PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1345 – 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: December 7, 2024

Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Terry Walker, KI5ODE, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, with, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:39

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1345HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT OSCAR-7 50th Anniversary: CodeStore Breaking New Ground
2. AMSAT: Japan Launches World’s First Wooden Satellite To Test Timber In Space
3. WIA: New Zealand Network Grows With A Little Help From Amateurs
4. WIA: Air Leak On ISS Russian Module Is Getting Worse
5. RI: NYPD, FDNY Leaders Call On Schumer To Save AM Radio In Cars
6. ARRL: $41,000 Plus Raised By Donors, YouTubers, For ARRL Teachers Institute
7. ARRL: Get On The Air In December With ARRL 160 and 10 Meter Contests
8. Free Quarterly Newsletter Is Launched By HamSCI
9. Communications Support For A Connecticut Road Race Becomes A Family Affair
10. Santa Is The Newest Operator In Australia!
11. ARRL: The ARRL 2023 Annual Report is released
12. ARRL: How to let the kids in your neighborhood talk with Santa over ham radio this holiday season
13. FCC: The FCC proposes new rules for vehicle safety alerts on the 5.9 GigaHertz band
14. As Austrian shortwave fades out, shotwave in the United Kingdom activates
15. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
• Will Rogers, K5WLR returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week we climb aboard The Wayback Machine to the beginnings of World War I, where we find the disturbance, as the amateurs called it, putting an end to amateur operations in the United States, in an Episode appropriately called ‘The Lid’

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