PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1117

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1117 Release Date: July 25, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:33:14 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1117 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Unauthorized Transmissions Reported in 144 MegaHertz Satellite Allocation 2. Tokyo Ham Fair, Largest in the world is cancelled due to pandemic 3. More than 12,000 Register Early for QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo 4. ARRL Members to Lead New 30-Minute Amateur Radio Webinar Series 5. Chris Brault, KD8YVJ, is 2020 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year 6. High School Marine Buoy Transmitter Now Active on 20-Meter WSPR 7. Winlink Developers Use Arduino-Based Simulator to Evaluate Digital Modes 8. Mexican Tower Workers Find Parasite Antennas On Cell Towers 9. Interoperability Exercise Using Army Mars Scales Back Operations This Year 10. FCC Announces Closing of Filing Window at its Headquarters 11. Registration now available for RAC Advanced Course During Summer 2020 12. Dayton Hamvention Announces New Chair, Assistant Chair for 2021 Show 13. ARRL Board of Directors Meets Remotely via Zoom Teleconferencing 14. Hurricane Watch Net Activates for Hurricane Hanna 15. Radio Amateurs Assist Air Ambulance That Lost Satellite Communications Link Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about last weeks major Twitter hack. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will take a look at even more tower climbing vocabulary and terms. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question What is the Point of This Hobby? * 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 back at the predecessor to the Emergency Broadcast System. It was called Conelrad, and Bill will tell you all about it. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 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.