PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1355

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1355 - Full Version Release Date: February 15, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Alan Shephard, WK8W Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:58:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1355 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RSGB: Bletchley Park Museum Radio Awareness Talk 2. RSGB: New RSGB Emerging Technology Web Page 3. HACK: Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3 4. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA’s HADES-R Successfully Deployed and Transmitting Telemetry 5. AMSAT: Blue Origin Simulates Lunar Gravity On Landmark New Shepard Flight 6. AMSAT: Interlune Aims To Mine Lunar Helium-3 For Quantum Computing On Earth 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union To Celebrate Centenary 9. INDO: Ham Radio Users Detect Suspicious Signals Along Indo-Bangladesh Border 10. RW: WJLX Returns To 1240 AM After Tower Theft 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Emergency Service Renews Relationship with Red Cross in Puerto Rico 12. ARRL: RigExpert’s Administrative Office Destroyed in Russian Missile Attack — Production Remains Intact 13. ARRL: Robert Naumann, W5OV, Silent Key 14. ARRL: Grant Will Help Young Amateur Radio Operators Become Contesters 15. ARRL: Have A Ham Radio Open House For World Amateur Radio Day 16. ARRL: Stations Across Northeast Illinois Gathered For A 70 Centimeter Simplex Research Event 17. ARD: Actor Paul Giamatti To Play Art Bell In Biopic Film 18. Starlink Satellites Re-entries Are Leaving Metallic Vapor Trails 19. An Amateur Radio Operator Turns Out To Be The Frontrunner To Lead Germany 20. AM Radio Act To Save AM Radio In US Vehicles Gets Revived Effort 21. Meteorites Landing Location Activated By Amateur Radio Operator 22. World Radiosport Team Championship 2026 Rules Are Published 23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 24. AMSAT: SO-120 Antennas Deployed 25. AMSAT: Fram2Ham SSTV Simulation is now onboard the International Space Station 26. RW: Austria's historic Moosbrunn shortwave transmission site is dismantled 27. RW: SiriusXM SXM-9 satellite is now operational 28. FCC: FCC upholds order against an amateur licensee 29. PROP: The magnetic north pole has officially shifted its position 30. ARRL: Training the next generation of net control operators 31. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net is turning 60 years old, and is seeking net control operators 32. ACMA: The Australian Communications & Media Authority finalizes license fee charges for Australian amateurs 33. Living the good life on the air at a senior living community as it launches a ham radio club 34. Senators reintroduce legislation to protect amateur radio operators in an HOA Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, returns this week to his open source Bald Yak Project, where he will teach us to pay attention to the details. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920 when amateurs discovered that radio waves didn’t simply move from point to point along a straight line and decrease in strength with distance. Something else was happening too, but what? Will answers this question in an episode titled, "The QSS Tests." ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https: