PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1377 - 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: July 19, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY. Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marlor, AA4DX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:24

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1377HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. WIA: Global Semiconductior Production Could Be Affected By Copper Shortage

2. WIA/NL: Let's Go With The Flow...New Contest "Toilets On The Air"

3. ARD: Opposition to NextNav and AST SpaceMobile Encroachment on Amateur Radio Spectrum Continues.

4. FCC: Emergency Alert System Reform Added To Carr’s FCC Priorities

5. ARRL: FlexRadio Equips ARRL With FLEX-8000 Series Station For W1AW

6. ARRL: Safety Stand-Down: Look Up and Live

7. AST Satellites Experimental License Clears Amateur Band Use

8. Teen Hams On Dave Kalter Memorial DX Adventure Are Calling CQ

9. RAC: Canadian Amateurs In The Yukon Territory Get A New Separate RAC Section

10. ARRL: Radio Relay International and ARRL Sign a Memorandum of Understanding

11. ARRL: 2025 Field Day numbers are fantastic so far

12. FCC: FCC proposes Fast Track Regulation to streamline obsolete rules

13. WIA: Solar Storm causes Global Positioning System to be off by up to 70 meters

14. FCC: FCC finally gets its spectrum authority reinstated

15. HH: Hamshack Hotline releases a public announcement bidding a fond farewell shutting down at the end of August

16. ARRL: Amateur Radio volunteers are providing communications during the severe floods

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about various ways of Decoding a Signal.

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

* Our original amateur radio historian, the late Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with a special encore presentation of a classic edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back in time to teach us all about the early warning communication system known in the United States as CONELRAD.

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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 #1376 - 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: July 12, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:29

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1376HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. FCC: FCC Proposes Fast Track Regulation Removal To Streamline Obsolete Rules

2. AMSAT: French Astronaut Will Take Food From Michelin-Starred Chef To International Space Station

3. WIA: Solar Storm Causes GPS Signals To Be Off By Up To 70 Meters

4. WIA: Mexico Tries To Sue SpaceX and Google

5. WIA: Images Released From The Worlds Highest Resolution Camera

6. RW: National Voice Of America Museum Celebrates Makeover In New Renovated Facility

7. FCC: FCC Finally Gets Its Spectrum Auction Authority Back

8. HH: Hamshack Hotline Public Announcement - A Fond Farewell

9. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Serving During Texas Floods

10. ARRL: Special Call Signs For This Year’s International Amateur Radio Union Contest

11. ARRL: Great Numbers Stacking Up For 2025 ARRL Field Day

12. ARRL: Changes In the ARRL Idaho Section

13. ARRL: Youth On The Air Camp Junior Is Set To Debut On July 25 - 27, 2025

14. WAMU: Person who climbed Up WAMU Radio Tower and stayed on the lofty perch for three days, has died

15. Roger Smallwood, N8EKG, R&L Electronics Executive, SK

Plus these Special Features This Week:

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

* Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1922, where we find new broadcasting stations packed the air with signals as growing crowds of listeners in the general public clamored for even more. And, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover who convened the first radio conference, which included radio luminaries from across the spectrum, government, the new radio broadcasting industry, academia, and of course, the amateurs

* Monthly activity report from The Volunteer Monitor Program

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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 #1375 - 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: July 5, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:38

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1375HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. VRG: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Could Mean Slower Wi-Fi For You

2. AMSAT: SpaceX Transporter-14 Rideshare Delivers Small Sats, Reentry Tech, and Memorial Ashes

3. WAMU: Person Who Remained On WAMU Radio Tower For 3 Days Dies

4. WIA: Russia Moves Forward Planning New Space Station

5. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Declared A Success

6. ARRL: ARRL At HAM RADIO 2025 In Germany

7. ARRL: United States Radio Orienteering Champs Crowned

8. New Record Set For Copying Callsigns In CW

9. Competitors From Russia Prepare For A Second Round Of Earth-Moon-Earth QSO's

10. Hurricane Response Communications Is Focus Of FCC Roundtable

11. ARD: JARL/Japan Amateur Radio League prepares to celebrate its upcoming 100th anniversary

12. WIA: NASA and The US Department of Defence rehearse Artemis Rescue Mission

13. FCC: FCC finalizes its ban of certain telecommunications type certification bodies

14. ARD: Satellite communications company AST SpaceMobile seeks use of 70 centimeters at the FCC

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us about The ARRL Incident of May 2024, A Year Later

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

* Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio, will be here with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will piles us all into The Wayback Machine and takes us back to 1914, where we find the Radio Club of Hartford in Connecticut, held its first meeting on January 14th that year, and would soon play a larger role than most in amateur radio history

* ARRL Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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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 #1374 - 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: June 28, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:40

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1374HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. RTBR: Majority of US House Coalesces Behind AM Radio Bill

2. WIA: NASA and The Department Of Defense Rehearse Artemis Rescue Mission

3. FCC: FCC to Host July 7 Hurricane Season Roundtable

4. FCC: FCC Finalizes Ban On Certain Telecommunications Certification Bodies Certifications

5. NASA: Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Emits Powerful Radio Pulse

6. ARD: Satellite Communications Company AST SpaceMoble Seeks Use Of 70 Centimeter Amateur Band

7. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Is This Weekend!

8. ARRL: Sharing ARRL Field Day With Others Via Social Media

9. ARRL: Field Day Safety Tips From An Experienced Compliance Officer

10. ARRL: ARRL Announces Logbook Of The World Systems Upgrade

11. ARRL: The Annual 13 Colonies Special Event 2025

12. ARRL: International Space Station To Take Part In 2025 Field Day Operations

13. Chinese Satellites Reach Amazing Data Transmission Speeds

14. BBC Transmits Exclusively To Antarctica

15. Grimeton Radio SAQ To Send Jubilee Transmission

16. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings

17. ARRL: Ham radio operator reports a fire in the California Mountains and a helicopter crew extinguishes just in time

18. NASA: NASA probe receives signals that have upward propagation through the ice and rock of Antarctica

19. Copper theft at AM Broadcast radio sites across the country continues

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us about "The Art of Decoding a Signal."

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

* Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early days of radio, where we find that humor played a prominent role in QST from its first issue, born of the evident joy hams derived in pursuing their passion for radio. This weeks edition is entitled "Humor, Poetry, and Rotten Rants"

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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 #1373 - 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: June 21, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:43

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1373HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. USN: Trump Urged EchoStar And FCC Chairman Brendon Carr To Cut A Deal on Spectrum

2. AMSAT: President Robert Bankston Introduces 2025 Hamvention AMSAT Forum

3. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART ONE) Is Next Weekend

4. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART TWO) Protect the Most Important Element of Field Day: The People

5. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART THREE) Local, County, & State Governments Proclaim The Value Of Amateur Radio

6. ARRL: Hurricane Erick Update

7. NASA Probe Receives Signals That Have Upward Propagation Through Ice In Antarctica

8. Do Hams Want To Have Fun?

9. Young CW Champion To Try And Top His Own World Record

10. Copper Theft At AM Broadcast Sites Continue

11. RW: Michigan AM Tower Toppled in Farmer Mishap

12. ARD: SAQ Grimeton On the Air for 100th Anniversary July 2nd

13. REC: Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty To The FCC To Fill Out Rosenworcel's Term

14. RNZ: Papua New Guinea national broadcaster reintroduces shortwave radio nationwide

15. AMSAT: Request for expression of interest for future GEO Project

16. WIA: Digital Amateur television to resume from the International Space Station

17. ARRL: Jobs for hams - Join the ARRL Team at Newington Headquarters

18. Latest State to Proclaim Amateur Radio Month is announced

19. WIA: WIA highlights concern regarding International Amateur Radio Union Restructuring

Plus this Special Feature This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present us with some Random Serendipity.

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

* Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1921 where we find that Marconi had first done it back in 1901. For amateurs, crossing the Atlantic was the next natural challenge, they had been thinking about it since before the war. Many in the scientific community were skeptical that such a feat could possibly be achieved at such a short wavelength as 200 meters, especially with power as low as one kilowatt.

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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 #1372 - 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: June 14, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Turner, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:01:02

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1372HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. RNZ: Papua New Guinea National Broadcaster Moves To Reintroduce Shortwave Radio For Nationwide Coverage

2. NYP: New York State Lawmakers Vote To Stop NYPD’s Attempt To Block Radio Communications From Public

3. VRG: There Are Only Two Commissioners Left At The FCC

4. AMSAT: NOAA-18 Satellite Decommissioned

5. AMSAT: Request For Expression Of Interest For FutureGEO Project

6. WIA: Digital Amateur Television To Resume From The ISS

7. WIA: On-Loan DMR Kit Starts Young UK Hams On Their Journeys

8. RSGB: The RSGB Launches The Special Event Stations/SES Cookbook

9. ARRL: Are You Ready For 2025 ARRL Field Day?

10. ARRL: Jobs for Hams: Join the ARRL Team

11. ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination Results

12. ARRL: HAM RADIO 2025 The Biggest Amateur Radio Exhibition In Europe, To Take Place In Friedrichshafen

13. Emergency Communications Group In Indiana Switches From Analog FM To Digital

14. Three DxPeditions Receive Funding Through The Northern California DX Foundation

15. Latest State To Declare Amateur Radio Month Is Announced

16. ARRL: World Wide Radio Operators Foundation awards three supporting grants

17. The YASME Awards are announced

18. WIA: Russian Over The Horizon Radar called "The Buzzer" is on the air..have you heard it?

19. ARRL: 2025 Field Day has categories for every operator

20. ARRL: SteppIR Communication Systems will cease production of of Consumer Antennas

21. NOAA: NOAA takes Weather Radio facilities off the air for technical upgrades.

22. Citizen Band operator faces a $25,000 proposed fine from the FCC / ACMA proposes CB Radio actions

Plus this Special Feature This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question "Can You Be A Professional Amateur?"

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

* Will Rogers, K5WLR - returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1922, where we find that amateurs were making progress taming the QRM problem. Sometimes a solution did not involve a new invention, or even technology at all.

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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 #1371 - 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: June 7, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:51

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1371HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. WIA: Radio Quiet Zone In Sedona Arizona Looks To the Skies

2. WIA: Russian Over The Horizon Radar Buzzer. Have You Heard It?

3. WIA: Ninth Grader From Ukraine Develops Technology For Manufacturing Antennas For Controlling UAV's

4. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Has Categories For Every Operator

5. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Called A Success In Louisiana

6. ARRL: ARRL International Digital Contest Presents Fun Despite Active Sun

7. ARRL: 13 Colonies Event Founder Passing The Reins After 16 Years

8. ARRL: Tehachapi Amateur Radio Association Recognized As Tehachapi's Finest Non-Profit Organization

9. ARRL: Wellesley Amateur Radio Society In Wellesley, Massachusetts, Is Planning A Summer Group Build

10. ARRL: SteppIR Communication Systems Will Cease Production Of Consumer Antennas

11. NOAA Takes Weather Radio Facilities Off The Air For Technical Updates

12. NASA Website For International Space Station Spotting Is Being Discontinued

13. CB Operator Faces Proposed $25,000 Fine From The FCC / ACMA Proposes CB Rule Actions

14. 65th Anniversary Of The Canadian Trail Is Marked By Special Event Station

15. June Is Amateur Radio Month In New Hampshire

16. HamSCI, Announces A Substantial Expansion To Its Advisory Board

17. SEA-PAC, To Host The ARRL Northwestern Division Convention

18. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing

19. AMSAT: Nominations open for the 2025 AMSAT Board of Directors Election

20. FCC: FCC proposes to unlock 20,000+ MegaHertz of spectrum for satellite broadband

21. ARD: 13 colonies special event upcoming this July 1st through the 7th

22. ARD: ARRL influence over the IARU could be reduced with the proposed IARU restructuring

23. RW: 42.9 megaHertz WA2XMN Armstrong Broadcast returns to New Jersey's Alpine Tower this month.

24. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day FAQ with the Contest Program Manager

25. ARRL: Amateur Radio ready for the projected above average hurricane season that is coming up

26. ARRL: ARRL announces leadership changes in the Pacific Division

27. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications

Plus this Special Feature This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us "What's Really Happening At The International Amateur Radio Union?"

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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 #1370 - 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: May 31, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:12

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1370HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. WIA: Sixteen Countries Represented At The 2025 Dayton HamVention Attendance

2. WIA: The Dynamic Duo Of The Universe

3. FCC: FCC To Unlock 20,000+ MegaHertz Of Spectrum For Satellite Broadband

4. ARD: ARRL Influence Over IARU Could Be Reduced With Proposed Restructuring

5. RW: 42.8 MegaHertz, WA2XMN, Armstrong Broadcast Returns To New Jersey In June

6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: FAQ With The Contest Program Manager

7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Ready For Above Average Hurricane Season

8. ARRL: ARRL Announces Leadership Changes In The Pacific Division

9. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Set For Record Year

10. ARRL: Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Receives POTA Wiggin’s Acalypha Achievement Award

11. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Is Accepting Grant Applications

12. Geosynchronous Satellite Is The Goal Of New Ham Radio Project

13. WIA: The Centennial Cycle will impact the next solar cycle

14. ARRL: Amateur Spectrum Addressed in the US House Reconciliation Bill

15. ARRL: Spring season Section Manager Election results are announced

16. ARRL: Hams across the US can now use the 2025 Field Day Site Locator

17. Another electronics supplier in the US closes its doors

18. FCC: FCC bans "Bad Labs" from the United States Type Acceptence Authorization Process

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will attempt to answer the question, "What Do You Think You're Doing?"

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

* Monthly Report From The Volunteer Monitoring System

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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 #1369 - 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: May 24, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zitel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:39

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1369HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Volunteers Power Hamvention Exhibit

2. WIA: A Pulsar Packs A Punch Into Our Galaxy

3. ARRL: Amateur Spectrum Addressed in US House Reconciliation Bill

4. ARRL: Spring Season Section Manager Election Results

5. ARRL: Highlights From 2025 Dayton Hamvention

6. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Remembers And Celebrates 60 Years

7. ARRL: Use The 2025 ARRL Field Day Site Locator

8. RAC: Update on Phishing Attempts and Cybersecurity Tips

9. FCC: FCC bans "Bad Labs" from US Equipment Type Acceptance authorization process

10. WIA: FCC approves amateur information collection requirement

11. ARD: International Amateur Radio Union considers consolidation - eliminating regional entities

12. ARRL: ARRL renews its defense of the 902 to 928 MegaHertz amateur radio band

13. ARRL: ARRL seeks entry level technician HF privileges in its latest proposal

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, "How Does Your IARU Member Society Represent Itself?"

* 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

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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

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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.

You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.

This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.

This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.

You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!

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].

Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1368 - 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: May 17, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:58:52

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1368HR

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. VOA: United States Appeals Court Halts Order Allowing Voice of America Employees Back To Work

2. FCC: FCC Older Americans Month Webinar To Be Held On May 22, 2025

3. ARDC: DLARC, Receives Grant To Continue Mission - ARDC To Hold Seminar At Dayton HamVention

4. AMSAT: AMSAT Prepares For Major Presence At 2025 Dayton Hamvention

5. ARRL: Plan Your Hamvention With ARRL App

6. ARRL: Johns Hopkins University To Hold ARRL Teachers Institute

7. ARRL: Promote Your Club’s 2025 ARRL Field Day With Posters

8. Australian Coast Is Challenged By Waste From Weather Balloons

9. FCC Wants Imported Electronics Testing Based In The United States

10. WIA: Rescue Radio: The summit of Emergency Preparedness. A short story for you

11. W2PH: Amateur Radio comes to Internet Radio

12. ARW: Italian radio amateurs get permission to use the 40 MegaHertz band - 8 meters

13. ARRL:630 meter band Worked All States Award Issued

14. ARRL: 2025 Hudson Division Convention is scheduled for July 13th

15. Amateurs in Brazil gain 11 meter CB privileges using their callsigns, and lose the CW requirement for licensing

16. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, "Can we figure out how much the sun really affects propagation?"

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

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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

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Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.

You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.

This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.

This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.

You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!

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].

Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.