PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1353 - Full Version

Release Date: February 1, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Tammy Sawyer, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:57:47

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1353

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. HACK: Sony Ends Blu-Ray, MiniDisk and MiniDV Media Production

2. AMSAT: Hacking A Motorized RV Satellite Dish For Tracking Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites

3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

4. WIA: Carnarvons Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years

5. WIA: Amateur Radio Has Been A Hobby For Well Over 100 Years

6. WIA: The Radio Society of Great Britian Announces British Science Week

7. RAC: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Releases New Basic Amateur Question Bank

8. RI: Senators Cruz and Markey Reintroduce AM Radio Act In The Senate

9. ARRL: Warm Up At The 2025 Orlando HamCation To Be Held February 7th Thru The 9th

10. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute A Success On Staten Island

11. ARRL: Long Time Ham Radio Outlet Employee Honored For 60 Years In Amateur Radio

12. ARRL: News Shorts From The ARRL

13. Transportation Contracts Are Signed By The Bouvet 3Y0K Team

14. Clues To Solar Flares Seen As Coronal Loop Flickering

15. Southeastern VHF Conference Seeks Presenters

16. 70 Centimeter MESH Network Project In Canada

17. DXpedition To Mount Athos Is Stopped Among Controversy

18. Repeater Group Plans To Enhance Safety In Eastern Colorado

19. Historic Amateur Satellite QSO Honored By AMSAT Switzerland

20. CW Contester Rosel Zenker, DL3KWR, SK

21. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus and other amateur news around the UK

22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain publication RadCom has an editor vacancy

23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

24. National Contest Journal sponsored North American CW Sprint

25. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention announcements

26. EAB: Secret Listeners: The story revealing the life of early amateur radio heros

27. AMSAT: SpaceX launches multiple ham satellites on a ride share mission

28. AMSAT: Two private moon landers have launched at once

29. AMSAT: A new ARISS proposal window is now open

30. RI: With a designation from President Trump, Brendan Carr is now the new Chairman of the FCC

31. HACK: Forget the coax, wire up your receive antennas with cat 6 cable

32. ARRL: Get ready for a ham radio open house on World Amateur Radio Day

33. ARRL: The ARRL club grant program awards a half million dollars to help grow amateur radio

34. ARRL: The 76th Annual International DX Convention date is announced

35. The Lake Placid Olympic Museum receives a gift of amateur radio

36. Ireland's Amateur Radio Magazine returns and is now published online

37. The Orlando HamCation announces its annual award recipients

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 be here with Scene 7 of his open source project, "The Bald Yak". This time out, Onno covers building a circuit without that burnt chicken smell.

* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more.

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This time out, Will has us board The Wayback Machine to 1916 when amateurs were experimenting with the atmosphere and trying to figure out how propagation worked, in a story called "Strangely Behaving Signals".

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