PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1149

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1149 Release Date: March 6, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:36:30 Download Podcast here: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1149 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Video Documents Removal, Preservation of 250 kiloWatt Voice of America Transmitter 2. Spring Red Cross Emergency Communications Drill Set 3. Approaches to Tackle Noise Problems Vary, Remedies Elusive 4. ARISS, NASA, and ESA Continue to Probe Amateur Radio Problems on the International Space Station 5. AMSAT-DL Operators Track Mars Probes 6. Quantum Receiver Can Detect Huge Swath Of The RF Spectrum 7. Moldova Peace Corps ARISS Contact Is Successful / Wyoming Students Get An ISS QSO At Last 8. North Carolina Radio Amateurs Adapt Tailgating Hamfest To Pandemic Protocols 9. Upcoming ARRL Learning Network Webinars Listing 10. January 2021 Volunteer Monitor Program Report 11. Astronauts On Board The ISS Prepare For A Power Upgrade During A Recent Spacewalk 12. UK Regulator Ofcom Acts In Rapid Response To An RF Interference Report 13. Discovery Of The Planet Pluto Celebration Is Marked By Thousands Of On The Air QSO's 14. New Ham Developed Solar Panel Promises To Stream Energy From Orbit 15. Amateur Eyes New Podcast For Budding Ham Radio Pilots 16. Ofcom In The U.K. Introduces EMF Clause Into Amateur Radio Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about a lot of things this week including how one company learned the hard way not to let interns make up passwords. He will tell us how a recent software update may have your Roomba Vacuum seem a bit drunk. He will tell us about a new side loadable browser extension that blocks sites that ping Google and Amazon, among others. He speak to the recent closure of Frys Electronics on the west coast, and he will have audio and comments about the recent UFO sighting by an airliner over New Mexico. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, talks about will talk about what precautions you need to take, and the advantages of doing your tower climbing at night. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the propagation question, how many hops in a jump? * 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 begins a two part series looking at the history behind amateur radio full duplex relay stations....better known as repeaters. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://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 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, including iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, AnchorFM, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, NetVibes, OverCast, Player.FM, PocketCast, Podnova, and RSS feeds. 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 daily feed on Twitter!