This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1252 Release Date: February 25, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:47:49 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1252 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. SPECIAL FEATURE STORY: Could AI-Fueled Amateur Radio Rebuild Loran-C? - PART ONE 2. SPECIAL FEATURE STORY: Could AI-Fueled Amateur Radio Rebuild Loran-C? - PART TWO 3. FT8CN A New Free Android App 4. Balloon Experimenters Worry About Reactions In Current Environment 5. Call For ARISS Contact Proposals 6. Tips for Maintaining Your House or Shack Generator 7. Amateur Radio Operators and Their Role With Sled Dog Safety 8. Amateurs Roles In Turkey/Syrian Earthquake Response The Focus Of BBC Report 9. Amateurs Activate To Provide Communications As Cyclone Hits New Zealand 10. Call For Volunteer Engineers Issued By AMSAT North America 11. Autism Awareness Event Issues Call For Operators 12. Lighthouse Weekend Supported By Amateurs in Puerto Rico 13. Calvert County Maryland Radio Association Upgrades Its Repeater System 14. Australian Amateur Honored For Copying Final Signals From FalconSat 3 15. 2022 Roanoke Division ARRL Service Award Recipient Selected 16. W8LT - A History of Amateur Radio at Ohio State University 17. World Amateur Radio Day Theme: Human Security For All 18. ARRL Welcomes Kevin Beal, K8EAL, As The Director of Development 19. New Radio Society of Great Britain Youth Champion Appointed 20. Amazon Gets Key FCC Approval For More Than 3,000 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Broadband Satellite 21. Radio Society of Great Britain Board Chair and Company Secretary Resign 22. Anatel Brazil Publishes Amended Frequency Plan 23. Crew-6 Launch Slips As Progress Leak Investigation Continues 24. QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Adds Exploring the Future of Amateur Radio Balloons Seminar 25. A Linux Distro For All Your Ham Radio Needs - KB1OIQ - Andy's Ham Radio Linux 26. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests, and a select on the air contest listings 27. NASA announces the winners of the 2022 Annual Space Applications Challenge 28. International Amateur Radio Union holds its first 2023 meeting to prepare for the upcoming World Radio Conference 29. The ARRL Volunteers On The Air (VOTA) operations continue on the air at a brisk pace 30. The ARRL VEC releases the General Class Element 3 Errata Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss what he calls the iGen generation, and will explain why you, yes you, should have a blog, a web site, and a URL with your call sign. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the best procedures for hauling cargo up the tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will explain some of those special amateur radio ABC's. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the early 1970's for a look at how amateur radio was utilized to organize college student protests to the Vietnam War nation wide with the advent of The Student Information Network on the HF bands. ----- 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 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. 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