PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1349

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1349 - Full Version Release Date: January 4, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:29:27 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1349 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA's Deep Space Network Upgraded With New Antenna Installation 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Amateur WSPR Transmission May Hold Key To Finding Lost Aircraft 4. WIA: US Considers Ban On Home Internet Router Maker TP Link. 5. WIA: University of Southern California Set New Record / SpaceX Preps New Booster 6. WIA: Young Leader, Bright Future: McKenzie KO4GLN On Ham Radio and Beyond 7. ARD: Holmesburg Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Club’s Service Project Recognized Around the World 8. GIZ: Federal Court Throttles Biden’s Net Neutrality Rules On His Way Out The Door 9. ARRL: CWops Announces 2024 Advancing The Art Of CW Award 10. ARRL: Winter Field Day 2025 11. ARRL: RTTY Roundup Is This Weekend 12. ARRL: HamSCI Will Hold Its Community Workshop On March 14th and 15th, 2025 13. ARRL: QuartzFest, Will Be Held January 19th Through The 25th, 2025 14. ARRL: Registration Is Now Open For The 2025 Dayton ConTest University 15. Gains And Successes Are How The HandiHam Program Ended 2024 16. NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun 17. CQ DX Marathon Begins Another Year Long Contest 18. Local Library Receives Radio Books From Georgia Club 19. January Brings Straight Key Month 20. DxPedition Challenges Are Hot Topic At DX Convention 21. Deutsches Museum Calls QRZ For Its Centennial Celebration 22. W3TL, Joseph Henry Stormer, Silent Key 23. Year Long Celebration On The Air For Britain's Railroads 24. ARRL: Upcoming Radio Sport Contest and regional Convention Listings 25. January Volunteer Monitoring Report 26. TVT: FCC fines Paramount Global $244,952 for Emergency Alert Violations 27. AMSAT: Nasa astronauts face more time in space with return delayed 28. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union identifies non-amateur radio signals on HF 29. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarships - Final weeks to apply 30. Bill to keep AM radio in US vehicles hits a new obstacle 31. Recent high intensity solar storms are cause for concern with satellite constellations 32. A new GMRS/General Mobile Radio Service repeater is established for a local California community. 33. Deutsche Amateur Radio Club programming to debut on new BBC Shortwave 34. An infusion of new radio equipment helps an upstate New York Search and Rescue Group Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB will be covering week five of his open source build called "The Bald Yak". This week's topic is, "The bugging". * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more. * Weekly Propagation and Solar Weather Forecast from the ARRL and Tadd Cook, K7RA * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to when the World War One armistice was signed and amateurs will finally getting back on the air, except that getting back on the air meant everyone had to be re-licensed. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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]. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.