December 7, 2024

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1330 – 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: 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: 1:00:36

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service:

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1330HR

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. AMSAT: Upcoming AMSAT Symposium Issues Its First Call for Papers
  4. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Election Underway
  5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
  6. WIA: Moon Is Moving Away From Earth Will Lengthen The Hours In A Day
  7. ARRL: ARRL Board Establishes Information Technology Advisory Committee
  8. ARRL: Candidates Named for ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections
  9. ARRL: ARRL IT Security Incident – Report to Members
  10. AMSAT: NASA seeks student missions to send to space in 2026 and beyond
  11. WIA: Radio Amateurs of Canada reports phishing attempts
  12. ARRL: ARRL urges protecting the amateur radio 902-908 megahertz band
  13. ARRL: Solar Cycle 25 producing record high sunspot numbers
  14. Longwave radio broadcasts to debut from the Arctic Circle from Finland Radio 252

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • 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.
  • 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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This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.

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