October 13, 2024

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1334 – Full Version

Release Date: September 21, 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:46:03

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1334

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. RW: Radio Club of America Announces 21 Award Recipients and Fellows
  2. AMSAT: F. Brent Abbott, NA7D, Chief Revenue Officer of Rogue Space Systems, to Keynote Space Symposium
  3. WIA: Traffic Increased Four-Fold During Paris Games
  4. RAC: Phil A. McBride, VA3QR / HP3QR Radio Amateurs of Canada President and Chair Resigns
  5. WIA: Amazon Is Poised To Unveil A Significant Overhaul of Alexa
  6. WIA: Nokia To Introduce 5G Enabled Space Suits For Astronauts, And Aims To Build A Network On The Moon
  7. WIA: Global Positioning Satellite Now 13 Years Old
  8. IR: Hurricane Francine Silences Five Louisiana Stations, FCC Says
  9. NASA: Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration
  10. HACK: NASA’s Solar Sail Reflect Brightly In The Night Sky
  11. ARRL: Club Grant Program Update
  12. NASA: NASA To Develop Lunar Time Standard For Exploration Initiatives
  13. RI: AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act Passed House Floor Vote
  14. NEWS: ICOM IC-V82 Radios Exploding In Lebanon, Following Exploding AR-924 Pagers
  15. RSGB: Radio Society Of Great Britian To End Paper Based License Exams
  16. ARRL: ARRL Announces Partnership With Grouper
  17. ARRL: ARRL Philanthropist, Radar Detector Pioneer, Michael Valentine, W8MM, Silent Key
  18. ARRL: ARRL Section Managers Gather for Training at Headquarters
  19. ARRL: National Preparedness Month – Station Readiness
  20. ARRL: Get Ready for JOTA/JOTI
  21. ARRL: Amplitude Modulation International (AMI) Jamboree 2024 Coming Up
  22. Emergency Alerts Are Improved Over DAB+ Receivers
  23. Privatization Of The 900 Megahertz Band
  24. Amateur Radio Assists One Man Find His Relatives After Fifty-Years
  25. New Rural Networking In The United Kingdom\
  26. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional ARRL Convention Listings
  27. TAPR:Tuscon Amateur Packet Radio calls for nominations for its Board of Directors
  28. ACMA: The Australian Communications & Media Authority Issues New Amateur Radio Fees
  29. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
  30. WIA: New frontier for radio broadcasting as they announce “Zonecasting:
  31. FCC: FCC adopts new Asymmetrical Sideband rules for high definition radio
  32. ARRL: ARRL defends 902-928 megahertz band
  33. Teenage Canadian Students gain their amateur radio license after ham radio course work

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 take a look at the history of amateur radio from an Australian perspective.
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, RadioSport contests and more.
  • Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
  • Will Rogers – K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Hiram Percy Maxim’s main goal was to establish reliable relaying of messages across the entire country. Will takes us back to the early days of amateur radio in a segment he entitled “Trunk Lines”.

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