PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1379 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: August 2, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:46:43

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1379

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Submits Formal Objection To AST SpaceMobile Plan, FCC Records 2,220 Comments

2. AMSAT: Amateur Radio Enthusiasts Decode SSMIS After DoD Ends Public Hurricane Data Stream

3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches NASA’s TRACERS Mission To Study Solar Wind and Magnetic Reconnection

4. AMSAT: NASA, ISRO Set to Launch NISAR Satellite to Map Earth and Monitor Glaciers, Faults, and Crops

5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

6. NCM: Washington DC Area GMRS Licensee Files FCC Petition For VHF Low Band Frequencies

7. ARRL: Ham Radio Responds During Tsunami Threat

8. ARRL: Introducing Radio Alpha, The ARRL Museum and Research Library

9. ARRL: ARRL Field Day 2025 Saw Growth In Participants And Entries

10. ARRL: ARRL Events App Available For Huntsville Hamfest

11. ARRL: 100th Anniversary Of The Wreck Of The USS Shenandoah Airship

12. ARRL: Yasme Foundation Awards A Grant To Cover License Exams For Youth In Malawi, Africa

13. ARRL: Doctor Ulrich L. Rohde, N1UL, Has Been Awarded The Bavarian Order Of Merit

14. ARRL: 28th International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend Will Take Place August 16 and 17, 2025

15. New Callsign Suffixes and Prefixes Are Introduced In Sweden and India

16. Station In Mexico To Honor Maximilian Kolbe The Patron Saint of Amateur Radio

17. International Response To Business FCC Filing For Amateur Radio Frequencies

18. Radio Related Fees Are On The Rise In Pakistan

19. Heritage and History Is The focus Of South African Awards

20. Amateurs Teach Police In India the advantages of the role amateur radio can play in crisis

21. ACUW: World longest lightning flash is confirmed as a new world record

22. WIA/RAC: Radio Amateurs Of Canada issues new Question Pool

23. FCC: FCC pirate radio crackdown hits a Washington State Ranch

24. FCC: 91 years ago marks the birth of the Federal Communications Commission

25. ARRL: ARRL Board Meeting Highlights

26. ARRL: ARRL files comments to protect the 70 centimeter amateur radio band

27. FCC: FCC Explores overhauling the Emergency Alert System, and regains its authority to hold Spectrum Auctions

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 comment on the proposed grab of our 70 centimeter band in a segment he calls, "Using The Amateur Band For Other Purposes."

* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report

* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to 1922 to witness yet another Cross-Atlantic test. In October of that year the ARRL announced that another round of Trans-Atlantic tests would be run in December, with preliminary trials from 25 October through 3 November. This time the test would include British, French and Dutch amateurs, and be two way communications

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