PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1299

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1299 Release Date: January 20, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Patrick Huba, N2WWW, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:39:44 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1299 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ARISS Announces NASA Astronaut Tony England WØORE As Speaker For 40th Celebration 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With AMSAT Booth At 2024 HamCation In Orlando Florida 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 4. WIA: World Radiosport Team Championship Receives YASME Foundation Grant 5. Winter Field Day Is Coming Up 6. ARRL: ARRL Is New Publisher Of Gordon West, WB6NOA 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Club Donation Helps Mississippi Library System 8. ARRL: Second Annual Georgia State Parks On The Air 2024 9. ARRL: Radio Help Wanted: Must Like Geysers, Bison, and Helicopter Rides 10. ARRL: 2024 Quartzfest Is This Week In Arizona 11. ARRL: 30th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner Is Announced 12. ARRL: Hams Will Be Able To Contact The USS Iowa During The Ships 81st Anniversary 13. StarLink Makes Text Messaging Via Satellite A Reality 14. Amateurs In Australia Facing New Class License Structuring 15. Copper Thieves Cut Down Oklahoma Broadcast Radio Tower 16. Three Astronauts Are Featured In ARISS Anniversary Conference 17. Workshop At HamSci Is Reviewing Annular Eclipse Data 18. Six Gigahertz Very Low Power Devices Are Coming On Line 19. Upcoming Contests and Convention Listing 20. QRZ - QRZ Is Hiring Looking For A Software Engineer 21. Congressman Bill Johnson Re-Introduces Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act 22. The 2024 CQ DX Marathon Is Up And Running 23. ARRL: 2024 Orlando HamCation Awards Are Announced 24. ARRL: ARRL Responds To FCC Proposals On Removing Symbol Rate Limits 25. Six Month Extension Is Granted For 160, 6, and 4 Meter Bands For German Amateurs Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, discusses a brand new fast and secure DNS service you can use, and the results of a new study on cell phone radiation. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how you can visualize 56 MegaHertz of Bandwidth. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill sets The Wayback Machine for September 1st, 1939 while the third radio telegraph conference is held in Cairo, Egypt. The United States fights to retain amateur radio allocations, but concedes that shortwave broadcasting will invade the amateur HF bands later in the year. * Interview with morse code historian, Lewis Coe, W9CN/SK, Morse Code certainly left its mark on the American frontier even before the Civil War. Though the FCC dropped Morse code from the entry level Amateur Radio exam in the early 1990s, American history was forever changed by dits and dots. Courtesy of The Rain Report. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. 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