March 29, 2024

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1234

Release Date: October 22, 2022

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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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:24:54

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1234

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service:

  1. 2022 ARRL Online Auction is October 21st through the 27th To Support ARRL Programs
  2. The EmComm Training Organization Announces The Date Of The November Semi-Annual Drill
  3. Amateur Radio Public Service Corps Volunteers Support Biennial Nuclear Power Plant Exercises
  4. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Takes A Look At Hurricane Recovery Efforts
  5. Amateur Radio Operators Invited To Participate In Week Long Scientific Experiments At HAARP
  6. ARRL Foundation Accepting Applications For Grants and 2023 Scholarships
  7. Cleveland Tennessee Amateur Radio Club Celebrates Sixty Years
  8. Central States VHF Society Celebrates 54 Years
  9. Amateur Radio Club Members Assist Law Enforcement
  10. Worked All Britain Founders Bowl Confers Honor
  11. The Design Of QSL Cards and Their Typography Are Showcased In A New Book
  12. Young New Amateurs Are Licensed In South Africa
  13. Special Event Station To Commemorate The SS Edmund Fitzgerald Tragedy
  14. Internet Archive To Develop Largest Amateur Radio and Communications Database
  15. Marshall University Students Form A New Amateur Radio Club
  16. Tesla’s Original Lab At Wardenclyffe Long Island Receives A Major Upgrade
  17. International Telecommunications Union Announces Location of 2023 World Radio Conference
  18. Youth On The Air Camp ’23 Set for Canada
  19. Arecibo Observatory to Be Replaced by STEM Education Center
  20. New FCC Regulation Says Unused Satellites Must be Deorbited Within Five Years
  21. Fast Scan Amateur Television to Return to the International Space Station
  22. International Amateur Radio Union President Keynote at RSGB 2022 Convention
  23. Dayton Hamvention Has Announced That The Ramada Inn In Xenia, Ohio, Is Closing
  24. Upcoming conventions, contests and HamFests

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about Artificial Intelligence, and will tell us what is currently passing for AI on the internet is not really AI.
  • Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
  • Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will cover his tower and antenna short topics list.
  • Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us why he is currently settling a little personal challenge.
  • 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 talks about amateurs in World War One, then once back home, how they had to muster to save the amateur bands from being occupied by the military, and finally get back on air.

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