PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1349 – Full Version

Release Date: January 4, 2025

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

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:29:27

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1349

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: NASA’s Deep Space Network Upgraded With New Antenna Installation
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. WIA: Amateur WSPR Transmission May Hold Key To Finding Lost Aircraft
4. WIA: US Considers Ban On Home Internet Router Maker TP Link.
5. WIA: University of Southern California Set New Record / SpaceX Preps New Booster
6. WIA: Young Leader, Bright Future: McKenzie KO4GLN On Ham Radio and Beyond
7. ARD: Holmesburg Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Club’s Service Project Recognized Around the World
8. GIZ: Federal Court Throttles Biden’s Net Neutrality Rules On His Way Out The Door
9. ARRL: CWops Announces 2024 Advancing The Art Of CW Award
10. ARRL: Winter Field Day 2025
11. ARRL: RTTY Roundup Is This Weekend
12. ARRL: HamSCI Will Hold Its Community Workshop On March 14th and 15th, 2025
13. ARRL: QuartzFest, Will Be Held January 19th Through The 25th, 2025
14. ARRL: Registration Is Now Open For The 2025 Dayton ConTest University
15. Gains And Successes Are How The HandiHam Program Ended 2024
16. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun
17. CQ DX Marathon Begins Another Year Long Contest
18. Local Library Receives Radio Books From Georgia Club
19. January Brings Straight Key Month
20. DxPedition Challenges Are Hot Topic At DX Convention
21. Deutsches Museum Calls QRZ For Its Centennial Celebration
22. W3TL, Joseph Henry Stormer, Silent Key
23. Year Long Celebration On The Air For Britain’s Railroads
24. ARRL: Upcoming Radio Sport Contest and regional Convention Listings
25. January Volunteer Monitoring Report
26. TVT: FCC fines Paramount Global $244,952 for Emergency Alert Violations
27. AMSAT: Nasa astronauts face more time in space with return delayed
28. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union identifies non-amateur radio signals on HF
29. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarships – Final weeks to apply
30. Bill to keep AM radio in US vehicles hits a new obstacle
31. Recent high intensity solar storms are cause for concern with satellite constellations
32. A new GMRS/General Mobile Radio Service repeater is established for a local California community.
33. Deutsche Amateur Radio Club programming to debut on new BBC Shortwave
34. An infusion of new radio equipment helps an upstate New York Search and Rescue Group

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB will be covering week five of his open source build called “The Bald Yak”. This week’s topic is, “The bugging”.
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.
• Weekly Propagation and Solar Weather Forecast from the ARRL and Tadd Cook, K7RA
• Will Rogers – K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio – This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to when the World War One armistice was signed and amateurs will finally getting back on the air, except that getting back on the air meant everyone had to be re-licensed.

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