PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1353 - Truncated 1-hour version This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net Release Date: February 1, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Tammy Sawyer, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:01:08 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1353HR Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HACK: Sony Ends Blu-Ray, MiniDisk and MiniDV Media Production 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: The Radio Society of Great Britain Announces British Science Week 4. RAC: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Releases New Basic Amateur Question Bank 5. RI: Senators Cruz and Markey Reintroduce AM Radio Act In The Senate 6. ARRL: Warm Up At The 2025 Orlando HamCation To Be Held February 7th Thru The 9th 7. ARRL: Long Time Ham Radio Outlet Employee Honored For 60 Years In Amateur Radio 8. Repeater Group Plans To Enhance Safety In Eastern Colorado 9. Historic Amateur Satellite QSO Honored By AMSAT Switzerland 10. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 11. AMSAT: A new ARISS proposal window is now open 12. RI: With a designation from President Trump, Bendan Carr is now the new Chairman of the FCC 13. ARRL: Get ready for a ham radio open house on World Amateur Radio Day 14. ARRL: The ARRL club grant program awards a half million dollars to help grow amateur radio Plus these Special Features This Week: * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be here with Scene 7 of his open source project, "The Bald Yak". This time out, Onno covers building a circuit without that burnt chicken smell. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This time out, Will has us board The Wayback Machine to 1916 when amateurs were experimenting with the atmosphere and trying to figure our how propagation worked, in a story called "Strangely Behaving Signals". ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. 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, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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