PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1217

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1217 Release Date: June 25, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, 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: 1:23:29 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1217 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. 2022 ARRL Field Day Is This Weekend 2. More Amateur Radio Proclamations for Field Day 2022 3. New ARRL Treasurer John Sager, WJ7S, Says ARRL A Perfect Match 4. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grants Help Fund Elementary and College Projects 5. Large Radio Wave Data Collected by Amateur Radio Operators 6. FCC Sets Comment Deadlines In ‘Franken FM’ Review 7. SpaceX Says 5G Interference Could Make Starlink Internet Unusable In The United States 8. Crossband Repeater To Highlight Clubs High Altitude Balloon Launch 9. FAA Verizon and ATT Agree To Delay Rollout of 5G Due To Continuing Interference Concerns 10. An Amateur Radio Operator to Become Archbishop Of The Church of Sweden 11. World Radio Telecommunications Conference Organizer Donates Equipment 12. August Special Event To Bring Awareness To Abused Pets 13. Portugal Takes Action Against Illegal Communications Equipment 14. Five Planets To Line Up In Rare Planetary Conjunction 15. Irish Language Net To Start Weekly. Move to native language nets for amateur radio 16. Pirate radio stations operating outside London 17. Distance Learning for Full Amateur Radio Licence Exam In The UK 18. Iceland: Renewal of 50 MegaHertz Authorizations 19. Successful Morse code day in Open Air Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands 20. Reverse Beacon Network Debuts A New Web Site Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will answer the question, "What is a GPU" and why do we have graphics cards, and will take a look at the current state of Robo-Calls and SPAM. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, takes a look at the best methods for working with a ground crew, and the best way to haul cargo and coax safely up the tower * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, takes a look at How To Isolate and By How Much? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with another edition of his summer series Amateur Radio History Headlines, looking at the highlights of amateur radio history. ----- 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. 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 Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, 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 feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.