This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1129 Release Date: October 17, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:22:53 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1129 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Amateur Radio AMPRnet TCP/IP Addresses Raised $108 Million 2. Amateur Radio Tribute To Guitar Virtuoso Eddie Van Halen 3. IARU Administrative Council Addresses Wide-Ranging Agenda in Virtual Meeting 4. Bob Buus, W2OD, Appointed as Northern New Jersey Section Manager 5. ARRL Files Comments in Orbital Debris Mitigation Proceeding 6. Giving Back To The Birthplace Of The Computer - Facebook Donates To Keep Bletchley Park Open To All 7. Multiple Balloons Carrying Ham Radio Payloads Launched 8. ARRL Learning Network Webinars Scheduled 9. While FCC Plans to Delete 3.5 GigaHertz Band, Canadian Privileges Will Remain 10. Recording Industry Pioneer, Elektra Records Founder, Jac Holzman, ex-K2VEH, Marks a Milestone 11. Man Arrested In Colorado On Murder Charges Is An Amateur 12. Amateurs Prepare To Communicate With A Hawaiian Research Satellite 13. ARES Academy Begins Virtual Classes, While Belgiums Regulator Calls A Halt To Amateur Radio Exams 14. The Alexanderson Alternator Will Be Transmitting To Mark United Nations Day 15. ARRL Auction Is Up And Running This Weekend. 16. Florida ARES Group Publishes After Action Book 17. ARRL School Culb Round Up Contest Is On The Air This Weekend 18. FCC Orders Amateur Access To 3.5 gigahertz To Sunset Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about setting up virtualization on a Mac Book to run other operating systems, and takes a tongue-in-cheek look at how Google just doesn't care. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about how to design an antenna mount for small towers. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will show you how you have an ionospheric monitoring service in you shack. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill continues his looking into amateur radios Fallen Flags with an in depth look at the Hammerlund Radio Corporation. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 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 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, including iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, AnchorFM, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, NetVibes, OverCast, Player.FM, PocketCast, Podnova, and RSS feeds. 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter!