November 2, 2024

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1338 – 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 19, 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 Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:01:24

Podcast Download (temp): https://bit.ly/TWIAR1338HR
Podcast Download: https://shorturl.at/hSXbT
SoundCloud Link: https://on.soundcloud.com/6M7FponZ9K2fB6vS8
Jumpshare Link: https://jmp.sh/JXoRfeLR
Direct download: https://twiar.net/TWIAR_1338_ONE%20HOUR%20VERSION.mp3

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. WIA: 40 Meter Band Plan Harmonization WIA Next Steps
  2. WIA: Russian State Media Targeted In Cyberattack
  3. ARS: SpaceX Tells FCC It Has Plans To Make Starlink About 10 Times Faster
  4. FCC: The FCC Is Looking into The Impact Of Broadband Data Caps and Why They Still Exist
  5. ARRL: Jamboree On The Air Brings Scouts Around The World Together
  6. ARRL: 2024 Radio Orienteering Championships Held in Michigan
  7. ARRL: ARRL Online Auction Is Now Underway
  8. FCC: FCC Proposes Fine Against ESPN For Violation of Emergency Alert Rules
  9. New Record for CW Callsign Copy Set by A Romanian Teen Ham
  10. Broadcaster In Missing Radio Tower Case Dies – Hot Air Balloon Crashes and Fells Radio Tower
  11. HACK: Voyager 2’s Plasma Spectrometer is turned off in a power saving measure.
  12. ARS: FCC lets Starlink provide direct to device cellular service in areas effected by recent hurricanes
  13. ARRL: University of Scranton will dedicate its new State Of The Art amateur radio station
  14. Broadcasters receive federal funds to strengthen resiliency during severe weather
  15. Internet Radio Station pioneer, Keith Lamonica W7DXX, SK

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will show us several surprises that change you forever.
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, and upcoming Radio Sport contests, and more.
  • Will Rogers, K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, we climb aboard The Wayback Machine to the early nineteen hundreds as the first trans-continental one-way message relay occurred, and shortly thereafter, the first two way transcontinental message made it into league headquarters. We will hear the story in a segment he entitled Trans Cons.

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