PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1354 – Full Version

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: 1:45:17

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1354

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: MO-122 – Newest OSCAR Alive and Well
2. AMSAT: SO-120 Antennas Deployed
3. AMSAT: Fram2Ham SSTV Simulation Onboard The International Space Station
4. RW: Austria’s Historic Moosbrunn Shortwave Transmission Site Dismantled
5. RW: SiriusXM’s SXM-9 Satellite Is Now Operational
6. FCC: FCC Upholds Forfeiture Order Against Amateur Licensee
7. RI: Pallone, Bilirakis Reintroduce AM Radio Act In the US House of Representatives
8. PROP: The Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Shifted Position
9. ARRL: Learning Opportunity – On the Air Live – How To Use Your Handheld Radio
10. ARRL: Training The Next Generation Of Net Controllers
11. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Turning 60, Seeking Net Control Operators
12. ARRL: Las Vegas, Nevada, American Legion Paradise Post 149, Will Operate Special Event Station NV7AL
13. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League, K4LMB, Will Host The 2025 SSB/CW/Digital YL-OM Contest
14. World Radio Day Is Just Ahead On February 13th
15. First Archipelago DxPedition In 23 Years Is Given The Thumbs Up By The Brazilian Navy
16. SSTV Images From First Polar Orbit Space Flight To Be Transmitted By Amateur Radio
17. ACMA Finalizes License Fee Changes For Australian Amateurs
18. Living The Good Life In A Senior Living Community Ham Radio Club
19. In Memory Of Earthquake Victims – Amateurs In Turkey Activate
20. Software Award Nominees Deadline Is Approaching
21. Late Breaking: Senators Wicker, Blumenthal Reintroduce Legislation to Protect Amateur Radio Operators
22. HACK: Parcae: A Trio of Spy Satellites
23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listings
24. HACK: Sony ends manufacturing of Blu-Ray, Mini-Disk, and MiniDV media.
25. WIA: Carnarvons decommissioned NASA satellite dish back in service after forty years
26. WIA: Amateur radio has been a hobby for well over 100 years
27. RAC: ISED Canada releases new basic amateur radio question bank
28. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute is a success on Staten Island
29. ARRL: Long time Ham Radio Outlet employee is honored for sixty years in amateur radio
30. ARRL: News shorts from the ARRL
31. Transportation contracts are signed for the Bouvet Island 3Y0K team
32. RAC: 70 centimeter mesh network project to begin in Canada
33. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus
34. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain is looking for an Assistant Editor to fill a recent vacancy
35. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring System Report

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 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.
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• 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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