PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1328 – Full Version

Release Date: August 10, 2024

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.

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