PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1128

This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1128 Release Date: October 10, 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, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:33:47 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1128 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 Releases 2020 Revision Of Its Band Plan 2. ARISS to Celebrate 20 Years of Ham Radio on the International Space Station 3. ARRL National Convention and Orlando Hamcation Postponed to February 2022 4. Two More Astronauts Earn Amateur Radio Licenses 5. Hurricane Delta Prompts Activations of Hurricane Watch Net, WX4NHC, SATERN 6. British Columbia Radio Amateur Hears Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 7. Solar Physicist Predicts a Slightly Better Solar Cycle 25 8. Federal Communications Commission Orders Amateur Access to 3.5 GigaHertz Band to Sunset 9. New England ARES Academy Set 10. Hams Were On High Alert During Simulated Emergency Test 11. RSGB Videos Released To Help Train Newcomers To Amateur Radio 12. King Of Thailand Gets His Amateur Radio License, And Gets His Shack On The Air 13. Amateur Radio Club in California Acts As Radio Ambassadors 14. Mark Stillman, KA3JUJ, Appointed as New Delaware Section Manager 15. IARU Region One President Sounds Alarm On Wireless Power Transfer For Electric Vehicles 16. The Chinese Foghorn Over The Horizon Radar Is Back On The Low Bands with Other Intruders 17. ARISS Invites Proposals To Host Ham Radio Contacts With The Space Station Crew 18. The ARRL Pandemic Delayed Annual Report Is Released Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will answer the question, How do you find out what cell carrier has the best coverage? And, will tell us about wiring a high-end semi-pro home network. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about the safest ways to climb your tower if you have to do it at night. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, is here this week to tell you how CSDR will rock your world. * 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, continues his retrospective of amateur radio's Fallen Flags, with a look back at one of the most famous, Hallicrafters. ----- 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!