PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1096

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1096 Release Date: February 29, 2020 - LEAP YEAR DAY EDITION Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:29:36 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1096 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Pennsylvania Law Protects Ham Radio Operator, and Frustrates Neighbors 2. NASA Selects Proposals For Student Aeronautics, Space Projects 3. AMSAT Cites Need for Adequate Spectrum in Opposing Deletion of 3.4 GHz Band 4. ARRL Opposes FCC Plan to Delete the 3.4 GigaHertz Band 5. A Sun City Arizona amateur proves that "It's Never Too Late to Upgrade" 6. FCC Turns Down Amateur Licensee's Appeal 7. ARRL Seeks a New Chief Executive Officer 8. Partially Submerged NEMO-1 WSPR Buoy Retrieved by Fishing Vessel 9. Auxiliary Communications Training to Be Held in Conjunction with Dayton Hamvention 10. Working Scale Model Of An H-F Curtain Array On Display At Voice Of America Museum 11. Interference From Smart Meters Still An Issue For Hams On Saint Kitts 12. New British Made Antenna Arrives On The International Space Station 13. UK Telecoms Regulator Ends Policy of Granting Two-Letter Call Sign Suffixes 14. International Space Station Resupply Mission to Carry New ARISS Ham Radio Gear 15. FAA Proposed Remote Identification Rules Would Effect Drones and Hobby Aircraft Alike 16. Motorola Wins Lawsuit Against Hytera for $765 Million in Intellectual Property Theft 17. Northern Florida amateurs Prepare for Emergency Communications Exericise 18. A New Distance Record Is Set on 122 Gigahertz 19. DX News and Special Event Station Listings for this week. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about the passing of the creator of cut and paste, and asks if we are reaching the end of Moore's Law. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP will talk about replacing that old rusty rotor on your tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB will answer the question, which comes first, the antenna or the radio? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - Ancient Amateur Archives - History of Amateur Radio #8: this week, takes a look at "The 1940's VHF Frequency allocation battles." * The Random Access File with Bill Baran, N2FNH/SK - Bill thinks we should change the image of amateur radio ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://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 ID breaks every 10 minutes. 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, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. 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 us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.