PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1342 – 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: November 16, 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, Joshua Turner, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:01:30

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1342HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Celebrating AO-7 First Earth – Space – Space – Earth Relay Communications
2. WIA: Amateur Radio Pico Balloon Is Heard Over The Antarctic
3. WIA: Several Amateur Radio Satellites Nearing End Of Life Re Entry
4. RW: FCC Commissioner Carr Says FCC Should Stop Work On Partisan Matters
5. ARD: VLF Transmitter SAQ To Transmit CW For 100th Anniversary
6. FCC: FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Launches New Podcast Series
7. ARRL: ARRL November Sweepstakes Phone Is This Weekend
8. ARRL: ARRL Delegates Attend International Amateur Radio Union Region 3 Conference
9. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Two Pool Questions From Use
10. FCC: FCC Considers Broadcaster Transparency Over Advertisements With AI Generated Content
11. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Board of Directors Election Results Are Announced
12. AMSAT: AMSAT AO-7 to celebrate its 50th anniversary in orbit
13. AMSAT: Voyager One spacecraft phones home on an S-Band transmitter that hasn’t been used since 1981
14. WIA: Singapores 4300 kilometer undersea electrical transmission line with Australia clears regulation hurdles
15. Arecibo Science Education Center opening is delayed
16. Scientist researchers find a possible cause of the Arecibo Telescope Collapse
17. Radio independence is the 2025 HamVention Theme
18. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day results are announced

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on current and upcoming DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more..
• Will Rogers – K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio – Will returns with another new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will piles us all into The Wayback Machine to take us back in time to the end of World War One to witness the slow reactivation of amateur radio. The Navy well understood how much it had benefited from all the trained amateurs ready to volunteer for service during the war and the likelihood of needing them again someday.

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