This Week in Amateur Radio #954 Week of June 10, 2017 DOWNLOAD HERE: http://bit.ly/TWIAR954 Running Time: 1:04:26 This weeks program was produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. 1. Hamvention improvements for 2018 already underway 2. New distracted driving law in Washington State exempts hams 3. Online trial of Australian radio exams getting a lot of use 4. Mexico demands activation of FM broadcast chip in cell phones 5. Buildout of Nationwide First Responder Broadband Network Could Drive ARES Changes 6. Our Sun's 11-Year Magnetic Cycle Destined to Disappear 7. Centenarian ARRL Member Claiming Oldest Active Radio Amateur Crown Plus these Special Features This Week: Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB The Ancient Amateur Archives 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 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. 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.