PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1403 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: January 17, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nickolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:46

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1403HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: NASA Ends Crew 11 Mission Due To 'Medical Concern' With An Astronaut

2. FCC: FCC Approves Starlink Expansion To 19,000+ Satellites With Direct To Device Capability

3. RW: Financial Traders Seek Permanency For Shortwave Data Transmissions

4. ARRL: New 60-Meter Frequencies Available As Of February 13th, 2026

5. ARRL: FCC Poised To Exempt Amateurs From Foreign Adversary Reporting Requirements

6. ARD: DXLook Introduces VOACAP View Professional HF Propagation Prediction

7. FutureGEO Is The Most Important Amateur Radio Initiative Of This Decade

8. Device Frequency Sharing Is Eyed By Ofcom In The UK

9. AMSAT: AMSAT membership now includes 'Getting Started With Amateur Satellites' book.

10. AMSAT: HDMI Converter is installed on the ISS Ham TV System that expands video capabilities

11. WIA: Radio station played a pivotal role in the history of wireless celebrates its 125th anniversary

12. WIA: No time like the present - Maybe - KLOE-AM in Kansas packs it up after tower collapse

13. WIA: Moody Bible Institutes WMBI-FM instructed to lower power due to airport interference

14. FCC: FCC plans to expand unlicensed operations in the six gigahertz band

15. FCC: FCC reminds experimental digital shortwave stations to identify themselves in analog voice or CW

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio continues with Part Five of his series entitled "Building A Shack", this weeks episode is called "Antenna Shenanigans"

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

* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This episodes stiff is Major Edwin Howard Armstrong

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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss

Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss

Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

Website: https://www.twiar.net

X: https://x.com/TWIAR

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u

RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2

Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1402 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: January 10, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:52

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1402HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

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

2. WIA: Radio Station Played A Pivotal Role In The History Of Wireless Is Celebrating Its 125th Anniversary

3. WIA: No Time Like The Present...Maybe - KLOE-AM In Kansas Off The Air Due To Tower Problems

4. WIA: Moody Bible Institute Stand Lowers Power Due To Airport Interference

5. ARD: 52 Week Ham Challenge Returns For 2026

6. FCC: FCC Bans Sale Of All Foreign Drones In The United States

7. FCC: FCC Plans To Expand Unlicensed Operations In 6 GigaHertz Band

8. FCC: FCC Reminds Experimental HF Stations To Identify Themselves

9. ARRL: Join ARRL In Celebrating America’s 250th – On the Air!

10. ARRL: Nominations Open For The Three Heritage CQ Magazine Halls of Fame

11. Regulation Changes Also In Store For Drones In The United Kingdom

12. Amateurs In Germany Find Their Access To 70 MegaHertz Is In Limbo

13. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr highlights agency accomplishments in 2025

14. FCC: The FCC has been petitioned to expand GMRS and FRS to include low band VHF

15. ARRL: 2026 is ARRL's Year Of The Club - A celebration of amateur radio clubs - PART ONE

16. ARRL: 2026 is ARRL's Year Of The Club - A celebration of amateur radio clubs - PART TWO

17. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications introduces "44 Net Connect" for amateurs

18. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Take Office in January 2026

19: Amateurs in New Zealand will use ZM prefix for their Centenary year

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, will have Part Four of his series "Building A Shack". This week he takes a look at "Coaxial Cable Alternatives"

* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This edition takes a look at the use of "CQ", which is used as a general call for initiating a contact. This took time to become an acceptable practice in the early years. Serious operators frowned on its use, mostly because it had been used to excess in the old days among the little boys with squeak boxes, usually in exceedingly long and sparsely identified calls. This will be Part Two of the edition titled, "Call & Card."

* We will have a look at this months Volunteer Monitoring Report

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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss

Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss

Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

Website: https://www.twiar.net

X: https://x.com/TWIAR

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u

RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2

Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1401 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: January 3, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:40

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1401HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Youth On The Air Camp 2026 Applications Open

2. AMSAT: AMSAT Youth Initiative Satellites and Climate Change Course Now Online

3. WIA: United States Jams Global Positioning System Signals In The Caribbean

4. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Highlights Agency Accomplishments In 2025

5. NC: FCC Petitioned To Expand GMRS and FRS To VHF Low Band

6. ARRL: 2026 Is ARRL’s Year of the Club - A Celebration Of Amateur Radio Clubs - PART ONE

7. ARRL: 2026 Is ARRL’s Year of the Club - A Celebration Of Amateur Radio Clubs - PART TWO

8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Introduces “44Net Connect”

9. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Take Office in January

10. DXLook Adds Map Layers and Weather Radar Overlays

11. The Largest Commercial Satellite Is Launched By AST SpaceMobile

12. Hams In New Zealand Use ZM Prefix For Their Centenary Year

13. WIA: Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) moves to stop illegal radio imports

14. WIA: Google announces it will begin building three new undersea cables

15. WIA: The Russian UVB-76 radio transmissions are still on the air

16. Use of International Reply Coupons (IRC) is ended by the Universal Postal Congress

Plus these Special Features This Week:

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

* Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with anoter brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This edition takes a look at the use of CQ, which is used as a general call for initiating a contact. This took time to become an acceptable practice in the early years. Serious operators frowned on its use, mostly because it had been used to excess in the old days among the little boys with squeak boxes, usually in exceedingly long and sparsely identified calls. This historic edition is titled "Call & Card."

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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss

Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss

Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

Website: https://www.twiar.net

X: https://x.com/TWIAR

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u

RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2

Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1400 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: December 27, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:06:54

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1400HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: W2RS Memorial AMSAT CW Activity Day To Be Held January 1, 2026

2. AMSAT: New Satellite Tracking Application Released

3. WIA: Australia ACMA Moves To Stop Illegal Radio Imports

4. WIA: Google To Build Three New Undersea Cables

5. WIA: Russian UVB-76 Radio Still On The Air

6. WIA: Amateurs Worldwide Get Access To IP Addresses

7. AS: Eagles Guitarist Joe Walsh’s Auction Works, With Part of the Proceeds Benefiting Veterans Aid

8. Use Of International Reply Coupons (IRC'S) Is Ended By The Universal Postal Congress

9. Ham Radio University Featured Speaker Is Bouvet DxPeditioner

10. DMR Project With School Students In India Is Successful

11. Jim Shaffer, KE5AL, Advocate For Blind Amateurs, SK

12. A Large Holiday Gathering Is Kept Safe By Minnesota Amateurs

13. AMSAT: Satellites Experience “Orbital Summer” And “Orbital Winter”

14. ARD: DXLook Introduces Real-Time D-RAP Visualization For HF Absorption Events

15. IR: FCC Pushes Toward High-Stakes Upper C-Band Vote

16. ARRL: Get Your Keys and Bugs Ready For ARRL Straight Key Night

17. ARRL: Obsolete Part 97 Rules To Be Deleted February 10th, 2026

18. ARRL: New Technician Class Question Pool Released -- Effective July 1st, 2026

19. ARRL: Up To $25,000 At Stake In New ARRL Student Coding Competition

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Our annual Christmas Special hosted and narrated by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS as he related what it was like to be a teen obsessed with amateur radio, and trying to also have a girlfriend. This story taken from one of his talk presentations on WOR-AM in New York.

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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss

Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss

Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

Website: https://www.twiar.net

X: https://x.com/TWIAR

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u

RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2

Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1399 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: December 20, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:09

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1399HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Satellites Experience "Orbital Summer" And "Orbital Winter"

2. ARD: DXLook Introduces Real-Time D-RAP Visualization For HF Absorption Events

3. EHAM - High Levels Of CO2 In The Atmosphere Can Affect Radio Propagation

4. WIA: World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station In Sweden To Be On Air Christmas Eve

5. RW: American Public Media Settles With FCC Over False Emergency Alert Service Tones

6. ARRL: Get Your Keys and Bugs Ready for ARRL Straight Key Night

7. ARRL: Obsolete Part 97 Rules To Be Deleted February 10th, 2026

8. ARRL: New Technician Class Question Pool Released -- Effective July 1st, 2026

9. ARRL: Up To $25,000 At Stake In New ARRL Student Coding Competition

10. ARRL: Happy Belated Birthday To Entertainer and Comedian Dick Van Dyke

11. Still Time To Participate In The 12 Days Of Christmas Special Event

12. Former Vermont RACES Amateurs Welcomed By The Medical Reserve Corps

13. ARRL: FCC allocates 60 Meter World-wide Amateur Radio Band - Makes minor changes to 70cm band

14. ARRL: Deadline is fast approaching for 2026 ARRL Foundation Grant applications

15. ARRL: Registration is now open for the 2026 sessions of the ARRL Teachers Institute

16. ARRL: Pre-Registration is open for the ARRL Student Coding Competition

17. Christmas Eve 2025 is a great opportunity for radio transmission from vintage gear

18. The first HamTV transmission from the ISS has taken place since 2018

19. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will present Part One of a new series on Building A Shack. This weeks episode is entitled "Setting The Scene"

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

* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, begins a brand new series that will be on air a couple of times a month, entitled, "Dead Electrical Dudes". And Will's first stiff is James Clerk Maxwell, the father of all that we hams hold sacred.

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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss

Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss

Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

Website: https://www.twiar.net

X: https://x.com/TWIAR

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u

RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2

Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1398 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: December 13, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:17

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1398HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

2. ARRL: FCC Allocates 60-Meter World-Wide Amateur Band Approved at WRC-15; Continues Amateur Use of Four Additional 60-Meter Channels, and Updates 420 MHz Coordination Info

3. ARRL: ARRL To Host 2026 HamSCI Workshop At Central Connecticut State University

4. ARRL: ARRL 10-Meter Contest This Weekend

5. ARRL: Deadline Approaching: Apply Now For The 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarships

6. ARRL: Pre-Registration Is Open For The ARRL Student Coding Competition

7. ARRL: Christmas Eve 2025 Is A Great Opportunity For Radio Transmissions From Vintage Equipment

8. First HamTV Transmission From ISS Since 2018

9. RACES Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service Ends In Vermont

10. Six Santa Christmas Station Are On The Air From Dutch Amateurs

11. QSL Dot Net Founder Alan L. Waller, K3TKJ, SK

12. TvT: China will host International Telecommunications Union World Radio Conference 2027

13. ARRL: The league encourages amateurs to send a holiday Radiogram

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will have yet another update on his Bald Yak Project. This time he presents a segment he calls Choices and Software Flexibility

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

* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, is here with another brand new edition of A Century

of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the mid 1920's as amateurs were rapidly coming to appreciate that there was something strange and unexpected about the shorter wavelengths. Clearly, it was time to press on downward, but their hands were somewhat tied by the lack of an allocation in this unused, unexplored territory. This is Part Two of an episode titled "Onward, Downward"

* Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss

Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss

Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

Website: https://www.twiar.net

X: https://x.com/TWIAR

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u

RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2

Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1397 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: December 6, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by ordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:33

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1397HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. WIA: What Has 5000 Batteries and Floats?

2. WIA: NASA Deep Space Antenna Suffers Rotation Damage

3. FCC: FCC Closes More Than 2,000 Inactive Proceedings

4. FCC: FCC Urges Action After Obscene Material Airs In Hack

5. TvT: China To Host International Telecommunications Union World Radiocommunication Conference '27

6. ARRL: Space Sailors Seeking Download Help From Ham Radio Operators

7. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Annual Report: Promote, Protect, Inspire, Educate

8. ARRL: Orlando HamCation Award Winners Announced

9. ARRL: Teachers Institute Telethon Raises Over $23,000

10. ARRL: Joe Walsh, WB6ACU, Is Getting Ready For A Very Personal Auction

11. ARRL: Pacificon 2025 picture album is now available on line

12. FCC: FCC deletes 21 obsolete rules and regulations

13. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Board of Directors election results are announced

14. ARRL: December is Youth On The Air Month (YOTA)

15. ARRL: Santa Net 2025 Is Now On The Air

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will propose a few solutions when you are Having Problems With Logging.

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

* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, is here with another brand new edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the mid 1920's as amateurs were rapidly coming to appreciate that there was something strange and unexpected about the shorter wavelengths. Clearly, it was time to press on downward, but their hands were somewhat tied by the lack of an allocation in this unused, unexplored territory. This is Part One of a two part episode titled, "Onward, Downward".

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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss

Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss

Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

Website: https://www.twiar.net

X: https://x.com/TWIAR

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u

RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2

Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1396 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

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: 1:00:56

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1396HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

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

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

3. FCC: FCC To Delete 21 Obsolete Rules

4. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Board of Directors Election Results

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

6. ARRL: December Is Youth On The Air Month

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

8. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2025 Santa Net

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

10. Deadline Approaches For ARRL Scholarships

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

12. ARD: EvoHam Provides Resources for Digital Voice Operators

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

14. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2025 Santa Net

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

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

17. ARRL: SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 has been cancelled

18. Internet archive hits one trillion web pages archived

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Plus these Special Features This Week:

* 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

* 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 entitled "Scooped"

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This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1395 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: November 22, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:02

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1395HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. ARD: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program Campaign Focuses On HF and VLF Propagation

2. AMSAT: Alarm Over Reductions At Goddard Space Flight Center

3. RSGB: Radio Society Of Great Britain Announces Amateur Radio Construction Competition

4. WIA: Space Debris Is Now Officially A Problem

5. ARRL: ARRL VEC Ready To File 2,500+ Ham Radio License Applications; FCC Extends Deadlines

6. ARRL: Call For Technical Manuscripts

7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Funding Opportunities

8. ARRL: Several Prominent Hams Among 2025 Radio Club of America Awardees

9. ARRL: SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 Cancelled

10. RW: Spain’s Radio Nacional de España To Shut Down AM Transmitters

11. How About A Season's Transition Field Day?

12. HACK: Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages

13. AMSAT: Digital Library Of Amateur Radio and Communications adds AMSAT Publications

14. AMSAT: AI fix from earth restores The James Webb Telescope, no astronauts needed

15. AP: FCC proposes auctioning additional spectrum to expand wireless services

16. RSGB: 146 thru 147 MegaHertz NoV extension agreed to by Ofcom in the UK

17. HACK: A treasure trove of Random Vintage Technology Resources

18. ARRL: ARRL has published its 2024 Annual Report, and has open positions available

19. ARDC: Student satellite courses are funded through an ARDC grant.

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us a story entitled "A New Year With New Services To The Public In 1905"

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

* 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, in Part One called "Scooped"

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Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss

Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

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X: https://x.com/TWIAR

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u

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Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1394 - Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: November 15, 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:01:51

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1394HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Adds AMSAT Publications

2. EXIT: Albanian Police Seize Amateur's Radio Equipment Over Suspected Espionage

3. AP: FCC Proposes Auctioning Additional Spectrum To Expand Wireless Services

4. NYS: Attorney General James Demands FCC Expand Multilingual Emergency Alerts

5. WIA: Brian Eno/Beatie Wolfe Really Launch New Album

6. RSGB: 146 Thru 147 MegaHertz NoV Extension Agreed By Ofcom

7. HACK: A Treasure Trove Of Random Vintage Tech Resources

8. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Division Elections: Voting Ends November 21st

9. ARRL: Images From Space Celebrate 25 Years Of Ham Radio On The International Space Station

10. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2025 ARRL November Sweepstakes — Phone!

11. ARRL: ARRL Has Published Its 2024 Annual Report - ARRL Has Open Positions Available

12. KFIZ: Moraine Park Technical College Donates Laptop Computers To Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club

13. CP: Neighbor objects to sixty foot ham radio tower - cites lack of notice and safety concerns

14. WIA: Amateur Radio Digital Communications is now accepting grant applications

15. ARRL: RadioGram prescident changes are announced

16. ARRL: Icom Dream Station - have you earned all your sweepstakes entries?

17. Proposed Australian band plan sees reviews by amateurs in that country

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will attempt to answer the question, "What Do You Call That Radio?, or Where Did The Word Radio Come From?"

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

* Will Rogers, K5WLR- A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to witness the arrival of international amateur communications. And, the lack of a worldwide system of station identification that led to confusion over callsigns. Without prefixes as we know them today, there was no way to use a call sign to identify a station’s country. And since each country issued callsigns independently, duplicates were inevitable. We will hear all about it in this weeks edition entitled "Callsign Confusion"

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Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss

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Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3

Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [email protected].

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