This Week in Amateur Radio

George Bowen, W2XBS
This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio is North America's premier news magazine of the airwaves. We're coming back from hiatus! Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!

  1. 3 天前

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1358

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1358 - Full Version Release Date: March 8, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:48:45 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1358 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: Brandmeister DMR Network To Stop Supporting Some DMR IDs 2. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters Urges FCC To Accelerate NextGen TV Transition 3. WKRN: FCC Chairman Carr Climbs Nexstar Broadcast Tower To Promote Industry Jobs 4. AMSAT: Amateur Satellites Scheduled For Launch 5. AMSAT: Nine New TEVEL Satellites Scheduled For Launch 6. AMSAT: Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Lander Beams Back First Images Of Earth - 4G 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: British Science Week Gets Underway 9. WIA: No Amateur Radio Fest At The National Association of Broadcasters Show This Year 10. WIA: Remember The Video Chat Service Skype? 11. MSN: Discover The Hidden Stories Behind Your Favorite Devices At This New Huntsville Museum 12. ARRL: 2025 HamSCI Workshop is March 14th and 15th At The New Jersey Institute Of Technology 13. ARRL: Clubs Are Gearing Up For ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Yours Can, Too! 14. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Founder Gerald Murphy, K8YUW, a Silent Key 15. ARRL: ARRL Honorary Vice President Frank Butler, W4RH, Celebrates His Centenary 16. First Amateur Radio Club Station Is Installed At University of West Bengal 17. India Foundation Prepares For An Upcoming DxPedition 18. Three Kilmolin Cluster Beacons Are Shut Down To Relocate 19. Ham Radio In Brazil Outlined In Recent Survey 20. ARRL Presents the next On The Air Live for March 25, 2025 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain Announce 2025 Band Plans 23. AMSAT: Hades R satellite repeater is activated and designated Spain Oscar 124 or SO-124 24. AMSAT: Solar Sails aim to enhance future space weather alerts 25. WIA: Australian Regulator ACMA finalizes license fee structures - New Zealand looks for proposal comments 26. WIA: Libyan Communications Amateur Society is admitted to the International Amateur Radio Union 27. WIA/RAC: Mike Kelly, VE3FFK is the recipient of the Radio Amateurs of Canada Amateur of the Year Award 28. VOA: Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting History reopens after seven month renovation 29. ARRL: Colorado High School students visit The Plishner Radio Astronomy Center 30. ARRL: How about some Pi with that transceiver? 31. ARRL: Hap Holly, KC9RP, moderator and creator of The RAIN Report is a Silent Key 32. ARRL: Registration begins mid-March for the 24th USA National Radio Orienteering Championship 33. RaDar/Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio is coming soon 34. Radio astronomers in a radio quiet zone battle RF Interference as combined technologies offer to assist 35. Volunteer Monitor Report for this month Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, What's the story you like to tell yourself? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to the early 1920's, when among a lot of other things, the US Navy was pressing for control of the airwaves again. We will here all about this and more in this edition entitled "Strays" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  2. 3月2日

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1357

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1357 - Full Version Release Date: March 1, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:48:34 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1357 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Issues Warning Over Payola Practices 2. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain 2025 Band Plans Released 3. AMSAT: HADES-R FM Repeater Activated and Designated Spain-OSCAR 124 (SO-124) 4. AMSAT: ARISS Completes Successful FRAM2Ham Simulation Event Using ISS Radio 5. AMSAT: Blue Ghost and Resilience: Private Landers On Course For Lunar Touchdowns 6. AMSAT: Solar Sails Aim to Enhance Space Weather Alerts 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: Australian Regulator ACMA Finalizes License Fee Changes, New Zealand Seeks Feedback On Changes 9. WIA: Libyan Communications Amateur Society Admitted To International Amateur Radio Union 10. WIA: UPDATE: RigExpert Administrative Offices Destroyed In Russian Missile Attack 11. WIA/RAC: Mike Kelly, VE3FFK Is The Recipient Of The Radio Amateurs Of Canada Amateur Of The Year Award 12. VOA: VOA Museum of Broadcasting History Reopened After Seven Month Renovation 13. INDIA: India's First 24 Hour Ham Radio Learning Marathon Held In West Bengal 14. ARRL: Get On The Air For The ARRL International DX Contest 15. ARRL: ARRL’s “On the Air Live” Continues to Grow 16. ARRL: Colorado High School Students Visit The Plishner Radio Astronomy and Space Sciences Center 17. ARRL: How About Some Pi With That Transceiver? 18. ARRL: Hap Holly, KC9RP, Moderator Of The Weekly Amateur Radio Audio Feature Magazine, RAIN Report, SK 19. ARRL: Registration Begins Mid-March For The 24th USA National Radio-Orienteering Championships 20. A Bloody Sunday During The US Civil Rights Era Is Recalled During An Alabama Activation 21. Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio (RaDAR) Is Coming Soon 22. New Development May Make Solar Panels More Affordable 23. Astronomers Battle RF Interference As Combined Technologies Offers To Assist 24. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 25. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 26. ARRL: ARRL issues call for QST articles for the July 2025 special issue on Emergency Communications 27. RW: President Trump expands White House oversight of the Federal Communications Commission 28. ARRL: Dayton HamVention announces its 2025 Theme, and ARES bootcamp at California HamEscape 29. ARRL: YLRL/Young Ladies Radio League scholarships are available for students 30. ARRL: Changes are announces in the ARRL Iowa Section 31. ARRL: High School and a science fiction movie spark interest in amateur radio 32. ARD: Ham Radio Gizmos platform launches a new documentary series to inspire amateur radio operators 33. Spectrum Sharings is eyed by UK regulator Ofcom on the six gigahertz band 34. Youth attending the 2025 International DX Convention will have free admission Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, presents part ten of his open source project The Bald Yak. This week he answers the question, how does it all fit together? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and a lot more more * Weekly Solar Weather and Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to a time when vacuum tubes were making CW practical, they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone began as experiments by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  3. 2月23日

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1356

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1356 - Full Version Release Date: February 22, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Tuner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:40:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1356 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Call for QST Articles For The July 2025 Special Issue On EmComm 2. AMSAT: Current Active AMSAT Engineering Projects 3. RW: President Trump Expands White House Oversight Of The FCC 4. ARRL: Dayton HamVention Announces 2025 Theme - ARES Bootcamp Coming To California HAM ESCAPE 5. ARRL: More Openings Available for On the Air Live 6. ARRL: DX Opportunities Abound Around ARRL International DX Contest 7. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) Scholarships Available For Students 8. ARRL: Bob Buus, W2OD, ARRL Northern New Jersey Section Manager, Silent Key 9. ARRL: Changes in the ARRL Iowa Section 10. ARRL: High School and a Science Fiction Movie Spark Interest In Amateur Radio 11. ARRL: Have A Ham Radio Open House In April 12. ARRL: Grassroots Emergency Communications Operations In Arizona 13. ARD: Ham Radio Gizmos Platform Launches Documentary Series To Educate And Inspire Ham Enthusiasts 14. Michigan Upper Peninsula Dog Sled Race And Local Amateurs Both Pull Long Shifts 15. First Young Ladies Meet Up Hosted By Argentine Radio Club 16. Spectrum Sharing Is Eyed By The UK Ofcom On The 6 GigaHertz Band 17. Beloved New Zealand CW Operator Is Honored In A YouTube Tribute 18. Sound Engineer and Parks On The Air Enthusiast Ian Kuhn, KI9W, Silent Key 19. Youth At The International DX Convention Will Have Free Admission 20. Measuring RF Pollution In South Africa 21. ARRL: The North American QSO Party is this weekend 22. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions Listing 23. RSGB: Bletchley Park museum radio awareness talk 24. AMSAT: Interlune aims to mine lunar helium 3 for Quantum Computing on Earth 25. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union readies to celebrate its centenary 26. INDO: Ham radio users detect suspicious signals along the Indonesian-Bangladesh border 27. ARRL: Rig Expert administrative office destroyed in Russian missle attack 28. ARRL: Grant will help young amateur radio operators become contesters 29. ARRL: Stations across northeast Illinois gathered for a 70cm simplex research event 30. ARD: Actor Paul Giamatti to play Art Bell in proposed upcoming biopic 31. WRTC: World Radiosport Team Championship 2026 rules are published Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will update us on his open source Bald Yak Project in a segment called Phosphor and The Impertinence Of Software * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week will piles us all into The Wayback Machine to take us back to the early 1920's as amateurs transition from Spark to CW. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  4. 2月15日

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1355

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1355 - Full Version Release Date: February 15, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Alan Shephard, WK8W Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:58:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1355 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RSGB: Bletchley Park Museum Radio Awareness Talk 2. RSGB: New RSGB Emerging Technology Web Page 3. HACK: Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3 4. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA’s HADES-R Successfully Deployed and Transmitting Telemetry 5. AMSAT: Blue Origin Simulates Lunar Gravity On Landmark New Shepard Flight 6. AMSAT: Interlune Aims To Mine Lunar Helium-3 For Quantum Computing On Earth 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union To Celebrate Centenary 9. INDO: Ham Radio Users Detect Suspicious Signals Along Indo-Bangladesh Border 10. RW: WJLX Returns To 1240 AM After Tower Theft 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Emergency Service Renews Relationship with Red Cross in Puerto Rico 12. ARRL: RigExpert’s Administrative Office Destroyed in Russian Missile Attack — Production Remains Intact 13. ARRL: Robert Naumann, W5OV, Silent Key 14. ARRL: Grant Will Help Young Amateur Radio Operators Become Contesters 15. ARRL: Have A Ham Radio Open House For World Amateur Radio Day 16. ARRL: Stations Across Northeast Illinois Gathered For A 70 Centimeter Simplex Research Event 17. ARD: Actor Paul Giamatti To Play Art Bell In Biopic Film 18. Starlink Satellites Re-entries Are Leaving Metallic Vapor Trails 19. An Amateur Radio Operator Turns Out To Be The Frontrunner To Lead Germany 20. AM Radio Act To Save AM Radio In US Vehicles Gets Revived Effort 21. Meteorites Landing Location Activated By Amateur Radio Operator 22. World Radiosport Team Championship 2026 Rules Are Published 23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 24. AMSAT: SO-120 Antennas Deployed 25. AMSAT: Fram2Ham SSTV Simulation is now onboard the International Space Station 26. RW: Austria's historic Moosbrunn shortwave transmission site is dismantled 27. RW: SiriusXM SXM-9 satellite is now operational 28. FCC: FCC upholds order against an amateur licensee 29. PROP: The magnetic north pole has officially shifted its position 30. ARRL: Training the next generation of net control operators 31. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net is turning 60 years old, and is seeking net control operators 32. ACMA: The Australian Communications & Media Authority finalizes license fee charges for Australian amateurs 33. Living the good life on the air at a senior living community as it launches a ham radio club 34. Senators reintroduce legislation to protect amateur radio operators in an HOA Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, returns this week to his open source Bald Yak Project, where he will teach us to pay attention to the details. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920 when amateurs discovered that radio waves didn’t simply move from point to point along a straight line and decrease in strength with distance. Something else was happening too, but what? Will answers this question in an episode titled, "The QSS Tests." ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  5. 2月9日

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1354

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1354 - Full Version Release Date: February 8, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, 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: 1:45:17 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1354 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: MO-122 - Newest OSCAR Alive and Well 2. AMSAT: SO-120 Antennas Deployed 3. AMSAT: Fram2Ham SSTV Simulation Onboard The International Space Station 4. RW: Austria's Historic Moosbrunn Shortwave Transmission Site Dismantled 5. RW: SiriusXM's SXM-9 Satellite Is Now Operational 6. FCC: FCC Upholds Forfeiture Order Against Amateur Licensee 7. RI: Pallone, Bilirakis Reintroduce AM Radio Act In the US House of Representatives 8. PROP: The Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Shifted Position 9. ARRL: Learning Opportunity - On the Air Live - How To Use Your Handheld Radio 10. ARRL: Training The Next Generation Of Net Controllers 11. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Turning 60, Seeking Net Control Operators 12. ARRL: Las Vegas, Nevada, American Legion Paradise Post 149, Will Operate Special Event Station NV7AL 13. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League, K4LMB, Will Host The 2025 SSB/CW/Digital YL-OM Contest 14. World Radio Day Is Just Ahead On February 13th 15. First Archipelago DxPedition In 23 Years Is Given The Thumbs Up By The Brazilian Navy 16. SSTV Images From First Polar Orbit Space Flight To Be Transmitted By Amateur Radio 17. ACMA Finalizes License Fee Changes For Australian Amateurs 18. Living The Good Life In A Senior Living Community Ham Radio Club 19. In Memory Of Earthquake Victims - Amateurs In Turkey Activate 20. Software Award Nominees Deadline Is Approaching 21. Late Breaking: Senators Wicker, Blumenthal Reintroduce Legislation to Protect Amateur Radio Operators 22. HACK: Parcae: A Trio of Spy Satellites 23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listings 24. HACK: Sony ends manufacturing of Blu-Ray, Mini-Disk, and MiniDV media. 25. WIA: Carnarvons decommissioned NASA satellite dish back in service after forty years 26. WIA: Amateur radio has been a hobby for well over 100 years 27. RAC: ISED Canada releases new basic amateur radio question bank 28. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute is a success on Staten Island 29. ARRL: Long time Ham Radio Outlet employee is honored for sixty years in amateur radio 30. ARRL: News shorts from the ARRL 31. Transportation contracts are signed for the Bouvet Island 3Y0K team 32. RAC: 70 centimeter mesh network project to begin in Canada 33. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus 16. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain is looking for an Assistant Editor to fill a recent vacancy 35. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring System Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be here with advise on how to find your path in the amateur radio hobby. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1919 when in late December, radio was blacked out again. But this time it was nature's doing, not a government edict. Hams discovered, the shorter wavelengths were dead despite the fact that 600 meter signals were still pounding in. Amateurs were in the process of learning about solar cycles, and atmospheric propagation in an episode simply called, 'Freaks'. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  6. 2月2日

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1353

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1353 - Full Version Release Date: February 1, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Tammy Sawyer, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:57:47 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1353 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HACK: Sony Ends Blu-Ray, MiniDisk and MiniDV Media Production 2. AMSAT: Hacking A Motorized RV Satellite Dish For Tracking Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Carnarvons Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years 5. WIA: Amateur Radio Has Been A Hobby For Well Over 100 Years 6. WIA: The Radio Society of Great Britian Announces British Science Week 7. RAC: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Releases New Basic Amateur Question Bank 8. RI: Senators Cruz and Markey Reintroduce AM Radio Act In The Senate 9. ARRL: Warm Up At The 2025 Orlando HamCation To Be Held February 7th Thru The 9th 10. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute A Success On Staten Island 11. ARRL: Long Time Ham Radio Outlet Employee Honored For 60 Years In Amateur Radio 12. ARRL: News Shorts From The ARRL 13. Transportation Contracts Are Signed By The Bouvet 3Y0K Team 14. Clues To Solar Flares Seen As Coronal Loop Flickering 15. Southeastern VHF Conference Seeks Presenters 16. 70 Centimeter MESH Network Project In Canada 17. DXpedition To Mount Athos Is Stopped Among Controversy 18. Repeater Group Plans To Enhance Safety In Eastern Colorado 19. Historic Amateur Satellite QSO Honored By AMSAT Switzerland 20. CW Contester Rosel Zenker, DL3KWR, SK 21. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus and other amateur news around the UK 22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain publication RadCom has an editor vacancy 23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 24. National Contest Journal sponsored North American CW Sprint 25. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention announcements 26. EAB: Secret Listeners: The story revealing the life of early amateur radio heros 27. AMSAT: SpaceX launches multiple ham satellites on a ride share mission 28. AMSAT: Two private moon landers have launched at once 29. AMSAT: A new ARISS proposal window is now open 30. RI: With a designation from President Trump, Brendan Carr is now the new Chairman of the FCC 31. HACK: Forget the coax, wire up your receive antennas with cat 6 cable 32. ARRL: Get ready for a ham radio open house on World Amateur Radio Day 33. ARRL: The ARRL club grant program awards a half million dollars to help grow amateur radio 34. ARRL: The 76th Annual International DX Convention date is announced 35. The Lake Placid Olympic Museum receives a gift of amateur radio 36. Ireland's Amateur Radio Magazine returns and is now published online 37. The Orlando HamCation announces its annual award recipients Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be here with Scene 7 of his open source project, "The Bald Yak". This time out, Onno covers building a circuit without that burnt chicken smell. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This time out, Will has us board The Wayback Machine to 1916 when amateurs were experimenting with the atmosphere and trying to figure out how propagation worked, in a story called "Strangely Behaving Signals". ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  7. 1月26日

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1352

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1352 - Full Version Release Date: January 25, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:47:31 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1352 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. EAB: Secret Listeners - Revealing The Life Of Amateur Radio Heroes 2. DLARC: What Is New At The Digital Library Of Amateur Radio and Communications 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches Hamsats on Rideshare Mission 4. AMSAT: Two Private Moon Landers Have Launched At Once 5. AMSAT: Blue Origin New Glenn Reaches Orbit On Its First Launch 6. AMSAT: SpaceX Success & Failure In Starship Flight 7 7. AMSAT: New ARISS Proposal Window Is Now Open 8. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over 9. WIA: Remotely Controlled Vehicles Over Starlink 10. WIA: Binghamton New York Radio Club Hosts Kids Day 11. RI: With Trump Designation, Brendan Carr Is Now FCC Chairman 12. HACK: Forget the Coax, Wire Up Your Antennas With Cat 6 Cable 13. ARRL: Get Ready For Ham Radio Open House On World Amateur Radio Day 2025 14. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Program Awards A Half Million Dollars To Grow Ham Radio 15. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Funds Hardware For Florida Students To Make Contact With The ISS 16. ARRL: Ham Radio Demonstration Helps Survivors Of Violence At Camp 17. ARRL: Former QST Columnist, Doctor Emil Pocock, W3EP, Silent Key 18. ARRL: Winter Field Day Is This Weekend 19. ARRL: The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program To Conduct Research Campaign January 27th-31st 20. ARRL: The 76th Annual International DX Convention Is Announced 21. ARRL: The National Traffic System 2.0 Subcommittee Have Completed A Number Of Projects And Initiatives 22. ARRL: The Southeastern VHF Society Will Hold Its Annual Conference On April 4th and 5th, 2025 23. Wearable Avalanche Transceiver Helps To Pinpoint Trapped Skier 24. Lake Placid Olympic Museum Receives Amateur Radio Gift 25. Ofcom Announces More Privileges For Visiting Amateurs To The United Kingdom 26. Ham Radio Ireland Magazine Is Published On Line Once Again 27. Award Recipients Named By The Organizers Of The Orlando HamCation 28. Amateur Helps Find Children Lost During Pilgrimage 29: ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listing 30. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union to celebrate its upcoming 100th Anniversary 31. WIA: Are you ready for a twenty dollar windfall from Apple? 32. HR: Harvey Laidman, W8DX, Director of The Waltons and Matlock, SK at 82 33. FCC: FCC proposes $200,000 in pirate radio fines 34. FCC: FCC seeks comments on reallocating the 1675-1680 MegaHertz band for shared uses 35. ARRL: The league issues a call for QST articles about Field Day Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us why he moved his WSPR or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter beacon to 15 meters. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR and A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920, where we find a young radio engineer by the name of Edwin H. Armstrong gave QST permission to reprint his article entitled A New Method for the Reception of Weak Signals at Short Wavelength. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  8. 1月19日

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1351

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1351 - Full Version Release Date: January 18, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 2:05:23 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1351 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: India Launches SpaDeX Satellites With Amateur Radio Experiment 2. AMSAT: Parker Solar Probe Achieves Closest Ever Approach To The Sun 3. AMSAT: Cold War Mystery: Why Did Jimmy Carter Save The Space Shuttle? 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union To Celebrate 100th Anniversary 6. WIA: Are You Ready For A Twenty Dollar Windfall? 7. WIA: New Zealand Straight Key Night Coming Up 8. HR: Harvey Laidman, W8DX, Director on ‘The Waltons' and ‘Matlock,' Dies at 82 9. FCC: FCC Proposes $200,000 In Pirate Radio Fines 10. FCC: FCC Seeks Comment On Reallocating 1675-1680 MegaHertz Band For Shared Uses 11. ARRL: Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, Silent Key 12. ARRL: Ham Radio Operators Serving During California Firestorms 13. ARRL: Suspicious Bangladesh Border Ham Band Signals Now Of Interest To Indian Intelligence 14. ARRL: Call For QST Articles About ARRL Field Day 15. ARRL: A Weekend Of January Contests 16. ARRL: The Northern Arizona DX Association Hosting Anual W7P Pluto Discovery Anniversary Special Event 17. RI: FCC: Trump Names Olivia Trusty As Next FCC Commissioner Nominee 18. Los Angeles Repeater Network Stays Up During California Firestorms 19. Are You Ready For Winter Field Day? 20. Museum On The Campus Of The Voice Of America Has Reopening Planned 21. One Of The Holy Grail Islands On The Air To Be Activated 22. Special Event Station In The Netherlands Is Hosted By Army Signal Regiment 23. Radio Club Limburg, The North Limburg Region, The Netherlands, Will Activate Special Event Station PA8ØOV 24. ARRL announces that DXCC processing returns to normal operations 25. AMSAT: AMSAT student members win Quarter Century Wireless Association Scholarships 26. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One turns 75 27. WIA: Researchers develop a new type of Lithium Ion Battery 28. WIA: Android SmartPhones are helping to map the ionosphere 29. RW: Amateur Radio Operator must pay fine in first responder interference case 30. HKD: Taking down the power grid over the air 31. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute is coming to a town near you in 2025 32. ARRL: ARRL launches it year long Dream Station Sweepstakes 33. ARRL: The 129th Boston Marathon will take place Monday, April 21st, 2025. Amateurs provide communications 34. ARRL: ARRL announces changes in the Kentucky Section 35. Public broadcasters in Switzerland shut down analog FM repeaters in favor of DAB+ and streaming 36. NVIS packet radio group is looking forward to expanding its network 37. Amateurs in Germany receive extended privileges for the six and four meter bands 38. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listings Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, takes a short break from his "Bald Yak" Open Source Project to talk about The 2025 Ham Challenge * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, and upcoming radiosport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL and Solar Prognosticator Tadd Cook, K7RA * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the earlier 1920's when the first female hams began to appear on the amateur radio scene, in a segment we'll call, "The Ladies are Coming." ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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This Week in Amateur Radio is North America's premier news magazine of the airwaves. We're coming back from hiatus! Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!

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