PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1122
This Week in Amateur Radio - A podcast by George Bowen, W2XBS - Sundays
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This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1122 Release Date: August 29, 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, Michelle Bradley, KU3N, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:24:01 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1122 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Candidates Set for 2020 ARRL Division Elections 2. FCC Releases Proposal For New Filing Fee Structure - New Fees For Amateur Radio 3. Board of Directors Elects New ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Minster, NA2AA 4. ARRL Seeks National Club Coordinator 5. Amateur Radio Volunteers Ready as Deadly Hurricane Laura Makes Landfall 6. FCC Grants Temporary Waiver to Permit PACTOR 4 for Emergency Communications 7. NASA's THEMIS Mission Investigates Aurora Mysteries 8. Ham Astronauts to Crew Boeing, SpaceX Commercial Missions for NASA 9. Storm Derecho Takes Down 1,200 Feet of Tower and 35 Yagis At A Popular Contest Station 10. German Amateur Operator Vacationing In Greece Accused Of Espionage 11. Amateur Radio Special Event Held During The Indianapolis 500 Race 12. The UK Bletchley Park Trust Code Breakers Is In A Financial Crisis 13. Hurricane Watch Net Logs More than 29 Hours of Continuous Operation for Laura Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will answer that universal question, "Why does my wi-fi suck so bad?" * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will cover the safety procedure "Lockout / Tagout", before you make that climb up the tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you what comes next after you channel your 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 will look at the state of amateur radio in the year 1980, covering the new bands we obtained at the Geneva Conference. ----- 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!