PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1212

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1212 - EXPANDED HAMVENTION COVERAGE Release Date: May 21, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:58:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1212 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Hurricane Center WX4NHC Annual Communications Test 2. North Florida Club Participating In Simulated Cyber-Attack 3. ARRL West Texas Section - Hospital Use of Amateur Radio 4. New ARRL World-Wide Digital Contest To Premier June 4th and 5th 5. The 2022 Dayton Hamvention -- May 20-22 -- Is Ready to Go! 6. Mobile App Available to Navigate 2022 Dayton Hamvention 7. Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Successful 8. Vibroplex Acquires SPE Expert Linear Amplifiers 9. W1AW Continues To Fill QSL Card Requests 10. Qualcomm Founder Franklin Antonio, N6NKF, Silent Key 11. Amateurs In North Carolina Take On A Marathon Challenge 12. Military In The U-S Explores The Wider Use Of HF In The Greater Pacific Regions 13. Radio Society of Great Britain Offers New Incentive For Foundation License Holders 14. ACMA (Australia) Makes A New Calculation Tool For Fees Available Online 15. Boy Scout Club To Offer Hamvention Souvenirs 16. German radio amateurs plan to investigate using GSM and GPRS technology on the amateur bands 17. Shortwave radio outlets around the world, including the BBC, reactivate to broadcast news to the Ukraine 18. International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 interim meeting in June preparing for the World Radio Conference 19. Marconi 125th Transmission Anniversary 20. Amateur Radio support for Ukraine Mother's Day Event. Ukrainian Amateurs Appear On VoIP Remote Operation 21. Ham radio Moon bounce demonstration video up on YouTube 22. Amateur radio observations help monitor space weather 23. Paper Published: Deep space reception of Tianwen-1 by AMSAT-DL using GNU radio 24. Voyager One space probe, now in interstellar space, is suddenly sending NASA what it calls "Wacky Data" Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will answer that age old question this week, "Why does my home WiFi suck so bad? And how can I get better coverage? * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, covers everything you need to know to install and maintain your tower and antenna installation for your station. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, I studied, passed the test, got my call sign, so now when should I go on the air? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * A special humorous look at Hamfests by broadcaster Oren Brand, K9KEJ * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes a look at the battery operated transistor radios of the late twentieth century. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://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. 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