This Week in Amateur Radio #1023 Release Date: October 6, 2018 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This week's edition is anchored by: Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Amy Jo Clarke, Fred Fitte, NF2F, George W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:19:58 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1023 Trending stories in this weeks bulletin service: 1. ARRL Foundation Invites Scholarship Applications for 2019-20 Academic Year 2. Amateur Radio Volunteers in Indonesia Link Earthquake Zone with Outside World 3. Last Man Standing ratings surge 4. Radio Amateur Among International Space Station Crew Returning to Earth this Week 5. Spray-On Antennas Could Be the Wave of the Future, University Researchers Believe 6. Radio Amateurs among Radio Club of America 2018 Award Recipients and Fellows 7. AMSAT's Fox-1Cliff CubeSat Ready for Launch 8. Peggy Sue Gerron, ex-K5PSG, of Buddy Holly song fame SK 9. MARS Members to Support Defense Department Radio Communication Readiness Exercise 10. ARRL updates its web site for better security. 11. Black Swan 18 Exercise to Test US Government/Amateur Radio Interoperability on 60 Meters 12. Investigation into International Space Station Leak Continues - may be sabotage 13. IARU Region 1 Volunteers and Partners Getting Behind WRC-19 50 MHz Agenda Item 14. Remembering the Launch of Sputnik 1-Earth's First Artificial Satellite 15. ARRL, FCC Discussing Issue of Uncertified Imported VHF/UHF Transceivers 16. Online Fundraising Campaign Backs ISS Radio Upgrades Plus these Special Features This Week: Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB RAIN: Part One of a talk with the owners of Radio City in Minnesota. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar Google+: http://bit.ly/Gplus-TWIAR RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://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 ident breaks every 10 minutes for you to legally identify your station. 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, the low bands, and more.