PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1354 – 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: February 8, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:07

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1354HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. RW: Austria’s Historic Moosbrunn Shortwave Transmission Site Dismantled
2. RW: SiriusXM’s SXM-9 Satellite Is Now Operational
3. FCC: FCC Upholds Forfeiture Order Against Amateur Licensee
4. RI: Pallone, Bilirakis Reintroduce AM Radio Act In the US House of Representatives
5. PROP: The Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Shifted Position
6. ARRL: Training The Next Generation Of Net Controllers
7. World Radio Day Is Just Ahead On February 13th
8. First Archipelago DxPedition In 23 Years Is Given The Thumbs Up By The Brazilian Navy
9. ACMA Finalizes License Fee Changes For Australian Amateurs
10. Late Breaking: Senators Wicker, Blumenthal Reintroduce Legislation to Protect Amateur Radio Operators
11. HACK: Parcae: A Trio of Spy Satellites
12. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listings
13. RAC: ISED Canada releases new basic amateur radio question bank
14. ARRL: Long time Ham Radio Outlet employee is honored for sixty years in amateur radio
15. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus
16. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain is looking for an Assistant Editor to fill a recent vacancy
17. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring System Report

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be here with advise on how to find your path in the amateur radio hobby.
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more.
• Will Rogers – K5WLR – A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1919 when in late December, radio was blacked out again. But this time it was nature’s doing, not a government edict. Hams discovered, the shorter wavelengths were dead despite the fact that 600 meter signals were still pounding in. Amateurs were in the process of learning about solar cycles, and atmospheric propagation in an episode simply called, ‘Freaks’.

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