PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1106

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1106 Release Date: May 9, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:21:15 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1106 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. FCC Providing Flexibility to Volunteer Examiners in Developing Remote Testing Methods 2. AMSAT Solicits Nominations for the 2020 Board of Directors Election 3. Upcoming Special Events Commemorate the End of World War II 4. Radio Amateur Society of Australia Launches Welcome to Amateru Radio Guidebook For Newcomers 5. Amateur Radio Exams 'Al-fresco' In Norway 6. New SSTV Software Now Available 7. First Guatemalan Satellite Deployed from the International Space Station 8. IARU Region 2 Online Emergency Communication Workshops Get Under Way 9. NASA CubeSat Array to Study Causes of Giant Solar Particle Storms 10. Museum Ships Weekend Cancelled - Ham-Com Cancelled - IOTA and MicroHams Going Forward 11. Trapped Individual Rescued From Amateur Radio Tower 12. First ARISS Contact With A Multipoint Telebridge Is In The Books 13. Space Agencies Announce A Planet Wide Hack-A-Thon 14. FCC Okays Unlicensed Operations In The Six Gigahertz Band 15. RSGB Aims To Promote Health and Wellbeing within the Amateur Radio Community 16. Garmin Seeks an FCC Ruling or Waiver to obtain certification for Part 95/25 Combo Devices 17. Russian DOSARF - RS-44 Amateur Satellite Transponder is now active. 18. First Contact made on the new 8 Meter Bands Between Ireland and Lithuania Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about why your IoT devices don't seem to work on five gigahertz wi-fi, and will also take a close look at our "Fondle Slabs" * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will tell us how to correctly mount electronics on the tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, asks for permission to be curious. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill presents Part Two of "The History of Amateur Radio Repeaters" * Classic RAIN: We will flash back to the 1988 Dayton HamVention and find out about all the "new gear" that arrived, during this weeks, "Classic RAIN" ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://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 ID 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, and 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 Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit 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.