This Week in Amateur Radio #943 Week of March 25, 2017 DOWNLOAD HERE: http://bit.ly/TWIAR943 Running Time: 1:12:59 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This is for Edition #943 with a release and air date of Saturday, March 25, 2017. This week's edition is anchored by, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATK, Will Rogers, K5WLR, and Jessica Bowen, KB2VWX. This week's program was produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Trending stories in this week's bulletin service: 1. Virginia Engineering Students Tackle Satellite, Ground Station Projects 2. ARRL Reiterates its Case for New Band at 5 KHz 3. ARISS Deadline Looms to Accept Proposals to Host Contacts with Space Station Crew 4. ARRL Seeking Synergy with Maker Movement 5. Cuba Institutes New Amateur Radio Regulations 6. New ham radio regulations in the Netherlands 7. Motorola Solutions Sues Hytera Communications, Alleging Patent, Trade Secrets Theft 8. Amateur Radio Gains a Champion in FAA Tower Safety Rules Controversy 9. Odd Call Signs on the Loose -- Be on the Lookout! 10. NVIS - Near Viertical incidence Skywave Research Paper Available. 11 Cornell University has a radio-on-a-chip for the whole world Plus these Special Features This Week: Amateur Radio Operator Obesity and Health with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB ..and to complement our ARRL story on Maker Fair, we will be joined by David Witkowski, W6DTW, who will give us a glimpse into a California Maker Fair, and explain just what the big attraction is to these events. ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. 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. Download the free Tunein.com app today. This Week in Amateur Radio is also available on the internet as a podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Tune-In.com, Stitcher, and various other mp3 aggregators. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. 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 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.