This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1080 Release Date: November 9, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, David Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:28:12 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1080 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. IARU Reports Early Progress, Contention on Difficult Issues Mark First Week of WRC 2. Pitcairn Island VP6R DXpedition Logs More Than 80,000 Contacts 3. FCC Asked to Clarify Amateur Rules Governing Encrypted or Encoded Messages 4. University of Washington's HuskySat-1 Successfully Lifted into Space 5. Maine Radio Amateurs Helping to Deploy AM Band Public Information Radio Service 6. Preparations Resume for 3Y0I Bouvet Island DXpedition 7. W1AW to Commemorate 98th Anniversary of First Amateur Radio Signals to Span the Atlantic 8. HamSCI Founder Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, Wins $1.3 Million Ionosphere Study Grant 9. MARSRADIO is Keeping the Phone Patch Alive in 21st century amateur radio 10. SKYWARN Recognition Day Celebrates 20 Years on December 7th 11. FCC Is Looking For A Telecommunications Specialist 12. IARU and Amateur Radio are Reaching an Inflection Point 13. DX News 14. Special Event Stations take to the air this weekend for Veterans Day 15. MARS Communication Special Event continues through November 17th 16. Last Man Standing returns in January, amateurs get a "Ham Fix" on Netflix's Stranger Things. 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 * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Writing A Public Service Announcement to Publicize your radio club. Part 6 of 6 with KF9MP * The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY - This Week: "The Radio Bag" * Classic RAIN: Classic Rain Edition #: "What is Real Ham Radio?" ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/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 ID breaks every 10 minutes. 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. 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 us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.