PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1404 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: January 24, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:38:53

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1404

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Membership Now Includes “Getting Started” Guide

2. AMSAT: Message To U.S. Educators: ARISS Contact Opportunity Call For Proposals

3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

4. WIA: Chinese National Damages Undersea Cable

5. WIA: Communication News Shorts

6. WIA: Hubble Space Telescope Nearing Its End Of Life

7. WIA: Amateur Issues Call For More Ham Radio Accessible Digital Software Development

8. ARD: SpottedHam.com Launches Custom POTA and Keyword Email Alerts

9. ARRL: ARRL Director Tharp, KB7HDX Receives Search-and-Rescue Award

10. ARRL: ARRL Board Approves Funding for Federal Advocacy; Creates New DXCC Single-Band Honor Roll

11. ARRL: Vandals Strike Ham Factory

12. ARRL: ARRL Honorary Vice President John Cadwallader Kanode, N4MM, Silent Key

13. ARRL: Nominations Are Now Being Accepted For The 2026 Dayton Hamvention Awards.

14. ARRL: Former FCC Official John B. Johnston, W3BE, Of Derwood, Maryland, Silent Key

15. PY: Amateurs Arrested In Belarus Under Suspicion Of Espionage

16. NASA Artemis Two Spacecraft Is Rolled Out To The Launch Pad

17. Congress Agrees To Restore Funding To The Voice Of America

18. Hamvention Awards Nomination Window Closes Soon

19. Damage To Taiwanese Undersea Cables Spurs More Interest In Amateur Radio

20. Hosting Site For World RadioSport Team Championship 2030 Is Being Sought

21. Hindu Pilgrimage Safety Is Provided By Indian Amateurs

22. ARRL: 2026 Repeater Directory is now shipping

23. ARRL: 2026 Winter Field Day Is up and running

24. ARRL Upcoming radiosport contests and regional convention listings

25. AMSAT: NASA marks fifty years of the GOES satellites

26. AMSAT: Two US schools and organizations move forward in the ARISS contact selection process

27. FCC: FCC approves Starlink expansion to 19,000+ satellites with direct to device service

28. RW: Financial Traders seek permanency for shortwave data transmissions

29. ARRL: New 60 Meter frequencies will become available as of February 13th, 2026

30. ARRL: The FCC is poised to exempt radio amateurs from Foreign Adversary Reporting System

31. ARD: DX Look introduces VOACAP view professional HF propagation prediction

32. FutureGeo is the most important amateur radio initiative of the decade

33. Device frequency sharing is eyes by Ofcom in the United Kingdom

34: HamCation will be featuring an APRS Digipeater

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News

* Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, presents Part Five of his series on "Building A Shack". The episode Onno tackles the problem of "Noise"

* 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

* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, with yet another edition of "Dead Electrical Dudes". This week's stiff is Guglielmo Marconi

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