PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1347

This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1347 - Full Version - SPECIAL EXPANDED HOLIDAY EDITION Release Date: December 21, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:36:20 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1347 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Five CubeSats Successfully Deployed From Kibo Module On The Space Station 2. AMSAT: Celebrate SO-50: Amateur Radio Special Event Marks 22nd Anniversary 3. AMSAT: European Space Agency Proba-3 Satellites Launch To Create Artificial Solar Eclipses 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. HACK: The World Morse Code Championship 6. NASA: Stranded Space Station Astronauts Won’t Be Home For Christmas 7. FCC: FCC Chairwoman Looks To Allocate More Spectrum For Space Launches 8. ARRL: ARRL Asks Hams to Send Radiograms Via The Web 9. ARRL: ARRL Annual Awards Recognize Excellence In Ham Radio 10. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarships – Final Weeks to Apply 11. ARRL: ARRL Kids Day Is Only A Couple Of Weeks Away On January 4th, 2025 12. ARRL: The Intrepid DX Group Has Announced The Winners Of The Fifth Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 13. ARRL: Straight Key Night Will Be January 1st, 2025 14. For Its Upcoming Big Year, HamSci Plans A Conference 15. Nominees For The CQ Hall Of Fame Is Sought By The International DX Association, IndexA 16. Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association Marks Its 50th Year Anniversary 17. Scanner Manufacturer The Whistler Group Shuts Down Operations 18. Use Of HF Radio In Alaska Is On The Rise With The Civil Air Patrol 19. Award Winning Dx'er Antonio Gonzalez, EA5RM SK 20. ARRL: Upcoming Contest Sheet and Upcoming Regional Conventions Listing 21. WIA: ARRL is warning members about amateur radio gear price increases due to proposed tariffs 22. WIA: The Saga of South American Satellite Pirates 23. WIA: The US is vulnerable to Chinas Salt Typhoon and The Russian Fancy Bear Cyberattacks 24. ARD: The Alexanderson Alternator SAW Grimeton to transmit CW Christmas Message on December 24th 25. ARD: The International Amateur Radio Union identifies non-amateur transmissions in the amateur HF bands 26. ARD: AM Night to be held on the air on December 26th 27. FCC: The FCC opens the entire 6 GigaHertz band to low power devices 28. ARRL: The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology is now accepting applications for 2025 29. BBC: The widespread use of CW is highlighted in a BBC Radio Documentary 30. TVT: Trump picks former broadcast news anchor from Phoenix, Kari Lake, to head The Voice of America Plus these Special Features This Week: * We'll visit with Bruce Paige, KK5DO, and get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit. * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will be here with another update on his open source project. The Bald Yak - Week 3 - Push To Talk * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This Week, will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the end of World War One, where we find hams coming home and slowly getting back on the air in a segment called, "Waking Up". * We will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more. * As is our tradition during the holiday week, we will present a monologue by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS, as he talks about having a serious case of the radio bug when he was in high school, and how it affected his life. * And, we will have a tribute to the late Orrin Brand with two of his popular segments, the first is a tongue in cheek look at hamfests, and his annual read of "A Hams Night Before Christmas" Courtesy of The Rain Report. ----- 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 [e-mail]. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.