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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1353 - Full Version 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: 1:57:47 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1353 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HACK: Sony Ends Blu-Ray, MiniDisk and MiniDV Media Production 2. AMSAT: Hacking A Motorized RV Satellite Dish For Tracking Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Carnarvons Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years 5. WIA: Amateur Radio Has Been A Hobby For Well Over 100 Years 6. WIA: The Radio Society of Great Britian Announces British Science Week 7. RAC: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Releases New Basic Amateur Question Bank 8. RI: Senators Cruz and Markey Reintroduce AM Radio Act In The Senate 9. ARRL: Warm Up At The 2025 Orlando HamCation To Be Held February 7th Thru The 9th 10. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute A Success On Staten Island 11. ARRL: Long Time Ham Radio Outlet Employee Honored For 60 Years In Amateur Radio 12. ARRL: News Shorts From The ARRL 13. Transportation Contracts Are Signed By The Bouvet 3Y0K Team 14. Clues To Solar Flares Seen As Coronal Loop Flickering 15. Southeastern VHF Conference Seeks Presenters 16. 70 Centimeter MESH Network Project In Canada 17. DXpedition To Mount Athos Is Stopped Among Controversy 18. Repeater Group Plans To Enhance Safety In Eastern Colorado 19. Historic Amateur Satellite QSO Honored By AMSAT Switzerland 20. CW Contester Rosel Zenker, DL3KWR, SK 21. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus and other amateur news around the UK 22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain publication RadCom has an editor vacancy 23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 24. National Contest Journal sponsored North American CW Sprint 25. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention announcements 26. EAB: Secret Listeners: The story revealing the life of early amateur radio heros 27. AMSAT: SpaceX launches multiple ham satellites on a ride share mission 28. AMSAT: Two private moon landers have launched at once 29. AMSAT: A new ARISS proposal window is now open 30. RI: With a designation from President Trump, Brendan Carr is now the new Chairman of the FCC 31. HACK: Forget the coax, wire up your receive antennas with cat 6 cable 32. ARRL: Get ready for a ham radio open house on World Amateur Radio Day 33. ARRL: The ARRL club grant program awards a half million dollars to help grow amateur radio 34. ARRL: The 76th Annual International DX Convention date is announced 35. The Lake Placid Olympic Museum receives a gift of amateur radio 36. Ireland's Amateur Radio Magazine returns and is now published online 37. The Orlando HamCation announces its annual award recipients 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, 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. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * 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 out 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 ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

This is The DX Mentor podcast. I hope to help those hams trying to move up the DXCC ladder as well as those that at on the DXCC Honor Roll. As fast as technology is moving, no one can keep up on it all. I am here to help. #DX #Hamradio Hello and welcome to episode 55 of The DX Mentor and our discussion of Geography and DX. Thank you for joining us. I'm Bill, AJ8B.     If this is the first time you are with us, Welcome! We have a back catalog of over 50 episodes covering many aspects of DX in both podcast and YouTube format. Please check us out. If you are new to DXing, I would really recommend episode 1 as it was recorded with several world class DXers. You will get a feel of the excitement that goes with chasing DX!     Remember, if you like what you find, please subscribe, like, and share!  Our guest today is Ralph Bellas, K9ZO. Here is a bit of bio on Ralph “My interests include technology, entrepreneurship, contesting, DXing, CW, VHF, propagation, and being very active on the HF bands. DXpeditions really excite me!  I'm an Assistant Director, 50 Year Member, and Life Member with the ARRL. I'm a past President, State Coordinator, and former Board member of the Society of Midwest Contesters (SMC) - W9SMC.  I am the former "Contesting on a Budget" column editor for the National Contest Journal, NCJ.  I'm a former member of the Metro DX club. I have earned 10BDXCC, 10 Band WAS, and the Triple Play Award.  I am active with DXCC Challenge with 2911 slots.  For DXCC Honor Roll I have 358 Mixed, 353 CW, 358 Phone, and 319 Digital countries.  I earned 5BWAZ.  I've been fortunate to have been part of DX teams which were awarded "DXpedition of the Year." Joe, W8GEX, an accomplished DXer in his own right will also be with us.  Resources mentioned include: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morokulien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur_Cosmodrome Southwest Ohio DX Assoc. https://www.swodxa.org Daily DX https://www.dailydx.com/ DX Engineering https://www.dxengineering.com/ Icom https://www.icomamerica.com/ IC-905 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-905/ IC-9700 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-9700/ IC-7610 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-7610/ IC-7300 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-7300/

This is The DX Mentor podcast. I hope to help those hams trying to move up the DXCC ladder as well as those that at on the DXCC Honor Roll. As fast as technology is moving, no one can keep up on it all. I am here to help. #DX #Hamradio In this episode of The DX Mentor, our Ralph, K9ZO, will share many ways that he has improved his DXing. Ralph is very accomplished as his bio states "My interests include technology, entrepreneurship, contesting, DXing, CW, VHF, propagation, and being very active on the HF bands. DXpeditions really excite me! I'm an Assistant Director, 50 Year Member, and Life Member with the ARRL. I'm a past President, State Coordinator, and former Board member of the Society of Midwest Contesters (SMC) - W9SMC. I am the former "Contesting on a Budget" column editor for the National Contest Journal, NCJ. I'm a former member of the Metro DX club. I have earned 10BDXCC, 10 Band WAS, and the Triple Play Award. I am active with DXCC Challenge with 2911 slots. For DXCC Honor Roll I have 358 Mixed, 353 CW, 358 Phone, and 319 Digital countries. I earned 5BWAZ. I've been fortunate to have been part of DX teams which were awarded "DXpedition of the Year." Here are some of the links that we mention during the discussion: QRZ https://www.qrz.com/ DX Summit http://www.dxsummit.fi/#/ DXCC Country List https://www.arrl.org/files/file/DXCC/2020%20DXCC%20Current%20.pdf Clublog Most Wanted https://clublog.org/mostwanted.php N1MM https://n1mmwp.hamdocs.com/ DXLabs https://dxlabsuite.com/ Southwest Ohio DX Assoc. https://www.swodxa.org DX Code of Conduct : https://www.dx-code.com/ Daily DX https://www.dailydx.com/ DX Engineering https://www.dxengineering.com/ Icom https://www.icomamerica.com/ IC-905 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-905/ IC-9700 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-9700/ IC-7610 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-7610/ IC-7300 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-7300/

This is The DX Mentor podcast. I hope to help those hams trying to move up the DXCC ladder as well as those that at on the DXCC Honor Roll. As fast as technology is moving, no one can keep up on it all. I am here to help. #DX #Hamradio In this episode of The DX Mentor, our Ralph, K9ZO, will share many ways that he has improved his DXing. Ralph is very accomplished as his bio states "My interests include technology, entrepreneurship, contesting, DXing, CW, VHF, propagation, and being very active on the HF bands. DXpeditions really excite me! I'm an Assistant Director, 50 Year Member, and Life Member with the ARRL. I'm a past President, State Coordinator, and former Board member of the Society of Midwest Contesters (SMC) - W9SMC. I am the former "Contesting on a Budget" column editor for the National Contest Journal, NCJ. I'm a former member of the Metro DX club. I have earned 10BDXCC, 10 Band WAS, and the Triple Play Award. I am active with DXCC Challenge with 2911 slots. For DXCC Honor Roll I have 358 Mixed, 353 CW, 358 Phone, and 319 Digital countries. I earned 5BWAZ. I've been fortunate to have been part of DX teams which were awarded "DXpedition of the Year." Here are some of the links that we mention during the discussion: QRZ https://www.qrz.com/ DX Summit http://www.dxsummit.fi/#/ DXCC Country List https://www.arrl.org/files/file/DXCC/2020%20DXCC%20Current%20.pdf Clublog Most Wanted https://clublog.org/mostwanted.php N1MM https://n1mmwp.hamdocs.com/ DXLabs https://dxlabsuite.com/ Southwest Ohio DX Assoc. https://www.swodxa.org DX Code of Conduct : https://www.dx-code.com/ Daily DX https://www.dailydx.com/ DX Engineering https://www.dxengineering.com/ Icom https://www.icomamerica.com/ IC-905 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-905/ IC-9700 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-9700/ IC-7610 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-7610/ IC-7300 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-7300/

Dr. Scott Wright, K0MD, contester and past editor of the National Contest Journal, joins us to talk about how to get started in contesting. If you want to get some DX and work fast, contesting just might be for you! Scott gives us some basics on how to get started.Be sure to CALL in with your questions and comments by calling 859-982-7373 live during the call-in segment of the show. You can also tweet your questions before or during the show to @HamTalkLive.

The National Contest Journal is undergoing some major upgrades soon, and the Editor Dr. Scott Wright, K0MD is here to tell us all about it and take your calls LIVE!Be sure to CALL in with your questions and comments by calling 812-638-4261 live during the call-in segment of the show. You can also tweet your questions before or during the show to @HamTalkLive.

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Tom, KB5RF, and Dan, KB6NU, talk about the current state of contesting and where we might be going in the future.

Dr. Ralph Fedor, K0IR, will be here to tell us about the adventures on the trip to Bouvet Island and back, and what the future may hold for their DXpedition plan. We will take your calls live, as usual, during the second half of the show.We also announce the winner of the National Contest Journal giveaway!Be sure to CALL in with your questions and comments by calling 812-NET-HAM-1 live during the call-in segment of the show, or by Skype. Our username is hamtalklive. You can also tweet your questions before or during the show to @HamTalkLive.

The editor of the National Contest Journal, Dr. Scott Wright, K0MD, and deputy editor Dr. Fred Regennitter, K4IU join us to talk about the human side of the World Radiosport Team Championships... the competitors! In the May/June issue of the NCJ, Scott and Fred interviewed many of the team members, and we will talk about what they learned from their interviews and things that didn't appear in the article. They will take your questions LIVE as well!Be sure to CALL in with your questions and comments by calling 812-NET-HAM-1 live during the call-in segment of the show, or by Skype. Our username is hamtalklive. You can also tweet your questions before or during the show to @HamTalkLive.If you're NOT a current subscriber to the National Contest Journal, here is your chance to win a FREE subscription for a year! You have until June 14 to answer the question from this episode on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Or, if you don't have any of those, email it to contests@hamtalklive.com. We will select someone from those with correct answers as the winner on June 14. Current NCJ subscribers are NOT eligible!Q: What brand of radio is Martin, a German, using for WRTC?

Tonight on Ham Talk Live!, Dr. Scott Wright, K0MD calls in, as our scheduled guest tonight was not available. Scott is the new editor of the National Contest Journal. We talk about some upgrades and changes to the journal, contesting, contest rig selection, and a quick preview of WRTC 2018. We will try to reschedule the chief engineer at RadioWavz antennas, Emmett Hohensee III, W0QH at a later time. Be sure to CALL in with your questions and comments by calling 812-NET-HAM-1 live during the show, or by Skype. Our username is hamtalklive. You can also tweet your questions before or during the show to @HamTalkLive.

Becoming a top contester in the World of amateur radio is about skill, practice, experience, and a great station according to Pat Barkey, N9RV. Pat combines all of these attributes, including his SO2R, single operator two radio, station,  to be one of the top contesters in the World. Now he is the editor of the National Contest Journal, a professor at Contest University, and Eric, 4Z1UG’s, guest on QSO Today.