This Week in Amateur Radio #990 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. February 17, 2018 This weeks edition, is anchored by, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, and Jessica Bowen,KB2VWX. Produced and edited (and a little anchoring too) by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:13:40 Trending stories in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Radio Amateur Named as Next President of Harvard University 2. Great Club Log Hardware Shuffle Complete 3. Ducie Island 2018 DXpedition Plans Coming Together for this Fall 4. ARRL Announces 2018 Teachers Institutes on Wireless Technology Sessions 5. Z60A Operation Has Moved Kosovo Down the Most-Wanted List a Few Notches 6. Nominations Now Open for CQ Amateur Radio, Contest, and DX Halls of Fame 7. ARRL Receives Byrd Antarctic Expedition Morse Key, Historical Materials 8. Ham Radio a Special Hobby, Young ARRL Member Tells College Publication 9. Awesome Activity for the 2018 ARRL International Grid Chase 10. ARRL Announces Mobile DXCC Operating Award 11. 3Y0I Bouvet Island DXpedition Revived 12. Sony likely to cease production of shortwave radios 13. Fine of $50K imposed on amateur op in Trinidad and Tobago 14. Wi-Fi-connected 3D-printed objects communicate without electronics 15. NBC News LeftField report says hams could save our lives in a disaster 16. D-Star One Phoenix - First D-Star communications satellite launched Plus these Special Features This Week: Ancient Amateur Archives Special on Hospital Radio with Bill Continelli, W2XOY Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB RAIN: Vermont native Mitch Stern W1SJ on breaking those large HF pileups. From 2017 HamVention Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige KK5DO Weekly Propagation Forecast Report ----- 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. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, ands 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 iTunes and Google Play. The program can also be found on YouTube via computer, RoKu, Apple TV, and Chromecast, the podcast is also available on Blubrry Podcast Hosting, Stitcher, and we are historically archived by The Internet Archive. We are also hosted by various podcast aggregators. Vist 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. Follow our special groups on FaceBook and Twitter! Search for This Week in Amateur Radio.