This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1301 Release Date: February 3, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:01:00 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1301 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: New Portable Satellite Antenna Design is Perfect for Emergency Communications 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Why We Need Shortwave 2.0 4. FCC: FCC Is Giving Greater Privileges On 6 GigaHertz To Very Low Power Devices 5. FCC: FCC Updates Rules To Allow 70/80/90 Gigahertz Spectrum Bands For Ships and Aircraft 6. Morse Code Is Alive and Well at KPH 7. ARRL: The First Amateur Radio Station On The Moon, JS1YMG, Is Now Transmitting 8. ARRL: ARRL Midwest Division Convention, Winterfest 9. ARRL: Heil Sound Donates Equipment To W1AW 10. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications In February 11. ARRL: Winter Field Day A Success For Ohio Club 12. ARRL: Errata To The 2024 Thru 2028 Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Released 13. ARRL: 160th Anniversary Of The Sinking Of The USS Housatonic 14. FCC: FCC Submits Annual Report on Illegal Radio Enforcement 15. Winter Field Day Statistics Released 16. State QSO Club Challenge Is Launched 17. Two Are Arrested For Theft Of Copper From KITX Destroyed Radio Tower 18. DLARC Announces Ham Radio and More Program Joins The Digital Library Collection 19. DxPeditioners Present A Memorial For A Friend 20. West Malaysian Amateurs Start A New Summits On The Air Group 21. Amateur Radio Education Part Of Curriculum At Staten Island School 22. RAC: Canada Strengthens Its Use It Or Lose It Spectrum Policy 23. Upcoming Contests and National Convention Listing 24. ARRL Board Approves Free Membership For Students, New Vice President Elected, and more - Part One. 25. ARRL: ARRL January Board of Directors Meeting Actions (continued) Part Two 26. ARRL: ARRL January Board of Directors Meeting Actions (continued) Part Three 27. FCC: FCC To Host Webinar Showcasing An Overview Of The FCC Experimental Licensing Program 28. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Needed For The 2024 Running Of The Boston Marathon 29. IEEE: IEEE Article Credits Amateur Radio For The Current Wireless Revolution 30. FCC Will Add Vehicles and Personnel For Enforcement Of The PIRATE Radio Act In Several Major Markets Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will discuss when is it time to buy a new router, you should look at MESS Technology, and talks about the advantages of Network Attached Storage. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "What is a repeater or a beacon, really?" * 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. This week, Bill takes us back to June 4, 1940 when the FCC issued an order that hams could not make contacts off shore, and then In December issue another order that took the amateurs totally off the air. * RAIN/QSO TODAY: We will conclude our two part interview with Gordon West, WB6NOA, and how he began his amateur radio journey. ----- 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! 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. 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 feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.