PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1313 – Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

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: 1:00:00

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service:

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Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Engineering Team Powering Up For Hamvention
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. WIA: Washington Tasks NASA To Come Up With A Lunar Centric Time System
4. ARRL: MFJ To Cease On Site Production Next Month
5. ARRL: T-Minus Three Weeks: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Hamvention
6. ARRL: Colorado Students Contact The International Space Station
7. ARRL: National Voice Of America Museum of Broadcasting Will Be Open During Dayton Hamvention Weekend
8. ARRL: Youth On The Air Is Accepting Donations Of Eclipse Glasses
9. Voyager One Transmitting Data Again Via Deep Space Network Station 43
10. Santa Barbara California Radio Club Finds Itself Homeless
11. US Congress To Reopen Debate About AM Radios Future In Cars
12. Early Eclipse Data Released By HamSci – Time Signals Affected By Eclipse
13. Wireless Institute of Australia Annual Meeting And Radio Convention
14. FCC votes to restore Net Neutrality Rules
15. AMSAT: Trash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida
16. WIA: What Is The State Of Broadcast Radio In The United States Today?
17. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 Messe Friedrichshafen – Celebrating 60 Years Of Islands On The Air
18. ARRL: Start Your Field Day Planning Today
19. ARRL: Club Grant Program To Return
20. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention — Program and App Available
21. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test May 11, 2024

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• 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?

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