October 13, 2024

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1332 – Full Version

Release Date: September 7, 2024

Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:44:53

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1332

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. FCC: FCC Rule Grants Drone Operators Spectrum Access For Navigation
  2. AMSAT: Japanese Company Takes First Step Toward Removing Space Junk
  3. AMSAT: The Starliner Spacecraft Has Started To Emit Strange Noises
  4. AMSAT: Halibut Electronics Releases New EggNOGS Kit For Satellite Antennas
  5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
  6. WIA: Wireless Shimano Derailleurs Subject To Hacking
  7. BB: Los Angeles Transit Agency Fears Revenue Hit If FCC Approves Spectrum Plan
  8. ARRL: ARRL Utah Section Expanding Emergency Communication Capabilities
  9. ARRL: Hams Respond As Hawaii Threatened By Three Major Storms
  10. ARRL: September Is National Preparedness Month: Have A Go Kit
  11. ARRL: Hawaiian Islands Grid Madness 2024 / Pacificon, Hosting The 2024 ARRL Pacific Division Convention
  12. Czech Republic Youth On The Air Adventure Camp Winds Down
  13. Incident Command System Adopted By ARES Into Its Traning
  14. Patricia Nelson KE0QXD, Silent Key
  15. Hams In India Reunite A Man With His Family Who Thought He Was Dead
  16. $1 Million Payment Made By ARRL To Ransomware Hackers
  17. A Spectrum Of Experience Is Provided By A Childrens Museum
  18. MIssissippi Emergency Communicator
  19. Faster, More Energy Efficient Operation Promised By New Transistor
  20. ARRL: ARRL VEC Services Update During Systems Disruption
  21. ARRL: Volunteer Monitoring Program Monthly Report
  22. ARRL: Pacificon 2024 Convention Announced
  23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contest Listing and Upcoming Conventions
  24. AMSAT: Polaris Dawn is set for a historic launch and first commercial space walk
  25. WIA: German Astronomer Johanness Kepler drew sunspots without knowing it
  26. ITU: International Telecommunications Union updates its global treaty to enhance radio spectrum use worldwide
  27. ARRL: ARRL Club Grants will be awarded in November
  28. ARRL: Estate planning for hams – What happens to all your stuff?
  29. ARRL: New England Vice Director K9HI presented with signed citation from Massachusetts Governor
  30. Memorandum of Understanding is signed by the FCC and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News – Get an update from AMSAT and what’s new with all those amateur satellites in orbit
    *Australia’s own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio finds Onno Implementing the
    KISS, or Keep It Simple Stupid, principle to amateur radio, and takes a look at what happens to a new piece of computer gear when you plug it in
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming Radio Sport contests, and more
  • Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL with Solar Prognosticator Tadd Cook, K7RA in Seattle, Washington
  • Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to see how the vacuum tube revolutionized radio, changing it more than any other single invention. This week we take a close up look at the invention of The Audion

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