PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1281

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1281 Release Date: September 16, 2023 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:54:58 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1281 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: World Radio Conference 2023 Will Impact Amateur Satellite Service 2. AMSAT: ARISS USA Team Names New Director of Education 3. AMSAT: Updated AMSAT Tri-Fold Hand Out Brochure Now Available 4. BIPT: Belgian Amateurs Gain Small Allocation On 40 Megahertz 5. BBC: Radio Fans In The UK Launch Petition To Save BBC Longwave Service 6. WIA: Malaysia Airlines Missing Flight From 2014 May Have Been Found By WSPR 7. NZART: Celebrate Grandparents On The Air On The Grandparents Grandkids Amateur Radio Net 8. IOTA: Islands On The Air Establishes DXpedition Fund 9. FCC: Anna Gomez Confirmed As Fifth FCC Commissioner 10. DLARC: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Reaches 90,000 Items 11. ARRL: Hurricane Lee: Amateur Radio Service In State Of Readiness, Activations Planned 12. ARRL: 2023 SET Exercise To Test Skills and Emergency Preparedness 13. ARRL: Amateur Radio Serves In Large Utah Bike Race 14. ARRL: Changes Announced In The ARRL Louisiana Section 15. ARRL: ARRL Has Announced That Certificates Are Now Available For New Club Level Awards 16. ARRL: Steve Lang Will Become Head Of The U.S. Delegation To WRC-23 17. ARRL: 2023 Route 66 On the Air Special Event Is Up and Running 18. United States Military Is Eyeing The Possibility Of Using Wideband Above 100 GigaHertz 19. It Is Unclear If There Were Any Amateur Radio Deployments In The Moroccan and Libyan Disasters 20. The Planned Salvage Of The Titanic's Wireless Equipment Is Blocked By The US Government 21. New Investors Are Interested In Purchasing HamTestOnLine 22. New Experimental Low Pass Filter Makes Its London Debut 23. West Bengal Radio Club Reunites A Family After A Sixteen Year Absence 24. Radio Station In Germany Begins Full Time Artificial Intelligence Programming 25. Historic Town In Pennsylvania Celebrates Its 275th Birthday With A Special Event Station 26. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests 27. WOSH celebrates a birthday 28. RAC: September is Radio Amateurs of Canadas Straight Key Month 29. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 will hold its next general conference in November 30. ARRL: September is National Preparedness Month Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, reminisces about user groups, asks why do equipment manufacturers insist on ultra-bright LED's, and about his problems with drones. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News. * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will address climbing with and for other hams. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how how to check your attenuation numbers. * 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 takes us back to the World Radio Conference of 1927 and looks at its effect on amateur radio. * The Rain Report we will listen to a talk by avid contester Mitch Stern/W1SJ, at the Dayton HamVention titled: "There is an art to cracking pile ups on the HF bands". ----- 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. 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! 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