This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1307 - Full Version Release Date: March 16, 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:42:41 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1307 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. SPACEX: SpaceX Transporter 10 Successfully Launches Over Fifty Satellites 2. AMSAT: Vostochny Spaceport Sends Meteor-M2-4 Weather Satellite Into Orbit 3. AMSAT: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launches To International Space Station 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. FCC: Two US Politicians Propose Legislation To Restore FCC Spectrum Auctions 6. FCC: FCC Clears SpaceX To Use E-Band For Starlink Capacity Improvements 7. IARU: World Amateur Radio Day Theme Announced By The International Amateur Radio Union 8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Stands Ready To Support Eclipse Operations 9. ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day Theme: Be 'Radio Active' 10. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2024 Award Winners Are Announced 11. ARRL: The 2024 Baker to Vegas Race Is Set To Run On March 23 and 24 12. New N Class License Holders In Germany Will Receive DN9 Callsigns 13. New Small Satellite Has Amateur Radio Aboard 14. Space Junk From The ISS Re-Enters Earth's Atmosphere Without A Problem 15. Landlords Are Charged By The FCC For Supporting Radio Piracy 16. YASME Foundation Grants and Awards Are Presented 17. Islands On The Air Chaser Honor Roll Is Published 18. 2009 Dayton Hamvention Amateur Of The Year Danny Hampton, SK 19. Orlando HamCation Sets New Attendance Record 20. Hams In Halifax North Carolina Resolve Upcoming Special Event Station 21. Canadian Amateur Radio Club Will Hold Unique Special Event Station 22. Upcoming Conventions and select Contests from the ARRL Contest Calendar 23. ARRL: FCC Announces Job Opportunities For Recent Engineering Graduates 24. ARRL: National Council Of Volunteer Examiners Removes One General Class Question 25. Australia's new amateur licensing system expands overseas hams privileges 26. Luxembourg adds a new class of license for entry level operators 27. Islands On The Air celebrate its 60th anniversary with the theme of Friedrichshafen 28. Amateur Radio Digital Communications sets April 1st deadline for grant applications 29. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about how you can stay safe online when using free open wifi connections. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about "Technology At Its Finest" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1915 for an amateur radio journey entitled "A Patriotic and Dignified Effort". ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly) Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1306 - Full Version Release Date: March 9, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:14 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1306 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. The man who defined the sound of live rock 'n' roll music and brought audio engineering principles into mainstream amateur radio use, Doctor Bob Heil, K9EID, has passed away at the age of 83. We will have the details 2. AMSAT: ARISS 40th Anniversary Celebration Held at Kennedy Space Center 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. NASA: NASA Has Opened The Call For A Simulated Yearlong Mars Mission 5. ICASA: From The Land Of The Free To The Land Of The Fees 6. WIA: New Zealand Launches A Demonstration Satellite To Clean Up Space Junk 7. FCC: The FCC Puts More East Coast Broadcast Pirates In Its Sights 8. IARU: World Amateur Radio Day Coming Up 9. ARRL: FCC Job Opportunity For Recent Engineering Graduates 10. ARRL: Solar Eclipse Is One Month Away, Get Involved Now 11. ARRL: Bob Vallio, W6RGG, Named ARRL Honorary Vice President 12. ARRL: Pi Day Is On The Menu For Amateur Radio On March 14, 2024 13. ARRL: National Council of Volunteer Examiners Remove One General Class Question 14. Transfering Wireless Power Via Infrared 15. Australia's New Amateur Licensing System Expands Overseas Hams Privileges 16. Amateurs Assist By Getting Medicine To Rail Passenger 17. Luxembourg Adds A New Class Of License For Entry Level Operators 18. IOTA/Islands On The Air 60th Anniversary Selects Friedrichshafen Theme 19. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Sets April First Deadline For Grant Applications 20. Helicopter On MARS Is Retired By NASA 21. Amateurs Needed Worldwide For Autism Awareness Week Special Event 22. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report 23. Upcoming Contests and Conventions From The League 24. FCC: FCC approves 6 gigahertz wifi management system 25. ARRL: Preparation underway across the US for the spring severe weather season 26. NASA: US Lunar Lander is functioning despite landing issues 27. FCC: FCC Honors program is seeking engineering applicants 28. FCC: A Cybercriminal Group Built A Duplicate Webpage Used By FCC Employees To Validate Credentials Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, tells us that millenials have discovered what they are calling a TV hack, a fantastic new discovery...free TV..Over The Air...and talks about new viruses circulating on the net. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about "The Art Of Finding An Operating Location, and spontaneously going out in the field to make some noise." * 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, we board The Wayback Machine for a trip back to 1962 when the hot words in amateur radio circles was "OSCAR" and TELSTAR. An it was the year that the FCC first proposed licensing fees. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly) Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1305 - Full Version Release Date: March 2, 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:39:56 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1305 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. Amateur Radio and Audio Innovator Bob Heil, K9EID, SK 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. FCC: FCC Moves To Add 13 New Languages To Emergency Alert System On Radio 4. ARRL: HAARP Needs Ham Help 5. ARRL: Preparation Underway For Severe Spring Weather 6. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League Celebrates International Women's Day With Special Event 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Celebrate Launch Of USS Midway 8. ARRL: HamSci First Festival of Eclipse Ionospheric Science Event Results Announced 9. FCC: FCC Chair Announces Missing and Endangered Persons Alert Code To Emergency Alert System 10. US Lunar Lander Is Functioning Despite Landing Issues 11. Amateur Radio on the ISS Celebrates 40 Years Of Ham Radio In Space 12. Indian Island DxPedition Draws Attention To Cyclone Caused Problems 13. AMSAT Announces FunCube Will Be Silent Though Mid-March 14. FCC Honors Program Is Seeking Engineering Applicants 15. Older Starlink Satellites Are Scheduled For De-orbiting 16. Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum Station Back On The Air 17. FCC: FCC Approves 6 GigaHertz Wi-Fi Management Systems 18. Upcoming ARRL Conventions and HamFest Listing 19. RAC: Potential exists for Canada To Ban SDR devices 20. ARRL: Amateur radio operators needed for help with the upcoming solar eclipse project 21. ARRL: Winter Section Manager election results announced 22. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day theme is chosen 23. New amateur radio regulations go into effect in Australia 24. New amateur radio regulations go into effect in the United Kingdom Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about new FCC regulations to keep robo-calls off your cellphone, and that the FCC has taken a positive step on net neutrality * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk amateur radio operators getting things done...or not. * 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 takes us in The Wayback Machine to 1958 when the key word was satellites. And he will look at other actions taking place on the ham bands in the late 1950's. * RAIN Report, will present a talk given by the late Bob Heil, K9EID, who will talk about ham radio’s influence on his music and audio careers. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly) Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1304 - Full Version Release Date: February 24, 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, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Mike LaFountain, KE2AWY, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:50:22 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1304 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: SpaceX Delays Crew-8 Astronaut Launch to Make Way for Private Moon Mission 2. AMSAT: Upcoming Rideshare Launch to Include Amateur Payloads 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. RAC: Potential for Canada to Ban SDR Devices 5. WIA: 100 New DAB+ Transmitters On The Air Across France 6. WIA: New Summits On The Air Group Is Growing For West Malaysian Hams 7. TECH: Anywhere There's A Camera, Now There Is A New Security Risk 8. ARRL: Line Up And Sign Up Club Activity To Generate Club Funds 9. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Needed For Help With Solar Eclipse Project 10. ARRL: Winter Season Section Manager Election Results 11. ARRL: Former Vice Director Of The ARRL Hudson Division, Bill Hudzik, W2UDT, Silent Key 12. ARRL: 105th Anniversary Of The American Legion To Be Celebrated With A Special Event Station 13. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Theme Is Chosen 14. Girl Scouts Contact The ISS / The ISS Digipeater Is Back On The Air 15. New Amateur Radio Regulations Are Now In Effect In The United Kingdom 16. FOLLOW UP: Lingering Questions Surround Missing Radio Tower 17. New Amateur Radio Regulations Now In Effect In Australia 18. VHF Repeater Abilities Tested During Indian DxPedition 19. Trained Skywarn Weather Spotters Needed For Upcoming Hurricane Season 20. ISS Crew 8 Astronauts Delayed By Launch Of Lunar Lander 21. Amateur Radio Software Award Honors The Innovative Spirit 22. Award Honors DX Century Club Elmers 23. Why Was The Eiffel Tower Kept? 24. SCI: Earth Has Received Power Beamed From A Satellite In Space For The First Time 25. ARRL: Senators Wicker & Blumenthal Introduce S.3690 To Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on AR 26. RAC: Barrie Crampton, VE3BSB, appointed to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 27. ARRL: Amateur Radio As An Educational Tool Represented To Policymakers In Washington DC 28. ARRL: Highlights From The 2024 Orlando HamCation 29. ARRL: Registration Deadline For The HamSCI Sixth Annual Workshop Is March 1st 30. ESA: European Space Agency Proposes New Ham Satellite Payload, Seeks Comments 31. ARRL: Amateur Antennas Would Be Protected Under Proposed New Law In South Carolina 32. Upcoming Conventions and Contest Announcement Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to talk about shared computing programs, and Internet Service Providers with data caps. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how to write to your countries regulator about beacon and repeater licenses. * 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 takes us in The Wayback Machine to the mid and late 1940's to discuss what the post war amateur bands were like after the big frequency shuffle, and how amateurs learned about something called TVI, and a little invention called an amplifying crystal. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly) Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1303 - Full Version Release Date: February 17, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon. W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:03:56 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1303 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: GreenCube IO-117 Continues Operations Beyond Expected February 5th Passivation 2. AMSAT: JS1YMG: Decoding The First Moon Based Ham Radio Station’s Telemetry Signals 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. FCC: The FCC Bans Robocalls With AI Generated Voices 5. Earth Has Received Power Beamed From A Satellite In Space For The First Time 6. ARRL: Senators Wicker & Blumenthal Introduce S.3690 To Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on AR 7. RAC: Barrie Crampton, VE3BSB, appointed to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 8. ARRL: Amateur Radio As An Educational Tool Represented To Policymakers In Washington DC 9. ARRL: Highlights From The 2024 Orlando HamCation 10. ARRL: Veteran DXpedition Leader Bob Allphin, K4UEE, SK 11. ARRL: Registration Deadline For The HamSCI Sixth Annual Workshop Is March 1st 12. ARRL: Errata to the 2024 - 2028 Amateur Extra-Class Question Pool Released (Updated) 13. WIA: Hams In Australia Have New License Procedures Taking Effect 14. European Space Agency Proposes New Ham Satellite Payload, Seeks Comments 15. Amateur Antennas Would Be Protected Under Proposed New Law In South Carolina 16. DMR TGIF Founder EA7KDO, Mitch Savage, SK 17. L3 Harris Technologies Prototype Antenna System and Satellites Receive High Marks 18. Jose Jacob VU2JOS Receives Lifetime Award 19. Hawaii Amateurs To Develop Emergency Simplex Radio Net 20. First Responders In West Virginia Organize A New Ham Radio Club 21. FCC: FCC Moves To Add 13 New Languages To Emergency Alert System On Radio 22. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors Meets - Headquarters To Close on Presidents Day 23. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests 24. ARRL: Amateur Radio goes to high school in New York City 25. ARRL: George Washington's Birthday will be celebrated by three separate radio clubs 26. ARRL: The DX Mentor Recognition Program is announced 27. RSGB: Amateur radio license changes begin this month in the United Kingdom 28. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Program Report. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, takes a look at why you really don't need certain types of software on your computer. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, answers the question, "What is an Amateur Radio Emergency Response?" * 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 takes us in The Wayback Machine to December 7th, 1941 during World War Two when the FCC issued Order 87 which shuts down amateur radio in the US, and creates, WERS, the War Emergency Service. * RAIN: The Rain Report we will hear an interview with Alex Muzyka, the man and mind behind the his KQ2H 10 Meter FM repeater in the Catskill mountains of New York. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, updated weekly) Automated (1-hour): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 (Static file, updated 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1302 Release Date: February 10, 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:26:24 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1302 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AO-92 Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere 2. AMSAT: Lunar Excursion Vehicle (LEV–1) Amateur Telemetry Received 3. WIA: New Indian Documentary Is A Collection Of Nostalgic Stories Of Radio Enthusiasts 4. Plan For Europe's Huge New Particle Collider Takes Shape 5. An Entire 200 Foot Tower Stolen From WJLX-AM Jasper Alabama 6. ARRL: California Storms: Amateur Radio Is Ready 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Goes To High School In New York City 8. ARRL: World Radio Day 2024 9. ARRL: George Washington's Birthday Will Be Celebrated By Three Amateur Radio Clubs 10. ARRL: Georgia Elementary School Contacts The International Space Station 11. ARRL: DX Mentor Recognition Program Is Announced 12. Developing Nations CubeSats Are Getting A Ride To Orbit 13. Amateur Radio License Changes Begin This Month In The United Kingdom 14. Contester Slavko Celarc, S57DX, A Silent Key 15. International YL Club Plans A Czech Contest Station 16. Pluto's Discovery Celebrated On The Amateur Bands 17. Silicon Valley Explores Its Amateur Radio Past 18. A Major Festival In North Bengal Supported By Amateurs 19. WIA: Amelia Earhart's Long Lost Plane Possibly Detected By Sonar 20. Upcoming Select Contests and Conventions 21. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring System Report 22. ARRL: The first amateur radio signal originating on the moon JS1YMG is on the air 23. ARRL: Heil Sound makes a large donation to the W1AW stations 24. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications 25. ARRL: Volunteer Examiner Coordinators issues an Errata to the 2024-2028 Amateur Extra Class Question Pool 26. FCC: FCC submits its annual report on illegal radio enforcement to Congress 27. DLARC: The DLARC announces that Ham Radio & More program is added to its digital library 28. RAC: Canada strengthens its use it or lose it spectrum policy Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT talks about how computers are getting better, but how keyboards are getting worse. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "What is the right mode for Emergency Communications?' * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, our amateur radio historian, will take the wayback machine to December of 1915 to take a look at the first edition of a little magazine called QST. ----- 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1301 Release Date: February 3, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:01:00 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1301 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: New Portable Satellite Antenna Design is Perfect for Emergency Communications 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Why We Need Shortwave 2.0 4. FCC: FCC Is Giving Greater Privileges On 6 GigaHertz To Very Low Power Devices 5. FCC: FCC Updates Rules To Allow 70/80/90 Gigahertz Spectrum Bands For Ships and Aircraft 6. Morse Code Is Alive and Well at KPH 7. ARRL: The First Amateur Radio Station On The Moon, JS1YMG, Is Now Transmitting 8. ARRL: ARRL Midwest Division Convention, Winterfest 9. ARRL: Heil Sound Donates Equipment To W1AW 10. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications In February 11. ARRL: Winter Field Day A Success For Ohio Club 12. ARRL: Errata To The 2024 Thru 2028 Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Released 13. ARRL: 160th Anniversary Of The Sinking Of The USS Housatonic 14. FCC: FCC Submits Annual Report on Illegal Radio Enforcement 15. Winter Field Day Statistics Released 16. State QSO Club Challenge Is Launched 17. Two Are Arrested For Theft Of Copper From KITX Destroyed Radio Tower 18. DLARC Announces Ham Radio and More Program Joins The Digital Library Collection 19. DxPeditioners Present A Memorial For A Friend 20. West Malaysian Amateurs Start A New Summits On The Air Group 21. Amateur Radio Education Part Of Curriculum At Staten Island School 22. RAC: Canada Strengthens Its Use It Or Lose It Spectrum Policy 23. Upcoming Contests and National Convention Listing 24. ARRL Board Approves Free Membership For Students, New Vice President Elected, and more - Part One. 25. ARRL: ARRL January Board of Directors Meeting Actions (continued) Part Two 26. ARRL: ARRL January Board of Directors Meeting Actions (continued) Part Three 27. FCC: FCC To Host Webinar Showcasing An Overview Of The FCC Experimental Licensing Program 28. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Needed For The 2024 Running Of The Boston Marathon 29. IEEE: IEEE Article Credits Amateur Radio For The Current Wireless Revolution 30. FCC Will Add Vehicles and Personnel For Enforcement Of The PIRATE Radio Act In Several Major Markets Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will discuss when is it time to buy a new router, you should look at MESS Technology, and talks about the advantages of Network Attached Storage. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "What is a repeater or a beacon, really?" * 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 takes us back to June 4, 1940 when the FCC issued an order that hams could not make contacts off shore, and then In December issue another order that took the amateurs totally off the air. * RAIN/QSO TODAY: We will conclude our two part interview with Gordon West, WB6NOA, and how he began his amateur radio journey. ----- 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1300 Release Date: January 27, 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: 2:06:05 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1300 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: All-Ham Axiom Crew Launched For Commercial Visit To The International Space Station 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: WRC-2023 Final Acts Document Signed 4. ARRL: ARRL Board Approves Free Membership For Students, New Vice Presidents Elected - PART ONE 5. ARRL: ARRL January Board Meeting Actions (Continued) - PART TWO 6. ARRL: ARRL January Board Meeting Actions (Continued) - PART THREE 7. FCC: Webinar Showcases Overview of FCC Experimental Licensing Program 8. DX: SouthWest Ohio DX Association DX Dinner Announced For Dayton HamVention 9. ARRL: YLISSB Celebrates 61 Years On the Air 10. ARRL: Doctor Philip Erickson, W1PJE, New Director Of MIT Haystack Observatory 11. ARRL: 75th Anniversary Of The US Being Gifted 40 & 8 Merci Train Boxcars 12. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Are Needed For The 2024 Boston Marathon 13. ARRL: Amateur Radio On The International Space Station News 14. IEEE Article Credits Amateur Radio For The Current Wireless Revolution 15. Amateurs Asked To Participate In ROTA - Racing On The Air 16. Humanitarian Effort In The Ukraine Is Assisted With Donations Of Radios For Communication 17. Youth Outreach To Be Performed By RSGB Volunteers In The UK 18. Creator Of Network Time Protocol Dave Mills, W3HCF - SK 19. Summits On The Air Chaser, KU4R, Bob Warden, SK 20. 8R7X DxPedition To Guyana Is A Go 21. AMSAT: AMSAT Responds To The Planned Decommissioning Of The IO-117 Satellite GreenCube 22. FCC: The FCC Will Add Vehicles and Personnel For Pirate Radio Enforcement 23. Ghostbusters Producers Worry About Cosplayers Using New Baofeng Radios In The New Movie 24. Upcoming Contests and Conventions Listing 25. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With Its Booth At The Upcoming 2024 Orlando HamCation 26. ARRL: ARRL Is Now Publisher Of Gordon West, WB6NOA License Manuals 27. ARRL: Mississippi Amateur Radio Club Makes Large Donation To The Mississippi Library System 28. ARRL: Radio Help Wanted: Must Like Geysers, Bison, and Helicopter Rides 29. ARRL: 30th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner Is Announced For Upcoming HamVention Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss why you should regulary back up your data. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about the New Arrangements For Amateur Radio In Australia. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, will sets The Wayback Machine to the early 1900's when amateur radio clubs were first getting organized. * Part One of an interview with Gordon West, WB6NOA as he relates for the first time, how he began his amateur radio career. Eric Guth 4Z1UG conducts this interview from 2019. ----- 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WAØRCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1298 Release Date: January 13, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Patrick Huba. N2WWW, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael LaMountain, KE2AWY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:44:43 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR-1298 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. QRZ - QRZ Is Hiring Looking For A Software Engineer 2. WBCQ Relies On High-Power Shortwave Antenna 3. WIA: Turkey's First Astronaut Will Communicate with the National Call Sign 4. Congressman Bill Johnson Re-Introduces Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act 5. FCC: FCC Appears Ready To Mandate Disaster Information Reporting System Reporting By Radio Stations 6. The Lost Cosmonauts Of The USSR. Dramatic Transmissions Picked Up From Outer Space 7. The 2024 CQ DX Marathon Is Up And Running 8. ARRL: Marty on the Mountain Engstrom, N1ARY (SK) 9. ARRL: ARRL Responds To FCC Proposals On Removing Symbol Rate Limits 10. ARRL: 2024 Orlando HamCation Awards Are Announced 11. ARRL: ARRL Kids Day A Success In Nebraska 12. ARRL: Winter Field Day 2024 Is Coming Up 13. ARRL: ARISS Is Seeking Educational and Other Organizations To Host ISS Contacts 14. Teen Amateurs Score A Direct Contact With The International Space Station 15. Six Month Extension Is Granted For 160, 6, and 4 Meter Bands For German Amateurs 16. Tom Molyneaux Jr, KE3GK, From East Coast Reflectors, SK 17. Earth-Moon-Earth Conference Is Searching For Presentations 18. ARDC: Ham Radio Village In Colorado Receives Grant For STEM and STEAM Outreach 19. Amateurs Provide Communications And More At Religious Pilgrimage In India 20. Starlink To Enable Experimental Texting Via Space 21. Westchester Emergency Communications Association Hosting General & Extra Classes Online 22. FCC: FCC Set To Wind Down The Affordable Connectivity Program 23. FCC: FCC Chair Asks Automakers About Plans To Secure Car Location Data 24. Upcoming Contests and Conventions 25. ARRL: Teenage amateurs appear on NBC's Today Show During Contact With The Space Station 26. ARRL: HamSci 2024 Workshop is coming up soon 27. Expanded frequency use worldwide expands to include Mobile Base Stations 28. Free online seminars for extra class is offered by The Electronics Museum 29. FCC: FCC opens 2024 hunting in the New York City hotbed of broadcast radio pirates 30. Latest edition of the Volunteer Monitoring Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, says that the FBI wants you to reboot your router...now! * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present a talk on The Art of Operating QRP. * 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 takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to March 4th, 1929, to talk about life during The Great Depression and the frivolous hobby of amateur radio. ----- 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.