PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1313 - Full Version

Release Date: April 27, 2024

Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulcik, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:56:03

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1313

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Nine US Schools Moved Forward In ARISS Contact Selection Process

2. AMSAT: AMSAT Engineering Team Powering Up For Hamvention

3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

4. WIA: Washington Tasks NASA To Come Up With A Lunar Centric Time System

5. ARRL: MFJ To Cease On Site Production Next Month

6. ARRL: T-Minus Three Weeks: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Hamvention

7. ARRL: Colorado Students Contact The International Space Station

8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Contact In Space And On The Ground

9. ARRL: National Voice Of America Museum of Broadcasting Will Be Open During Dayton Hamvention Weekend

10. ARRL: Youth On The Air Is Accepting Donations Of Eclipse Glasses

11. ARRL: National World War One Museum In Kansas Missouri To Activate Special Event Station

12. Voyager One Transmitting Data Again Via Deep Space Network Station 43

13. Santa Barbara California Radio Club Finds Itself Homeless

14. US Congress To Reopen Debate About AM Radios Future In Cars

15. Early Eclipse Data Released By HamSci - Time Signals Affected By Eclipse

16. Wireless Institute of Australia Annual Meeting And Radio Convention

17. SOS Radio Week In Coming Up

18. Amateurs In India Assist In The Nations Elections

19. FCC votes to restore Net Neutrality Rules

20. ARRL Field Day Supplies now available

21. Big Bear California Mini-HamCation is coming up

22. ARRL Radio Sport Listings and Upcoming conventions and hamfests

23. AMSAT: Trash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida

24. WIA: What Is The State Of Broadcast Radio In The United States Today?

25. ARRL: Going The Extra Mile - Amateur Radio Connects all 26.2 Miles Of The Boston Marathon

26. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 Messe Friedrichshaven - Celebrating 60 Years Of Islands On The Air

27. ARRL: Start Your Field Day Planning Today

28. ARRL: Club Grant Program To Return

29. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention -- Program and App Available

30. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test May 11, 2024

31. ARRL: Special Event W7G To Celebrate The 155th Anniversary Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike

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 you how to successfully weave amateur radio into your lifestyle

* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and this week Bill completes his look back at the 2023 World of DX.

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* Will Rogers K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio History. Our amateur radio historian Will Rogers, K5WLR will be here with an expanded edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us in The Wayback Machine to the early days of radio to take a quick look at the technical writing of the time, and a comprehensive look at Spark. What was it? And how did it work?

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