PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1222

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1222 Release Date: July 30, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:52:45 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1222 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. QST Now Offering a Column for Radio Clubs 2. Hams at a Summits On The Air Event Help Prevent Major Forest Fire 3. ARRL Field Day 2022 Contacts Rise to Over 1.2 Million 4. 144/430 MHz bands to be used for PMR during 2024 Olympics In France in 2024 5. Sommerkamp Memorial Activity On The Air 6. Chinese Booster Rocket Tumbles Back To Earth: Non Zero Chance Of Hitting Populated Area 7. Russia Planning To Pull Out Of The International Space Station 8. NRAO To Launch Amateur Radio Learning Program For BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Students With Support From ARDC 9. Norway Now Offers APRS Mapping Service As A Motorist Resource 10. ANATEL Brazil Proposes To Make LOTW Mandatory For License Upgrades 11. Ben Henley KI4IGX, A Leader In Emergency Operations In Florida, Silent Key 12. Fast Track To A Full License Is Now Available In The United Kingdom 13. Belgian Amateurs Take Their QSO's Up In The Air, Literally 14. Australian Radio Club Adds Focus Group For Emergency Response Field Work 15. Young Ladies International Special Event Gains Magazine Sponsorship 16. FCC Chairwoman proposes United States broadband standards to increase to 100/20 megabits per second 17. Registration is now open for NASA's 2022 International Space Applications Challenge 18. Scientists say that micro-meteoroid damage to the James Webb Telescope is not correctable 19. The QSO Today Virtual Ham Exposition returns on September 17-18, 2022 20. Amateur Radio to be showcased at the 2022 EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin 21. Latest contest, conventions and hamfest listings 22. Highland Amateur Radio Association in West Virginia Donates Radio History To A Museum 23. Electrical engineers are on the brink of extinction 24. ARRL Reports that the FCC is hiring a Telecommunications Specialis tfor its High Frequency Direction Finding Center 25. Highland Amateur Radio Association in West Virginia Donates Radio History To A Museum 26. Electrical engineers are on the brink of extinction 27. UK RSGB Releases A Direct To Full Class License Track 28. The 35th Annual Satellite Educators Association Conference 29. Satan turns hard drive cable into antenna to defeat air-gapped security Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary. Sitting in for vacationing Leo Laporte this week in Mikah Sargent, who will explain why technology that you may find hard to use, is not your fault. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, puts aside his climbing belt to bring you Part Two of his six part series on creating a successful public service announcement that promotes your clubs hamfest or special event, and get it on the air on local broadcast outlets. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will take a long hard look at our amateur radio community. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The latest from Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air (June 2022 Report) with Vance Martin, N3VEM * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of his summer series Amateur Radio History Headlines. This week Bill takes us back to read above the fold between 1952 and 1959 in amateur radio history. * The Rain Hamcast brings us Part Two of a talk given by Alan Thompson, W6WN, on setting up a radio neighborhood watch utilizing the General Mobile Radio Service and repeaters. ​ ----- 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. 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