This Week in Amateur Radio #961 Week of July 29, 2017 DOWNLOAD HERE: http://bit.ly/TWIAR961 Running Time: 1:19:42 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This is for Edition #961 with a release and air date of, July 29, 2017.This weeks edition is anchoredby, Chris Perrine, Rich Lawrence KB2MOB-, Don Hewlick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, and Jessica Bowen, KB2VWX. This weeks program was produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Trending stories in this weeks bulletin service: 1. ARRL President Issues Call for Members to Reach Out to their Senators to Support S. 1534 2. ARRL Publishes its 2016 Annual Report 3. ARRL Contest Rule Changes, Clarifications Reflect Best Practices in Radiosport 4. ARISS Reports ISS Packet System is Down 5. Motorola Files Additional Patent Infringement Complaints against Hytera 6. Friedrichshafen's Ham Radio Attendance Holds Steady 7. Oklahoma Radio Amateur is First to Score Satellite VUCC from Greenland 8. Royal Mint to Welcome Amateur Radio 9. Islands on the Air (IOTA) Officially Launching New Website in September 10. Ham's Project Amelia Earhart Flight Nears End 11. Virginia Tech Expert to Study August Eclipse for Impacts on Radar, Ham Radio, GPS 12. Traditional ham radio leaves youngsters uninterested 13. FCC's O'Rielly: Give Us More Tools for Pirate Crackdown 14. Strong ties between broadcasters and amateur radio 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 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. 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.