PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1353 - Full Version
Release Date: February 1, 2025
Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Tammy Sawyer, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:57:47
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1353
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. HACK: Sony Ends Blu-Ray, MiniDisk and MiniDV Media Production
2. AMSAT: Hacking A Motorized RV Satellite Dish For Tracking Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Carnarvons Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years
5. WIA: Amateur Radio Has Been A Hobby For Well Over 100 Years
6. WIA: The Radio Society of Great Britian Announces British Science Week
7. RAC: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Releases New Basic Amateur Question Bank
8. RI: Senators Cruz and Markey Reintroduce AM Radio Act In The Senate
9. ARRL: Warm Up At The 2025 Orlando HamCation To Be Held February 7th Thru The 9th
10. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute A Success On Staten Island
11. ARRL: Long Time Ham Radio Outlet Employee Honored For 60 Years In Amateur Radio
12. ARRL: News Shorts From The ARRL
13. Transportation Contracts Are Signed By The Bouvet 3Y0K Team
14. Clues To Solar Flares Seen As Coronal Loop Flickering
15. Southeastern VHF Conference Seeks Presenters
16. 70 Centimeter MESH Network Project In Canada
17. DXpedition To Mount Athos Is Stopped Among Controversy
18. Repeater Group Plans To Enhance Safety In Eastern Colorado
19. Historic Amateur Satellite QSO Honored By AMSAT Switzerland
20. CW Contester Rosel Zenker, DL3KWR, SK
21. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus and other amateur news around the UK
22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain publication RadCom has an editor vacancy
23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
24. National Contest Journal sponsored North American CW Sprint
25. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention announcements
26. EAB: Secret Listeners: The story revealing the life of early amateur radio heros
27. AMSAT: SpaceX launches multiple ham satellites on a ride share mission
28. AMSAT: Two private moon landers have launched at once
29. AMSAT: A new ARISS proposal window is now open
30. RI: With a designation from President Trump, Brendan Carr is now the new Chairman of the FCC
31. HACK: Forget the coax, wire up your receive antennas with cat 6 cable
32. ARRL: Get ready for a ham radio open house on World Amateur Radio Day
33. ARRL: The ARRL club grant program awards a half million dollars to help grow amateur radio
34. ARRL: The 76th Annual International DX Convention date is announced
35. The Lake Placid Olympic Museum receives a gift of amateur radio
36. Ireland's Amateur Radio Magazine returns and is now published online
37. The Orlando HamCation announces its annual award recipients
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 Scene 7 of his open source project, "The Bald Yak". This time out, Onno covers building a circuit without that burnt chicken smell.
* 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, will be here with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This time out, Will has us board The Wayback Machine to 1916 when amateurs were experimenting with the atmosphere and trying to figure out how propagation worked, in a story called "Strangely Behaving Signals".
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