PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1408 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: February 21, 2026

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, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:40:51

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1408

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT At Orlando HamCation

2. AMSAT: New Full-Duplex Satellite Capable HT: The Anytone AT-D890UV

3. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA Submits IARU Coordination Request For UNNE-1B, HADES-E2

4. WIA: Artemis II Mission Delayed

5. ARRL: FCC Requires That FRN Contact Information Be Updated Within Ten Days Of A Change

6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station Winner Announced At Orlando HamCation

7. ARRL: Ham Radio Helped During Hawaii Severe Weather

8. ARRL: POTA SOTA BOTA

9. ARRL: New Book Release: Digital Networking For Ham Radio

10. ARRL: 3YØK DXpedition Back On Track

11. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Issues Revision To 2026 Thru 2030 Technician Pool

12. ARRL: The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation Has Assumed Responsibility For WRTC.Info

13. VHF Society Is Seeking Presenters For Upcoming VHF Conference

14. ISS Crew 12 Arrives At The International Space Station

15. Amateurs In Chile Respond To A Tragedy In The Andes Mountains

16. Satellite Direct To Device Service Begins In The United Kingdom

17. Amateur Radio Software Award Deadline Approaches

18. ARRL: FCC Recruiting 7 Field Agents – Electronics Engineers

19. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions

20. AMSAT: Fuji Oscar 29 is approaching full sunlight

21. AMSAT: Declassifying JumpSat, an American pioneer in space

22. WIA: New comedy podcast tackles amateur radios "Gatekeeping Problem".

23. WIA: Radio Society Of Great Britain publishes new band plans

24. FCC: Amazon gets approval to launch 4500 LEO Satellites for its internet from space network

25. ARRL: Start planning now for the Ham Radio Open House in April, and World Amateur Radio Day

26. ARRL: Digital or Paper?

27. BBC: The BBC launches shortwave program in its crisis service beamed to Iran

28. Texas military base issues GPS interference warnings

29. Amateur Radio License Plates are poised for approval in the state of New Hampshire

30. FCC: Obsolete Part 97 Rules are officially deleted

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 will tell us why he has a radio transmitting into a dummy load continuously for the last year, on purpose

* 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, returns with another new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924 where we find that for nearly a year, hams had been operating in their first assigned band of wavelengths, 150 to 200 meters. They had also been experimenting below 150 meters by special government permission. The story continues, in Part Two of a Four Part episode titled, "Six Segments, Sans Spark"

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