This Week in Amateur Radio #1025 Release Date: October 20, 2018 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This week's edition is anchored by: Chris Perring, KB2FAF. Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:13:50 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1025 Trending stories in this weeks bulletin service: 1. ARRL Executive Committee Meeting to Meet in Minneapolis 2. DX Group Seeks Reconsideration of Kure Atoll DXpedition Permit Application 3. FT8 to be Permitted in 2019 ARRL RTTY Roundup 4. ARRL Website Security Software Update Could Affect Certain LoTW ADIF Downloads 5. VP6D Ducie Island 2018 DXpedition Team Under Way aboard the Braveheart 6. SAQ Alexanderson Alternator Transmission to Celebrate UN Day 7. New Islands on the Air Groups Announced 8. ARRL Northern Florida Section Seeks Volunteers to Deploy to Hurricane Zone 9. Norwegian Radio Amateur Being Prevented from Leaving Chad 10. International Space Station May Face A Brief Unmanned future 11. FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 Overhauls Marking Requirements for Short Rural Towers 12. Reported Russian Ham Band Intruders Continue to be Troublesome 13. US Ham-Astronaut, Russian Cosmonaut Safe in Wake of Soyuz Launch Failure 14. Tower Climber Dies in Amateur Radio Tower Collapse 15. Northern Florida ARES Teams Handle Hurricane Duty 16. Bidding in ARRL Online Auction set to begin October 19th 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 presents a talk with Mitch Stern W1SJ on Repeater Etiquette, from his Daytron HamVention talk. Weekly Propagation Forecast ----- 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.