PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1197

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1197 Release Date: February 5, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:40:19 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1197 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Webinar Set To Discuss Amateur Radio and AUXCOM Support To Department Of Defense 2. ARRL Foundation Grant Program Accepting Proposals 3. AMSAT Withdraws GOLF-TEE CubeSat From NASA Educational Launch 4. Research On Ancient Massive Solar Storms Suggests a Need Too Prepare For The Next Ones 5. ARRL Seeks Candidates to Serve on its Investment Management Committee 6. NASA Announces Plans To Deorbit and Decommission The International Space Station 7. Amateur Radio Challenged by Tonga Emergency; Radio Network May be Set Up 8. IARU Region 1 Working to Resolve Potential Amateur Interference to Satellite Navigation System 9. Dayton HamVention Dinners and Events Have Been Announced 10. Amateur Radio News Briefs 11. SPECIAL REPORT: Club Special Event Station to Mark WGY’s 100 Years Of Broadcasting From Schenectady New York 12. Airplane Pilots Encounter Electronic Spoofing Of Global Positioning System Signals 13. Japan Puts Forth Major Effort To Attract Younger Amateurs 14. VK90ABC Marks 90 Years Of The Australian Broadcasting Coporation With A Special Event Station/US Special Event 15. Australian Radio Telescope Detects Mysterious Pulses 16. FCC Chair Appoints Loyaan Egal To Head the FCC Enforcement Bureau as Acting Chief 17. W1AW Receives A Complete Two Meter FM and VARA FM Winlink 2000 System 18. Amateurs Swap Out At The McMurdo Base In Antarctica 19. Norway's NRRL Announces Support For The 3Y0J Bouvet Island DxPedition 20. New Long Distance Records Set On Two Amateur Satellites 21. World Radio Sport Team Championship Organizers To Attend Upcoming Orlando HamCation 22. New Jersey Club To Operate N2I To Commemorate National Inventors Day ay Menlo Park 23. Pirate station observed on the 3.5 and 7 MegaHertz bands 24. Tonga Communications and the undersea fiber cable repair 25. This year’s World Radio Day (2/13/2022) celebrates the trust, accessibility and long-term viability of the radio industry 26. Major Northeast Winter Storm Prompts ARES, SKYWARN Activations 27. Belgium Amateurs Are Gearing Up For International Amateur Radio Union Conference 28. UK Radio Amateur is convicted of making racist remarks on the air Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will tell us about Huawei Technologies in China, who has proposed a new form of the internet that is more controllable. And, he will tell you about installing a free operating system on an old computer that you are planning to donate. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will discuss the challenges of climbing your tower, then taking a right hand turn to work out on a side arm. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, What's In A Dream?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes a look at Hams At War during World War II, and will explain what W-E-R-S, or WERS, the War Emergency Radio Service was all about. ----- 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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