November 9, 2024

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1337 – 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: October 12, 2024

ATTENTION: Due to the DDOS Cyberattack on Internet Archive, our host for files is offline until further notice, we are working to find a good alternative resource for the podcast until services are restored.

Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Dave WIlson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:40

Podcast Download: https://shorturl.at/gaBAp
SoundCloud Link: https://on.soundcloud.com/Vy1KLWtWCrd1fXcf9
Jumpshare Link: https://jmp.sh/JXoRfeLR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. WIA: Australian Federal Government Hires US Firm to Develop A New Subsea Pacific Cable
  2. WIA: Voice of America to Move To New Headquarters In Washington
  3. TWIT: Starlink’s Unauthorized Voyage into Navy Waters
  4. ARS: FCC Lets Starlink Provide Service to Cell Phones in Areas Hit By Hurricane
  5. ARRL: Hams Continue to Serve During Active Hurricane Season
  6. ARRL: University Of Scranton Will Dedicate a State-of-The-Art Amateur Radio Station
  7. ARRL: Sasquatch Awareness Day Special Event
  8. Broadcasters Receive Federal Funds to Strengthen Resiliency During Heavy Weather
  9. Internet Remote Station Pioneer Keith Lamonica, W7DXX, SK
  10. South Africa To Take Ham Payloads Aloft with A Near Space Balloon
  11. ARRL: An incredible amateur radio rescue story.
  12. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications through October 31, 2024.
  13. Volunteer Monitoring Monthly Report
    14: An exciting DXpedition Is Coming Up

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, “What Does An Actual Minimal Setup Look Like?”
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on upcoming and active DXpeditions, DX, upcoming Radio Sport contests, and more.
  • Will Rogers, K5WLR – Will returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio, this week, Will takes us back to the early days of amateur radio and looks at descriptions of the radio laws and anecdotes about their enforcement during those early years, in a segment entitled Regulations and Enforcement, both Hard and Soft.

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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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This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.

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