PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1125

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1125 Release Date: September 19, 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:20:16 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1125 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. 5 MegaHertz Interoperability Channels Designated for Wildfires and Hurricane Sally Response 2. International Radio Stations Now Restricted On TuneIn.com 3. Radio Amateurs Of Canada Announces Its Annual General Meeting and Mini-Conference For 2020 4. FCC Grants ARRL Rules Waiver Request for Fire Emergencies, Hurricanes 5. Hurricane Watch Net Wraps Up Another Marathon Activation for Two Storms 6. ARRL to Seek Changes in FCC Draft Decision on Amateur Nine Centimeter Band 7. Analysis Determines We Are in Solar Cycle 25 8. International Telecommunication Union Releases 2020 ITU Radio Regulations 9. Update: Amateur Radio Exams are Not Going Away in Brazil After All 10. Radar Technology At Millimeter Wavelengths Is Beginning To Show Promise 11. Bill Sexton N1AN, Prominent Member Of New York MARS, SK 12. Virtual Amateur Radio Club Meetings Are A Global Success, And The United Kingdom Is No Exception 13. Visually Impaired Radio Amateur Net Expands Check-In Opportunities 14. Amateurs in West Bengal India Reunite A Missing Man With His Family 15. The ARRL Technical Service Award Is Conferred 16. Hurricane Watch Net Is Tracking New Weather Systems Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will answer the question, is it safe to buy third-party lithium-ion batteries, and will attempt to describe Public Key Cryptography. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about the process of removing rusted bolts from antennas on your tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will describe "Yak Shaving". What's that? Well, that's when you get side-tracked by multiple other tasks before completing what you originally set out to do. * 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 take a nostalgic look back at Olsen Electronics. ----- 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!