PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1296

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1296 Release Date: December 30, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Michael LaMountain, KE2AWY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:38:42 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1296 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC To Reinstate Council Tasked With Studying AI’s Impact On Communications Networks 2. Inside The Magic Radio Protecting Russian Drones From Jamming 3. AMSAT: ClarkSat-1 Deployed From The International Space Station 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. ARRL: ARRL's Year of the Volunteers Success 6. ARRL: ARRL Straight Key Night 2024 7. KPH Over the Air Cryptographic Challenge 8. FCC Approves Ownership of U.S. Station by Canadian Broadcasters 9. Publication Is Suspended At CQ Magazine 10. Advisor For HamSci Appointed Director Of Haystack Observatory 11. DxPedition To Peter One Island Is In The Planning Stages 12. National Kids' Day On The Air Is Coming Up 13. QuartzFest Comes Alive In The Arizona Desert 14. Year Long Ten Meter Challenge Is Set For SOTA Activators 15. Amateurs In France Prepare To Honor Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe 16. Conference To Celebrate Forty Years Of Amateur Radio Aboard The ISS 17. Grimeton SAQ Christmas Message Retrospective 18. ARRL: Changes In The Eastern New York Staff For 2024 announced 19. ARRL: World Radiocommunication Conference 23 concludes with wins for amateur radio and agenda items for '27 20. WRC: Low Earth Orbit satellite transmit power battle drags on after WRC-23 concludes 21. ARRL: The Intrepid DX group has announced the winners of their 2023 Dream Rig Essay Contest 22. RW: Amateur radio operators hel restore LPFM KYNO back on the ait after tower collapse and lightning strike Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will be here to discuss wifi, and why its really bad to send or receive email attachments. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how its the little things in amateur radio that count the most. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill sets The Wayback Machine to May of 1970 and The Student Information Network, where amateur radio on college campuses was used to organize anti-war news and protests. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 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. You can 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. 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 feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.