PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1237
This Week in Amateur Radio - A podcast by George Bowen, W2XBS - Sundays
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1237 Release Date: November 12, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:39:58 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1237 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. The QO-100 AMSAT-UK and The British Amateur Television Club North American Challenge 2. Radio Amateurs Up and Down The East Coast Are At The Ready For Forecast Hurricane Nicole 3. Amateur Radio Operators and More Will Track NASA's Artemis 1 Moon Mission 4. FCC Takes Next Step to Enable Faster, Better Wi-Fi 5. CW Competency Test Coordinator Is Appointed By The Radio Society Of Great Britain 6. FCC Seeks Electronic Engineering Graduates For New Honors Program 7. The Transistor Turns 75 Years Old In 2023 8. Climate Changes In Mozambique Spurs Interest In Amateur Radio 9. New National Disaster Response Team Is Looking For Volunteers 10. Keeping Canada's New Amateurs On The Air Falls On Elmers 11. Ellen White, W1YL, Silent Key, Devoted Lifetime to Amateur Radio and ARRL 12. Calvert Amateur Radio Association Conducts Simulated Emergency Test 13. ARRL Programs To Benefit From Auction Proceeds 14. Reaching Youth Through Amateur Radio In The Classroom 15. New WXWarn 2.0 Software Is Now Available 16. Upcoming Contests and Conventions 17. First Maps, Then Challenges, Then Funding FCC, NTIA Announce Broadband Timeline 18. ARRL Delegates Attend International Amateur Radio Union Region Two General Assembly Meeting 19. Australian Radio Amateurs May Move To A Proposed New Class Licensing System 20. Amateur Radio Digital Communications is looking for volunteers for its Advisory Committee 21. The 3rd Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest Is Now Underway Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will discuss the wide world of incompatible standards in the high tech industry * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will answer the question, what should I bring when I prepare to climb my tower for antenna maintenance. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about, exactly what it is that he has on his virtual workbench. * 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 very beginnings of Amateur Radio. * The latest news from Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air with Matt Heere N3NWV. * SPECIAL: We will flash back in This Week in Amateur Radio time with a demonstration of two meter tropospheric ducting with the late Bill Baran, N2FNH. ----- 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. 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 [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.