December 5, 2024

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

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.

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