PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1338

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1338 - Full Version

Release Date: October 19, 2024

Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:29:16

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Call for ARISS Proposals from U.S. Educators
2. WIA: 40 Meter Band Plan Harmonization WIA Next Steps
3. WIA: Russian State Media Targeted in Cyberattack
4. WIA: New Book Available Jesus, Faith and Antennas
5. ARS: SpaceX Tells FCC It Has Plans to Make Starlink About 10 Times Faster
6. FCC: The FCC Is Looking into The Impact of Broadband Data Caps and Why They Still Exist
7. ARRL: Jamboree On The Air Brings Scouts Around The World Together
8. ARRL: 2024 Radio Orienteering Championships Held in Michigan
9. ARRL: ARRL Online Auction Is Now Underway
10. ARRL: Team Of 161 Amateurs from Five States Assist 2000 Medical Personnel For Chicago Marathon
11. ARRL: ARRL Pacific Division Ham Radio Convention and Hamfest, Runs October 18th – 20th, 2024
12. ARRL: Youth On The Air Camp For The Americas Has Been Scheduled For June 15th - 20th, 2025
13. FCC: FCC Proposes Fine Against ESPN For Violation of Emergency Alert Rules
14. New Director of Technology Named by Amateur Radio Digital Communications
15. Straight Key Century Club Solicits QSL Card Design Ideas for Straight Key Month 2025
16. New Record for CW Callsign Copy Set by A Romanian Teen Ham
17. 1922 Maritime Disaster to Be Remembered In Upcoming Special Event Station Operation
18. Broadcaster In Missing Radio Tower Case Dies - Hot Air Balloon Crashes And Fells Radio Tower
19. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing
20. HACK: Voyager 2's Plasma Spectrometer is turned off in a power saving measure.
21. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
22. WIA: Australian federal government hires a US firm to develop a new undersea cable.
23. WIA: Voice of America to move to new headquarters in Washington DC
24. ARS: FCC lets Starlink provide direct-to-device cellular service in areas effected by recent hurricanes
25. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute on wireless technology impacts in 2025
26. ARRL: 2024 Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award Recipient is Keos Van Oosbree, W0AAE
27. ARRL: University of Scranton will dedicate its new State of The Art amateur radio station
28. Broadcasters receive federal funds to strengthen resiliency during severe weather
29. Internet Radio Station pioneer, Keith Lamonica W7DXX, SK

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 show us several surprises that change you forever.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with 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 early nineteen hundreds as the first trans-continental one-way message relay occurred, and shortly thereafter, the first two-way transcontinental message made it into league headquarters. We will hear the story in a segment he entitled Trans Cons.

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