PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1227

Release Date: September 3, 2022

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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:49:01

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1227

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:

1. World Radio Conference 2023 Preparatory Activities Are Intensifying
2. FCC Auction Of 2.5 GigaHertz Spectrum Closes, Raising Less Than $428 Million
3. ARRL Foundation Grants $270,000 to Amateur Radio Clubs
4. ARRL President Emeritus Harry Dannals, W2HD, SK
5. Radio Club of America Announces 2022 Award Recipients and Fellows
6. ARRL Mourns Loss of Caroline Kenney, QST Assistant Editor
7. Route 66 On the Air Special Event Operation Coming Up
8. ARRL September VHF Contest Is Coming Up
9. Ohio State Parks On The Air Contest
10. Cambodian Amateurs Are Challenged By New Government Regulations
11. Radio Amateur and His Son Are Convicted In Assaults Case are Now Headed For Prison
12. SpaceX Hopes Starlink Satellites To Assist T-Mobile Service In United States Dead Zones
13. Appalachian Trail Is Activated By Amateurs On The East Coast
14. New Zealand Acts Over Importation Of Handheld Transceivers
15. SOTA Tanzania update Climbing Kilimanjaro up to its top - Uhuru Peak, Africa's highest point
16. The Daily Herald - Radio hams experiment with cutting edge technology
17. USKA in Switzerland, takes note of the dramatic aging of amateur operators in Switzerland. Hams are aging out.
18. Hams in Ohio complete their Simulated Emergency Test with the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Lake County
19. Mike KN4PRE using near vertical incidence activation in various modes from Kosovo
20. Goonhilly - the station supporting NASA's Artemis moon mission from Cornwall
21. The Great Essex Table Top Sale, hosted by Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society in the U.K.
22. Amateurs worldwide help support International Air Ambulance Week 2022
23. The ARRL 2021 Annual Report is now available for member download
24. QRZ announces its new Ham Jumpstart program
25. There was record attendance at this years edition of the Huntsville Hamfest
26. Hackers at the annual DEFCON conference in Las Vegas reveal that the US EBS system is vulnerable to cyber attack
27. Upcoming contests, conventions, and hamfests
28. How about a portable transceiver that doesn't need batteries?

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will compare the differences between analog and digital audio at a basic level, and will tell us how we love our smartphones, and how they have the capability to become sort of an enemy through government surveillance.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, returns to his vertical office this week with some tips on general antenna mounting on your tower.
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, continues his overview of the amateur code with a look at Loyalty in Amateur Radio.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns returns with another edition of his summer series, Amateur Radio History Headlines. This week, Bill takes us on a quick journey through what made amateur radio news in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

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