PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1400 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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: 1:37:32

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1400

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. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

4. WIA: Australia's ACMA Moves To Stop Illegal Radio Imports

5. WIA: Google To Build Three New Undersea Cables

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

7. WIA: Amateurs Worldwide Get Access To IP Addresses

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

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

10. Ham Radio University Featured Speaker Is Bouvet DxPeditioner

11. DMR Project With School Students In India Is Successful

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

13. Jim Heath, W6LG, Noted YouTube Elmer, SK

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

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

16. AMSAT: A Dying Satellite May Photograph Asteroid Apophis In 2029

17. AMSAT: Boeing’s Next Starliner Mission Will Carry Cargo Only

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

19. EHAM: High Levels Of CO2 In The Atmosphere Can Affect Radio Propagation

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

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

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

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

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

25. ARRL: 2026 Southeast VHF Society Conference Will Be Held On April 16th thru 19th In Macon, Georgia

26. New Video From NASA Explores The ARISS Experience

27. $25,000 Grant Awarded To Upcoming Sable Island DxPedition

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

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 Two of his series entitled "Building A Shack" In Part Two Onno covers the topic "How Much Space Do You Need?"

* 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, is back this week with another chapter from the new series entitled "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Nicola Tesla.

* 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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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 #1399 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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: 1:53:52

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1399

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Soyuz Crew Lands Ending Eight-Month Space Research Journey

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

3. AMSAT: A Dying Satellite May Photograph Asteroid Apophis In 2029

4. AMSAT: Boeing’s Next Starliner Flight Will Carry Cargo Only

5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over

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

7. ARD: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Launches 44Net Connect

8. RSGB: Two Exciting Opportunities To Make An Impact With The RSGB

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

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

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

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

13. ARRL: A Great After-Holiday Gift ... ARRL Kids Day!

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

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

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

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

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

19. ARRL: 2026 Southeast VHF Society Conference Will Be Held On April 16th thru 19th In Macon, Georgia

20. New Video From NASA Explores The ARISS Experience

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

22. $25,000 Grant Awarded To Upcoming Sable Island DxPedition

23. Former RSGB President Bob Whelan, G3PJT, SK

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

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

26. ARRL: ARRL to host 2026 HamSci Workshop at Central Connecticut University

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

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

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

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

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

32. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings

Plus these Special Features This Week:

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

* 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

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* 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

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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!

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1398 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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: 1:40:54

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1398

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: KSLV-II Mission Deploys 13 Satellites, Including New Amateur Radio Payloads

2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

3. 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

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

5. ARRL: ARRL 10-Meter Contest This Weekend

6. ARRL: Help Someone Get Their First Ham Radio License By The End of 2025

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

8. ARRL: The Greater Cincinnati Amateur Radio Association 1936 Net Will Host Its Annual AM Night

9. ARRL: Registration Is Open For The 2026 Sessions Of The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Tech

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

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

12. First HamTV Transmission From ISS Since 2018

13. New Club Station And Callsign Approved By Jordanian Amateurs

14. RACES Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service Ends In Vermont

15. Battle Of The Bulge Anniversary To Be Marked By Special Event

16. Youth On The Air Camp Application Period Opens

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

18. Smartphones In The UK To Receive Direct To Device Satellite Service

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

20. ARRL: Spokane County Amateurs Hold Weather Ground Truth Event

21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings

22. AMSAT: Registration is open the the 25-26 European Astro-Pi Challenge

23. AMSAT: Optical communication systems test the limits of FCC authority

24. FCC: FCC Closes more than 2000 inactive proceedings

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

26. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Annual Report promotes, protects, inspires, and educates amateurs

27. ARRL Orlando HamCation Award winners are announced

28. ARRL: The league encourages amateurs to send a holiday RadioGram

29. Short range UHF radios in Germany face new restrictions

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 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

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* 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"

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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 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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 Jordan 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: 1:42:09

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1397

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Registration Is Open For The 2025–2026 European Astro Pi Challenge

2. AMSAT: Optical Communications Systems Test the Limits of FCC Authority

3. AMSAT: REALOP CubeSat To Test Hard Drives For ADC System

4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

5. WIA: What Has 5000 Batteries and Floats?

6. WIA: NASA Deep Space Antenna Suffers Rotation Damage

7. FCC: FCC Extends Dates For Comments On Transitioning Voice Telephone Services To All IP

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

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

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

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

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

13. ARRL: Orlando HamCation Award Winners Announced

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

15. ARRL: Send A Holiday Radiogram

16. ARRL: Radio Amateur Society of Norfolk, Virginia Awarded $12,000 Grant

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

18. ARRL: HamSci Is Seeking Monitors For Upcoming Meteor Scatter Experiments

19. Short Range UHF Radios In Germany Face New Restrictions

20. Two Silent Keys: John Walker, ZL3IB and Ganesh Subramaniam, VU2TS

21. Radio Transmissions And Aurora's Are Linked

22. Students Face The European Space Agency Challenge Of Computing In Space

23. Woman Lost In Bangladesh Is Assisted By Indian Amateurs

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

25: Upcoming RadioSport Contest Listings and Regional Convention Listings

26: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report.

27. RSGB: The Radio Society of Great Britain is looking for a Volunteer Accessibility Champion

28. AMSAT: SO-124 is nearing the end of orbital life

29. FCC: FCC deletes 21 obsolete rules and regulations

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

31. ARRL: ARRL VEC has now completed processing most of the backlog 0f 2500+ license applications

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

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

34. RSGB: UK Regulator takes steps to ensure disabled amateurs are not excluded

35. FCC: FCC says hackers have hijacked US radio STL using Barix IP to send fake alerts

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 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..

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* 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 - 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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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 #1395 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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: 1:42:30

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1395

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: The BOTAN CubeSat Digipeater Schedule A Challenge For United States Amateurs

3. AMSAT: Launch Scrubbed Due To Highly Elevated Solar Activity

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

5. AMSAT: Comet Photos Plagued By Low Earth Orbit Satellite Streaks

6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

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

8. WIA: HD Car Radios and Metadata RDS Problems Plague Some Receivers

9. WIA: Space Debris Is Now Officially A Problem

10. WIA: Older Versions Of Software For Amateurs

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

12. ARRL: Call For Technical Manuscripts

13. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Funding Opportunities

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

15. ARRL: SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 Cancelled

16. ARRL: 2025 CQ World Wide DX Contest On CW

17. AP: Over a Dozen Attorneys General Call On FCC To Expand Multilingual Emergency Alerts

18. RW: Cape Cod FM Pirate Agrees To FCC Settlement

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

20. Radio Centennial In Hungary Is Celebrated With Special Event Stations

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

22. Deep Space Network Antenna Disabled Found In NASA Study

23. A Milestone For Digital Voice Is Found In A New Neural Codec

24. New Repeaters Create A New Crucial Network In Kansas

25. Amateurs Are Ready For The Geminids Meteor Scatter Experiments

26. HACK: Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages

27. TWIAR: futureGEO Is The Most Important Amateur Radio Initiative Of This Decade

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

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

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

31. RSGB: 146 thru 147 MHz NoV extension agreed to by Ofcom in the UK

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

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

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

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 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

* 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, in Part One called "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 #1394 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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: 1:50:51

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1394

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: SpaceX Bandwagon-4 Mission Places CEVROSAT-1 In Orbit With Rideshare Payloads

2. AMSAT: CatSat To Open Microwave Linear Transponder Access For Amateur Radio Community

3. AMSAT: ARISS To Mark 25 Years Of ISS With Special Worldwide SSTV Event In November

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

5. AMSAT: AI Fix From Earth Restores James Webb Telescope Clarity, No Astronauts Needed

6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

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

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

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

10. WIA: FCC Takes Step To Ban China Based Telecom

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. ARRL: Save The Date: Annual ARRL YouTube Telethon To Support Teachers Institute

18. ARRL: Two Special Event Stations To Highlight Upcoming Weeks On Air Activity

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

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

21. Student Satellite Courses Are Funded Through ARDC Grant

22. Inaugural Q-Tech Conference To Be Held In Brisbane Australia

23. Amateurs In Sri Lanka Test Their Tsunami Response In Simulation Drill

24. Conductors Loss Of Electrical Conductivity Under Review

25. Newest Microwave Linear Transponder Onboard New CubeSat

26. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings

27. AMSAT: AMSAT receives two ARDC grants for its Youth Initiative Program

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

29. SPACE: Ukraine destroys giant radio telescope used by Russian military

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

32. ARRL: RadioGram changes are announced

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

34. ARRL: The sixth annual Youth Dream Rig essay contest is about to get underway

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

36. Sunlight On Demand will come from a proposed new satellite constellation

37. Yasme Excellence Awards for work with young radio amateurs are awarded

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 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

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* 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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Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.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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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1393 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: November 8, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Alan Shepard, WK8W, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:48:52

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1393

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Receives Two ARDC Grants for Youth Initiative Program

2. AMSAT: Alan Johnston, KU2Y, Presents CubeSat Simulator 2025 Updates

3. AMSAT: ARISS 2025 Highlights Presented by Frank Bauer, KA3HDO

4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

5. CP: Neighbor Objects To Sixty Foot Ham Radio Tower, Cites Notice and Safety Concerns

6. SPACE: Ukraine Destroys Giant Radio Telescope Used By Russian Military

7. WIA: Amateur Radio Digital Communications, ARDC, Is Accepting Grant Applications

8. WIA: Youngsters In The Air Month Is Coming Up

9. ARD: ISS SSTV Event To Celebrate 25 Years Of The International Space Station

10. ARRL: Time Is Running Out To Vote In ARRL Division Elections

11. ARRL: New ARRL Technician Class LIVE Video Course For Ham Radio Licensing

12. ARRL: Special Event Unites Two Pennsylvania Colleges and Amateur Station W3USR

13. ARRL: Radiogram Changes Are Announced

14. ARRL: ICOM Dream Station: Have You Earned All Your Sweepstakes Entries?

15. ARRL: The 6th Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest Is About To Get Underway!

16. ARRL: On Air Commemorations And Special Events For Veterans Day 2025

17. Proposed Australian Band Plan Seeks A Review By Amateurs

18. Sunlight On Demand Will Come From A Proposed New Satellite Constellation

19. YASME Excellence Award For Work With Young Amateurs Are Given Out

20. Quicksilver Radio Products John Bartscherer, N1GNV, SK

21. Summits On The Air Enthusiast Robert Hannan G4RQJ, SK

22. Silent Keys Trust Endows Library At His Alma Mater

23. Mountain Radio Challenge Will Test Your Skills

24. ARRL: ARRL now has new ways for amateurs and GMRS users to help pass the HOA Bill in Congress

25. The BBC proposes shutting down its long wave transmitters

26. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contest listings and regional conventions

27. AMSAT: New AMSAT President outlines future directions for the organization

28. AMSAT: Is AO-7 still the oldest satellite?

29. AMSAT: Amateur radio receiver reveals global satellite transmissions privacy issue

30. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program is now accepting applications

31. ARRL: ARRL calls General Mobile Radio Service operators to help pass Emergency Preparedness Act

32. Europe's ham radio Friedrichshafen to debut astronomy trade

33. ARRL: ARRL to feature club photos in every QST issue during 2026

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us about the origins of The RF Circulator

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

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1923, where amateurs were making trans-oceanic contacts and experimenting with the shorter wavelengths. This is part two of a two part episode titled "The Fourth Time's The Charm"

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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

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://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube

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].

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1392 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: November 1, 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, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:29:08

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1392

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT President Outlines Future Directions

2. AMSAT: Is AO-7 Still The Oldest Satellite?

3. AMSAT: Amateur Radio Receiver Reveals Global Unsecured Satellite Privacy Issue

4. AMSAT: Russian Cosmonauts Conduct Spacewalk Outside The International Space Station

5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over

6. ARRL: Hurricane Melissa Update

7. ARRL: ARRL November Sweepstakes About To Get Underway

8. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program Is Now Accepting Applications

9. ARRL: The 20th Anniversary ARRL Online Auction Results

10. ARRL: ARRL Calls GMRS Operator To Help Pass The Emergency Preparedness Act

11. ARRL: Livonia ARC To Commemorate 50th Anniversary Of Sinking Of The SS Edmund Fitzgerald

12. ARRL: Log Submission Deadline For DX Marathon Sprint Upcoming

13. A Century of Broadcast Radio Is Celebrated By Amateurs In Latvia

14. Special Event Operation Remember The War Of The Worlds Martian Invasion

15. Europe's Ham Radio Friedrichshafen To Debut Astronomy Trade

16. Colleges New Electronics and Computer Engineering Center To Be Chaired By An Amateur

17. ARRL: ARRL to feature club photos in every issue of QST during 2026.

18. ARRL: Upcoming contest sheet and upcoming regional conventions.

19. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors elects officers

20. AMSAT: AMSAT Student memberships now offered at no cost, free!

21. AMSAT: Is low earth orbit getting too crowded?

22. WIA: FCC takes action against foreign owned electronic testing labs.

23. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain launches its new mobile app

24. ARRL: Pass the Emergency Preparedness Act bill activity continues

25. ARRL: Amateur radio club boot camp is declared a success

26. ARRL: United States Air Force to hold its 77th annual special event station

27. ARDC, Amateur Radio Digital Communications is now accepting grant applications

28. Expiration dates of broadcast licenses in Canada are eliminated by the country's regulator, CRTC.

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 tell us about "Going Around in Circles One Way", or a brief look at RF Circulators.

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

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* 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 1923, where amateurs were making trans-oceanic contacts and experimenting with the shorter wavelengths. This is part one of a two part episode titled, "The Fourth Time's The Charm."

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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

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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 #1391 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: October 25, 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, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Lams, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ron Rowe, W2ELS, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:36:13

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1391

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Elects Officers

2. AMSAT: AMSAT Symposium Held In Phoenix

3. AMSAT: AMSAT Student Memberships Now Offered At No Cost

4. AMSAT: Is Low Earth Orbit Getting Too Crowded?

5. AMSAT: Swarm Reveals Growing Weak Spot In Earth’s Magnetic Field

6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over

7. WIA: FCC Takes Action Against Foreign-Owned Electronic Labs

8. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain Launches Mobile App

9. ARRL: Pass The Bill Activity Continues

10. ARRL: Talking Up a Storm And Amateur Radio In Pennsylvania

11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Club Bootcamp A Success

12. ARRL: Tropical Storm Melissa Update

13. ARRL: US Air Force To Hold 77th Annual Special Event Station

14. In Its Fourth Decade Ensuring Driver Safety Is Pumpkin Patrol

15. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Now Accepting Grant Applications

16. First ARISS Contact Made In Seven Years By Ham TV

17. Expiration Dates For Broadcast Licenses In Canada Are Eliminated By CRTC

18. Noted Dx'er Charles Harpole K4VUD / HS0ZCW SK

19. Amateur Radio Historian K2TQN, John Dilks III, SK

20. New Modes For Emergency Communications Are Taught To Young Amateurs

21. ARRL: Many special event stations are planned for Veterans Day on November 11, 2025

22. ARRL: Club Spotlight: How does your club welcome new members and new hams?

23. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listings

24. ECARS: ECARS prepares for its annual Board of Director elections

25. ARD: DX Look introduces personalized band condition reports for you specific location

26. IFLS: Military spacecraft launched 56 years ago has been moved and nobody claims responsibility

27. ARRL: ARRL Year of The Club Website Contest is announced and calls for submissions

28. ARRL: FCC announces its intent to delete minor Part 97 provisions

29. Launch of Amazons Kuiper satellites is finally successful after multiple weather delays

30. Theft of copper at antenna sites is now high on the FCC list for action

31. The International Amateur Radio Union proposes inclusion of amateurs with disabilities

32. Ofcom, the UK regulation, implements more amateur radio license changes

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, returns to his construction project in a segment titled, "Bald Yak #13 - Monitoring The Sun, In Small Steps."

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

* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL

* Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. Our own amateur radio historian, returns with another encore edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to January of 1921 when the ARRL ran another round of transcontinental relays over several nights, setting new records for coast-to-coast round-trip message relaying

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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://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube

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].

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