PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1123

This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1123 Release Date: September 5, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:22:04 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1123 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Solar Minimum Most Likely Occurred in December 2019 2. Scouting's Jamboree on the Air Set for October 16th thru the 18th 3. First Element of ARISS Next Generation Radio System Installed and Operating on the Space Station 4. FCC Proposes to Reinstate Amateur Radio Service Fees 5. Hurricane Watch Net Logs More than 29 Hours of Continuous Operation for Laura 6. Historic Winlink Gateway KH6SP Ceases Operation 7. Launch of Satellites Carrying Ham Radio Payloads Postponed Again 8. Amateur Radio News Shorts 9. ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Is Virtual This Year 10. Post Hurricane Laura, Louisiana Hams Focus On Safe Use Of Generators 11. Vandals Break Into Australian Marine Distress Radio Service Building 12. Long Island Amateurs Consider Virtual Version of Ham Radio University, Antique Radio Contest Virtual 13. U-S Department of Education Challenges Student To Build CubeSats 14. Steven Spielbergs Father, Arnold Spielberg, Becomes A Silent Key 15. K1USN Radio Club Announces New Weekly Slow-Speed CW Contest 16. Maine Radio Amateur Dies after Fall from Tower 17. Air Force Research Laboratory Develops Method To Track Sporadic E 18. International Amateur Radio Union Regions Form HF Digital Band Planning Review Committee Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about a new free VPN service on the net, Elon Musks Neuralink demonstartes a new brain / computer interface, and how an american teenager has written over 23,000 edits on the Scots WikiPedia. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about the arduous task of replacing the rotor on you tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, takes a look at contesting in a piece entitled "When You Run Into A Pounce". * 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 will present the first of two parts of The History of Amateur Radio Repeaters. ----- 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 [e-mail]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter!