PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1312 - Full Version Release Date: April 20, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulcik, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:59 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1312 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. NEWS: Famous Pittsburgh Inventor (You Probably Haven’t Heard Of) Celebrates 150th Birthday 2. AMSAT: NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return From International Space Station 3. AMSAT: New NASA Strategy Envisions Sustainable Future For Space Operations 4. AMSAT: Trash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: What Is The State Of Broadcast Radio In The United States Today? 7. BOSTON: Going The Extra Mile - Amateur Radio Connects all 26.2 Miles Of The Boston Marathon 8. ARRL: New England QSO Party — 2024 9. ARRL: Ham Radio 2024 Messe Friedrichshafen - Celebrating 60 Years Of Islands On The Air 10. ARRL: Start Your Field Day Planning Today 11. ARRL: Club Grant Program To Return 12. ARRL: 2024 ARRL National Convention At Dayton Hamvention -- Program and App Available 13. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test May 11, 2024 14. ARRL: Special Event W7G To Celebrate The 155th Anniversary Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike 15. ARRL: Students In Marietta, Georgia, Hold An Amateur Radio Contact With The International Space Station 16. Bouvet Dxpedition Is Reassessed And Put On Hold 17. Silent Keys: Elpidio "Pete" Cobian, N6VJD, and Larry Staples, WØAIB 18. Oregon Amateur Radio Simulated Crisis Draws A Large Response 19. The Courage Handi-Ham Systems Celebrates 57 Years 20. SOS Radio Week Coming Up 21. ARRL Contest Sheet and Upcoming Convention Listings 22. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Volunteers To Assist With 2024 Hamvention AMSAT Booth 23. WIA: Belgium Proposes Restriction To The 23 Centimeter Band 24. ARRL: Amateur Radio Saves Family In Death Valley National Park 25. ARRL: Active Hurricane Season Predicted For 2024 26. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute On Wireless Technology Applications Due Before May 1st 27. ARRL: Recipients Of The 2023 Cass Awards Have Been Announced 28. Hytera Radios Banned From Sales In The United States 29. NASA Locates Faulty Memory Chip That Is Garbling Voyager's Data Transmissions 30. Violent Windstorm Takes Down West Virginia Broadcast Towers 31. Spanish Amateurs Receive Privileges On The 8 Meter Band (40mHz) 32. AMSAT: 2024 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet At Hamvention To Be Held Friday May 17th 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 tell us that RF is all around us. And how to start your own station's frequency survey. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. Expanded Edition * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to 1977 when the FCC was backlogged with over 500,000 11 meter license applications per month. And when in print, it was charged that the Commission was staffed by Ham Radio Henchmen who conspired with the the then 300,000 hams to keep nine million 11 meter operators from acquiring expanded frequencies. * SPECIAL FEATURE: The microphone world has never been quite the same since the late Bob Heil, K9EID discovered what was missing in modern-day mics, putting the audio world on it virtual ear decades ago. We will here from Bob as he wraps up his three part talk he entitled Facts About Microphones