PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1396 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: November 29, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnson, W2PH. Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:38:08

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1396

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. RSGB: The RSGB Is Looking For A Volunteer Accessibility Champion

2. AMSAT: SO-124 Nears End Of Orbital Life

3. EW: Amateur Radio Sleuth Detects Secret Signals From SpaceX Military Satellites

4. FCC: FCC Proposes Upper C-Band Rules For 2027 Auction

5. FCC: FCC To Delete 21 Obsolete Rules

6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Board of Directors Election Results

7. ARRL: ARRL VEC Has Processed Most Of The Backlog Of 2,500 Plus License Applications

8. ARRL: December Is Youth On The Air Month

9. ARRL: Battleship Iowa Amateur Radio Association Will Activate The Ship’s Original NEPM Navy Call Sign

10. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2025 Santa Net

11. RSGB: Radio Society Of Great Britain Takes Steps To Ensure Disabled Amateurs Are Not Excluded

12. Cape Cod FM Broadcast Pirate Agrees To Pay FCC Voluntary Contribution

13. Grants From YASME Foundation Boosts Bangladesh Amateur College Outreach

14. Airplane Collision With a Weather Balloon Prompts Investigation

15. Deadline Approaches For ARRL Scholarships

16. Cincinnati Amateurs Rekindle Their Annual AM Night

17. FCC: FCC Says Hackers Hijack US Radio Equipment To Send Fake Alerts, Obscenities

18. ARD: EvoHam Provides Resources for Digital Voice Operators

19. FCC: FCC Seeks Comment on Transitioning Voice Telephone Services to All Internet Protocol

20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions Listing

21. AMSAT: The BOTAN CubeSat Digipeater Schedule A Challenge For US Amateurs

22. AMSAT: Alarm over reduction at Goddard Space Flight Center

23. AMSAT: Comet photos plagued by LEO Satellite Streaks

24. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain announces Amateur Radio Construction Competition

25. WIA: HD Car Radios and Meta Data RDS problems plague some receivers

26. WIA: Space Debris is now officially a problem

27. ARRL: League puts out a call for technical manuscripts

28. ARRL: ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communications has funding opportunities

29. ARRL: Several prominent amateurs are among the 2025 Radio Club of America awardees

30. ARRL: SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 has been cancelled

31. RW: Spain's Radio Nacional de Espana to shut down medium wave AM transmitters

32. Internet archive hits one trillion web pages archived

33. FutureGeo is the most important Amateur Radio initiative of this decade

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 answer the question, "How To Make Our Hobby and Community Resilient"

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

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* Will Rogers, K5WLR- A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us back to Thanksgiving week in November of 1923 as we witness amateurs setting new records, and view the MacMillan Expedition to the north pole operating station WNP, as he finishes up with Part Two of this story titled, "Scooped"

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