PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1345 – Full Version

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: 1:41:00

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1345

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: OSCAR-7 50th Anniversary: CodeStore Breaking New Ground
2. AMSAT: Japan Launches World’s First Wooden Satellite To Test Timber In Space
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: New Zealand Network Grows With A Little Help From Amateurs
5. WIA: Air Leak On International Space Station Russian Module Is Getting Worse
6. WIA: PARUS-T1A Satellite Ready For Amateur Communications
7. TRIB: Amateur Radio Helps Locate Mentally Disturbed Jailed Woman’s Family In Jharkhand
8. RI: NYPD, FDNY Leaders Call On Schumer To Save AM Radio In Cars
9. ARRL: $41,000 Plus Raised By Donors, YouTubers, For ARRL Teachers Institute
10. ARRL: Register For 25th Annual SKYWARN Recognition Day, December 7th
11. ARRL: 2025 Youth On The Air Camp Application Period Now Open
12. ARRL: Get On The Air In December With ARRL 160 and 10 Meter Contests
13. ARRL: Orville and Wilbur Wright’s New Flying Machine Special Event Station
14. ARRL: Annual Lighthouse Christmas Lights Operating Event
15. ARRL: Battleship IOWA Amateur Radio Association To Activate The Ship’s Original NEPM Navy Call Sign
16. Free Quarterly Newsletter Is Launched By HamSCI
17. Its Back To School and Back To Basics In India
18. SpaceX Receives FCC Approval For Satellite To Cell Service From Starlink
19. Communications Support For A Connecticut Road Race Becomes A Family Affair
20. New Roles For Satellites Are Explored At A Forum In Sri Lanka
21. Santa Is The Newest Operator In Australia!
22. December Volunteer Monitor Program Report
23. Soheila Bana, KO6GTV, Richmond California Councilwoman Passes Her Amateur Radio License Exams
24. AMSAT: AMSAT Oscar 7 Turns Fifty Years Old In Orbit
25. ARRL: The ARRL issues its 2023 Annual Report
26. ARRL: Get the kids in your neighborhood to talk with Santa on the air
27. ARRL: The Civil Air Patrol celebrates its anniversary with a special event station
28. ARRL: December is Youth On The Air Month
29. FCC: FCC proposes using a frequency in the 5.9 GigaHertz band for car to car telemetry
30. As an Austrian Shortwave Broadcast goes dark, one in the United Kingdom lights up
31. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications hires a new member to assist with grant applications

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• We’ll visit with Bruce Paige, KK5DO, and get an update from AMSAT and what’s new with all those amateur satellites in orbit
• Australia’s own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio begins a multi-part series beginning with an episode he calls ‘The Bald Yak: Part One’
• 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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