This Week in Amateur Radio #997 Here is a summary of the news trending this week, April 7, 2018. This week's edition is anchored by, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Amy Jo Clarke, and Jessica Bowen, KB2VWX. Produced and edited (and a little anchoring too) by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:23:25 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR997 Trending stories in this weeks news service: 1. LoTW Support for CQ Worked All Zones Award Goes Live 2. HAARP Facility to Resume Ionospheric Research this Week 3. FCC Launches New Honors Engineering Program 4. Radio Club of America Announces New Endowment 5. ARRL Public Relations Committee Gets New Leadership, Updated Mission and Goals 6. New ARRL CEO Comes Aboard Facing Challenges and Change 7. IARU Region 1 President Warns of Wireless Power Transfer Interference Threat 8. More than 30,000 New Ham Licensees and 7,000 Amateur Radio Exam Sessions in 2017 9. ARRL Searching for its Next CEO 10. Apparent First 2200-Meter Transatlantic Contact by US Radio Amateur Reported 11. CW Enthusiast Joins VP6D Ducie Island DXpedition Team 12. Suspected pirate broadcasters in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Florida targeted 13. FT8 DXpedition mode test will be on the air this weekend (4/7-8) 14. 2017 ARRL November Sweepestakes results are posted on the league website 15. DXCC yearbook is now online and ready to download in PDF format. 16. Wake Island Activation for the Grid Chase Contest is scheduled 17. Update on the ARRL Grid Chase Contest Plus these Special Features This Week: On The Rails with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, RAIN: The History Of Morse Code (Part One) with CW Historian Lewis Coe W9CNY Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige KK5DO Weekly Propagation Forecast Report Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY ----- 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.