PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1316

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1316 - Full Version Release Date: May 18, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:27:01 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1316 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Votes To Reestablishes Net Neutrality Rules 2. Engineers Embrace Repair Culture As New Law Takes Shape In California 3. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT Board of Directors Election – Call for Nominations 4. AMSAT: Wanted: Your AO-7 Experiences and Memories 5. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassador Program Re-Introduced at Hamvention 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: Researchers Say Satellite May Imperil The Earth's Magnetosphere 8. FCC: FCC Launches New Spectrum Steering Team To Implement White House National Spectrum Policy 9. Solar Storms – Not HAARP – Created Recent Intense Auroral Display 10. Solar Storms Cause Widespread Aurura and Shuts Down HF Communications World Wide 11. US National Weather Service Suggests Amateurs Prepare For Upcoming Hurricane Season 12. Annual Earhart Special Event To Also Honor Local Silent Key In Ireland 13. New Plaque Installed Outside VOA Museum Honors Amateur 14. Hams In India Hold First Of Its Kind Disaster Drill 15. Amateur Radio Software Award Goes To OpenWebRX Project 16. ARRL: The 2024 Dayton HamVention is underway! 17. ARRL: Solar Storms, result in world wide auroras, and disruptions to HF and Satellite Communications 18. ARRL: The 2024 Museum Ships Weekend is announced 19. ARRL: 80th Anniversary of D-Day special event stations announce operation plans 20. ARRL: Upcoming events in Radio Sport and upcoming conventions and hamfests 21. AMSAT: NASA reveals SpaceX's innovative plan for Starship refueling in orbit 22. ARRL: ARRL Learning Center features two new Emergency Communications Training Courses 23. ARRL: ARRL Volunteers obtain ham exemption to Pennsylvania Hands Free Law 24. ARRL: International Museum Weekend will take place June 15/16 and 22/23 25. ARRL: Dick Rutan, KB6LQS record setting pilot has become a silent key 26. ARRL: Fair Radio Sales - Electronic Military Surplus Store is officially closing on June 28th 27. One year anniversary in orbit is celebrated by a pico balloon 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 discuss "Automatic FM DX Decoding." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920's as he presents this latest edition entitled, Aerials, Attachments, and Audibility. 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