This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1195 Release Date: January 22, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:37:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1195 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Amateur Operation in 3.45 – 3.5 GigaHertz Segment Must Cease by April 14th, 2022 2. Bangladesh Amateur Radio League Founder Saif Shahid, S21A, SK 3. Distance Challenge Special Event Set In Arizona 4. ARES Activates As Wind Driven Year End Fire Destroys 1,000 Colorado Homes 5. Homebrew Heroes Award To Be Managed By Ham Radio Workbench 6. New Section Manager Appointed for Northern New York 7. Federal Communications Commission Seeks Attorney-Advisor for its Mobility Division 8. International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System Vice Coordinator Peter Jost, HB9CET, Retires 9. Two Radio Amateurs Appointed to the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council 10. Extended ARRL Team Will Support February’s ARRL National Convention in Orlando - Part One 11. Extended ARRL Team Will Support February’s ARRL National Convention in Orlando - Part Two 12. National Science Foundation Awards Nearly $50,000 Grant to HamSCI Founder, Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF 13. Launch Of Two WISA Woodsats, (Satellites Made Of Treated Plywood) Are Still Pending 14. Volcano Explosion Cuts Tonga's Communications With The Rest Of The World 15. Scientists Build The Worlds Smallest Antenna Using D-N-A 16. DX Chasers Push To Retain Access To A Specific Island Group 17. DX Museum Preserves Rare and Vintage QSL Cards On Line 18. Germany's Ham Radio Society, DARC, Hit By A Cyber Attack 19. Special Event Station GB1900HA and GB1900HW - 1900th anniversary of Hadrian's Wall 20. 40th anniversary of partial resumption of ham radio in China 21. Cats discover the snow melting heat feature on Starlink dishes 22. Year Long BBC Special Event Station Making World-Wide Contacts 23. ARRL CEO NA1AA Editorial On Amateur Radio Diversity 24. German Amateurs Plan North Pole DXpedition In 2022 Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will explain the alphabet soup behind current day High Definition Television receivers.. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, explains the protocols of working and tower climbing with others. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, explains that he was considering building a parrot repeater. Except he has a different idea from what you are thinking. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from Tad Cook, K7RA * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the World Radio Telecommunications Conference of 1938. How did amateur radio come out of the conference? ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR 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. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. 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