News Content On Its Platforms In Canada 8. FEMA: FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert System Test For Early October 9. FCC: The FCC Is Looking For Its Next Generation Of Attorneys 10. FCC: FCC Urges Congress To Restore Spectrum Auction Power 11. ARRL: The 2023 ARRL Simulated Emergency Test -- Emergency Preparedness Takes The Spotlight 12. ARRL: STEM In Action: Youth On The Air Campers Contact The International Space Station 13. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operator Contacts NASA Spacecraft 14. ARRL: Iconic Ohio Electronics Surplus Store To Close 15. International Lighthouse And Lightship Weekend 16. Amateurs Are Needed For The Upcoming Solar Eclipse QSO Parties 17. Hams In The United Kingdom Tune Into A Meteor Beacon On CW 18. Liquid Metal Battery Ready To Appear On The Open Market 19. Indian Independence Day Is Marked By A Full Day Of Amateur Radio Operations 20. The Patron Saint Of Amateur Radio Remembered 21. New York and Texas amateurs to activate missile silos 22. Upcoming Contests, Conventions and Ham Fests 23. Maui communications status update from the FCC 24. FCC: FCC launches technical inquiry into using Artificial Intelligence and other state of the art tools 25. AMSAT: International Amateur Radio Union coordinates two digipeating satellites 26. FCC: FCC declines to extend the comment period on the Shortwave Modernization Part 90 proposal 27. NASA: NASA will fund five science experiments for the upcoming Great American Solar Eclipse 28. ARRL: New ARRL video will help members navigate digital magazines 29. IARU: The African Telecommunications Union and the IARU expand amateur radio use during emergencies 30. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors meeting minutes and the ARRL Annual Report are published Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will be here to discuss slide rules, and securing your I-O-T, or Internet of Things devices * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the best methods for supporting coax on long runs, and best way to haul the coax up the tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be jumping into the unknown this week. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us back to the end of World War One. When amateurs returned home they found all licenses had been cancelled and there were bills before Congress to remove amateurs from the bands. * Courtesy of The RAIN Hamcast interviewing Ben Kob, AK4AV - Part 2 of his talk with Hap Holly KC9RP concerning AM radio in cars and the upcoming LPFM filing window. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1276 Release Date: August 12, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:10:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1276 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Launches Technical Inquiry Into Using AI and Other Tools to Manage Spectrum 2. Would We Recognize Extraterrestrial Technology If We Saw It? 3. AMSAT: AMSAT At Huntsville Hamfest August 19-20, 2023 4. AMSAT: International Amateur Radio Union Coordinates Two Digipeating Satellites 5. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches Worlds Heaviest Communications Satellite 6. NASA: NASA Successfully Reestablishes Communications With Voyager 2 7. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One Interference Report 8. NRAO First Wave Completed 20 Weeks of Amateur Radio Learning Program for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Learners 9. FCC: FCC Declines Request to Extend Comment Period on Shortwave Modernization Petition 10. NASA: NASA Will Fund 5 Science Experiments For Great North American Solar Eclipse 11. ARRL: ARRL Video Helps Members Navigate Digital Magazines 12. ARRL: Looking For A New Job? The FCC Is Recruiting Field Agents 13. ARRL: National Sunflower Day Is August 15, 2023, The ARRL Kansas Section Will Be Hosting A Sunflower Net 14. ARRL: The New England Amateur Radio Festival, NEAR-Fest, Will Be Held On October 13 - 14, 2023 15. ARRL: The 3rd Annual Masonic Lodges On The Air (MLotA) 16. Former Director Of Engineering For Hubbard Communications and Long Time Radio Engineer Ron Kazda SK 17. SpaceX Rocket Tears A Hole In The Ionosphere Again 18. New Jersey Club Revives The QRP Club 19. Hurricane Watch Net Is Seeking Bilingual Control Operators 20. RSGB Hosts Amateur Television Now On Permanent Display At Bletchley Park 21. The African Telecommunications Union And The IARU Expand Amateur Radio Use During Emergencies 22. Spain's PocketQube Satellite Experiences Satellite Issues 23. AMSAT: US Air Force Research Laboratory presents its annual Hack-A-Satellite Competition 24. NEWS: Forging Taiwan's civil defense with amateur radio 25. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators have an opportunity to take part in a new HAARP experiment 26. ARRL: National Lighthouse Day 2023 and National Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend 27. Upcoming Conventions, HamFests and Contest Listing from the ARRL 28: ARRL: ARRL Latest Board Meeting Minutes and Annual Report have been published Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to talk about shared computing programs like SETI and Folding At Home, and he will look at why some Internet Service Providers utilize data caps * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss a few important climbing tips for beginner climbers. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will attempt to answer the question How Fast Is Morse? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill climbs aboard The Wayback Machine and takes us to the year 1912 to see what early amateur radio was like, and to witness the formation of The American Radio Relay League. * SPECIAL: The Rain Hamcast will present a special flashback, a talk entitled My Early Days as A Ham voiced by Dick Helton/W9CTY, for years a familiar voice on Chicago WBBM News Radio 78. This talk was delivered before the North Short Radio Club in Highland Park, Illinois. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1275 Release Date: August 5, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:57:25 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1275 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT-UK Colloquium Set For Weekend Of October 14th, 2023 2. AMSAT: CubeSat: Celebrating 20 Years Of Transforming Space Access 3. AMSAT: ARRL Releases LoTW Configuration 11.25 With LEDSAT Support 4. AMSAT: US Air Force Research Laboratory Present Annual Hack A Satellite Competition 5. NEWS: Forging Taiwan's Civil Defense With Amateur Radio 6. WIA: When Push Comes To Shove, RSGB Proposes Hybrid Sharing Of Frequencies. 7. FCC: FCC Chair Pitches Spectrum Rules for Commercial Space Launches 8. ARRL: Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society Commemorated 30 Years 9. ARRL: ARRL Files Comments Against Seriously Flawed HF Rules Petition 10. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Can Help With HAARP Experiment 11. ARRL: National Lighthouse Day 2023 and National Lighthouse-Lightship Weekend 12. ARRL: Route 66 On The Air Special Event On September 9 - 17, 2023 13. Ohio's Popular Fair Radio Sales Going Out Of Business 14. Amateurs Respond To Massive Mudslides In India 15. Famous Canadian Broadcaster Roy McFadyen, VE3YXY / VY1RM - SK 16. British Satellite Returns Home Via European Space Agency Guided Re-entry 17. Antenna Issues Plaque The Voyager 2 Spacecraft 18. DRM Radio Launches With A New Transmitter Project In Pakistan 19. New York City Police Have Announced Intent To Encrypt Its Radio Signals 20. ARRL: ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, Releases A Message To Members On ARRL Dues Increase 21. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One Reports On Interference On The 30 Meter Band 22. NEWS: QSO Today Virtual Ham Exposition Transforms Into The QSO Today Academy Coming In September 23. FCC: FCC wants a new faster online speed standard saying 25/3 is not fast enough anymore 24. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net is seeking bilingual or trilingual net control operators for this season 25. ARRL: San Max Patronal Celebration 2023 will take place for all of August 2023 26. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests and Contest listing. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, says that computers, screens and processors have all vastly improved over the decades with one important exception. Keyboards. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss Tower Vocabulary * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, is asking Will the real inventor of morse code, please stand up! * The DX Corner with our own DX Specialist, Bill Salyers, AJ8B who will tell us about the latest news on DXpeditions, contests, and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio, The Ancient Amateur Archives. This week, Bill will discuss the history behind, and introduce us to, the patron saint of amateur radio as we look back at the history of Sir Maximilian Kolbe. * We will feature a talk given at the Dayton HamVention by Mitch Stern, W1SJ, on proper repeater etiquette. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1274 Release Date: July 29, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Savacool, K2SAV, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:00 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1274 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Votes To Preserve Some FM6 Or Franken FM Services 2. ARRL: A Message From ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR - ARRL Raises Dues And Other Changes 3. AMSAT: EO-88 (Nayif-1) Reenters 4. AMSAT: Philippine Cubesats Maya-5 and Maya-6 Have Been Deployed 5. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One Reports 30 Meter Interference 6. QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Transforms into the QSO Today Academy 7. URE: URE Seeks Community Assistance With URESAT-1 8. SPACEX: Oops, We Made A Hole: SpaceX Falcon 9 Parties A Bit Too Hard, Punches Through Ionosphere! 9. FCC: FCC Wants A New On Line Speed Standard. 25 Mbps Down, 3 Mbps Up Isn’t Good Enough Anymore 10. ARRL: ARRL and NASA Team Up To Help Teachers 11. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Seeks Bilingual Net Control Operators 12. ARRL: The San Max Patronal Celebration 2023 Will Take Place On August 1 - 31 13. ARRL: New Jersey QRP Club Will Hold Their 12th Annual Skeeter Hunt On August 27, 2023 14. Repeat Activation On Rockall Is Canceled By Current Dangerous Conditions 15. Amateurs Call To Help Restore Flood Damaged Emilia-Romagna In Northern Italy 16. Indian Antarctic Expedition Is In Search For A Communications Radio Operator 17. Churches and Chapels On The Air Takes A Strong Foothold In The United States 18. You Can Now Take Flight As A CW Operating Radio Bumblebee 19. The Frontiers Of Flight Museums Moon Day Will Highlight Amateur Radio 20. Florida Summits On The Air Activation Pays A Special Tribute 21. FCC: FCC Pirate Radio Sweeps Turn to Miami 22. 2023 Field Day score filing reminder from league headquarters 23. Up coming Conventions and Contests of interest. 24. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Voting Is Now Underway 25. FCC: For The First Time, Free OTA TV To Be Delivered Via 5G Thanks To Testing Approval From The FCC 26. ARRL: ARRL CEO David Minster NA2AA Is Interviewed On A New W1DED YouTube Video 27. ARRL: FCC Posts New Job Openings For Field Engineers 28. RSGB: RSGN In The UK Produces A New Video Explaining Sweeping Changes To Amateur Radio 29. WIA: Amateurs In Australia Are In Store For A Few Upcoming Band Changes 30. A Popular Electronics Retailer In Southern California Is Posied To Close Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, says that if you suffer from bad internet, it just might be your router..He will cover how to fix the problem. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, takes a close up look at water-proofing coax connections. * The Shortwave Modernization Coalition has filed a petition with the FCC to advance the experimental service licensees (part five users) to the status of part 90 commercial users. For some answers and clarification we turned to Benn Kobb, AK4AV. Part One of the interview (Courtesy The Rain Report) * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will attepmt to answer the question, "Is Morse Really Built Around The Most Popular Letters In The English Language" * We will join Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner as he takes a close up look the world of DX, DXpeditions and upcoming contests. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Anicent Amateur Archives, this week, Bill continues his look at the very early days of radio taking us back to Monday April 15th, 1912, and the radio regulations that came out from the Titanic disaster. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1273 Release Date: July 22, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:45:13 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1273 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Voting Has Begun 2. AMSAT: Space Shuttle Remembered 3. AMSAT: Historical Space Tour Before Orlando Hamcation 4. AMSAT: ARISS-USA Seeks Director Of Education 5. Receiving Unintentional Voice Transmissions From GPS Satellites 6. Amateur Radio Helps Locate Two Missing Children In Southland New Zealand 7. FCC: For The First Time, Free Over-the-air TV Will Be Delivered By 5G Thanks to FCC Approval 8. IARU: Working Party 4C Has Difficulties Over 23 Centimeter Band, Other IARU News and Happenings 9. HACK: The Proliferation Of LED Wristbands At Concert Venues 10. ARRL: ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, Interviewed on W1DED in Maine YouTube Channel 11. FCC Recruiting Field Agents 12. ARRL UPDATE: Commercial Interests Petition FCC For High Power Allocation On Shortwave Spectrum 13. ARRL: Kansas Hams To Operate Net For National Sunflower Day 14. ARRL: Slow Scan TV Experiment With ARRL Planned For Amateur Radio On The International Space Station 15. ARRL: Amateur Radio Supports Oregon Disaster Airlift Response Team 16. ARRL: Summits On The Air 2023: North America 17. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Needed For A Real-World Experiment During Upcoming Solar Eclipse Events 18. RSGB In The United Kingdom Produces Video Explaining Sweeping Changes To Amateur Radio 19. Australian Amateurs In Store For Band Access Changes 20. India Successfully Launches Its Moon Lander 21. Computer Hacker Kevin Mitnick, N6NHG, SK 22. Popular Southern California Electronic Retailer Is Closing 23. UK Regulator Ofcom Seeks Comments On Hybrid Sharing Of Six Gigahertz Band 24. A World War Two Re-Enactment Drill Will Feature Amateur Radio Operators 25. FCC Set To Vote On Proposed Power Increase For Digital FM 26. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grant Allows Upgrade To Radio Museum Amateur Station 27. ARRL reminds amateurs about Field Day scoring submission deadline 28. Upcoming Contests and Convention Listing 29. A quick look at the upcoming HamGrab balloon launch 30. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT Space Symposium issues its first call for papers 31. ARRL: WRTC Coming to the United Kingdom in 2026 32. ARRL: Careers For Hams - The ARRL is hiring 33. FCC: FCC calls out more pirate radio operators and bad actors on the amateur bands 34. FCC: FCC proposes expansion of Short Range Radar operations Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter this week, Rich DeMuro, will introduce us to Meta's latest app that is taking the tech world by storm, Threads. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * The DX Corner for the latest news in the world of DX, DXpeditions, and contests with Bill Salyers, AJ8B. * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the safest ways to climb your tower, or a commercial tower at night. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about The Nature and Ownership of Information in the world of amateur radio. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from Tadd Cook, K7RA * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The Ancient Amateur Archives: this week, Bill wraps up his two part series with a lot more information on the history of amateur radio repeaters ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1272 Release Date: July 15, 2023 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, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlan, W3BOO, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:53:53 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1272 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT Space Symposium First Call for Papers 2. AMSAT: Ariane 5 Rockets Into Retirement: Europe’s Workhorse Completes Final Mission 3. AMSAT: CubeSats Deploy From ISS: Nanoracks Mission Advances Science and Education 4. AMSAT: ROSCOSMOS Successfully Deploys Forty Three Satellites In Latest Soyuz 2.1b Launch 5. WIA: Scientists Announce Discovery Of Cosmic Low Pitched Hum 6. WIA: Czech Radio Club Announces Youth On The Air Camp 7. ARRL: Commercial Interests Petition FCC For High Power Allocation On Shortwave Spectrum 8. ARRL: World Radiosport Team Championship Coming To The United Kingdom In 2026 9. ARRL: Careers for Hams: ARRL Is Now Hiring 10. ARRL: Teachers Gather For STEM Training At ARRL Headquarters 11. ARRL: 2023 YOTA Summer Camp Is Ready To Go! 12. ARRL: Dual Contests Make For Busy HF Weekend 13. ARRL: Kopernik Science Center Summer Camp Balloon Launch 14. ARRL: Bob Wertz, NF7E Receives ARRL DXCC Honors 15. Scouts Are On The Air For Their National Jamboree 16. Emissions From Satellite Constellations Are Confirmed In This Study 17. Well Known DX'er George Chliyants, UY5XE, Becomes A Silent Key 18. Prague Radio Camp Welcomes Very Young Into Amateur Radio 19. DXpeditioner To Rockall Is Rescued Successfully 20. Now Retired Aircraft Is Recognized In Coast To Coast Event 21. FCC Calls Out More Pirate Radio Operators 22. FCC Proposes Expansion Of Short Range Radar Operation 23. Scientists Invent A Paper Battery - Just Add Water 24. Upcoming Contests, Conventions and HamFest Listing 25. AMSAT: Amsat Announces Candidates For 2023 Board of Directors 26. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Directors and Vice Directors - Part One 27. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Directors and Vice Directors - Part Two 28. ARRL: Technicians Now Is The Time To Upgrade To General Class 29. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union Administrative Council Met In Germany This Month Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter this week, Rich DeMuro, will introduce us to Metas latest app that is taking the tech world by storm, Threads. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * The DX Corner for the latest news in the world of DX, DXpeditions, and contests with Bill Salyers, AJ8B. * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the safest ways to climb your tower, or a commercial tower at night. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about The Nature and Ownership of Information in the world of amateur radio. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from Tadd Cook, K7RA * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill wraps up his two part series with a lot more information on the history of amateur radio repeaters ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1271 Release Date: July 8, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:01:58 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1271 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Announces Candidates for 2023 Board of Directors Election 2. AMSAT: TX5S DXpedition to Clipperton Island to Include Satellite Operations 3. AMSAT: Communication Problems on the Moon 4. AMSAT: European Space Agency Euclid Spacecraft Is Launched 5. RAC: Paul Coverdale, VE3ICV, RAC Special Advisor, is in Geneva attending the WRC Preparatory Meetings 6. Easy Modifications For Inexpensive Radios 7. WIA: HamSCI Selected for NASA Grant Proposal to Support Upcoming Ionospheric Solar Eclipse QSO Parties 8. ARRL: Call for Nominations for ARRL Director and Vice Director 9. Technicians - Now Is The Time To Upgrade To General 10. Dual Championship Weekend Ahead On HF 11. International Amateur Radio Union Administrative Council Met In Germany 12. W1VCM Receives Grant For The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum 13. NASA Announces Targeted Launch Date For The Seventh Rotational Mission/Crew To The Space Station 14. Morse Code Is Thriving In Amateur Radio 24 Years After Its Last Commercial Use 15. Input Is Sought By The FCC On Commercial Use Of The HF Spectrum 16. FCC Will Consider Keeping FM6 (Franken FM) Radio Stations For Low Power Television 17. Film About Amateur Radio Is Honored In Scotland 18. Ham Radio HamFest In Friedrichshafen Germany Posts A Gain In Attendance This Year 19. Amateurs In West Bengal Help Return A Missing Mother To Her Family 20. Scout Camps On The Air Have New Program Rollout 21. Prominent Net Participant Asoka Da Silva, 4S5BAK, SK 22. ARDC Welcomes our new Communications Manager, Rebecca Key – KO4KVG 23. Ofcom Proposes Multitude of Changes to Licensing Framework 24. FCC Sets Transmission Path for Next Gen TV Simulcasts, Multicasts, And Has Projected ATSC 1.0 Sunset Date 25. Harbin Institute of Technology Developing New Lunar Amateur Radio Satellite 26. New ARRL Section Managers Prepare For New Terms 27. United States Navy Plans On Upgrading HF Based Radar Systems 28. Upcoming Conventions and HamFest Listing Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will describe how to best protect yourself when you are on an open wifi network. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * The latest DX and Contesting news with Bill Salyers, AJ8B * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss proper methods for removing a defective rotor from your tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio says that if you have questions, don't be afraid to ask a professional in your local area. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill begins a two part series on the history of amateur radio repeaters. * So just what do the letters IARU mean? IARU is an acronym for the International Amateur Radio Union. At the Dayton Hamvention RAIN’s Hap Holly/KC9RP spoke in the RAIN booth with IARU President, Tim Ellam/VE6SH, who hails from Calgary, Alberta Canada. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1270 Release Date: July 1, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:29:28 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1270 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. Ofcom Proposes Multitude of Changes to Licensing Framework 2. FCC Sets Transmission Path for Next Gen TV Simulcasts, Multicasts, And Has Projected ATSC 1.0 Sunset Date 3. Harbin Institute of Technology Developing New Lunar Amateur Radio Satellite 4. How Many Satellites Can We Safely Fit In Earth Orbit? 5. ISS/SpaceX Crew Seven Named. Will Serve Six Months On The ISS 6. FCC ULS System Restored To 100% 7. 2023 ARRL Field Day Was A Success 8. ARRL Field Day Banner Winner Announced 9. 2023 AMSAT Field Day Results 10. New ARRL Section Managers Prepare For New Terms 11. HAM RADIO In Friedrichshafen, Germany Draws International Crowd 12. The Big Bang Theory Antenna Lives On 13. Two Upcoming Special Event Stations 14. Four Members Of The ARRL Headquarters Staff Are Celebrating Accomplishments In Amateur Radio This Week 15. Compete For An Award By Hunting A WRTC Competitor 16. Application Window For New Low Power FM Stations Is Set By The FCC 17. FCC to Vote On FM6 “Franken” Stations At Upcoming July Meeting 18. United States Navy Plans On Upgrading HF Based Radar Systems 19. OSCAR Satellite Convention In India Draws Many Enthusiasts 20. National Institute of Amateur Radio Celebrates Forty Years 21. European Space Agency and 55Labs announce LEDSAT Digipeater Challenge 22. The FCC is preparing to take a fresh look at internet data caps 23. Upcoming conventions, and hamfests Plus these Special Features This Week: * PREMIER: Weekly DXing, DXpedition and contest update with Bill Salyers, AJ8B * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, finds that millennials have made a fantastic new discovery - free over the air TV, and he asks what exactly is high tech? * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, promises to be very generic this week and cover what he calls some basic antenna mounting tips. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, covers "Planning and Making Lemonade". * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill concludes his series on amateur radios Fallen Flags with a look at Herb Johnson, W6QKI, the founder of Swan Electronics. Who began by marketing ham radio gear from his garage in Benson, Arizona. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1269 Release Date: June 24, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MUT, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:41:30 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1269 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service * FIELD DAY 2023 EDITION *: 1. Spain’s URESAT-1 Collaborative Satellite Launches on SpaceX Transporter 8 2. SpaceX’s Transporter-8 Mission Launches a Diverse Array of Smallsat Missions 3. European Space Agency and S5Lab Announce LEDSAT Digipeater Challenge 4. ARISS-USA Seeks Experienced Educator For Director of Education Role 5. Youth On The Air In International Amateur Radio Union Region 3 6. A Possible Solution To Space Junk 7. International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend Is Coming Up 8. The FCC Is Preparing To Take A Fresh Look At Internet Data Caps 9. New York State ARES Members Participate in State Communications Exercise 10. FCC Universal Licensing System Reopened, Except Electronic Batch Filing System 11. Women of Influence In Engineering 2023 Ham Honoree Announced 12. Worlds Largest Hamfest HAM RADIO Exhibition Ready In Friedrichshafen Germany - Japans Ham Fair 2023 13. Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure Announces Special Event Station 14. Hurricane Watch Net Continues To Monitor The Progress Of Tropical Storm Bret 15. World Radiosport Team Championships Now Supported By Officials In Italy 16. 13 Colonies Special Event Marks 15th Year 17. Amateurs Assist During Cyclone Biparjoy 18. Rapid Growth In Wideband Devices Is Topic Of FCC Policy 19. New Ideas For National Coding Week Is Sought By The Radio Society of Great Britian 20. 100 Year Anniversary Is Marked By Australian Amateur Group 21. ARRL Field Day Is Here 22. Upcoming Conventions, Contests and Ham Fests 23. AMSAT Field Day Is Underway 24. Legislation to remove Land Use Restrictions on amateur radio operators is re-introduced in Congress 25. Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club hits licensing milestone with 2000th licensee, the owner of iFixit 26. Radio Society of Great Britian receives donation of King Hussein of Jordan amateur radio equipment 27. QRZ dot com is offering a new award Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about Moore's Law and smaller chips, and about the possible upcoming Chinese internet. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will be here with what he calls his tower and antenna short topics list. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "Where is your community and how resilient is it?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, by special request, Bill will returns to retell the popular story of why hams can't drive down Weaver Street in Schenectady, New York * Special: CQ magazine editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, on good repeater operation for new amateurs. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1268 Release Date: June 17, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulink, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon,W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:34:22 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1268 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. FCC Universal Licensing System is offline. 2. Researchers Create The First Wooden Transistor 3. Summits On The Air Exhibitor Stand at upcoming HAM RADIO Friedrichshafen 2023 Hamfest 4. Legislation to Remove Private Land Use Restrictions on Amateur Radio Introduced in Congress 5. NASA Team Sets New Space-to-Ground Laser Communication Record 6. 2023 Field Day: T-Minus 1 Week! 7. Amateur Radio Helps Air Show Fly High In Tennessee 8. Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club Achieves 2,000th License Milestone 9. Annual 13 Colonies Special Event Station Coming Up 10. Radio Society of Great Britain Receives Donation Of King Hussein of Jordan's Radio Equipment 11. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grants Aid Balloon Tracking, 4-H Youth 12. Amateur Radio Serves An Important Role In Seattle Disaster Drill 13. Field Day Satellite Operations - Several satellites operational during Field Day 14. Guyana Is The Sight For A Troup Of Young DxPeditioners 15. Amateur Radio Plays A Role During A Rescue In Idaho 16. New Director of Education Is Sought By ARISS-USA 17. GNU Radio Conference 23 To Be Held In Arizona Is In Search Of Presenters 18. QRZ.com Offers New Award 19. Pope’s Message Of Hope Launched Into Space To Orbit Earth 20. Radio Society of Great Britain Distance Learning For Full Licence Exam 21. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests 22. Annual Ham Radio Exhibition to take place in Friedrichshafen Germany this month 23. Australian Communications and Media Authority to take over amateur radio licensing 24. The ARRL is Proclaiming Field Day 25. The league offers Field Day public relations tools 26. 2023 Sea-Pac is in the books, it was a successful ARRL Northwestern Division Convention 27. The ARRL Foundation is accepting applications for grants in June Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte W6TWT, answers the question when is it time to buy a new router, and talks about NASS, or Network Attached Storage * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the best way to safely work on tower sidearms. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, asks "What is amateur radios legacy?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill continues his series on amateur radios Fallen Flags, with a close up look at Hammerlund. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1267 Release Date: June 10, 2023 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:35:18 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1267 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Astronauts Engage in Voice Contacts From The International Space Station 2. New Record Set With Seventeen People In Earth Orbit Simultaneously 3. Another Delay For Boeing’s Starliner Crew Capsule 4. Amateurs Can Compete To Decipher Message From Mars 5. Ham Radio Exhibition To Take Place In Friedrichshafen, Germany This Month 6. Guam Authorities Working To Get Communications Back On Line After Typhoon Mawar 7. House Republicans Introduce Legislation To Protect AM Radio 8. Australian Communications and Media Authority Licencing Update 9. Proclaiming Field Day 10. ARRL Field Day Public Relations Tools 11. 2023 SEA-PAC: Successful ARRL Northwestern Division Convention 12. Satellite With World Wide Message From Pope Francis To Be Launched 13. The Final Numbers Are In For The 2023 Dayton Hamvention 14. Jerry Owens, W3GHO, Voice Of The Western Pennsylvania Nets, SK 15. World Radiosport Team Championship To Operate Despite Floods In Italy 16. The Central States VHF Society Conference Is Upcoming 17. Celebrate The Lewis and Clark Trail On Amateur Radio 18. Amateur Radio To Help Protect Imperiled Forest In India 19. HamFest India Organizers Choose 2023 Event Site In Gujarat 20. Spaceport America is facing a possible FCC fine after being accused of pirate radio broadcasting 21. Upcoming conventions, hamfests, and contests. 22. Advice on how to work AMSAT Field Day from Bruce Paige KK5DO 23. The Northern California DX Foundation to offer $100K for solutions to deliberate QRM 24. California amateur radio operator faces $24K fine to deliberate disruptions to Western Friendship Association Net 25. The ARRL is elected to serve on SafeCom 26. Gear Up for Field Day June 24 - 25, 2023 27. The ARRL Foundation is now accepting applications for grants during June 28. Volunteer amateurs are sought for the 2023 running of the Hurricane Watch Net Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will talk about how most people do not back up. And he will propose that you back up your data while listening to this program each week. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will answer the question "What tools should I bring with me when I climb the tower?" * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about Accolades In Amateur Radio. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill continues his series on amateur radios Fallen Flags. This week, Bill takes a look at the equipment and legacy that was Hallicrafters. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1266 Release Date: June 3, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick. K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, William Savacool, K2SAV, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:58:02 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1266 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. ARRL Section Manager Update: Austin Elected, Bigley Re-elected, Gendron Appointed 2. FCC Delays Implementation of New Emergency Alert System Requirements 3. Northern California DX Foundation To Offer $100k For Solutions To Deliberate QRM 4. New SO-50 Distance Record / New Korean CubeSats Launched 5. Ham Operator Faces Major Fine For Disruptions To Western Amateur Radio Friendship Association Net 6. ARRL Elected To Serve On SAFECOM 7. Gear Up For 2023 ARRL Field Day 8. Museum Ships On The Air Weekend 9. Amateur Radio At The 2023 Area Wide Ripley Rendezvous 10. He Touched So Many Lives - Chip Margelli, K7JA (SK) 11. ARRL Hudson Division has New Vice Director 12. ARRL Foundation Accepting Applications For Grants In June 13. Two Contrasting Web Articles About Amateur Radio Are Going Viral This Week 14. Volunteer Amateurs Sought For The Hurricane Watch Net 15. Scientists Detect Radio Waves Coming From A SuperNova 16. DXpedition On Rockall In The North Atlantic Is Activated 17. Amateurs In Belgium Get Access To The 8 Meter Band 18. New Editor Is Sought For Radio Society of Great Britian Publication 19. International Space Station Astronauts Have A QSO With Hospitalized Children 20. New Web Site Will Consolidate Ham Clubs News Around The World 21. Upcoming Contests, Conventions and Ham Fests 22. ARRL and Federal Emergency Management Agency sign a new Memorandum of Understanding 23. Marconi's yacht will be the site of an upcoming Special Event Station 24. United Kingdom regulator is considering licensing eLoran licenses 25. Australian Maritime College severs its relationship with the ACMA for amateur radio licensing Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, says that the future is actually here, it is just not evenly distributed. And he will talk about how he believes antivirus programs are not needed any longer. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will tell us how to properly waterproof coax connectors, and will introduce us to coax seal. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will introduce us to a really nice Linux based contest logging program. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill begins his latest series looking at amateur radios Fallen Flags. He starts this week with The National Radio Corporation. * We will have an interview with the man behind the curtain at the KQ2H 10 Meter repeater in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, Alex Muzyka. Courtesy of The Rain Report. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1265 Release Date: May 27, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:51:37 - * Special Expanded Dayton HamVention Wrap-Up Edition * Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1265 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. 102 Representatives Ask Carmakers to Keep AM Radio 2. Dayton Hamvention Roundup Friday, May 19, 2023 - Part One 3. Dayton Hamvention Roundup Friday, May 19, 2023 - Part Two 4. Dayton Hamvention Roundup Friday, May 19, 2023 - Part Three 5. ARRL and Federal Emergency Management Agency Sign Agreement Ham Radio is as Relevant as Ever 6. ARRL Section Manager Spring Election Results 7. John Gendron, NJ4Z, Appointed South Carolina Section Manager by ARRL 8. Marconi's Yacht Will Be Site Of An Upcoming Special Event Station 9. President Biden Announces Federal Communications Commission Nominees 10. Field Day Is Coming Up Soon / Opportunities At ARRL Headquarters 11. Belgium Amateurs May Get A 40 MegaHertz Allocation 12. United Kingdom Considering eLoran Broadcast Licenses 13. Coffee Loving Ham Works Java - But It's Not DX 14. Eleven U.S. Schools Moved Forward in ARISS Selection Process 15. How Moon Based Telescopes Could Revolutionize Astronomy 16. International Women in Engineering Day 17. Lasers On Artemis II Will Share High-Definition Video Of The Moon 18. Special Event Station Aboard USS Slater to Mark Memorial Day Observance 19. 60 Days Alone On Rockall, An Uninhabited Rock In The North Atlantic 20. Earth Receiving Simulated Alien Signal From Mars 21. 42 GigaHertz Spectrum Allocations Are Revisited By The FCC 22. Australian Maritime College Severs Relationship With ACMA For Amateur Licensing 23. World Radiosport Team Championships To Be Held In Italy May Be Relocated 24. Ford Announces It Will Not Eliminate AM Radios From New Automobiles 25. South Carolina Amateurs Expand Emergency Communication Range 26. Bernhard Buettner DL6RAI SK In Antenna Accident 27. Amateurs Provide Communications For Massachusetts Relay For Life 28. Congresswoman Lesko Reintroduces Bill To Replace Symbol Rate Limit With Bandwidth Limit 29. AMSAT issues call for nominations for 2023 Board of Directors 30. Special Event Stations for the UK Coronation will continue on the air through June 31. The FCC moves to potentially open 1000 megahertz of spectrum for new commercial uses 32. Upcoming conventions, hamfests, and contests 33. The ARRL Membership Dues Survey is wrapping up Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss how many people suffer with slow internet due to incorrect settings on your modem and router. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, returns to his vertical office this week to talk about a condition that seems to happen to mid-west hams each spring called dead band syndrome. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be considering the language of the amateur radio community. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, in a long lost episode, Bill looks back at the World Radio Conferences and how the amateur radio service gained or lost bands in each of the them. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1264 Release Date: May 20, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:55:43 - * Dayton HamVention Weekend Edition * Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1264 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Congresswoman Lesko Reintroduces Bill to Replace Symbol Rate Limit with Bandwidth Limit 2. Call For Nominations – 2023 AMSAT Board of Directors Election 3. National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio Station Annual Test 4. Dayton Hamvention 2023: Ready! 5. ARRL Member Dues Survey Continues 6. Marc Tarplee, N4UFP, Section Manager of the ARRL South Carolina Section (SK) 7. NASA Astronaut Contacts Two Schools from the International Space Station 8. 25th Anniversary Of The May 31st 1998 F3 Tornado In Mechanicville, New York 9. Former Chairman Of The FCC Newton Minow, Passes At 97 10. Antenna Issue Is Resolved For Juice Mission Around Jupiter 11. Amateurs Have An Opportunity To Work The Big Race 12. China's XW-2A Satellite Decays From Orbit 13. The UK Special Coronation Event Stations Are Still On The Air Through June 14. Red River Valley Texas Amateur Radio Club To Celebrate 50th Anniversary 15. Biden Intends to Pick Lawyer Anna Gomez for FCC to End Agency Deadlock 16. The FCC Moves To Potentially Open 1000 MegaHertz Of Spectrum To New Commercial Uses 17. FCC Rejects Dish 5G Plan That Could Have Made Starlink Broadband Unusable 18. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests and Contests. 19. Saudi Arabia To Launch Largest Radio Telescope In The Middle East 20. ARRL helps amateurs comply with new RF exposure evaluation 21. Amateurs in the Caribbean area gear up for the upcoming storm season Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will describe the workings of the DNS, or Domain Name System of internet addressing. And will tell us about dotted quads. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, concludes his six part series on producing a successful Public Service Announcement for air on broadcast radio to help promote your latest club event or hamfest. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will describe how you can measure the Solar Flux Index at home. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the year 1980. That's the year that brought new HF band allocations to amateurs world wide as a result of the World Administrative Radio Conference held in Geneva in late 1979. The FCC proposed a sideband only expansion of Citizens Band into the ten and a half meter band, ASCII and packet radio is allowed on the air, and we will learn about the Bash Books and amateur radio testing. * Special interview with Gordon West WB6NOA. Courtesy RAIN/QSO Today ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1263 Release Date: May 13, 2023 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon. W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:05:54 SPECIAL EXPANDED EDITION w/W2VU CQ Magazine Interview Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: * SPECIAL DAYTON PREVIEW EDTION * Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1263 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Saudi Arabia to launch largest radio telescope in Middle East 2. ARRL Ready to Welcome Attendees at Dayton Hamvention 2023 3. ARRL Helps Radio Amateurs Comply with New RF Exposure Evaluation Rules 4. New World Distance Record Is Set On 430 MegaHertz 5. Reminder: Complete the ARRL Dues Survey Before May 31st 2023 6. Dayton Hamvention 2023 Ready To Go - A Close Up Look At The ARRL Forums At Dayton - PART ONE 7. Dayton Hamvention 2023 Ready To Go - A Close Up Look At The ARRL Forums At Dayton - PART TWO 8. Dayton Hamvention 2023 Ready To Go - A Close Up Look At The ARRL Forums At Dayton - PART THREE 9. National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio Station Annual Test 10. Virginia Beach Amateur Radio Club Receives Commendation 11. Ohio's Rooster Net Has Good Company 12. Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, Will Be The Guest Speaker at the 2023 TAPR/AMSAT Hamvention Banquet 13. Puerto Rico's Amateurs Celebrated Dia del Radioaficionado on Tuesday, May 9th 14. 2023 National Hurricane Conference Was Held April 4th and 5th 15. Amateurs In West Bengal Help A Family Reconnect 16. Youth DX Adventure Has Been Cancelled For 2023 17. RF Exposure Compliance Is Now Mandatory and The ARRL Can Help 18. Amateurs In The Caribbean Area Gear Up For The Upcoming Storm Season 19. AMSAT Releases Its 2023 Commemorative Coin 20. Amateur Radio Museum Opens In Ohio 21. Scientists Create Denser and Thinner Computer Chips 22. LATE BREAKING: Congresswoman Lesko Reintroduces Bill to Replace Symbol Rate Limit with Bandwidth Limit 23. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests, and Contest listing 24. The 2023 Dayton HamVention Awards Are Announced - Part One 25. The 2023 Dayton HamVention Awards Are Announced - Part Two 26. The Digital Library Of Amateur Radio and Communications Surpasses 75,000 Items On Ham Radio and More 27. Australia's ACMA Moves Ahead On Starting A New License Class 28. Maine's plan to study 5G worries amateur operators in the state 29. Bryan Rawlings VE3QN is inducted into the Radio Amateurs of Canada Hall of Fame Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss the transition between analog and ones and zeros, that has fueled the digital revolution. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, leaves his climbing gear in the shack again this week for Part Five of his Six part series on producing a successful public service announcement to publicize your clubs upcoming event on local broadcast radio. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, is looking forward to and will talk about propagation during the 2023 Australian Solar Eclipse * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to 1978. The year the FCC banned non-type accepted 11 meter rigs, curtailed the sale of RF amplifiers between 24 and 35 Megahertz, and it was the year that technicians finally got allocated the entire two meter band and more. * SPECIAL: Courtesy of The Rain Report, we will have an interview with Rich Moseson, W2VU - The Man Behind CQ Magazine. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1262 Release Date: May 6, 2023 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, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:26 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1262 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. 2023 Hamvention Awards Are Announced - PART ONE 2. 2023 Hamvention Awards Are Announced - PART TWO 3. DLARC Radio Library Surpasses 75,000 Items of Ham Radio, Shortwave History 4. National Radio Astronomy Observatory Program Looking for Students 18-20 Years Old to Learn About Spectrum 5. ARRL Ready To Welcome Attendees At Dayton Hamvention 2023 6. ARRL Helps Radio Amateurs Comply With New RF Exposure Evaluation Rules 7. USA Amatuer Radio Direction Finding 2023 Championships Results Are Announced 8. The Rooster Net: For Whom the Rooster QSOs! For 65 Years! 9. New York State Citizen Preparedness Corp Offer Training Event 10. The 2023 New England QSO Party Is On The Air May 6th and 7th, 2023 11. Australian Communications and Media Authority In Australia Moves Ahead On Starting A New License Class 12. Maines Plan To Study 5G Worries Amateurs In The State 13. John Knipping AA9KC From The Freewheelers Net On 80 Meters SK 14. Amateur Radio Special Event Goes Milling About 15. Hams In The UK Mark The Anniversary Of The Dam Busters Raid 16. Smartphones Can Now Connect Users Via Satellite 17. Amateurs Around The World Prepare For The Armed Forces Day Crossband Test 18. RAC: Bryan Rawlings VE3QN is inducted into the Radio Amateurs of Canada Hall of Fame 19. RAC: Weather spotting workshop "Beyond CanWarn and QandA Event" is coming up soon 20. The FCC issues a reminder about foreign investment information, foreign ownership of broadcast stations 21. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests 22. FCC Warns Portland Church To Shut Down Pirate FM Operating Under Its Steeple 23. AMSAT Fox-Plus Progress Report - PART ONE 24. AMSAT Fox-Plus Progress Report - PART TWO 25. Houston AMSAT Net Tops 1500 Sessions 26. Youth On the Air Camp For The Americas Announced 27. Look What I Found! - Parts Of The Failed SpaceX Launch Wash Up On Shore 28. FCC Chief Rosenworcel Says 6G Is Coming Sooner Than You Think 29. NASA's International Space Station Communications Disrupted By Argentinian Taxi Driver Radio 30. ARRL Advocates For Radio Amateurs As FCC Proposes Changes To The 60 Meter Band 31. International Marconi Day: National Parks Director Makes QSO 32. The ARRL Invites Member Comments On Proposed Dues Increase Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, takes a nostalgic look back at the early search engines on the internet, and will take a look at how the internet and big tech are both good and bad. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Our Tower Climbing and Antenna master, Greg Stoddard, KF9MP, leaves his climbing gear in the shack to bring us Part Four of his Six part series on writing a successful Public Service Announcement to promote your clubs hamfest or special event on local broadcast radio. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will take a look at "Doing The Same Thing Over and Over" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to January of 1977, which finds the FCC totally swamped by applications for Citizen Band Licenses which were arriving at the rate of over 500K a month. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1261 Release Date: April 29, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:57:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1261 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. FCC Warns Portland Church To Shut Down Pirate FM Operating Under Its Steeple 2. FCC Adopts New Rules For Satellite System Spectrum Sharing 3. AMSAT Fox-Plus Progress Report - PART ONE 4. AMSAT Fox-Plus Progress Report - PART TWO 5. Houston AMSAT Net Tops 1500 Sessions 6. Youth On the Air Camp For The Americas Announced 7. Look What I Found! - Parts Of The Failed Space X Launch Wash Up On Shore 8. FCC Chief Rosenworcel Says 6G Is Coming Sooner Than You Think 9. NASA's International Space Station Communications Disrupted By Argentinian Taxi Driver Radio 10. ARRL Advocates For Radio Amateurs As FCC Proposes Changes To The 60 Meter Band 11. New STEM Trailer For All Things Amateur Radio Association 12. International Marconi Day: National Parks Director Makes QSO 13. Former Section Manager Of ARRL Northern Florida Section SK 14. Arizona Club Makes Significant Donation To Local Medical Center In Memory Of Club Member 15. The ARRL Invites Member Comments On Proposed Dues Increase 16. Researchers In India Develop A Micro-Supercapacitor 17. Astronaut From The United Arab Emirates New Educational Program Has First QSO 18. World Amateur Radio Day Is Celebrated Around The World 19. New Book Written By NW6V CHris Rutkowski Call The CW Way Of Life 20. ARRL Field Day supplies are now available 21. Upcoming HamFests, Contests and Conventions of interest 22. National Radio Astronomy Observatory Program Looking for Students 18-20 Years Old to Learn About Spectrum 23. Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT HamVention Banquet To Be Held May 19th 24. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Is Hiring A Communications Manager 25. HamStudy Dot Org Presents Fast and Easy Testing For Amateur Radio Licensing and Upgrades 26. National Telecommunications and Information Administration on WRC-23 Says Use It Or Lose It 27. ARDC Issues A Grant To Youth On The Air Americas To Expand YOTA Camp Expansion 28. Homeowner/Amateur Enthusiast Argues With His HOA and Refuses To Take Down Antennas, Instead Adds More 29. National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators Release New General Class Question Pool Errata Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about a recent publication put out by the Oregon FBI office covering recommendations for networking your IOT (Internet of Things) devices. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, presents part three of his four part series on successfully writing and getting a public service announcement on local broadcast radio to promote your clubs hamfest or special event. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will try to answer the question "Why Is Radio Regulated?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the early 1950's when the FCC first proposed the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service, and when RACES got confirmed as a temporary authority in 1952. And it's still with us... * Courtesy of RAIN and Eric Guth 4Z1UG, we will have Part One of a Two Part interview with Rich Moseson, W2VU, who is the current editor of CQ Magazine. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1260 Release Date: April 22, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, William Savocool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:27:54 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1260 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. SpaceX Falcon 9 Carries INSPIRE-Sat7 Into Orbit 2. Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT HamVention Banquet To Be Held May 19th 3. Longwave 252 Comes To A Close 4. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Is Hiring A Communications Manager 5. HamStudy.Org Presents Fast and Easy Testing For Amateur Radio Licensing and Upgrades 6. SpaceX's Starlink Satellites May Be the Reason Aliens Find Out Humans Exist 7. National Telecommunications and Information Administration On Upcoming WRC-23 Says Use It Or Lose It 8. ARRL Club Commission Program Update 9. ARRL Club Development Webinar Series Update 10. FCC and National Association of Broadcasters to Collaborate On Completing The Transition To ATSC 3.0 11. ARDC Grants Allows Youth on the Air Americas to Expand Camp Programs 12. Homeowner/Amateur Enthusiast Refuses To Take Down Alien Antennas and Instead Adds More 13. ARRL Ohio Section ARES NVIS/Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Antenna Day 14. Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test 15. 2023 Online Ham Bootcamp Is Coming Up 16. Doctor Ulrich Rohde Receives IEEE Award 17. Earth-Moon-Earth - Pandemic and Patience 18. The National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators Releases General Class Errata 19. ARRL Life Member Richard L. King, K5NA, SK - WRTC Champions Withdraw From Competition 20. NASA Recruits NOKIA To Help Build A Wireless Network On The Moon 21. Improving Satellite Management Gets A New Commitment From The FCC 22. Course In Learning How To Learn CW Offered 23. Solar Cycle 25 May Peak Early According To Scientists 24. Amateurs In Hungary Request Input On Its Latest Survey 25. Amateur Radio Software Award Committee Announces 2023 Award Winner - GridTracker 26. VE3LYC Is Preparing To Activate Fiji On DxPedition 27. National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting Open During 2023 Dayton HamVention 28. FT8 Digital Mode Club creates FT4 Club with new awards available 29. Upcoming On The Air Contests, Conventions, and Hamfests Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will answer the question, is it safe to buy third-party lithium-ion batteries, and will attempt to describe Public Key Cryptography. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, continues with part two of his four-part series on writing a successful public service announcement to promote your clubs upcoming event or hamfest, and actually get it on broadcast radio. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will address what he calls "The Antenna System". * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the days when amateurs had to monitor 640/1240 kilocycles for Conelrad. Just what was Conelrad? Bill will have the answers. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1259 Release Date: April 15, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Bill (Savo) Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:26:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1259 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. UPDATE: NASA Selects Three Amateurs For Artemis Moon Mission 2. 14th Annual Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation Banquet Scheduled 3. Russia’s New Mystery Shortwave Station 4. Federal Communications Commission Formally Launches Space Bureau 5. World Amateur Radio Day Special Event Coming Up April 18th, 2023 6. National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting Open During 2023 Dayton Hamvention 7. Amateur Radio Software Award Announces 2023 Award Winner 8. 2023 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Announce Eastern Conference 9. The ARRL Rookie Roundup This Weekend 10. FT8 Digital Mode Club Creates FT4 Club With New Awards 11. Astronomers Discover New ExoPlanet Via Radio Waves 12. New Space Record Is Set By An Astronaut Aboard The International Space Station 13. Australian Ham Gives Amateur Radio A Ride 14. Revived Western Electric Factory Takes On Making A Vacuum Tube Comeback In The United States 15. Radio Society of Great Britain Seeks A Technical Director For RadCom Magazine 16. Congresswoman Debbie Lesko, (AZ-08), attended the DeVry Hamfest in Phoenix, Arizona 17. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfest listings 18. Scientist Is Honored For Emergency Preparatory Work 19. ARRL Welcomes Sierra Harrop, W5DX, as Public Relations and Outreach Manager 20. Ria Jairam, N2RJ, Joins Amateur Radio Digital Communications Board Of Directors 21. Federal Communications Commission Adopts New Equipment Authorization Testing Standards 22. Hamvention 2023 Is Getting Ready 23. Time To Make Preparations For Field Day 2023 24. Radio Amateurs of Canada Get On The Air On World Amateur Radio Day Special Event Tuesday, April 18, 2023 25. SpaceX Asks FCC For 30,000 Extra Satellites Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will tell us how to use MoCa (Multimedia Over Coax) and PowerLine Network Adaptors to circumvent a busy wi-fi network, and he will tell us that Apple is now making it's own chips for its new line of desktop computers. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, begins a timely four part series on how to write a public service announcement to publicise your upcoming hamfest on broadcast radio. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question How Much Antenna Is Enough? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to 1962 when everyone was listening to the first OSCAR or Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio satellite say Hi! The ham population continues to grow as the FCC is running out of call signs and proposes the first license fees, and declares that the Technician License is not a stepping stone to the next class off license. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1258 Release Date: April 8, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:34:17 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1258 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. ARRL Welcomes Sierra Harrop, W5DX, as Public Relations and Outreach Manager 2. The International Space Station Becomes A Time Traveler 3. Ria Jairam, N2RJ, Joins Amateur Radio Digital Communications Board Of Directors 4. Ohio’s New Distracted Driver Law Exempts Amateur Radio 5. Pennsylvania Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association Celebrates 100 Year Anniversary 6. Federal Communications Commission Adopts New Equipment Authorization Testing Standards 7. NASA Names Three Hams For Artemis II Moon Mission Crew 8. Hamvention 2023 Is Getting Ready 9. Time To Get Ready For Field Day 2023 10. The Lewis and Clark Trail On The Air Special Event 11. Canadian Amateurs Can Participate In UK Coronation Of King Charles III 12. Tornadoes Bring Amateurs In Arkansas On The Air To Pass Traffic 13. Charity DXpedition To Rockall Island Is Coming Up 14. Amateurs In The US Mark An Anniversary With A Canadian Ferry 15. Virgin Orbit Closes Its Satellite Launch Operations 16. International Telecommunications Union Opens A Office In New Delhi 17. The Upcoming Eclipse Will Be Observed In Australia Via Radio 18. Special Event Station To Feature Retired Cosmonaut On The Air 19. Clipperton Island DXpedition Plans Are Moving Ahead 20. World Wide Flora and Fauna Special Event To Activate Callsign VKFF 21. Ford Motor Company Confirms Elimination Of AM Radio Receivers In 2024 Models 22. Amateur Radio Activity Honors African American Heritage 23. Radio Amateurs of Canada Get On The Air On World Amateur Radio Day Special Event Tuesday, April 18, 2023 24. One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube 25. SpaceX Asks FCC For 30,000 Extra Satellites 26. Upcoming Contests, Conventions and HamFests 27. ARRL Announces Leadership Changes In the Hudson Division 28. World Amateur Radio Day Is Coming Up On April 18th, 2023 29. The ARRL Laboratory is looking for new staff members and engineers 30. The ACMA/Australian Communications and Media Authority puts its proposed new amateur license on hold 31. Ofcom in the United Kingdom approves a temporary callsign for the upcoming Coronation 32. ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communications gives a large grant for a new university amateur radio station Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will get us up to speed by demystifying the alphabet soup regarding the purchasing of a new TV or monitor for your shack. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will stress that you should always have two attachment points to the tower when you climb. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, Onno will describe how he is Lost in Space this week as he talks about the first contacts that amateurs made in space. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to see what life was like as an amateur in the year 1958. He will take a look at early satellites, how the FCC takes 11 meters away from amateurs and creates Citizen Band, how amateurs were required to monitor Conelrad while on the air, and will look at equipment that debuted in 1958. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1257 Release Date: April 1, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:43:41 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1257 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Austria Restricts 23 Centimeter Band Operation 2. NASA Planning To Spend Up To $1 Billion On Space Station Deorbit Module 3. Is It Possible That SpaceX Has Succeeded In Making Orbital Launches Boring? 4. ARRL Announces Leadership Changes in the Hudson Division 5. Amateur Radio Operators Monitor Russian Military Talking About Recovering Downed US Drone 6. You Don't Need An Amateur Radio License To Participate In ARDF/Amateur Radio Direction Finding 7. QSO Today Virtual Ham Exposition Held March 25th and 26th Is A Success 8. World Amateur Radio Day is April 18th, 2023 9. Amateur Radio Activity Honors African American Heritage 10. Orlando HamCation 2023 Attendance Update 11. ARISS Contact Scheduled For March 31, 2023 Report 12. Grape Version Two Now Available 13. ARRL Laboratory Is Looking For New Staff Members 14. Amateur Radio Operators Often Watch For Meteors 15. Long Distance Video Gaming Over Amateur Radio 16. 3D Printed Rocket Makes A Brief Successful Flight Before Crashing 17. Major Storms In The Southeastern US Bring Out Hams For SKYWARN Nets 18. Amateurs In India Prepare By Holding Cyclone Drills On The Air 19. Another Member Of Congress Speaks Up On Keeping AM Radio In New Cars 20. The Australian Communications and Media Authority Put New Amateur License On Hold 21. Ofcom UK Approves Temporary Callsign For Upcoming Coronation 22. Students At Rochester Institute Of Technology Use A Large Metal Sculpture As An Antenna 23. Amateur Enters Secretary Island For Work and Performs SOTA Activation As Well 24. ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grant Supports University Ham Radio Station 25. Connecticut Governor Proclaims April 16 – 22 Amateur Radio Recognition Week 26. Amateurs In IARU Region One Are Being Asked To Envision The Future Of Amateur Radio 27. New Chief Named For Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System - MARS 28. Scientists Discover Mysterious Radio Signal Coming From The Sun Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will tell us how to properly secure a WiFi network if you live in an apartment complex or town home situation, and will tell us about how Australia has instituted a news tax for web sites. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss Lock Out / Tag Out, a protocol that is important when you are climbing on any tower, but specifically on a commercial tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, reveals that he is a contester, and is now writing his own contest logging software, and he is looking for input. What capabilities would you like to see in the ultimate contest logging software? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the post war years of 1945 to 1949. Amateurs were slowly getting back on the air. What was life like for the post war, mid to late 1940's amateur? ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1256 Release Date: March 25, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:29:01 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1256 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Arkansas CubeSat Launched Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9, a Mission to the International Space Station 2. RadioGPT Can Talk. It Can Do Instant Research. It Can Take Phone Calls and Interact, and It Is Now On The Air 3. AMSAT at Dayton Hamvention - Call for Volunteers 4. NASA Awards $3.8 Million To Museums, Science Centers, and Other Educational Institutions 5. What Time Is It On The Moon? 6. New ARRL Club Development Program Launched 7. ARRL Volunteers On The Air Update 8. York County Amateur Radio Society Youth Engagement Team Hosts Providence High School NJROTC 9. New York Tryon Amateur Radio Club Celebrates 50 Years 10. ARRL Club Commission Program Promotion for 2023 / Apply To Have Your Hamfest or Convention Sanctioned 11. Amateur Radio Included in FEMA Guide for National Emergency Preparedness 12. Connecticut Governor Proclaims April 16 – 22 Amateur Radio Recognition Week 13. Amateurs In IARU Region One Are Being Asked To Envision The Future Of Amateur Radio 14. Hackers Disrupt Russian Radio Networks 15. UPDATE: Automakers Say No To U.S. Senators Letter About Keeping AM Radio In Cars 16. Astronomers Mark The 10th Anniversary Of ALMA, The Worlds Largest Radio Telescope 17. New Chief Named For Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System - MARS 18. Amateurs Operate Eight Special Event Stations For World Autism Acceptance Week 19. Georgia State Parks On The Air Will Be Held April 1 - 2, 2023 20. Calvert Amateur Radio Association Participated In The 10th Annual Science and Engineering Expo 21. FCC Looks For Guidelines To Add A Satellite Option For Cell Phones 22. A Major Repeater In Southern Oklahoma Is Destroyed By Fire 23. International Space Station Astronaut Sharing Experience Through A New Website 24. Scientists Discover Mysterious Radio Signal Coming From The Sun 25. You Can Take A Virtual Trip To The Bouvet Island DxPedition 26. Young Australian Amateur At The Peak Of His Glory 27. Rule Changes Are Announced For Field Day 2023 28. Upcoming Contests, Conventions and HamFests Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss all of bandwidth capacity we have across the country that is not being used. Its called Dark Fiber. He will also look at bandwidth caps, and splicing fiber optic cable, after a fiber cable was cut outside his studio. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss what you should know before agreeing to climb for other amateurs. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB,will answer the question "What exactly is a Negative Signal To Noise Ratio?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the World War Two era and looks at the FCC's General Order 87. And he will look at what life was like for amateurs who were ordered off the air for the period of the war. And looks at something called WERS .. The War Emergency Radio Service. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1255 Release Date: March 18, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:13 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1255 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Advances Five Satellite Related Bills 2. The International Space Station Dodges Commercial Imaging Satellite 3. The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Returns Next Week 4. Amateur Radio Emergency Service News Briefs 5. A Brief History of Amateur Radio EmComm Organization 6. Saint Patrick's Day Radio Event 7. Upcoming Tornado Season and Amateur Radio 8. Volunteer Monitor Program Cautions against Operating Beyond License Privileges 9. Rule Changes Announced for 2023 ARRL Field Day 10. Dayton Amateur Radio Association Leader Ron Cramer, KD8ENJ, Silent Key 11. QRP Basics – 3rd Edition Is Updated 12. Remote DXpeditioning Is Tested During Two Year Adventure 13. Severe Weather Striking Both Coasts Underscores Amateur Radios Vital Roles 14. Amateurs Interested In The Millimeter Bands (Microwave) Prepare For An Upcoming Conference 15. Quarter Century Wireless Association Officer Gary Kimball, WB2SER, Silent Key 16. Four Astronauts From ISS Crew Five End Mission With A Successful Splashdown 17. National Hamfest Is Cancelled For 2023 In The United Kingdom 18. FCC: Radio Impacto in New York Faces $2.3 Million Pirate Radio Fine, Largest Ever 19. Australian Amateurs Prepare For Special Event Called "Antennapalooza" 20. Amateur-authored Book About World Science Day Launches 21. Shortwave Broadcaster RUV In Iceland Shuts Down Transmitter - Drops Tower 22. National Vietnam War Veteran's Day Special Event has been announced 23. Upcoming Hamfests, Contests and State/Regional Conventions 24. ARDC gives a major grant to FreeDV who aims to bring open source HF digital voice into the mainstream 25. RF Interference from low earth orbit satellites is threatening radio astronomy 26. QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo to feature a presentation on Creating Your First Workbench 27. Three new amateur radio astronauts, AKA Crew Six, arrive on board the International Space Station 28. President Biden's nominee to the FCC, decides not to pursue confirmation 29. Vandals cut the guy wires to an emergency communications tower in Nebraska causing it to fall 30. The addition of the FM mode to 11 meter transceivers brings all mode operations to Citizen Band Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will talk about mobile apps that spy on you and the European General Data Protection Regulation and how effects the United States, Leo also takes a look at how we are now living in the world as predicted in the novel 1984. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will have some suggestions about what tools and items you should bring with you on your tower climb. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, now that you have constructed a new antenna, either homebrew or commercial out of a box, what should you expect when antenna testing day rolls around? And, he will take a look at Acronyms in Amateur Radio. Like what is SHF or THF, Tremendously High Frequency. He will have the explanations. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, in a special extended edition, Bill takes a look at the 3rd ever radio conference that was held in Cairo in 1938. How did amateurs fare at this conference? And, Bill will give us an overview on what it was like to be an amateur in late 1930's. And he will also take us back to the early 1940's and looks at FCC General Order 72 restricting amateurs ability to contact foreign amateurs, as the government takes over a few of the ham bands for World War II ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1254 Release Date: March 11, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:34:54 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1254 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. ARDC - FreeDV Aims To Bring Open Source HF Digital Voice Into The Mainstream 2. RF Interference From Satellites Is Threatening Radio Astronomy 3. New Satellite Distance Records Are Set 4. Schools Set To Talk With Astronauts Via Amateur Radio 5. QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo to Feature Presentation on Creating Your First Ham Radio Workbench 6. Inspect The RF Realm With Augmented Reality 7. ARRL International DX Contest Was A Success 8. 2023 Ulrich L. Rohde Award Call for Papers 9. ARRL Michigan Section Manager Les Butler, W8MSP SK 10. NCDXAJ Appoints Jack Ference, W3KX, As The New ARRL Third Call Area Incoming QSL Bureau Manager 11. Three New Amateurs Have Arrived On Board The International Space Station 12. Hams Radios Future Is The Focus Of Upcoming Competition 13. A Brand New Morse Net Out Of Ireland Attracts Nervous Novices 14. A Surprise Weather Drill Mobilizes Amateurs In Delaware 15. Presidents FCC Nominee Decides Not To Pursue Confirmation 16. Former Agency Officials Want Manufacturers To Keep AM Radio In Personal Vehicles 17. Virginia QSO Party Event Adds A Rover Category 18. Damage To Guy Wire Causes Key Nebraska Communications Tower Structural Failure 19. FM Mode Addition Brings All Mode Operation To 11 Meters 20. KB3UJW joins the CQ Magazine staff as an Associate Editor 21. AMSAT is recruiting RF and Mechanical volunteer engineers to join and work on satellite projects 22. The 2023 Dayton HamVention Awards have been announced 23. Nominations are sought for the CQ Hall of Fame Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will be here to talk about the revolution that is all around us. The future is here, you just can't see all those ones and zeros. Leo will also have a few suggestions on how to prepare an older computer that you are planning to donate to a worthy cause. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will have some advise on how to replace that rusty old rotor on your tower... * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, now that you have constructed a new antenna, either home brew or commercial out of a box, what should you expect when antenna testing day rolls around? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The History of Amateur Radio. Our own amateur radio historian, Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes a look at the 3rd ever radio conference that was held in Cairo in 1938. How did amateurs fare at this conference? And, Bill will give us an overview on what it was like to be an amateur in late 1930's... * POTA/Parks On The Air - The latest news from Parks On The Air about their upcoming 48 hour POTA Contest with Matt Heere, N3NWV. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1253 Release Date: March 4, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:43 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1253 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. AMSAT Engineering Is Recruiting Volunteers For An RF and Mechanical Engineers 2. Australian Hams Plan Commemorative Event 3. 2023 Hamvention Awards Announced 4. Schools Set to Talk with Astronauts via Amateur Radio 5. Radio Merit Badge Sees Biggest Gain in Scouting 6. ARRL International DX Contest Log Upgrades Are Now Available For HamDash 7. The Phone Portion Of The ARRL International DX Contest Runs March 4 - 5, 2023 8. Massive Solar Flare Causes Radio Blackout Over United States 9. ARDC - Tap Your Rich Uncle To Fund Your Amateur Radio Dreams 10. Former FEMA Execs Push To Save AM Radio in Electric Vehicles 11. Island Nations Receive Donated Radio Systems For Emergency Response 12. HamSci Recruiting Amateur Radio Volunteers 13. International Space Station Activates Sensors To Study The Ionosphere 14. FCC Chief Engineer Ray Spence, W4QAW, Silent Key 15. 40 Meter Net In India Now Available As A Live Internet Stream 16. New 48 Hour Contest Announced By Parks On The Air 17. Hackers Disrupt Broadcast Radio Networks In Russia 18. Cobra Adds FM To Its Line Of 11 Meter Transceivers 19. CQ Contest Hall of Fame Nominations Sought 20. FT8CN is a new app for Android devices to decode FT8 21. Amateur Radio Balloonists are worried about reactions 22. ARISS issues a want for 2024 school contact proposals 23. Amateur Radio's role in the wake of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria are topic of special BBC Report 24. 2022 Roanoke Division ARRL Service Award recipient is announced 25. W8LT - A history of amateur radio on the campus of Ohio State University 26. The theme for World Amateur Radio Day 2023 is Human Security For All 27. The ARRL welcomes Kevin Beal K8EAL as its new Director of Development 28. The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo adds Exploring The Future of Amateur Radio Balloons seminar 29. A linux distribution is available exclusively written for amateurs Plus these Special Features This Week: * With all the bad weather happening across the country lately, Our technology reporter, Rich Demuro, has taken the guesswork out of selecting the best weather applications for your portable device, as he reviews some of the best weather apps that are available now. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will have all the information you need to know to successfully work on tower sidearms. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer that nagging questions all amateurs have: "Are all spiky antennas the same?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back in time for a look at what life was like for the amateur radio operator in the early and mid 1930's. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1252 Release Date: February 25, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:47:49 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1252 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. SPECIAL FEATURE STORY: Could AI-Fueled Amateur Radio Rebuild Loran-C? - PART ONE 2. SPECIAL FEATURE STORY: Could AI-Fueled Amateur Radio Rebuild Loran-C? - PART TWO 3. FT8CN A New Free Android App 4. Balloon Experimenters Worry About Reactions In Current Environment 5. Call For ARISS Contact Proposals 6. Tips for Maintaining Your House or Shack Generator 7. Amateur Radio Operators and Their Role With Sled Dog Safety 8. Amateurs Roles In Turkey/Syrian Earthquake Response The Focus Of BBC Report 9. Amateurs Activate To Provide Communications As Cyclone Hits New Zealand 10. Call For Volunteer Engineers Issued By AMSAT North America 11. Autism Awareness Event Issues Call For Operators 12. Lighthouse Weekend Supported By Amateurs in Puerto Rico 13. Calvert County Maryland Radio Association Upgrades Its Repeater System 14. Australian Amateur Honored For Copying Final Signals From FalconSat 3 15. 2022 Roanoke Division ARRL Service Award Recipient Selected 16. W8LT - A History of Amateur Radio at Ohio State University 17. World Amateur Radio Day Theme: Human Security For All 18. ARRL Welcomes Kevin Beal, K8EAL, As The Director of Development 19. New Radio Society of Great Britain Youth Champion Appointed 20. Amazon Gets Key FCC Approval For More Than 3,000 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Broadband Satellite 21. Radio Society of Great Britain Board Chair and Company Secretary Resign 22. Anatel Brazil Publishes Amended Frequency Plan 23. Crew-6 Launch Slips As Progress Leak Investigation Continues 24. QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Adds Exploring the Future of Amateur Radio Balloons Seminar 25. A Linux Distro For All Your Ham Radio Needs - KB1OIQ - Andy's Ham Radio Linux 26. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests, and a select on the air contest listings 27. NASA announces the winners of the 2022 Annual Space Applications Challenge 28. International Amateur Radio Union holds its first 2023 meeting to prepare for the upcoming World Radio Conference 29. The ARRL Volunteers On The Air (VOTA) operations continue on the air at a brisk pace 30. The ARRL VEC releases the General Class Element 3 Errata Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss what he calls the iGen generation, and will explain why you, yes you, should have a blog, a web site, and a URL with your call sign. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the best procedures for hauling cargo up the tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will explain some of those special amateur radio ABC's. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the early 1970's for a look at how amateur radio was utilized to organize college student protests to the Vietnam War nation wide with the advent of The Student Information Network on the HF bands. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1251 Release Date: February 18, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:47:01 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1251 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years 2. Spy Radio Stations that Still Broadcast Today 3. Secretly Launched Russian Satellite With Unknown Purpose Breaking Up In Orbit, US Says 4. AMSAT Engineering Recruiting Volunteers 5. NASA Announces The Winners of 2022 Annual Space Apps Challenge 6. Special Event Stations On The Air For The North Carolina QSO Party 7. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Releases 2022 Annual Report 8. Bouvet Island DXpedition Wraps Up Operations 9. International Amateur Radio Union Holds First 2023 Meeting To Prepare For WRC-23 10. The 6th Annual Amateur Radio Science Citizen Investigation Workshop Is Scheduled 11. VOTA - The ARRL Volunteers On The Air Operations Continue At A Brisk Pace 12. The General Class Element 3 Question Pool Errata Has Been Released 13. Amateurs Need To Be Weather Prepared 14. The United States Air Force May Have Shot Down An Amateur Radio Pico Balloon Over Canada 15. 100th Year Marked By The Sydney Amateur Radio Club / Danes Mark Opening Of New Enigma Museum 16. Pancreatic Cancer Special Event Looking For Amateur Participation 17. Vintage AM and CW Gear Celebrated In Upcoming Special Event 18. Special Callsigns Extended For Two More DX Contests By Ofcom In The UK 19. FCC Creates Room On The FM Broadcast Band For 16 New FM Radio Stations 20. World Radiosport Team Championship Gets Hotel Bookings Started For Upcoming Competition In Bologna Italy 21. Mamiro Yoshizawa PY2DM Becomes A Silent Key 22. National Science Foundation and Amateur Radio Digital Communications Support HamSCI Workshop 23. Vermont "Ham Con" Convention Is Next Weekend 24. NASA Asks Ham Radio Operators To Assist With Experiments During Upcoming Eclipses 25. Upcoming amateur radio conventions, hamfests, and contest highlights 26. Ham Radio Outlet announces the closing of one of its stores in Southern California 27. The QSO Today Virtual Ham Exposition ticket sales are now underway Plus these Special Features This Week: * A Flashback to a 2007 talk given by then FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, on the topic of amateur radio enforcement and how can make amateur radio a better service for everyone. * Our technology reporter Rech DeMuro will discuss and introduce you to Open AI's ChatGPT, and what it can do for you. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will disc how to build tower antenna mounts from scrap materials you may have around the house, or can easily acquire. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will answer the question "Do you really know when the best time is to go on the air?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill discusses amateurs reactions to the proposed 1974 dual path to amateur radio licensing, and will look at the proposed Class E Citizens Band that would have taken two megahertz of the 220 band. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1250 Release Date: February 11, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:36:43 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1250 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. AO-95 Satellite Goes QRT 2. New Satellite Distance Records Are Set 3. Ham Radio Outlet Is Closing Its San Diego Store 4. Amateur Radio Active in Turkey and Syria Following Earthquakes 5. Bouvet Island DXpedition is On the Air! 6. Amateur Radio Special Event Stations Celebrate the Universe 7. Registration Open for the 2023 QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo 8. Utah Students Talk To An Astronaut On The International Space Station 9. A Barbados Amateur Radio Operator, Thought To Be Among The World's Oldest Operator, SK 10. Amateur Radio On The International Space Station Contacts Two US Schools 11. Raymond Paul Richard, W4RPR, Orlando HamCation Ticket Chairman SK 12. $8 Million Dollars In Grants Were Granted By Amateur Radio Digital Communications In 2022 13. Power Free Wireless System Prototype Developed 14. Youth On The Air In Hungary Sets The Deadline For Summer Camp Applications 15. Western Pennsylvania Skywarn Opts For A Surprise In Its Next On Air Drill 16. Amateurs In India Assist A Lost Man To Return To His Family 17. A Summits On The Air Celebration Is Planned In South Africa 18. British Science Week Is Announced - 46th Annual Ham Radio Exhibition In Germany Scheduled 19. Upcoming contest listings and upcoming hamfests and conventions 20. Defunct satellite and disposed rocket stage nearly collide in potential worst case scenario 21. Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Archive grows to over 51,000 items 22. William Franzin VE4VP puts OpenAI's ChatGPT on the air with a custom amateur radio interface 23. The USA Orienteering Championships are set for April 19th thru the 23rd, 2023 24. ARRL Foundation is now accepting applications for grants during February 25. The ARRL Atlantic Division sees leadership changes this month 26. World Radio Day special transmission from Switzerland's SAQ alternator is scheduled 27. The Slow Scan Television system aboard the International Space Station fails. Fade to black. 28. Amazon receives FCC approval to begin deploying over 3000 LEO satellites for its Kuiper Internet System Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss the new NextGen Television Standard called ATSC 3.0 and also about how Big Tech is changing our lives, and a little about Elon Musk's new electric truck * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the best procedures to follow when you have to climb your tower at night. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will discuss the evolution of software in amateur radio. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes a look at a few differing amateur licensing proposals from the early and mid 1970's. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1249 Release Date: February 4, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:07:05 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1249 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Defunct Satellite and Rocket Stage Nearly Collide in Potential ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ 2. Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Archive Grows to 51,000 Items 3. National Association of Broadcasters Tells The FCC: The ATSC 3.0 TV Broadcast Transition Is in Peril 4. Global Harmonization Paves Road To World Radio Conference 2023 5. Broadcasters and The FCC Are Split Over The Next Steps To Modernize The Emergency Alert System 6. William Franzin VE4VR Puts OpenAI's ChatGPT On The Air With A Custom Amateur Radio Interface 7. Scientists Steer Lightning with A High-Powered Laser 8. USA Radio Orienteering Championships Set for April 19 - 23, 2023 9. ARRL Foundation Accepting Applications for Grants in February 10. Leadership Changes In The ARRL Atlantic Division 11. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contacts Two U-S Schools 12. World Radio Day Special Transmission From SAQ Is Scheduled 13. Virginia QSO Party and Virginia's Volunteers On the Air Activation 14. Louis E. Frenzel Jr., W5LEF, Raymond "Ray" Paul Richard, W4RPR Become Silent Keys 15. Vietnam War Veteran Honored By American Legion Radio Club 16. Database Maps Of Piracy Enforcement Actions Debuted By The FCC 17. Radio Society of Great Britain Shines The Spotlight On Newcomers During Its Construction Contest 18. Rodney Moag Musician and Educator, W5NDS Becomes A Silent Key 19. Young Kentucky Amateurs Have Amateur Examination Costs Underwritten By The FCC 20. Maritime Operating Is Subject Of Upcoming Symposium 21. Connacht Regional News Magazine Marks Its Second Year, And Its Still Free 22. DXpedition To Vanuatu Moves Its Date To October 2024 23. Amateur Canadian Astronomer Captured A Dazzling Time Lapse Of The Green Comet 24. Morse Code Is Making A Comeback In Popular Music 25. Fade To Black - The SSTV Gear On The Space Station Has Failed 26. The lowest and highest amateur bands are under the spotlight at CEPT SE 24 27. Two North Carolina broadcast stations lose their towers to metal and copper thieves 28. Yaesu transceivers are donated to the ARRL to inspire young hams and visitors to league headquarters 29. AMSAT is searching for someone to take over its GridMaster Heat Map 30. DXpedition Boot Camp registration is closing soon 31. Proposals are sought for hosting World Radio Telecommunications Conference 2026 32. Upcoming amateur radio conventions and on-air contest highlights. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter, Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about "How Technology is Homogenizing the World", and The NY Times claims the internet didn't turn out the way it was originally planned. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will teach us some more antenna and tower vocabulary. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about something unique to the world of RF and that is Free Space Path Loss and Very Small Numbers" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill will continue with part two of his series on The History of Amateur Radio Repeaters. * We will have a talk by legendary amateur, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.. Bob Heil, K9EID, who invents things for Heil Sound. We will hear how amateur radio made his history with rock and roll musicians possible. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1248 Release Date: January 28, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:29:26 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1248 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. AMSAT Exhibiting At 2023 HamCation 2. International Amateur Radio Union Coordinates Two New Satellites 3. International Space Station Astronaut Frank Rubio Gets A New Seat 4. University of Arizona Students Prepare To Put Their Own Cubesat Into Space 5. Lowest And Highest Bands Under The Spotlight In CEPT SE24 6. North Carolina Station Loses Two Towers To Vandalism 7. FCC Proposes $504K Fine On Fox For Emergency Alert System Violations 8. Short Wave Listener Wins Young Scientists Of The Year in Ireland 9. Missouri S and T Amateur Radio Club To Celebrate 100 Years 10. Yaesu Transceivers Donated To ARRL To Inspire Visitors and Young Hams 11. Mobile App Now Available To Navigate 2023 Orlando HamCation 12. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Welcomes New Committee Members 13. ARDC Grant Helps In Building Radio Infrastructure in the Rocky Mountains Linking Repeaters In Three States 14. Amateur Radio Operators Can Sign Up Now To Be A Volunteer For The 2023 Boston Marathon 15. World Radio Day To Be Celebrated On The Ham Bands 16. Record Breaking Radio Transmission Is Received At A Radio Telescope In India 17. KDKA Pittsburgh Wins World Radio Day Award 18. Students In Switzerland Prepare A Satellite For Launch 19. New Inflatable Antenna System Will Be In Use On A New CubeSat 20. Radio Museum (The Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum) Featuring Vintage Equipment Is Reopening In Ireland 21. AMSAT Is Searching For A New Manager For Its GridMaster Heat Map 22. DXpedition Boot Camp Registration Is Closing Soon 23. Bob Ketzell, KB3BIN, ARRL Western Pennsylvania Traffic Manager SK 24. The Radio Society Of Great Britain Wants Photos Of Your Shack/New Display Now At RSGB National Radio Museum 25. Mystery Antennas Appear In The Mountains Of Utah 26. Radio Relay International Extends Its Digital Network Into Puerto Rico 27. New Chinese Satellite FO-118 Puts The HF Bands Back In Orbit 28. A Quick Introduction To The ARRL Club Commission Program 29. Covid Continues To Take Its Toll On The Ham Radio Community - Mourning Two Radio Amateurs 30. With The Current Hot Propagation Conditions On Ten Meters Is Welcoming All Amateurs 31. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests and on the air contests. 32. Proposals Sought to Host 2026 World Radiosport Team Championship Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our new technology reporter, Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will tell us why the government is recommending that you keep your computers and IoT, or Internet of Things device on seperate networks. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will take a look at the maintenance you should do for your antenna system and tower at the beginning of the year. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will explain the difference between an HT, a Mobile Radio, and a Base radio for your shack. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes a look at the history behind repeaters. How did they begin? ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1247 Release Date: January 21, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:47:14 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1247 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. AMSAT Announces FalconSat-3 Nears Re-entry 2. National Science Foundation Reaches Agreement With SpaceX 3. The RSGB Wants Photos Of Your Shack - New Display At RSGB National Radio Centre At Bletchley Park 4. NASA Help Wanted: Telescope Optional 5. Audio Engineering Society to Receive Technical GRAMMY Award 6. Mystery Antennas Appear In The Mountains Of Utah 7. Two Ham Radio Bills Introduced in Congress Died Without Action 8. Radio Relay International Extends Digital Network to Puerto Rico 9. New Chinese Satellite FO-118 Puts HF Back On Satellites 10. Winter Field Day 2023 Is Coming Up 11. ARRL Club Commission Program 12. World Radiosport Team Championship Sanctioning Committee Accepting Proposals For The 2026 Event 13. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Releases 2022 National Preparedness Report 14. COVIDs Continuing Toll On The Ham Radio Community - Mourning Two Radio Amateurs. 15. Georgia State Parks On the Air Event 16. The North Coast Contesters Announce Their 29th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner 17. Sacramento County ARES Drill Turns Into A Real Life Disaster 18. Worldwide Flora and Fauna KFF Challenge Marathon 19. Hams In West Bengal Assist In Pilgrimage 20. Important Amateurs In India Are Now Silent Keys 21. Young Amateur DX Adventure Group Heading To Curacao 22. Learning CW Is Featured On The BCC Voices Of CW Educators 23. With Hot Propagation Conditions Ten Meters Is Welcoming All Amateurs 24. Bouvet Island DXpedition Update 25. United States Installing A High Power HF Over The Horizon Radar System On The Island Of Palul 26. The FCC Votes To Establish A Space Bureau and an Office Of International Affairs 27. Orlando HamCation Announces It's 2023 Award Winners Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT answers the question, "How much energy does it take to perform a single Google search?" And he will talk about how pervasive the internet has become in our lifetime. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will take a look at what maintenance you should be doing to your tower and antenna system as we begin the New Year. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will take a look at "What you should be learning". * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the beginnings of the technician class license, and how the early technicians were ostracized from the ham radio community, until they were given full recognitions as true amateurs. * 2022 year end Parks On The Air wrap up with Matt Heere, N3MWV. * We will have a nostalgic look back at Duga 3, The Russian Woodpecker that was all over the H-F bands in the 80's, with a talk by Bob Horovitz, which was recorded by RAIN's Hap Holly, KC9RP, at the 1988 Dayton HamVention. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1246 Release Date: January 14, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:33:33 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1246 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. US Begins Installing Mighty Over The Horizon Radar In Palau That Can Detect Objects Thousands of KiloMeters Away 2. Next ARDC Community Meeting Will Take Place on Saturday, January 21, 2023 3. FCC Votes To Establish A Space Bureau and Office Of International Affairs 4. FCC Adopts Notice Proposing to Allocate Spectrum for Unmanned Aircraft Use 5. SpectraRep Releases Results of NextGen TV-Based Emergency Communications Datacast 6. Orlando HamCation Presents Its 2023 Award Winners 7. HAARP Thanks Amateur Radio Operators For Help With Latest Experiment 8. Arnaldo de Jesús Coro Antich, CO2KK, SK 9. The Amplitude Modulation Rally Is Looking For Participants 10. Student Built Satellite Is Indonesia's First 11. Amateurs In Australia Are Facing Higher Fees This Year 12. Contest Hall of Fame Amateur Fred Laun, K3ZO, Silent Key 13. WinterHeat Event Invites Technician Class Amateur Operators 14. Ham Radio University Attracts International Attendees 15. Coronation Of King Charles III Inspires Operator Award In The United Kingdom 16. 2022 Was A Robust Year For Parks On The Air 17. Summits On The Air Activators Are Planning Summit Camping Trips 18. China's Mars Rover Hasn't Woken Up From Hibernation 19. Upcoming Contest and Convention Listings 20. ARRL Volunteers On The Air Event Is Currently Underway! Join The Fun! 21. More Amateur Radio Astronauts Are Heading For the International Space Station 22. Bud Kozloff, W1NSK, Is Appointed As New ARRL Connecticut Section Manager 23. Military Service Academies Radio Group Now Active Reactivating Academy Stations 24. A Group of New Callsigns Are Added To The Upcoming Bouvet Island DXpedition 25. Hams In Ohio Learn That They Are Exempt From The States New Distracted Driving Law 26. A New Antenna May Spell The End For Bluetooth Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with KTLA's own Rich DuMuro and Rich On Tech will introduce himself, and then talk about how hackers get your passwords, and how you can prevent it. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will tell you ways have available to avoid what he calls "The Sudden Stop". * Australia's own Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will answer the question "Where Does Propagation Data Come From?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill continues his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill roams through the fifties and sixties to find out why the technician class licensee was always considered an outcast in the early days of that license class. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1245 Release Date: January 7, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:29:33 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1245 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. ARRL Volunteers On the Air Event is Underway - Join The Fun 2. More Amateur Radio Astronauts Head For The International Space Station 3. Bud Kozloff, W1NSK, Appointed as ARRL Connecticut Section Manager 4. Military Service Academies Radio Group Now In Operation 5. Sixth Annual HamSCI Workshop Scheduled 6. Amateur Radio Contesting Great Fred Laun, K3ZO, Silent Key 7. Latest Smartphones Gain Satellite Access For Emergency Calls 8. New Callsigns Are Added To The Upcoming Bouvet Island DXpedition 9. W2RS, Roy Soifer Honored By AMSATs Annual Activity Day On CW 10. Amateurs Are Exempt From New Distracted Driver Law In Ohio 11. Straight Key Century Club Activiates Straight Key Month 12. Amplitude Modulation International Has Elected New Leadership 13. Radio Club of America Opens Nominations For Young Ham Lends A Hand Contest 14. QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Issues Call For Speakers 15. Radio Society of Great Britain Seeks Position Nominations 16. Internationally Celebrated Antenna Engineer Receives A Lifetime Membership 17. HAARP Facility Experiment Bounces Radio Signals Off Space Object to Help Boost Planetary Defense 18. Challenges in Creating ‘Robot Servants’ Pushes Timeline Back at Least a Decade 19. FCC Proposes Additional Spectrum At 5 GigaHertz For Drone Communication 20. Australia Day Contest 2023 Is Announced 21. BBC Plans for Future Without Broadcasting Over The Air 22. Southwest Ohio DX Association Launches New Program 23. Malaysian Commission Introduces Changes To Amateur Radio Structure 24. New Over The Horizon Radar To Be Built In The Republic of Palau 25. New Antenna May Spell The End For Bluetooth 26. Amateurs In Switzerland Gain Access To The Four Meter Band 27. German Amateurs Gain Temporary Band Authorisations In 2023 28. Upcoming conventions and on the air contests Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, takes a look back at radio when he was a kid, and takes a look at Starlink and how it will avoid, and what is, "The Kessler Effect" * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will answer the question, you have secured a new commercial tower site for your repeater, but the antenna placement requires you to mount your vertical repeater antenna upside down. Now what? * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "What is the weakest signal that WSPR can decode properly?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to May 3, 1963 as the ARRL proposes its own version of Incentive Licensing, then in 1965 the FCC proposes, in its version to demote advance class hams. Revision happen and in 1965 the FCC releases the Incentive Licensing structure we basically still operated under today. *Classic Rain featuring a talk given by the late Wayne Green, W1NSD publisher of 73 magazine, at the 1992 Dayton HamVention. Wayne at his best. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1244 - New Year's Edition Release Date: December 31, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:18:13 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1244 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Department Of Homeland Security Auxiliary Communications (AUXCOMM) Training Course Announced 2. Representative Bill Johnson of Ohio Introduces Bill to Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on Amateur Radio 3. Alaskan Experiment Fired Two Second RF Chirps To A Near Earth Asteroid 4. Yaesu FT-818 and FTM-400 Will Be Discontinued 5. Radio Society of Great Britain Is Planning Events For The Upcoming Coronation of King Charles III 6. U.S. Schools Selected For International Space Station Contacts In 2023 7. Slow Scan Television Unit on International Space Station Is Inoperable - Astronauts Stranded Due To Meteoroid Strike 8. The Four Meter Band Is Granted To Swiss Amateurs 9. German Amateurs Gain Temporary Authorisations 10. Ohio DX Group Honors Mentors Who Inspire Other Hams 11. The DX Ultra Marathon For 2023 Gets Underway 12. Amateur Radio Population Grows On Prince Edward Island Following Storms 13. Radio Stations Shut Or Power Down At Night, Because Of The Laws Of Physics 14. Registration is open for the January 7, 2023 Ham Radio University online webinars 15. New Years means it is time to update your club information with the league 16. Representative Lesko introduces a bill in Congress to replace the symbol rate limit with a bandwidth limit 17. A group of Marines gain radio experience and become licensed amateur operators 18. Direct to full license exam is now available in the United Kingdom 19. Upcoming conventions and operating or upcoming contests. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about how China wants to redesign the internet, with a one new special feature...And he'll talk about donating that old computer you have, and trying new flavors of Linux. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will have some general antenna mounting tips to help you grow that aluminum farm in your yard. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will try to answer the question, What Is A Volt? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes another back to November 1963. The year that pitted hams against hams, and hams against the ARRL. Bill will talking about the introduction of Incentive Licensing. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1243 Release Date: December 24, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:06:49 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1243 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Representative Bill Johnson of Ohio Introduces Bill to Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on Amateur Radio 2. Colonel Jerry Wellman, W7SAR, Former ARRL Utah SEC and Life Member, Receives Top Honors 3. Space Debris Expert Says Orbits Will Be Lost And People Will Die Later This Decade 4. Amateur Radio License Exam Fee Changes In The United Kingdom 5. Biden Administration Drafting Executive Order To Simplify Space Rules 6. Spacewalk From International Space Station With Two Cosmonauts Cancelled Due To Micro-Meteoroid Hit 7. Registration Open For January 7th Ham Radio University On-Line Webinars 8. New Years Means It Is Time to Update Club Information With The League 9. Schoharie County New York Amateur Radio Association Receives Funding 10. Representative Lesko Introduces Bill to Replace Symbol Rate Limit with Bandwidth Limit 11. Marines To Gain Radio Op Experience Via Amateur Radio 12. Ugly Sweater Activation in Massachusetts 13. More United States Schools Selected for Ham Radio Contacts With The International Space Station In 2023 14. NASA Decodes Secret Messages Onboard the Orion Spacecraft 15. Amateur Radio Operators Invited To Participate In Asteroid Bounce Experiment 16. ARRL Straight Key Night Is January 1, 2023, from 0000 UTC Through 2359 UTC 17. Marconi Was Here! Year Long Contest Begins January 1, 2023 18. Fessenden's Christmas Eve First Broadcast Is Recognized On Amateur Radio 19. The Grimeton Alexanderson Alternator Christmas Eve Message Has Been Cancelled Due To Covid 20. The Intrepid DX Group Has Announced The Winners Of The 3rd Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 21. Space Weather Prediction Center Stops Messaging 22. Direct To Full License Exam Opens In The United Kingdom 23. Western Canada Emergency Radio Teams Merge 24. Santa is on the ham bands all around the world till New Years Eve in some locations 25. Upcoming Conventions and On The Air Contests Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about different ways you can improve you wi-fi signal for better coverage * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, wraps up his latest four part special about how to utilize amateur radio when you are taking a long trip aboard a train. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "Which Way Did My Signal Go? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to November 1963. The year that pitted hams against hams, and hams against the ARRL. Bill will talking about the introduction of Incentive Licensing. * We will have our annual Holiday Special. An entertaining monologue about growing up with amateur radio from the late Jean Shepard, K2ORS that was originally broadcast on WOR-AM New York. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1242 Release Date: December 17, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:46:37 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1242 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Deadline for 2023 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program is January 4, 2023 2. New Section Managers Appointed -- Incumbent Section Managers to Continue New Terms in April 2023 3. Amateur Radio Emergency Service Members Support Nevada County Office of Emergency Services 4. Colonel Jerry Wellman, W7SAR, Former ARRL Utah S-E-C and Life Member, Receives Top Honors 5. Amateur Radio Featured on Montana Public Television 6. When All Else Fails: Amateur Radio Helps Rescue A Lost Hiker In New Hampshire 7. Grimeton Station to Transmit Christmas Message 8. Amateurs Assist In Lost Five Year Olds Recovery 9. Inaugural Year Of New Hiking Trail Is Dedicated By Special Event In Romania 10. A Vintage Gates BC1T Broadcast Transmitter Contributes To Transatlantic Tribute 11. New Zealand Spectrum Guardians Retire 12. Propagation Poll Is Launched By Upcoming Bouvet Island Amateurs 13. Radio Pioneer Is Honored By New Indian Special Event 14. CAS-5A Designated Fengtai-OSCAR 118 (FO-118) 15. Micro-Meteoroid Hit Suspected After Major Leak From Soyuz Capsule 16. Upcoming On The Air Contests and In-Person Conventions and HamFests 17. SpaceX's plan to launch another 30,000 Starlink satellites is being hindered by the FCC 18. The Director General of The BBC proposes to turn off terrestrial radio and television broadcasting by 2030 for streaming 19. Youth On The Air Summer Camp 2023 application period is now open 20. The new General Class Question Pool released for ham radio licensing effective July 1, 2023 21. Time Signal Station WWVH is looking for a new full time engineer for their station in Hawaii Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will tell us everything you need to know about routers and what he calls "Internet Background Radiation", and we will hear about his love of old fashioned keyboards. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, keeps his feet on the ground again this week as he presents Part Three of his series called, "On The Rails", using your radios while taking a trip on board a train. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present his segment called "Morse Is Dead...Long Live Morse!", as Onno has invented a new way to learn morse code. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to November 15, 1945. The date amateurs are allowed back on, at least a portion of the amateur bands. And that was also the first year of our new 50 to 54 MegaCycle Six Meter band, and amateurs first encounter with TVI..Television Interference. * Our fourth Ham Christmas Segment this week hosted by Bill Contenelli, W2XOY... * We will have a special interview with Kay Savetz, K6KJN, Internet Archive's Program Manager of Special Collections, and curator of Internet Archives new Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1241 Release Date: December 10, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Paul Zinger appears courtesy Lovo.AI Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:41:14 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1241 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. SpaceX’s Plan To Launch Another 30,000 Starlink Satellites Hindered By FCC 2. BBC Announces It Could Turn Off Terrestrial Radio and TV Services Within The Next Decade 3. Amateur Radio Digital Communications ARDC Awards Grant For New Amateur Radio Station 4. Youth On The Air Camp 2023 Application Period Is Now Open 5. SAQ - Sending A Christmas Message To The World 6. Amateur Radio Operators Commemorate Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 7. New General Question Pool Released For Ham Radio Licensing Effective July 1st, 2023 8. Amateur Radio Operators and National Weather Service Mark SKYWARN Alliance 9. Santa Is On the Air Via Ham Radio 10. Rodney L. Linkous, W7OM Silent Key 11. There Are Zombie Satellites Swirling Above Your Head 12. First Global Space Based Cellular Broadband Network 13. Philadelphia Radio Club Helps Wounded Veterans With Stamp Collecting 14. QRZ Dot Com Heats Up The Winter Season 15. AM Radio's Survival A Top Priority For One FCC Commissioner 16. Time Signal Station WWVH Is Looking For An Engineer 17. Balloon Launched From Antarctica Sets A Record 18. Largest Radio Telescope In The World Is Nearing Completion 19. Radio Society of Great Britain Is Looking To Fill Social Diversity Position 20. New Satellite Company In India Is Owned By An Amateur Operator 21. Australian Amateur Sets Distance Record On 2200 Meter Band 22. Upcoming Contests, Conventions, and Ham Fests Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about how the latest editions of Windows are just versions of old Windows with a new coat of paint, and will talk about everyday uses of encryption on the internet. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, keeps his feet on the ground again this week as he goes "On The Rails". This week he talks about using your Handi-Talkie on the train. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about "Attenuators" The Missing Link * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The Rain HamCast: We will have the late Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML, in a talk given at the Dayton HamVention years ago, where he recounts his long broadcast career with ABC Radio and CBS Television News. Traveling all around with world with reporters like Walter Cronkite, he relates how is entire career was due to amateur radio. * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill will take us back to the mid 1940's and the different and final version of the amateur band allocations. * We will have our third ham radio Christmas segment, this week, featuring the musings of the late Bill Baran, N2FNH as he tells us the tale of "The Christmas Packet" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1240 Release Date: December 3, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:50:05 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1240 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. OMOTENASHI – Amateur Radio Mission to the Moon is Lost 2. Satellite News Shorts From Across The Globe 3. Museum of Information Explosion to Feature Amateur Radio Station Courtesy Latest ARDC Grant 4. Quarter Century Wireless Association to Celebrate 75 Years 5. Youngsters on the Air Month-Long Event Begins December 1st 6. Nova Scotia Students Contact Astronaut Aboard The International Space Station Via Ham Radio 7. Amateur Radio Club Provides Communications Support for Thanksgiving Day Race 8. Dr. Kristina Collins, KD8OXT, Earned Her PhD In Electrical Engineering From Case Western Reserve University 9. ARRL Exceeds #GivingTuesday Goal 10. Switzerland Is Next In Line To Shut Down Analog FM Radio In Favor Of Digital Audio Broadcasting Plus DAB+ 11. Annual Special Event Operation Honoring The 12 Days Of Christmas 12. Aussie Amateurs Are First With a PTOTA (Public Transportation On The Air) Event 13. Application Period For Youth On The Air Summer Camp Opens 14. United Kingdom Regulator Ofcom Extends Access For Experimental Operations 15. India Homebrew Cubesats Are Launched 16. Beware Of Counterfeit ICOM Products 17. In-Car Radio Trends Revealed at WorldDAB Summit 2022 18. FCC Grants A Waiver To Allow Amateurs To Participate In Pearl Harbor Day Cross-Band Special Event 19. Upcoming Conventions and Contests 20. Children Can Talk To Santa On The HF Bands or Talk To Santa Via Echolink 21. Radio Society of Great Britain Sets Up Transatlantic Contests To Relive History During December 22. A New DXpedition Is Coming Up Aimed At Older Amateurs 23. Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN is appoited to the Canadian Radio Amateur Hall Of Fame Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about using a Virtual Private Network, or VPN, the FCC is finally tackling robo calls, and how you can have a message displayed on the iPad aboard the Artemis Orion spacecraft. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, keeps his feet on the ground this week. As the holidays approach, Greg is taking a trip on the train, and will tell us the best ways to operate and monitor while aboard a train in the first episode in a new four part series. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, "How Low Can You Go?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill has more information on the great VHF Frequency Battle Of The 1940's. * We will have our second amateur radio christmas segment with Shannon Radigan, N0JAM, as we work our way to our annual Christmas Eve Special Program. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1239 Release Date: November 26, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:50:05 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1239 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. 2022 ARRL Board of Directors Election Results Announced 2. Eastern Massachusetts Section to Welcome New Section Manager; Incumbent Section Managers Were Reelected 3. OMOTENASHI Is Struggling To Carry Amateur Radio To The Moon 4. United States High School CubeSat To Be Automatic Packet Reporting System Relay 5. Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. World Radiocommunication Seminar Dive Deep Into Global Spectrum Management 7. ARRL Urges Support Young Hams On #GivingTuesday 8. SKYWARN Recognition Day Set For December 3, 2022 9. Dr. Ulrich Rohde, N1UL, To Be Inducted To The Indian National Academy Of Engineering 10. Dodge County Amateur Radio Emergency Service Receives Serve Nebraska Award 11. Amateur Radio Operators Who Like To Track Balloons Now Have Multiple Targets 12. NASA Unexpectedly Lost Contact With Orion Tuesday Night 13. Talk To Santa On H-F - Or Talk To Santa Via Echolink 14. Researchers Develop Ultra-Tiny Battery That Shows Promise 15. Severe Weather Brings SKYWARN Activations and Online Training 16. Family Reunited With Lost Father Thanks To Amateur Radio 17. RSGB Sets Up Transatlantic Contacts To Relive Radio History During December 18. A New DxPedition Is Coming Up For Older Amateurs 19. Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN Appointed To Canadian Amateur Radio Hall Of Fame 20. The Federal Communications Commission Unveils New Nationwide Broadband Maps Down To Local Level 21. FCC Approves New Broadband Nutrition Labels 22. Astronaut Bob Behnken, KG5GGX, Retires From NASA 23. ARRL New England Division Receives A Large Grant From ARDC To Combat Radio Frequency Interference 24. Internet Archives Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Surpasses 25,000 Items Online 25. The Dayton HamVention Announces The Theme For The 2023 Show 26. Proposed New tower Law In Germany Will Make Antenna Regulation A Little More Amateur Friendly 27. Upcoming On The Air Contests and In Person Conventions 28. Orion's First Space Flight Has Set A New Record 29. Bryan Rawlings VE3QN Is Appointed To The Canadian Amateur Radio Hall Of Fame 30. ARRL reports the passing of George Lillenstein, AB1GL (SK), who died November 18, 2022 Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our first Christmas Special segment of the year exclusively for amateur radio operators. * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will tell you that if you have trouble using technology, that it is not your fault. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about the best ways to secure tower mounted electronics. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about the nature of learning things * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to "The Great VHF frequency allocation battle of the mid 1940's" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.