PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1309 - Full Version

Release Date: March 30, 2024

Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:59:44

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service:

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1309

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Prepares For Hamvention 2024
2. AMSAT: METEOR M2-4 Meteorology Satellite Readying For Operation
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: New Zealand Amateurs Keep Partial Access To 3.3 GigaHertz Band
5. WIA: YASME Foundation Presents Supporting Grants and Awards
6. FCC: FCC Pushes Back On SpaceX's Request For More Starlink Spectrum
7. ARRL: Amateur Radio's Importance Highlighted at National Hurricane Conference
8. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Is April 18th, 2024
9. ARRL: Reminder: Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024
10. ARRL: New Training Course Offered By The ARRL Puerto Rico Section
11. ARRL: Blind Operator, Tower Climber, and SE Repeater Association President Wade Hampton Jr. K4ITL, SK
12. Relabeling Of Parks On The Air Global Parks Is Complete, China Returns To POTA
13. Online Retailers Sale Of Illegal Jammers Make Network News
14. Simplex Operation Resilience Is Tested By Pennsylvania's Skywarn Team
15. Comet Hunting Amateur Is Honored By NASA's SunGrazer Program
16. Grant Program Expands Islands On The Air Program To More Locations
17. Adam Farson, VA7OJ/AB7OJ, HamVention 2022 Award Winner, SK
18. Weekend Workshop For Citizen Scientists Held By HamSci
19. Emmy Award Presented To The FCC Spectrum Auction Program
20. NASA: NASA to Launch Sounding Rockets Into Moon’s Shadow During Solar Eclipse
21. NASA: NASA Is Accepting Applications For Astronauts
22. Upcoming Contests and HamFest Convention Listing
23. FCC: FCC proposes framework to ease satellite to smartphone coverage from space
24. ARRL: FCC to require two factor authentication for CORES users
25. ARRL: Get ready for the upcoming 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - Part One
26. ARRL: Get ready for the upcoming 2024 ARRL National Convention and Youth Rally - Part Two
27. Parks On The Air begins park prefix update
28. Last Low Power broadcast FM frequency allocation in San Francisco is assigned

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will be here to talk about keyboards.
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will look at the question "What's With All That Lack Of Noise?"
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more.
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to August 15th, 1952 when the FCC confirmed the new temporary amateur radio service they entitled RACES, The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service.
* The Facts About Microphones - Part One of a three-part interview conducted by Hap Holly, KC9RP with the late Bob Heil, K9EID, for the Classic RAIN Report.

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