PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1398 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) 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: 1:36:05 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1398LPFM 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.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" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1397 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) 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: 1:36:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1397LPFM 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". ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1396 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) 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: 1:33:23 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1396LPFM 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" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1395 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) 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: 1:37:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1395LPFM 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" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1394 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) 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: 1:45:30 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1394LPFM 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" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1393 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) 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: 1:43:44 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1393LPFM 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" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1392 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) 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: 1:24:58 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1392LPFM 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." ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1391 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) 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: 1:31:34 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1391LPFM 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 ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1390 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: October 18, 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, Ron Rowe, W2ELS, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:38:05 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1390LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: DXLook Introduces Personalized Band Conditions 2. ARD: SAQ Grimeton To Air United Nations Day Message 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. IFLS: Military Spacecraft Launched 56 Years Ago Has Been Moved By Persons Unknown 5. SN: FCC Launches Space Month To Fast Track Satellite Licensing and Spectrum Reforms 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Runs With The Chicago Marathon 7. ARRL: Ed Hare, W1RFI, Long Time ARRL Lab Engineer, Passes Away 8. ARRL: ARRL Year Of The Club Website Contest — Call for Submissions! 9. ARRL: FCC Announces Intent To Delete Minor Part 97 Provisions 10. ARRL: BOO! A Night On Bald Mountain 11. Launch Of Amazons Kuiper Satellites Is Finally Successful After Weather Delays 12. Copper Theft Is High On The FCC List For Action 13. International Amateur Radio Union Urges Inclusion Of Hams With Disabilities 14. Ofcom In The UK Implements More Ham Radio License Changes 15. North Star Radio Convention Sets A New Attendance Record 16. Amateurs In Idaho Receive Grant To Upgrade Outdated Emergency Communications Gear 17. Maldives Wet Square Activation Is Planned 18. Youth Operators To Be Featured During The Sundarbans DxPedition 19. MET: HamShack TV Presents A Chat With Bouvet Island DxPeditioner 20. 02H: Free Online General Class License Course Starting Soon 21. ARRL School Club Round-Up is being held on October 20, 2025 22. ARRL: Upcoming radiosport contests and regional convention listings 23. AMSAT: ARISS SSTV Event runs through October 20th, 2025 24. AMSAT: Four United States Schools and Organizations move forward in ARISS Contact Selection 25. WIA: The United States and Australia Sign a Space Agreement 26. WIA: The Tune-In app will now carry Emergency Alert Notifications 27. WIA: US Federal Judge orders the administration to halt layoffs at The Voice of America 28. BBC: The BBC now expects to close Radio 4 Longwave during 2026 29. FCC: The FCC releases a draft notice for NextGen TV rules, and ATSC 1.0 sunset 30. ARRL: Club Newsletter Contest - Call For Submissions 31. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation is accepting grant applications during October 32. Australia's Square Kilometer Antenna Array gains interference protection by building a surrounding Faraday Cage 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 present an amateur radio story entitled "When Your Hobby Revolves Around Electricity" * 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 * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with an encore presentation of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920's as vacuum tubes were making CW practical, they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone, or just phone to hams, began as experiments by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. This week's episode is titled, "Radio Telephone". ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1389 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: October 11, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Lama, KC2OJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Christ Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:33:32 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1389LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ARISS SSTV Event Runs Through October 20th, 2025 2. AMSAT: Four US Schools and Organizations Move Forward In ARISS Selection Process 3. AMSAT: A Review Of The futureGEO Workshop 2025 In Bochum 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: United States and Australia Sign Space Agreement 6. WIA: TuneIn App To Carry Emergency Alert Notifications 7. WIA: US Federal Judge Orders Administration To Halt VOA Layoffs 8. K9YA: Armstrong Gave The World Static Free Radio 9. BBC: BBC Now Expects To Close Radio 4 LongWave During 2026 10. FCC: FCC Releases Draft Notice For NextGen TV Rules, ATSC 1.0 Sunset 11. ARRL: Zoe Rodriguez Named 2025 Craigie Memorial Educator 12. ARRL: Club Newsletter Contest — Call For Submissions! 13. ARRL: FCC Issues Notice Of Violation For Unauthorized One-Way Transmissions and Denial of Inspection 14. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications In October 15. ARRL: 13 Colonies Special Event Founder and Coordinator Ken Villone, KU2US, SK 16. ARRL: The Greater Saint Louis Area Scouting Council Will Be Active During This Year’s JOTA and JOTI 17. Four Chinese Owned Electronics Labs Are Blacklisted By The FCC 18. Sri Lanka's New Amateur Radio Cubesats Are Now In Orbit 19. Australia's Square Kilometer Array Gains Interference Protection 20. Emergency Radio Network Planned By Florida Baptist Church 21. ARRL: Colorado Students visit The Pilsner Radio Telescope 22. ARRL: New Jersey Special Event to celebrate Columbus Day 23. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listing 24. WIA: Equatorial Guinea Amateurs are still off the air, Italian amateurs gain access to 40 MegaHertz 25. WIA: Update: AM Radio For Every Vehicle bill advances in Congress 26. ARRL: Amateur radio licensing update during the on-going Government Shutdown 27. ARRL: Ham Radio Influencers rally around the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness/HOA Antenna Bill 28. ARRL: New leadership is announced for the ARRL New Hampshire Section 29. A New Zealand weather radar is destroyed by a direct lightning hit 30. Cellphone Jamming in prisons is passed by the FCC 31. A newly licensed amateur is charged by the FCC with unauthorized operation 32. Teenage DxPeditioner joins the Andaman Island DxPedition team 33. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 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 how to properly prepare for an amateur radio outing, such as Parks On The Air * 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 * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1923 to see how amateurs were investigating all sorts of things including aurora and even DXpeditions, as he wraps up with Part Two of the story titled, "High Latitudes and Low Wavelengths" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1388 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: October 4, 2025 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, Rich Lawrence. KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:35:40 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1388LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Symposium Registration Continues / AMSAT-DL Hosts futureGEO Meeting 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Equatorial Guinea Still Off The Bands - Italian Hams Back On 40 MegaHertz 4. WIA: Update: AM Radio For Every Vehicle Bill Advances IN US Congress 5. RAC: Canadian Special Event Operation To Highlight Fire Prevention Week 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Licensing Update During United States Government Shutdown 7. ARRL: FCC Issues Notice Of Violation For Unauthorized One-Way Transmissions And Denial Of Inspection 8. ARRL: Ham Radio Influencers Rally Around Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act 9. ARRL Simulated Emergency Test Is Coming Up In October 10. ARRL: Radio Activations During Hurricanes Imelda and Humberto 11. ARRL: Preview The 20th Annual ARRL Online Auction October 7th thru the 9th 12. ARRL: New Leadership For The ARRL New Hampshire Section 13. ARRL: United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Will Operate Special Event Station N2S 14. New Zealand Weather Radar Is Destroyed By A Direct Lightning Hit 15. Amateur Radio Is Incorporated Into A Nuclear Cleanup Drill For The First Time 16. Cell Phone Jamming In Prisons Is Passed By The FCC 17. Newly Licensed Ham Is Charged By The FCC With Unauthorized Operation 18. Upcoming Pennsylvania QSO Party Offers New Incentives 19. World Space Week Will Feature Special SSTV Transmissions From The ISS 20. Teenager Joins Andaman Island DxPedition Team 21. RSGB: Must See Presentations At The Upcoming RSGB 2025 Convention 22. Volunteer Monitor Program Report 23. AMSAT: AMSAT 2025 Board Of Directors Election results are announced 24. AMSAT: Open letter from AMSAT-SM highlights the need for full duplex handheld transceivers 25. AMSAT: The Wow@Home projects builds worldwide SDR telescope network 26. WIA: China's great Solar Wall is a real big deal visible from space 27. WIA: NASA contracts with SpaceX to deorbit the International Space Station in 2030 28. ARRL: NASA is requesting amateurs to assist in passively tracking the upcoming Artemis Moon Mission 29. ARRL: National Council on Volunteer Examiners Question Pool Committee removes Extra Class Question 30. ARD: The MORE Project seeks to license 500 youth interested in amateur radio 31: Local radio club helps residents to learn how to program Weather Alert Radios properly 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 "Where's The Fun In That?" * 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. Will returns this week with a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1923 to see how amateurs were investigating all sorts of things including aurora and even DXpeditions. This will be Part One of the story titled, "High Latitudes and Low Wavelengths" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1387 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: September 27, 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:31:22 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1387LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT 2025 Board of Directors Election Results Announced To Membership 2. AMSAT: AMSAT July/August 2025 AMSAT Journal Now Available for Member Download 3. AMSAT: Open Letter From AMSAT-SM Highlights Need For Full Duplex Handheld Radio 4. AMSAT: Wow@Home Project Builds Worldwide SDR Telescope Network to Monitor the Sky 5. AMSAT: Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL Debuts With Record Cargo Delivery To The ISS 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: China’s Great Solar Wall Is A Big Deal 8. WIA: NASA Contracts With SpaceX To Deorbit The International Space Station 9. WIA: California County Helping Residents Get Licensed and Provide Radios 10. ARRL: Wants Every Ham To Help Pass The Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act Now In Congress 11. ARRL: Hams Needed To Assist In Tracking Upcoming NASA Moon Mission 12. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: Use Your Ham Radio For Public Service 13. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Extra Class Question E6D07 From Use 14. ARRL: JOTA - JOTI Amateur Radios Largest On The Air Scouting Events 15. ARD: MORE Project Seeks To License Youth Interested In Amateur Radio 16. SUNY: SUNY Canton EMS Joins County-Wide Emergency Communications Simulation 17. Radio Club In California Helps Local Hams Replace Radios Lost In The Recent Wildfires 18. Programming Emergency Weather Radios Can Be A Struggle 19. Satellite License Procedures Under Review By Ofcom 20. CYØS Team Announce DXpedition Dates To Sable Island 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional/Divisional Conventions and HamFests 22. AMSAT: Amateur Radio CubeSats deployed from the ISS on September 19th 23. WIA: Four NASA research volunteers entered the MARS Habitat to be in isolation for months 24. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain issues a response to the recent Ofcom Consultation 25. WIA: DxPedition team loses equipment to large ocean waves 26. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications seeks volunteers for its 2026 committees 27. Amateur Radio licenses are suspended in Equatorial Guinea 28. A US FM pirate broadcaster receives a $920,000 penalty from the Federal Communications Commission 29. RSGB: The Radio Society of Great Britain DMR project restarts in schools across the UK 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 you how he has fun when he Plays With SDR Radio * 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 Solar Weather and Terrestrial Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - Will returns with Part Two of a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1922 where we find the steadily increasing use of CW paralleled exploration of ever shorter wavelengths, and the two pursuits complemented each other. Amateurs were setting new records at a whirlwind pace. This weeks episode is titled, "Trans-Pacifics" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1386 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: September 20, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:31:23 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1386LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: CubeSats Deployed From The International Space Station On September 19th 2. AMSAT: Space Station’s Silver Jubilee Celebrated With Silver Research 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Four Research Volunteers Will Enter Mars Habitat Isolation 5. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain Responds To Ofcom Consultation 6. WIA: DXpedition Team Loses Equipment To Large Ocean Waves 7. ARRL: ARRL Launches Nationwide Grassroots Campaign To Pass Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act 8. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: Know Your Risk 9. ARRL: Gear Packed For 3YØK DXpedition To Bouvet In February 2026 10. ARRL: Section Manager Workshop Held At League Headquarters 11. ARRL: WWV Amateur Radio Club To Host Special Event Stations, Using The Callsign WWØWWV 12. ARRL: Nominations For Orlando HamCation’s 2026 Awards Are Now Open 13. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeks Volunteers For 2026 Committees 14. ShakeOut 2025 – Amateur Radio Support For United States Geological Survey 15. Radio Hall Of Fame Posthumously Inducted Silent Key 16. Amateur Radio Licenses Suspended In Equatorial Guinea 17. FM Broadcast Station Receives $920,000 Piracy Penalty From The FCC 18. Parks On The Air Group Grows Statewide Across Minnesota 19. RCA Technical Symposium Offers Cryptology And Space Side Trips 20. The Radio Society Of Great Britain's DMR Project Restarts In Schools Across The UK 21. Changes Are Made To The Citizen Band Radio Rules & Amateur Repeater Regulations In Australia 22. Voyager One Is Almost One Light Day Away From Earth 23. ARRL: Churches and Chapels on the air special event 24. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing 25. RW: Russia's mysterious shortwave station UVB-76 (Buzzer) resumes broadcasting cryptic messages 26. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassadors show at HamXposition Convention 27. AMSAT: AMSAT announces two new Gridmaster Award recipients 28. WIA: Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) selects six recipients for scholarships 29: ARRL National Preparedness Month: Ham Radio Supply List 30: ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination results are announced 31. FCC: AST SpaceMobile is granted limited use of the amateur radio bands by the FCC 32. Amateur operators in India are mandated to convert from paper license to digital 33. Current Solar Cycle prediction methodology raises some doubts with researchers 34. FCC: Mobile phone jamming inside prisons is under consideration by the Commission 35. Direct satellite to mobile devices service is considered by Ofcom the regulation in the United Kingdom 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 how Amateur Radio has changed his world view * 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 - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us back to 1922 where we find the steadily increasing use of CW paralleled exploration of ever shorter wavelengths, and the two pursuits complemented each other. Amateurs were setting new records at a whirlwind pace. This week Part One of an episode titled, "Trans-Pacifics" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1385 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: September 13, 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, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:34:31 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1385LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. Russia’s Mysterious Buzzer Resumes Broadcast With Secret Codes 2. FCC: FCC Chairman Climbs Nexstar Broadcast Tower To Promote Industry, and Jobs 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassadors Show At HamXposition Convention 4. AMSAT: AMSAT Announces Two New GridMaster Award Recipients 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Young Ladies Radio League Selects Six Recipients For Scholarships 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Serves During New England Tornadoes 8. ARRL: National Preparedness Month – Ham Radio Supply List 9. ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination Results 10. ARRL: Arkansas Club Shares Ham Radio At Maker Faire 11. ARRL: Northern Panhandle Amateur Radio Club Will Operate W8ZQ, For POW / MIA Awareness Special Event 12. AST SpaceMobile Is Granted Limited Use Of The Amateur Bands By The FCC 13. Indian Amateurs Are Mandated To Convert To Digital Licenses 14. Solar Cycle Prediction Methodology Raises Doubts 15. Mobile Phone Jamming At Prisons Is Eyed By The FCC 16. Amateurs Across New York State Activate The States Erie Canal 17. Satellite To Cellphone Service Is Considered By Ofcom The UK Regulator 18. World RadioSport Championship Wild Card Members Are Chosen 19. ARRL: Battleship Iowa upcoming special event station 20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 21. LBK: Equatorial Guinea suspends all amateur licenses in the country 22. AMSAT: NASA seeks volunteers to assist in tracking the upcoming Artemis II mission 23. WIA: NASA deploys a 39 foot wide radar antenna in orbit 24. XRN: High power shortwave stock trading transmitters adjacent to amateur HF bands 25. TVR: The FCC will allow ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC to shutdown free ATSC 1.0 and switch to ATSC 3.0 26. ARRL: National Preparedness Month is here. 12 ways to prepare 27. ARRL: ARRL Labs helps radio amateurs avoid interfering with the US Space Force PAVE PAWS radar 28. Band plans changes for 30 meters is eyed by New Zealand amateurs 29. Well known European Amateur Radio Retailer halts shipments to the US due to tariffs 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, in amateur radio, How Small is Small? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. W2XOY, Silent Key, returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives. This week we look back at the events of 9-11-2001, when Bill found himself in New York City on that fateful morning, and how radio helped him escape the city * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1384 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: September 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, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ,Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:39:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1384LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: ROC-HAM Radio Network Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Erie Canal 2. AMSAT: NASA Seeks Volunteers to Track Artemis II Mission 3. AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: NASA Deploys 39-Foot-Wide Radar Antenna In Orbit 5. XRN: Weapons Detection At 300 GigaHertz 6. XRN: Earthquake Prediction Experiments Continue / PhasorLabs Experiments With Spread Spectrum 7. XRN: High Power Shortwave Stock Trading - An Update 8. TVT: The FCC Will Allow ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC TV Stations To Shutdown Free ATSC 1.0 & Switch To ATSC 3.0 9. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: 12 Ways To Prepare 10. ARRL: Northeast HamXposition Draws Crowds 11. ARRL: Ham YouTubers Boost ARRL Teachers Institute 12. ARRL: ARRL Lab Helps Radio Amateurs Avoid Interfering With US Space Force PAVE PAWS Radar 13. ARRL: Team USA Earns Medals At ARDF World Championships In Lithuania 14. ARRL: K6C Will Operate At The California State Capitol Park On Tuesday, September 9th 15. ARRL: The Swedish Amateur Radio Association To Celebrate Its 100th Anniversary Sept 10 thru Oct 12th 2025 16. NZART: Band Plan Changes For 30 Meters Is Eyed By New Zealand Society of Radio Transmitters 17. RAC: Straight Key Night Is Now On The Air In Canada 18. European Amateur Radio Retailer Halts Shipments To The US Due To Tariffs 19. Japan Amateurs Optimistic On Their New Multi-Mode Linear Transponder 20. Markus Baseler, DL6YYM, BA-MA-TECH Owner SK 21. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net enters the world of Podcasting 22. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contesting and Regional Convention Listing 23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 24. RW: Ham radio uses explain why they are worried about AST SpaceMobile Satellite use of the 70cm band 25. AMSAT: Amateur weather satellite reception opportunities beyond the retiring POES Fleet 26. ARRL: Interview with ARRL CEO David Minster now available on The DX Mentor Podcast on YouTube 27. ARRL: Resilience through amateur radio is the theme of National Preparedness Month 2025 28. ARRL: ARRL Contest Advisory Committee is reviewing Canadian Section Multipliers 29. Delays plague the launch of AST SpaceMobile Satellites 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, gets back to his Bald Yak Project, and in this edition, he covers the process of Getting Raw Data From A Remote Receiver * 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 * September edition of The Volunteer Monitoring Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the late 1920's. Though radio had changed rapidly and radically during the 1920's, that change only accelerated in the early 20's. New regulations, the broadcast boom, the abandonment of spark for CW, and new transmitter, receiver, and antenna designs were all happening simultaneously. This week's edition is titled, "New Circuits" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1383 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: August 30, 2025 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, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:43:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1383LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RW: Ham Radio Users Explain Why They're Worried About AST SpaceMobile's Satellite Plans 2. AMSAT: Amateur Weather Satellite Reception Opportunities Beyond The Retired POES Fleet (NOAA-15/18/19) 3. AMSAT: Meteoglider Offers Reusable Radiosonde Alternative For High Altitude Weather Data Collection 4. AMSAT: SpaceX’s Starship Flight 10 To Demonstrate Expanded Booster And Upper Stage Test Objectives 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Collins - Rewind 7. ARRL: Interview With ARRL CEO: Details On Recent Board Meeting, Huntsville Fest, Legislative Advocacy & DX 8. ARRL: Resilience Through Amateur Radio For National Preparedness Month 2025 9. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Marks 60 Years Of Service 10. ARRL: FCC Batch Filing System Unavailable 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators And Shortwave Listeners Invited To Participate In A Unique Event On Aug. 30th 12. ARRL: ARRL Contest Advisory Committee Is Reviewing Canadian Section Multipliers 13. ARRL: HandiHam Program’s 58th Anniversary 14. Sailing Vessel Is Helped By The Maritime Mobile Network 15. Route 66 On The Air Adds An Aeronautical Rover 16. Launch Delays Plague AST SpaceMobile Satellites 17. Sonoma California Residents Build GMRS Network With The Help Of Local Hams 18. Young Operators Recruited By Andaman Island DxPedition 19. ARD: European Amateur Radio Retailer halts purchases and shipments to the United States due to tariffs 20. AMSAT: AMSAT organizations continue to challenge AST SpaceMobile Use of the 70 centimeter band 21. AMSAT: A NASA satellite relied on by both scientists and farmers may be destroyed on purpose 22. WIA: FCC tracks down a device at a local business that has been causing interference 23. NARA: The National Association of Radio Amateurs announces its Club Week coming up this fall 24. RI: The FCC opens a rulemaking on revamping the entire US Emergency Alert System 25. NASA: NASA is predicting that Betelgeuse may go supernova soon 26. ARRL: The candidates for ARRL Director and Vice Director position elections have been announced 27. ARRL: The league presents awards to the best of amateur radio 28. ARRL: ARRL announces a new book release on constructing stealth antennas 29: ARRL: Scientists and amateurs are hacking for SETI at The Allen Telescope Array 30: The Federal Government announces that broadcast funding for new EAS equipment excludes public radio & TV 31. Unauthorized handheld transceivers are the target for officials in India 32. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions and HamFests 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 how to use "An SDR as Measuring Equipment" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine, to March 20th, 1923, when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened his second national radio conference and where amateurs are assigned a band of wavelengths for the first time. This week is the concluding Part Two of a series titled "First Band, Top Band" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1381 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: August 16, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:31:26 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1381LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Moves To Protect US Submarine Cables From Foreign Adversaries 2. CYN: Fatal Texas Floods Trigger FCC Review Of US Emergency Alert System 3. ARD: Candidate For US Congress Focuses On Issues Related To Amateur Radio 4. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Symposium Keynote Speaker Announced 5. AMSAT: NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Mission Ends In Disappointment 6. AMSAT: International Space Station Crew Expands To Eleven 7. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Societies File Comments With The FCC On AST/70cm Concerns 8. WIA: Hawaiian Broadcasters Want Access To Police Scanner Information For Emergencies 9. HKDY: Wi-Fi Being Allowed Near Green Bank Observatory For First Time Ever 10. ARRL: Amateurs Prepare For Forecasted Busy Hurricane Season 11. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Awards Alexia Snethen, KM6LGG, The 2025 Goldfarb Memorial Scholarship 12. ARRL: Hams Track Campers’ High-Altitude Balloon, Decode Images 13. ARRL: ARRL Serving Its Members: NU2W’s Story 14. ARRL: Seven Year Old Gertrude Takagi Earns Her Amateur Radio License 15. ARRL: 26th Anniversary Of The Route 66 Special Event 16. Legacy NOAA Weather Satellites Are Decommissioned 17. National Weather Service Now Rehiring Following Recent Mass Firings 18. Upcoming 3Y0K DxPedition Sites Legal Issues For Cancellation Of Lottery 19. Amateurs In The United Kingdom Accept The Challenge To Build Balloon Tracker 20. Florida Retirees Prepare For Upcoming Storm Season 21. Indiana Amateurs Celebrate Parks Centennial By Having A POTA Activation 22. Australian Young Amateurs Prepare For Their First Youth On The Air Contest 23. ARD: HamCation Awards Seeks Nominations For 2026 Season 24. ARRL: The Swedish Amateur Radio Society, SSA, will celebrate its 100-year anniversary on September 10, 2025 25. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing 26. AMSAT: AO-123 FM Transponder To Enter Continuous Service / Ham-TV is activated on the Space Station 27. WIA: Radio Amateurs Of Canada develops Auxiliary Communications Service 28. IARU: Registration for IARU Region 2 XXII General Assembly Is Now Open 29. ARRL: New ARRL DXCC Trident Award Plaque Honors 100 Confirmed On Three Modes 30. ARRL: Jobs for amateurs at ARRL Headquarters 31. Indian student amateurs are seeking a patent on new lightning avoidance device 32. HOIP: HamShack Hotline users are invited to apply for service on Hams Over IP 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 discuss How To Decode Distant Signals Over The Web. * 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 * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with the conclusion of his three part series titled, "Crossings, The Reply". We witness another Atlantic Crossing, but this time European as well as American amateurs are participating ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1380 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: August 9, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:33:00 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1380LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AO-123 FM Transponder To Enter Continuous Service / HamTV Installed On The Space Station 2. AMSAT: NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 To Be Decommissioned 3. WIA: Radio Amateurs of Canada Develops Auxiliary Communications Service 4. IARU: Registration For The International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 XXII General Assembly Is Now Open 5. ASTM: No Interference? AST SpaceMobile Defends Use of Ham Radio Spectrum 6. ARRL: New ARRL DXCC Trident Award Plaque Honors 100 Confirmed Entities On Three Modes 7. ARRL: ARRL Celebrates The Jeffrey B. Goldman, K3DUA, Teachers Institute Week 8. ARRL: High Altitude Camp Needs Amateur Radio Tracking Operators 9. ARRL: HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Party August 11th Through The 12th, 2025 10. ARRL: W9GIG, Passes Away 11. ARRL: Frank Butler, W4RH, Former ARRL Southeastern Division Director, Passes Away At 100 12. ARRL: The U.S. Coast Guard’s 235th Birthday Will Be Celebrated On August 9th, 2025 13. ARRL: The 28th International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend Is Coming Up 14. ARRL: Jobs For Hams At ARRL Headquarters 15. The New ISS Crew-11 Starts Its Work On The Space Station 16. Navajo Code Talkers Of World War II Are Honored By Special Event Station 17. US/India Joint New Satellite Will Focus On Natural Disasters 18. Indian Student Amateurs Are Seeking A Patent On New Lightning Avoidance Device 19. Decoding Skills Are Tested By Upcoming Enigma Machine Special Event 20. HOIP: Hamshack Hotline Users Invited To Apply For Services At Hams Over IP 21. ARRL: ARRL was well-represented at the 2025 Maine State Convention in Augusta on August 2 22. ARRL: Polish Amateur Radio Union will celebrate the anniversaries of three Polish lighthouses August 9 – 17 23. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contests 24. AMSAT: AMSAT submits a formal objection to the AST SpaceMobile 70cm acquisition plan for satellite control 25. AMSAT: Amateur Radio enthusiasts decode SSMIS satellite data after DoD ends public access. 26. NCM: Washington DC area GMRS licensee files FCC Petition for VHF Low band allocations 27. ARRL: Introducing Radio Alpha, the ARRL Museum and Research Library 28. ARRL: ARRL special events app is now available for the Huntsville HamFest 29. ARRL: 28th International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend is coming up August 16/17 30. New callsign suffixes and prefixes are introduced in Sweden and India 31. International response to AST SpaceMobile 70cm commercial use plan 32. Radio related fees are on the rise in Pakistan 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, is having a quiet weekend and answers the question "What Can We Activate Today?" * 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 * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to October of 1922 when the second round of cross-Atlantic tests were being made. This time though, it was European stations turn to participate, We will here about it as Will presents Part Two of "Crossings, The Reply" * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1379 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: August 2, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:42:15 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1379LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Submits Formal Objection To AST SpaceMobile Plan, FCC Records 2,220 Comments 2. AMSAT: Amateur Radio Enthusiasts Decode SSMIS After DoD Ends Public Hurricane Data Stream 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches NASA’s TRACERS Mission To Study Solar Wind and Magnetic Reconnection 4. AMSAT: NASA, ISRO Set to Launch NISAR Satellite to Map Earth and Monitor Glaciers, Faults, and Crops 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. NCM: Washington DC Area GMRS Licensee Files FCC Petition For VHF Low Band Frequencies 7. ARRL: Ham Radio Responds During Tsunami Threat 8. ARRL: Introducing Radio Alpha, The ARRL Museum and Research Library 9. ARRL: ARRL Field Day 2025 Saw Growth In Participants And Entries 10. ARRL: ARRL Events App Available For Huntsville Hamfest 11. ARRL: 100th Anniversary Of The Wreck Of The USS Shenandoah Airship 12. ARRL: Yasme Foundation Awards A Grant To Cover License Exams For Youth In Malawi, Africa 13. ARRL: Doctor Ulrich L. Rohde, N1UL, Has Been Awarded The Bavarian Order Of Merit 14. ARRL: 28th International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend Will Take Place August 16 and 17, 2025 15. New Callsign Suffixes and Prefixes Are Introduced In Sweden and India 16. Station In Mexico To Honor Maximilian Kolbe The Patron Saint of Amateur Radio 17. International Response To Business FCC Filing For Amateur Radio Frequencies 18. Radio Related Fees Are On The Rise In Pakistan 19. Heritage and History Is The focus Of South African Awards 20. Amateurs Teach Police In India the advantages of the role amateur radio can play in crisis 21. ACUW: World longest lightning flash is confirmed as a new world record 22. WIA/RAC: Radio Amateurs Of Canada issues new Question Pool 23. FCC: FCC pirate radio crackdown hits a Washington State Ranch 24. FCC: 91 years ago marks the birth of the Federal Communications Commission 25. ARRL: ARRL Board Meeting Highlights 26. ARRL: ARRL files comments to protect the 70 centimeter amateur radio band 27. FCC: FCC Explores overhauling the Emergency Alert System, and regains its authority to hold Spectrum Auctions 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 comment on the proposed grab of our 70 centimeter band in a segment he calls, "Using The Amateur Band For Other Purposes." * 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 * Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to 1922 to witness yet another Cross-Atlantic test. In October of that year the ARRL announced that another round of Trans-Atlantic tests would be run in December, with preliminary trials from 25 October through 3 November. This time the test would include British, French and Dutch amateurs, and be two way communications ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1378 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: July 26, 2025 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, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:22:43 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1378LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Board Of Directors Election Underway 2. AMSAT: AMSAT-UK Supports Student Payload On Sub-Orbital Launch From Oman 3. WIA: Radio Amateurs Of Canada Issues New Question Pools 4. FCC: FCC Pirate Radio Crackdown Hits Washington Ranch 5. FCC: 91 Years Ago Marks The Birth Of The Federal Communications Commission 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Helps Locate Missing Mother and Son 7. ARRL: ARRL July Board Meeting Highlights 8. ARRL: QSL Manager Joseph L. Arcure, Jr., W3HNK, Passes Away At 91 9. ARRL: ARRL Files Comments To Protect The 70 Centimeter Amateur Band 10. ARRL: Beginning In Early August, Amateur Radio Frequencies Will Be Active With Feline and Canine QSO's 11. Field Testing At World RadioSport Site Conducted By Its Organizers 12. FCC Explores Overhauling The Emergency Alert System and Regains Authority For Spectrum Auction 13. British Amateurs To Activate UK Waterways Special Activations 14. AMSAT: ARISS Call for proposals for future school contacts now underway 15. WIA: Global Semiconductor production could be affected by current copper shortage 16. ARRL: Flex Radio equips the ARRL with a complete FlexRadio 8000 series station for W1AW 17. ARRL: The league urges members to take part in HamSci's Meteor Scatter QSO Party 18. ARRL: Antenna Safety - Look Up and Live 19. ARRL: Changes announced to the ARRL Pacific Division, Atlantic Division, and Sacramento Valley Section 20. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada announce that amateurs in the Yukon Territory now are a seperate RAC Section 21. ARRL: The ARRL and Radio Relay International sign a Memorandum of Understanding 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 "There's Promotion, and Then There's Amateur Radio" * 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 * Bill Continelli, W2XOY (SK) - The Ancient Amateur Archives. This week, Bill returns in this encore presentation of one of his most popular segments: A Brief History of Amateur Radio Repeaters ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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