PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1121

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1121 Release Date: August 22, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:08:47 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1121 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. New Contest for Portable Stations to Debut in October, Promises To Level The Playing Field 2. Rene Fonseca, NP3O, Elected as Puerto Rico Section Manager, Other Section Managers Announced 3. Enthusiasm Undimmed for International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend 4. James Armstrong, NV6W, Named Santa Clara Valley Section Manager 5. Shorter Call Signs Popular with Australian Foundation Licensees 6. Technology and Technique Making Ham Radio Testing Possible During Pandemic 7. International Amateur Radio Union Announces HF Digital Mode Band Plan Review 8. Retrospective: Amateur Radio Stood Ready for Isaias Throughout Storm's East Coast Visit 9. New Smartphone App Can Identify Unknown Data Modes 10. Intrepid DX Group Announces Winners of Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 11. The Arecibo Observatory Assesses The Damage To Its Antenna System 12. Nominees Are Sought For The Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 13. Illinois Amateur Pleads Guilty To Porn Charges 14. Court of Appeals Upholds Federal Communications Commission Exemption For Wireless Carriers 15. DX News 16. Satellite News from AMSAT 17. Weekly Propagation Forecast Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will answer the question, "What is a GPU" and why do we have graphics cards, and will take a look at the current state of Robo-Calls and SPAM. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP. Greg will tell you how to be successful at tower mounted electronics. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be "Channeling RTTY" * 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 talks about the state of amateur radio, in the year, 1978, and also talks about a few things that were banned by the FCC that year. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 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 identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. 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, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, AnchorFM, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, NetVibes, OverCast, Player.FM, PocketCast, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter!