This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1292 Release Date: December 2, 2023 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael Lamontain, KE2AWY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:04:35 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1292 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Happy 10th Birthday FUNcube-1 (AO-73) 2. AMSAT: SpaceX's Starship Flies Higher 3. AMSAT AT WRC-23: International Telecommunications Union RA-23 Adopts Resolution for Space Spectrum 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. NJIT: NJIT Scientists Uncover Aurora-Like Radio Emission Above a Sunspot 6. WRC-23: Day 6 (Monday November 27th) : 50 MHz and 23 Centimeter bands discussed 7. ARRL: ARRL RF Safety Committee Develops New Guidelines To Communicate RF Safety 8. ARRL: ARRL Advocacy Win: FCC Approves Request for Pearl Harbor Day Crossband Operations 9. ARRL: WX1AW Active For 2023 SKYWARN Recognition Day 10. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Has Removed Two General Class License Questions 11. ARRL: Summits On The Air Is Offering A 10 Meter Challenge In 2024 12. Nikola Tesla's Last Remaining Laboratory Is Destroyed By Fire 13. Amateurs In India Track Down Lifesaving Medicine For An Ill Child 14. SpaceX Has Told The FCC That StarLink Does Not Cause Radio Interference 15. Comment Period Still Open For Proposals For 2200 and 630 Meters 16. New ISS Spotting App Is Released By NASA 17. Sweden's Alexandersson Alternator To Transmit Christmas Message 18. Application Period For Youth On The Air Is Open 19. Amateurs and Broadcast Community Come Together For Australia's Technorama 20. Emergency Communications Radio Room named after Oregon SM David Kidd, KA7OZO 21. The December 2023 Volunteer Monitoring Report 22. Upcoming Contests and Convention listing from the ARRL 23. HACK: High altitude balloon to fly during upcoming solar eclipse - NASA recruiting ham citizen scientists 24. ARRL: Two Florida amateurs 100 miles apart, make contact via a ten meter FM repeater in Switzerland 25. ARRL: 2023 ARRL Fall Section Manager Election results are announced 26. University of Scranton's new amateur radio tower helps prepare new station for the upcoming eclipse 27. Well known amateur and Chicago broadcaster Orrin Brand, K9KEK, SK Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte W6TWT will take a look at dark fiber, and why he thinks bits should be free... * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, says we have failed to simulate. * 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. Bill starts a series on the history of amateur radio repeaters. * Courtesy of The Rain Report, we'll travel back in time for a talk from Radio historian Scott Childers - W9CHI as he relates a short history of "The Big 89", in Chicago, WLS. ----- 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! 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