PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1316 – 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: 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: 1:00:24

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service:

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1316HR

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. WIA: Researhers Say Satellite May Imperil The Earths Magnetosphere
5. FCC: FCC Launches New Spectrum Steering Team To Implment White House National Spectrum Policy
6. Solar Storms – Not HAARP – Created Recent Intense Auroral Display
7. Solar Storms Cause Widespread Aururas and Shuts Down HF Communications World Wide
8. US National Weather Service Suggests Amateurs Prepare For Upcoming Hurricane Season
9. Amateur Radio Software Award Goes To OpenWebRX Project
10. ARRL: The 2024 Dayton HamVention is underway!
11. ARRL: Solar Storms, result in world wide auroras, and disruptions to HF and Satellite Communications
12. ARRL: The 2024 Museum Ships Weekend is announced
13. ARRL: 80th Anniversary of D-Day special event stations announce operation plans
14. ARRL: ARRL Learning Center features two new Emergency Communications Training Courses
15. ARRL: ARRL Volunteers obtain ham exemption to Pennsylvania Hands Free Law
16. ARRL: Fair Radio Sales – Electronic Militasry Surplus Store is officially closing on June 28th

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• 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.

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