PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1120

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1120 Release Date: August 15, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Pat Huba, N2WWW, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 2:08:33 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1120 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Arecibo Observatory Reflector Dish Damaged after Cable Snaps 2. US Department of Defense to Share 3450 to 3550 MegaHertz with 5G Commercial Operations 3. ARRL Hires Paul Z. Gilbert, KE5ZW, as Director of Emergency Management 4. Intrepid-DX Group Announces Winners of Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 5. QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo to Become Twice Yearly Event 6. Police Still Investigating Disappearance Of Radio Amateur and Friend 7. ARRL Board Confers Awards 8. College Campus Radio Clubs Face an Altered Fall Landscape 9. Russia-Ukraine Radio War H-F Radars are Most Frequently Reported Ham Band Intrusions 10. Hams in Southern India Provide Aid Following Monsoons 11. Wireless Power Distribution Efforts Are Explored In New Zealand 12. UK Exams Booked Through September - Swiss Amateur Radio Group Offers Recruitment Incentives 13. Upcoming Portable Operations Contest Proposes To Level The Playing Field 14. Nomination Of FCC Commissioner Is Pulled By The White House 15. International Amateur Radio Union Announces HF Digital Mode Band Plan Review Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will tell you how to get better lighting in your shack for your next Zoom meeting or teleconference, and will talk about the passing of a little knows legend in the tech world, Francis Allen. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about climbing for family, or for other hams, and what you should do before you start that climb. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, asks, How much do you really know about your radio? * 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 introduce you to the Patron Saint of Amateur Radio....In fact the Patron Saint of All Telecommunications, Saint Maximillion Kolby, SP3RN. * Classic RAIN: Eric Guth, (QSO Today) 4Z1UG, Interviews Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH. ----- 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!