PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1101

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1101 Release Date: April 4, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS and and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:40:14 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1101 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. A Message from the Radio Amateurs of Canada President Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA 2. Spain Grants Unlicensed Individuals Permission to Use Amateur Stations During Lockdown 3. Some Countries Permitting STAYHOME-Suffix Call Signs during Virus Pandemic 4. A Message To All ARRL Members and ARRL VEC Accredited Volunteer Examiners 5. Contest Entry Features Multiple Operator Locations and Remote Transmitter-Receiver Site 6. Western Pennsylvania ARES Group Conducts District-Wide Simplex Drill 7. ARES Members to Support Illinois Emergency Management Agency in Virus Response 8. International Marconi Day 2020 has been Cancelled 9. Virus Has Affects On Space Station Crew Transition 10. FCC Grants Temporary Emergency Authority to WISPs Operating in 5.8 GigaHertz Band 11. Cancelled Ohio ARES State Conference Morphs into Statewide Communication Exercise 12. Field Day 2020 A Time to Adapt - A Second Look 13. HamSCI 2020 Workshop Successfully Reworked as a Virtual Event 14. Friedrichshafen - Ham Radio 2020 Hamfest Update 15. Radio Amateurs of Canada offers new Online Amateur Radio Courses 16. The First Remote, All Online Ham Radio Exam Conducted By Exam Team In The United States 17. DX and Special Event News 18. Marking World Amateur Radio Day 2020 Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about how China wants to redesign the internet, with a one new special feature...And he'll talk about donating that old computer you have, and trying new flavors of Linux. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, Greg discusses the best procedure for removing rusty bolts on antenna installations on towers. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how to "Listen From The Ground Up" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns this week with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, in this edition, Bill looks at "The Controversy Created By Incentive Licensing" Part One. * Classic RAIN: Classic Rain Edition #: "Lighten Up" An informative and entertaining talk given at the 2008 Dayton HamVention by then FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Riley Hollingsworth. K4ZDH. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://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 ID breaks every 10 minutes. 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, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. 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 us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.