This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1102 Release Date: April 11, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:37:13 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1102 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Thousands apply to join NASA's Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut 2. Use of Special Call Sign Suffixes in the U-S and Around The World During Virus Situation 3. Icom Announces Delay in Delivery of New IC-705 Transceiver 4. New TQSL Version 2.5.2 Provides Better LoTW Rover Support, Other Improvements 5. Ned Stearns, AA7A, Appointed as ARRL Southwestern Division Vice Director 6. World Amateur Radio Day on Saturday April 18th Celebrates 95th Anniversary of the IARU 7. How to Participate in World Amateur Radio Day 8. Second Century - QST Magazine - The Future is Fragmented - An Editorial From QST by Steve Ford 9. USA conducts first all-online ham radio exam - An Audio Update 10. Entercom Radio Owner Of WNEW-FM In NYC Faces Penalty for Misuse of EAS Tones in 2018 11. Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Postponed 12. Historic first trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MegaHertz 13. Hamvention QSO Party Set for Saturday, May 16th 14. Virus Guidelines Could Affect Some IARU HF World Championship Participation 15. New Volunteer Monitor Program is Up and Running On The Bands 16. Japan Gets Extended Access to the 160 Meter Band 17. Spain Grants Unlicensed Individuals Permission To Use Amateur Stations During Lockdown 18. The FCC Grants Temporary Emergency Authority To Wireless ISP's In The 5.8Mhz Band 19. Field Day 2020 - The ARRL Says Its Time To Adapt Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, this week Leo talks about the best ways to improve and extend your wifi signal around your house. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, Greg discusses the best procedure and belts to use when climbing your tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us "How To Break The Isolation, One QSO at a Time." * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns this week with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, in this edition, Bill looks at "The Controversy Created By Incentive Licensing" Part Two. * Classic RAIN: Classic Rain Edition #: We will hear from the late Wayne Green, W2NSD, from the mid 1980's pontificates on the "Save 220" campaign, before it was reassigned to the United Parcel Service. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://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 ID breaks every 10 minutes. 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, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. 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 us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.