PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1273

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1273 Release Date: July 22, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:45:13 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1273 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Voting Has Begun 2. AMSAT: Space Shuttle Remembered 3. AMSAT: Historical Space Tour Before Orlando Hamcation 4. AMSAT: ARISS-USA Seeks Director Of Education 5. Receiving Unintentional Voice Transmissions From GPS Satellites 6. Amateur Radio Helps Locate Two Missing Children In Southland New Zealand 7. FCC: For The First Time, Free Over-the-air TV Will Be Delivered By 5G Thanks to FCC Approval 8. IARU: Working Party 4C Has Difficulties Over 23 Centimeter Band, Other IARU News and Happenings 9. HACK: The Proliferation Of LED Wristbands At Concert Venues 10. ARRL: ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, Interviewed on W1DED in Maine YouTube Channel 11. FCC Recruiting Field Agents 12. ARRL UPDATE: Commercial Interests Petition FCC For High Power Allocation On Shortwave Spectrum 13. ARRL: Kansas Hams To Operate Net For National Sunflower Day 14. ARRL: Slow Scan TV Experiment With ARRL Planned For Amateur Radio On The International Space Station 15. ARRL: Amateur Radio Supports Oregon Disaster Airlift Response Team 16. ARRL: Summits On The Air 2023: North America 17. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators Needed For A Real-World Experiment During Upcoming Solar Eclipse Events 18. RSGB In The United Kingdom Produces Video Explaining Sweeping Changes To Amateur Radio 19. Australian Amateurs In Store For Band Access Changes 20. India Successfully Launches Its Moon Lander 21. Computer Hacker Kevin Mitnick, N6NHG, SK 22. Popular Southern California Electronic Retailer Is Closing 23. UK Regulator Ofcom Seeks Comments On Hybrid Sharing Of Six Gigahertz Band 24. A World War Two Re-Enactment Drill Will Feature Amateur Radio Operators 25. FCC Set To Vote On Proposed Power Increase For Digital FM 26. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grant Allows Upgrade To Radio Museum Amateur Station 27. ARRL reminds amateurs about Field Day scoring submission deadline 28. Upcoming Contests and Convention Listing 29. A quick look at the upcoming HamGrab balloon launch 30. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT Space Symposium issues its first call for papers 31. ARRL: WRTC Coming to the United Kingdom in 2026 32. ARRL: Careers For Hams - The ARRL is hiring 33. FCC: FCC calls out more pirate radio operators and bad actors on the amateur bands 34. FCC: FCC proposes expansion of Short Range Radar operations Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter this week, Rich DeMuro, will introduce us to Meta's latest app that is taking the tech world by storm, Threads. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * The DX Corner for the latest news in the world of DX, DXpeditions, and contests with Bill Salyers, AJ8B. * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the safest ways to climb your tower, or a commercial tower at night. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about The Nature and Ownership of Information in the world of amateur radio. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from Tadd Cook, K7RA * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The Ancient Amateur Archives: this week, Bill wraps up his two part series with a lot more information on the history of amateur radio 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 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. 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