PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1344

This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1344 - Full Version Release Date: November 30, 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, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:32:19 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1344 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT OSCAR-7 50th Anniversary — The Space Age, Morse Code and STEM Innovation 2. AMSAT: ASRTU-1 Designated ASRTU-OSCAR 123 - Update on PARUS-T1A Satellite 3. AMSAT: Air Leak on ISS Russian Module Is Getting Worse 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Co-Inventor Of The BASIC Programming Language SK 6. ARRL: ARRL 2023 Annual Report Now Available 7. ARRL: How To Let Kids Talk With Santa Over Ham Radio This Holiday Season 8. ARRL: Ed Menasian, N8LPQ Receives 2024 ARRL Technical Service Award 9. ARRL: Giving Thanks On Giving Tuesday 10. ARRL: Civil Air Patrol Will Be Commemorated With Special Event Station W9CAP 11. ARRL: YOTA Members Will Be On The Air Around The World In December 12. FCC: FCC Approves SpaceX and T-Mobile's Direct-to-Cell Service 13. China Builds World's Largest Fully Steerable Radio Telescope 14. New Rules For Vehicle Safety Alerts On The 5.9 GigaHertz Band Proposed By The FCC 15. As Austrian Shortwave Fades Out Shortwave In The U.K. Activates 16. Amateurs In Pennsylvania Assist With Operation Toy Train 17. The United Kingdom Prepares Summits On The Air Activators For GaulFest 18. New Amateur Radio Digital Communications Appointee To Overlook Grants and Awards 19. EI2CL Michael McNamara, DXer, and Island Activator, SK 20. Three Mars Orbiters Are Contacted By A Radio Telescope In The Netherlands 21. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and regional Convention listing 22. Smokey Mountain Amateur Radio Club lowers its dues to help out members financially 23. AMSAT: SpaceX Dragon fires thrusters to boost the Space Station orbit for the first time 24. WIA: Amateur Radio appears in a German television crime drama on ZDF/Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen 25. ARRL: Committee at the league proposes changes to ARRL By Laws 42 & 46 26. ARRL: ARRL fall season Section Manager election results are announced 27. ARRL: Hawaii clubs are preparing for the 83rd commemoration of the December 7th Pearl Harbor attack 28. 30th year since Voice of America went silent from its Ohio transmitter site 29. ARRL: ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinators implement changes 30. FCC: FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel tenders her resignation 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, says that suddenly, there were 700. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, D X, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.. * Will Rogers, K5WLR, A Century of Amateur Radio. Will is here to take us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early days of amateur radio where as 1916 drew to a close, we find Hiram Percy Maxim making a plea in QST to organize what might be the first round-trip message relay across the country. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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 [e-mail]. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.