PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1354 - 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 8, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, 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: 1:00:07 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1354HR Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RW: Austria's Historic Moosbrunn Shortwave Transmission Site Dismantled 2. RW: SiriusXM's SXM-9 Satellite Is Now Operational 3. FCC: FCC Upholds Forfeiture Order Against Amateur Licensee 4. RI: Pallone, Bilirakis Reintroduce AM Radio Act In the US House of Representatives 5. PROP: The Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Shifted Position 6. ARRL: Training The Next Generation Of Net Controllers 7. World Radio Day Is Just Ahead On February 13th 8. First Archipelago DxPedition In 23 Years Is Given The Thumbs Up By The Brazilian Navy 9. ACMA Finalizes License Fee Changes For Australian Amateurs 10. Late Breaking: Senators Wicker, Blumenthal Reintroduce Legislation to Protect Amateur Radio Operators 11. HACK: Parcae: A Trio of Spy Satellites 12. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listings 13. RAC: ISED Canada releases new basic amateur radio question bank 14. ARRL: Long time Ham Radio Outlet employee is honored for sixty years in amateur radio 15. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus 16. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain is looking for an Assistant Editor to fill a recent vacancy 17. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring System Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be here with advise on how to find your path in the amateur radio hobby. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1919 when in late December, radio was blacked out again. But this time it was nature's doing, not a government edict. Hams discovered, the shorter wavelengths were dead despite the fact that 600 meter signals were still pounding in. Amateurs were in the process of learning about solar cycles, and atmospheric propagation in an episode simply called, 'Freaks'. ----- 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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