PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1344 – 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 30, 2024

Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:27

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1344HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT OSCAR-7 50th Anniversary — The Space Age, Morse Code and STEM Innovation
2. AMSAT: Air Leak on ISS Russian Module Is Getting Worse
3. WIA: Co-Inventor Of The BASIC Programming Language SK
4. ARRL: ARRL 2023 Annual Report Now Available
5. ARRL: How To Let Kids Talk With Santa Over Ham Radio This Holiday Season
6. ARRL: YOTA Members Will Be On The Air Around The World In December
7. FCC: FCC Approves SpaceX and T-Mobile’s Direct-to-Cell Service
8. China Builds World’s Largest Fully Steerable Radio Telescope
9. New Rules For Vehicle Safety Alerts On The 5.9 GigaHertz Band Proposed By The FCC
10. As Austrian Shortwave Fades Out Shortwave In The U.K. Activates
11. Three Mars Orbiters Are Contacted By A Radio Telescope In The Netherlands
12. Smokey Mountain Amateur Radio Club lowers its dues to help out members financially
13. WIA: Amateur Radio appears in a German television crime drama on ZDF/Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
14. ARRL: Committee at the league proposes changes to ARRL By Laws 42 & 46
15. ARRL: ARRL fall season Section Manager election results are announced
16. ARRL: ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinators implement changes

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, says that suddenly, there were 700.
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more..
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, A Century of Amateur Radio. Will is here to take us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early days of amateur radio where as 1916 drew to a close, we find Hiram Percy Maxim making a plea in QST to organize what might be the first round-trip message relay across the country.

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