Release Date: December 14, 2024
Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF,
George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.
Approximate Running Time: 1:46:37
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1346
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
- AMSAT: LignoSat International Space Station Deployment Information
- AMSAT: Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, SK
- AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
- WIA: ARRL Is Warning Members About Amateur Radio Gear Price Increases Due To Proposed Tariffs
- WIA: The Saga Of South American Satellite Pirates
- WIA: US Vulnerable To China’s Salt Typhoon Cyberattack / Russian Fancy Bear Attack
- ARD: SAQ Grimeton To Transmit CW Christmas Message December 24th
- ARD: International Amateur Radio Union Identifies Non-Amateur Transmissions in Amateur HF Bands
- ARD: AM Night To Be Held December 26th
- FCC: FCC Opens The Entire 6 Gigahertz Band For Low Power Devices
- ARRL: ARRL 10-Meter Contest, December 14-15, Great Opportunity For Technicians
- ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology Now Accepting Applications For 2025 Cohorts
- ARRL: Lipscomb University Receives $25,000 Scholarship Check
- ARRL: John J. Ellis, NP2B, former ARRL Section Manager For The US Virgin Islands, SK
- The Use Of CW Is Highlighted In BBC Radio Documentary
- The 12 Days Of Christmas Special Event Begins
- Lookout For The Geminids Meteor Shower Beginning This Weekend
- Special Event Stations Bring Attention To Hams With Disabilities
- 150 Students At Staten Island Technical High School In New York City Pass License Exams
- CW Award Winner Gerard Van Antwerpen, ZL2GVA, SK
- Kolkata India Hamfest Draws Hundreds Of Amateurs
- TVT: Trump picks former broadcast news anchor Kari Lake to run the Voice of America
- The Delaware – Lehigh Amateur Radio Club will host the WX3MAS Christmas City special event
- ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listings
- WIA: New Zealand Network grows with a little help from amateur radio
- RI: NYPD/FDNY leaders all on Senator Schumer to save AM Broadcast radio in cars
- ARRL: $41K+ is raised by donors, and YouTubers toi benefit the ARRL Teachers Institute
- ARRL: 2025 Youth On The Air Camp application period is now open
- A new free quarterly newsletter is launched by the folks at HamSci
- Starlink receives FCC approval for satellite to device cellular service from space bypassing terrestrial towers
- Communications support for one Connecticut road race has now become a family affair
Plus these Special Features This Week:
- SPECIAL: A Christmas Packet – A Special holiday presentation by the late Bill Baran, N2FNH
- Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
- Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present an update on his latest open source project called The Bald Yak, Part Two
- The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, and upcoming radio sport contests, and more
- Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
- Will Rogers, K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio – This week, we climb aboard The Wayback Machine to the beginnings of World War One as amateurs dismantled their stations under government order, and began to report for military service. All this in this weeks episode entitled “Shut Down and Called Up”
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