PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1340 – Full Version

Release Date: November 2, 2024

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Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, 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: 1:47:26

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Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board Of Directors Elects Officers
2. AMSAT: Administration Eases Restrictions On Space Related Exports
3. AMSAT: Intelsat Satellite Explodes In Orbit
4. AMSAT: Reflect Orbital To Sell Sunlight Using In Space Mirrors
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. WIA: New Edition Of FreeDV Available
7. ARRL: ARRL Recognizes University of Scranton During Amateur Radio Station Dedication
8. ARRL: $47,000 Raised For Amateur Radio STEM Education Through ARRL Online Auction
9. ARRL: ARRL VEC Services Update During Systems Disruption
10. ARRL: ARRL VEC Services And Other Updates During Systems Disruption
11. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program Accepting Applications Through January 06, 2025
12. HamSCI Program Gets Boost From $1.8 Million National Science Foundation Grant / Solar Eclipse QSO
13. Pioneer Of Wireless Is Honored By Amateurs In Brazil
14. Cyclone Dana Hits India And Amateurs Were At The Ready
15. Planned Changes To Amateur Licenses In The UK Delayed By Ofcom
16. Hydrogen Balloon Is Heard While Over The Antarctic
17. Noted Shortwave Listener Anker Petersen Passes In Denmark
18. India’s Jagadish Chandra Bose Honored In On Air Tribute
19. NASA: Voyager 1 Fault Forces Switch to S-Band
20. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
21. AMSAT: NASA’s Europa Clipper embarks on epic journey to explore an alien ocean world
22. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union to celebrate its centenary in 2025
23. ARRL: Handbook 101: A New Generation of Amateur Radio
24. ARRL: Dream Rig Contest is now underway
25. ARRL: Online Ham Radio Boot Camp is coming up on Saturday, November 9, 2024
26. ARRL: 86th Anniversary of Orson Welles’ broadcast of War Of The Worlds Special Event Station
27. A Shortwave Broadcaster in Austria faces an end of year shutdown
28. 76 Years of Air Force MARS is marked by a November Special Event Station

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 tell us all about the venerable QSL bureau.
• 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
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, and A Century Of Amateur Radio: This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the very early days of amateur radio to witness the federal government shutting down amateur radio completely by the war. Amateurs were not just off the air but leaving home for military service. This week’s edition is entitled, “Shut Down and Called Up”

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