This Week in Amateur Radio Podcast

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1389 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:38:19 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1389 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1388 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:40:17 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1388 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1387 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:36:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1387 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1386 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:36:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1386 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1385 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:39:34 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1385 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1384 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:44:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1384 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1383 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:48:06 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1383 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1382 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: August 23, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:51:37 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1382 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: MESAT1 Named A Finalist In Global Satellite Contest 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Organizations Continue To Challenge AST SpaceMobile Use Of Ham Radio Spectrum 3. AMSAT: NASA Satellite That Scientists And Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed On Purpose 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: FCC Cites Device In Use At A Spa For Interference 6. ARD: Club Week is Coming This Fall 7. RI: FCC To Open Rulemaking On Revamping United States Emergency Alert System 8. NASA: NASA Says Betelgeuse May Go Supernova Soon 9. ARRL: Candidates Named For ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections 10. ARRL: The Best Of Amateur Radio Honored With ARRL Awards 11. ARRL: New ARRL Book Release: Stealth Antennas For Ham Radio 12. ARRL: Lou Dietrich, N2TU, Noted DXer, Past INDEXA Chairman, Passes Away 13. ARRL: Hacking For SETI At The Allen Telescope Array 14. ARRL: The Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Will Participate In Jamboree-On-The-Air 15. ARRL: Wedding Day QSOs From Mount Princeton In Colorado 16. An Important Part Of The South Georgia DxPedition Will Involve Youth 17. Federal Emergency Alert Grants Will Exclude Public Radio 18. AST SpaceMobile Proposes Its Satellite Launch Window 19. Student Satellite Project From Canada Moves Ahead 20. Unauthorized Handheld Radios Are The Target Of Indian Officials 21. Radio Society of Great Britain Invites The World To Work In UK 22. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contests 23. CYN: Fatal Texas floods trigger the FCC to review and possibly update the US Emergency Alert System 24. ARD: A candidate for US Congress focuses on issues related to amateur radio 25. AMSAT: New ISS Crew expands the space station population to eleven 26. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Societies file comments with the FCC on AST/70cm concerns 27. WIA: Hawaiian Broadcasters are seeking access to encrypted Police Scanner traffic 28. HKDY: WiFi is being allowed near the Greenback Observatory in the West Virginia Radio Quiet Zone for the first time 29. ARRL: Amateurs prepare for the forecasted busy Hurricane Season 30. NOAA: Legacy NOAA Weather Satellites are being decommissioned 31. NOAA: The National Weather Service is now hiring following recent mass firings 32. Florida retirees are preparing for the upcoming storm season by building a local radio network 33. ARD: The HamCation Awards Committee seeks nominations for the upcoming 2026 season 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 explain "How to listen to local RF via a web browser." * 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 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 Part One of a Two-Part 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1381 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:36:19 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1381 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1380 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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 Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:36 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1380 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. 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1379 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:46:43 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1379 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1378 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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: 1:26:41 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1378 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1377 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: July 19, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY. Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marlor, AA4DX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:38 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1377 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ARISS Slow Scan Television Event Starts July 14th And Runs Through July 20th 2. AMSAT: ARISS Call for Proposals for School Contacts Now Underway 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: FCC West Coast Pirate Radio Enforcement 5. WIA: Global Semiconductor Production Could Be Affected By Copper Shortage 6. WIA/NL: Let's Go With The Flow...New Contest "Toilets On The Air" 7. ARD: Opposition to NextNav and AST SpaceMobile Encroachment on Amateur Radio Spectrum Continues. 8. FCC: Emergency Alert System Reform Added To Carr’s FCC Priorities 9. ARRL: FlexRadio Equips ARRL With FLEX-8000 Series Station For W1AW 10. ARRL: Take Part In HamSCI’s Meteor Scatter QSO Party 11. ARRL: Safety Stand-Down: Look Up and Live 12. ARRL: Changes in the ARRL Pacific Division, Atlantic Division, and Sacramento Valley Section Are Announced 13. AST Satellites Experimental License Clears Amateur Band Use 14. Teen Hams On Dave Kalter Memorial DX Adventure Are Calling CQ 15. RAC: Canadian Amateurs In The Yukon Territory Get A New Separate RAC Section 16. Solar Car Special Event Gets Great Mileage With Amateurs 17. Junior Youth On The Air Camp Holds Its First Session 18. Daughter Missing For Eight Years Is Reunited With Her Family By Amateurs 19. ARRL: Radio Relay International and ARRL Sign a Memorandum of Understanding 20. ARRL: 2025 Field Day numbers are fantastic so far 21. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contest Listings 22. FCC: FCC proposes Fast Track Regulation to streamline obsolete rules 23. WIA: Solar Storm causes Global Positioning System to be off by up to 70 meters 24. RW: National Voice Of America Museum celebrates makeover in renovated facility 25. RW: FCC reaches $10,000 settlement with a Boston Pirate Radio Operator 26. FCC: FCC finally gets its spectrum authority reinstated 27. FCC: Miami radio pirate blasts as unconstitutional FCC fines in landmark pirate radio court challenge 28. HH: Hamshack Hotline releases a public announcement bidding a fond farewell shutting down at the end of August 29. ARRL: Amateur Radio volunteers are providing communications during the severe floods 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 talk about various ways of Decoding a Signal. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our original amateur radio historian, the late Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with a special encore presentation of a classic edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back in time to teach us all about the early warning communication system known in the United States as CONELRAD. ----- 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1376 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: July 12, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:47:44 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1376 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Proposes Fast Track Regulation Removal To Streamline Obsolete Rules 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day Submissions Now Due 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeking Additional Volunteers For Moon Day At Dallas Frontiers Of Flight Museum 4. AMSAT: French Astronaut Will Take Food From Michelin-Starred Chef To International Space Station 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Solar Storm Causes GPS Signals To Be Off By Up To 70 Meters 7. WIA: Mexico Tries To Sue SpaceX and Google 8. WIA: Images Released From The World's Highest Resolution Camera 9. RW: National Voice Of America Museum Celebrates Makeover In New Renovated Facility 10. RW: FCC Reaches $10,000 Settlement With Boston Pirate Radio Operator 11. FCC: FCC Finally Gets Its Spectrum Auction Authority Back 12. FCC: Pirate Blasts Unconstitutional FCC Fine In Landmark Pirate Radio Challenge 13. HH: Hamshack Hotline Public Announcement - A Fond Farewell 14. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Serving During Texas Floods 15. ARRL: Special Call Signs For This Year’s International Amateur Radio Union Contest 16. ARRL: Great Numbers Stacking Up For 2025 ARRL Field Day 17. ARRL: Tripp Owens, N4NTO, SK / Michael Dean, K5MFD, ARRL Oklahoma Section PIC - SK 18. ARRL: Changes In the ARRL Idaho Section 19. ARRL: Youth On The Air Camp Junior Is Set To Debut On July 25 - 27, 2025 20. A Long Gone Maritime Tradition Is Honored During Night Of Nights Celebration 21. Amateurs In Japan Celebrate A Double Centenary 22. ClubLog Receives Operations Upgrade Via A New Grant 23. ARRL: Masayoshi 'Masa' Ebisawa JA1DM, SK 24. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contests 25. VRG: Trumps Big Beautiful Bill could mean slower wi-fi for you 26. WAMU: Person who climbed Up WAMU Radio Tower and stayed on the lofty perch for three days, has died 27. WIA: Russia moves forward planning its new Space Station 28. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director 29. Roger Smallwood, N8EKG, RandL Electronics Executive, SK 30. ARD: 100th Anniversary of The Japan Amateur Radio League and Amateur Radio in Japan 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 all about "Antenna Modelling With Genetic Algorithms" * 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 1922, where we find new broadcasting stations packed the air with signals as growing crowds of listeners in the general public clamored for even more. And, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover who convened the first radio conference, which included radio luminaries from across the spectrum, government, the new radio broadcasting industry, academia, and of course, the amateurs * Monthly activity report from The Volunteer Monitor Program ----- 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1375 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: July 5, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:45:32 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1375 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. VRG: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Could Mean Slower Wi-Fi For You 2. AMSAT: AMSAT South Africa To Host 2025 Virtual Symposium On 68 Years Of Amateur Radio Progress 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Additional Volunteers For Moon Day At Dallas Frontiers Of Flight Museum 4. AMSAT: SpaceX Transporter-14 Rideshare Delivers Small Sats, Reentry Tech, and Memorial Ashes 5. AMSAT: Axiom-4 Reaches Orbit After Delays with Multinational Crew Bound for Space Station 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WAMU: Person Who Remained On WAMU Radio Tower For 3 Days Dies 8. WIA: Russia Moves Forward Planning New Space Station 9. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director And Vice Director 10. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Declared A Success 11. ARRL: ARRL At HAM RADIO 2025 In Germany 12. ARRL: United States Radio Orienteering Champs Crowned 13. ARRL: The Panhellenic Celebration Of Maritime Week Is Being Revived This Year 14. Roger Smallwood, N8EKG, R and L Electronics Executive SK 15. New Record Set For Copying Callsigns In CW 16. Competitors From Russia Prepare For A Second Round Of Earth-Moon-Earth QSO's 17. Hurricane Response Communications Is Focus Of FCC Roundtable 18. Russia Is Constructing Modules For Its New Space Station 19. ARRL: ARRL Logbook Of The World returns to service from the cloud 20. ARD: JARL/Japan Amateur Radio League prepares to celebrate its upcoming 100th anniversary 21. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 22. RTBR: Majority Of US House Coalesces Behind The AM Radio In Vehicles Bill 23. AMSAT: HamSat to test new super-black paint that could fix satellite light pollution problem for astronomers 24. WIA: DxPedition receives financial support for upcoming operations 25. WIA: NASA and The US Department of Defence rehearse Artemis Rescue Mission 26. FCC: FCC finalizes its ban of certain telecommunications type certification bodies 27. ARD: Satellite communications company AST SpaceMobile seeks use of 70 centimeters at the FCC 28. Amateurs in Europe gear up for the upcoming Youngsters Of The Air Camp 29. China sets amazing new data transmission speeds with its orbiting 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, will tell us about The ARRL Incident of May 2024, A Year Later. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio: This week, Will piles us all into The Wayback Machine and takes us back to 1914, where we find the Radio Club of Hartford in Connecticut, held its first meeting on January 14th that year, and would soon play a larger role than most in amateur radio history * ARRL Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1374 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 28, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:30:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1374 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RTBR: Majority of US House Coalesces Behind AM Radio Bill 2. AMSAT: Hamsat to Test New Super-Black Paint That Could Fix Satellite Light Pollution 3. AMSAT: NASA Science Missions Could Be Cut In 2026 Budget 4. AMSAT: SpaceX To Launch Fourth Commercial Axiom Mission To The Space Station 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: DxPedition Receives Financial Support For Upcoming Operation 7. WIA: NASA and The Department Of Defense Rehearse Artemis Rescue Mission 8. FCC: FCC to Host July 7 Hurricane Season Roundtable 9. FCC: FCC Finalizes Ban On Telecommunications Certification Bodies' Certifications 10. NASA: Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Emits Powerful Radio Pulse 11. ARD: Satellite Communications Company AST SpaceMobile Seeks Use Of 70 Centimeter Amateur Band 12. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Is This Weekend! 13. ARRL: Sharing ARRL Field Day With Others Via Social Media 14. ARRL: Field Day Safety Tips From An Experienced Compliance Officer 15. ARRL: ARRL Announces Logbook Of The World Systems Upgrade 16. ARRL: The Annual 13 Colonies Special Event 2025 17. ARRL: International Space Station To Take Part In 2025 Field Day Operations 18. ARRL: Deadline To Apply For ARRL Foundation Grants Is June 30, 2025 19. Amateurs In Europe Gear Up For Youngsters On The Air Camp 20. Summits On The Air Learns Lifesaving Skills 21. Chinese Satellites Reach Amazing Data Transmission Speeds 22. BBC Transmits Exclusively To Antarctica 23. Grimeton Radio SAQ To Send Jubilee Transmission 24. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings 25. ARRL: Ham radio operator reports a fire in the California Mountains and a helicopter crew extinguishes just in time 26. NASA: NASA probe receives signals that have upward propagation through the ice and rock of Antarctica 27. Copper theft at AM Broadcast radio sites across the country continues 28. CW Speed Record set to be broken at Ham Radio 2025 in Friedrichshafen Germany 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 "The Art of Decoding a Signal." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on upcoming and currently operating DXpeditions, DX, and upcoming radio sport contests, and more * 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 early days of radio, where we find that humor played a prominent role in QST from its first issue, born of the evident joy hams derived in pursuing their passion for radio. This weeks edition is entitled "Humor, Poetry, and Rotten Rants" ----- 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1373 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 21, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:29:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1373 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. USN: Trump Urged EchoStar And FCC Chairman Brendon Carr To Cut A Deal on Spectrum 2. AMSAT: President Robert Bankston Introduces 2025 Hamvention AMSAT Forum 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART ONE) Is Next Weekend 5. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART TWO) Protect the Most Important Element of Field Day: The People 6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART THREE) Local, County, and State Governments Proclaim The Value Of Amateur Radio 7. ARRL: Hurricane Erick Update 8. ARRL: Ham Radio Reports Fire; Helicopter Crew Extinguishes Just In Time 9. Tribute To A Silent Key Will Originate From Island DxPedition 10. NASA Probe Receives Signals That Have Upward Propagation Through Ice In Antarctica 11. Do Hams Want To Have Fun? 12. Young CW Champion To Try And Top His Own World Record 13. Alberta's Groups IP400 Digital Project Receives Grant 14. Copper Theft At AM Broadcast Sites Continue 15. World RadioSport Team Championship Announces Sponsored Team Bidding Winners 16. RW: Michigan AM Tower Toppled in Farmer Mishap 17. ARD: SAQ Grimeton On the Air for 100th Anniversary July 2nd 18. REC: Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty To The FCC To Fill Out Rosenworcel's Term 19. ARRL: Kids Day On The Air is Saturday 20. RNZ: Papua New Guinea national broadcaster reintroduces shortwave radio nationwide 21. AMSAT: NOAA-18 satellite is decommissioned 22. AMSAT: Request for expression of interest for futureGEO Project 23. WIA: Digital Amateur television to resume from the International Space Station 24. ARRL: Are you ready for 2025 Field Day? 25. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute - multiplying the message 26. ARRL: Jobs for hams - Join the ARRL Team at Newington Headquarters 27. ARRL: Ham Radio 2025 - The biggest amateur exhibition in Europe at Friedrichshafen 28. Emergency communications group in Indiana switches from analog FM to digital 29. Latest State to Proclaim Amateur Radio Month is announced 30. WIA: WIA highlights concern regarding International Amateur Radio Union Restructuring 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 us with some Random Serendipity. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1921 where we find that Marconi had first done it back in 1901. For amateurs, crossing the Atlantic was the next natural challenge, they had been thinking about it since before the war. Many in the scientific community were skeptical that such a feat could possibly be achieved at such a short wavelength as 200 meters, especially with power as low as one kilowatt. ----- 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1372 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 14, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Turner, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:25:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1372 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RNZ: Papua New Guinea National Broadcaster Moves To Reintroduce Shortwave Radio For Nationwide Coverage 2. NYP: New York State Lawmakers Vote To Stop NYPD’s Attempt To Block Radio Communications From Public 3. VRG: There Are Only Two Commissioners Left At The FCC 4. AMSAT: NOAA-18 Satellite Decommissioned 5. AMSAT: Request For Expression Of Interest For FutureGEO Project 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 7. WIA: Digital Amateur Television To Resume From The ISS 8. WIA: On-Loan DMR Kit Starts Young UK Hams On Their Journeys 9. RSGB: The RSGB Launches The Special Event Stations/SES Cookbook 10. ARRL: Are You Ready For 2025 ARRL Field Day? 11. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute – Multiplying the Message 12. ARRL: Jobs for Hams: Join the ARRL Team 13. ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination Results 14. ARRL: ARRL June VHF Contest Is This Weekend 15. ARRL: The 2025 Youth On The Air Camp For Young Amateur Radio Operators 16. ARRL: HAM RADIO 2025 The Biggest Amateur Radio Exhibition In Europe, To Take Place In Friedrichshafen 17. Emergency Communications Group In Indiana Switches From Analog FM To Digital 18. Whidbey Island Increases Its Radio Safety Net 19. Persian Gulf History Highlighted In Upcoming Special Event Station 20. Three DxPeditions Receive Funding Through The Northern California DX Foundation 21. Latest State To Declare Amateur Radio Month Is Announced 22. Radio Society of Great Britain Seeks Proposals For Its October Conference 23. WIA: Wireless Institute of Australia Highlights Concerns Regarding IARU Restructuring Plan 24. ARRL: World Wide Radio Operators Foundation awards three supporting grants 25. The YASME Awards are announced 26. ARRL: Well known and competitive contester Tom Taormina, K5RC/W7RN, passed away on June 10, 2025 27. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions 28. WIA: Russian Over The Horizon Radar called "The Buzzer" is on the air. Have you heard it? 29. WIA: Ninth grader from Ukraine develops new technology for antennas used to control drones 30. ARRL: 2025 Field Day has categories for every operator 31. ARRL: SteppIR Communication Systems will cease production of of Consumer Antennas 32. NOAA: NOAA takes Weather Radio facilities off the air for technical upgrades 33. Citizen Band operator faces a $25,000 proposed fine from the FCC / ACMA proposes CB Radio actions 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 "Can You Be A Professional Amateur?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * 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 1922, where we find that amateurs were making progress taming the QRM problem. Sometimes a solution did not involve a new invention, or even technology at all ----- 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1371 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 7, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:46:50 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1371 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Welcome SO-125! AMSAT-EA’s HADES-ICM Joins The OSCAR Fleet 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Starship Ninth Flight Yields Data, Misses Reentry Goals 3. AMSAT: Japanese Private Lander Resilience Nears Lunar Touchdown 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Radio Quiet Zone In Sedona Arizona Looks To the Skies 6. WIA: Russian Over The Horizon Radar Buzzer. Have You Heard It? 7. WIA: Ninth Grader From Ukraine Develops Technology For Manufacturing Antennas For Controlling UAV's 8. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Has Categories For Every Operator 9. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Called A Success In Louisiana 10. ARRL: ARRL International Digital Contest Presents Fun Despite Active Sun 11. ARRL: 13 Colonies Event Founder Passing The Reins After 16 Years 12. ARRL: Tehachapi Amateur Radio Association Recognized As Tehachapi's Finest Non-Profit Organization 13. ARRL: Wellesley Amateur Radio Society In Massachusetts Planning A Summer Group Build 14. ARRL: SteppIR Communication Systems Will Cease Production Of Consumer Antennas 15. NOAA Takes Weather Radio Facilities Off The Air For Technical Updates 16. Sable Island DXpedition Team Plans Return 17. NASA Website For International Space Station Spotting Is Being Discontinued 18. CB Operator Faces Proposed $25,000 Fine From The FCC / ACMA Proposes CB Rule Actions 19. 65th Anniversary Of The Canadian Trail Is Marked By Special Event Station 20. June Is Amateur Radio Month In New Hampshire 21. HamSCI, Announces A Substantial Expansion To Its Advisory Board 22. SEA-PAC, To Host The ARRL Northwestern Division Convention 23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing 24. AMSAT: Nominations open for the 2025 AMSAT Board of Directors Election 25. FCC: FCC proposes to unlock 20,000+ MegaHertz of spectrum for satellite broadband 26. ARD: 13 colonies special event upcoming this July 1st through the 7th 27. ARD: ARRL influence over the IARU could be reduced with the proposed IARU restructuring 28. RW: 42.9 MHz WA2XMN Armstrong Broadcast returns to New Jersey's Alpine Tower this month 29. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day FAQ with the Contest Program Manager 30. ARRL: Amateur Radio ready for the projected above average hurricane season that is coming up 31. ARRL: ARRL announces leadership changes in the Pacific Division 32. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications 33. An amateur radio Geosynchronous Satellite is the goal of a new ham radio project 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 "What's Really Happening At The International Amateur Radio Union?" * 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 aboard The Wayback Machine to January of 1921 where we find the league running another round of transcontinental relays over several nights, setting new records for coast-to-coast round-trip message relaying. This weeks episode is entitled "Transcons At Record Speed." * 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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1370 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 31, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:41:56 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1370 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Dick Jansson, KD1K, Former AMSAT Vice President – Engineering, SK 2. AMSAT: Nominations Open For 2025 AMSAT Board of Directors Election 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Sixteen Countries Represented At The 2025 Dayton HamVention Attendance 5. WIA: Over 900 Candidates Take Amateur Radio Exam In Bangladesh 6. WIA: The Dynamic Duo Of The Universe 7. FCC: FCC To Unlock 20,000+ MegaHertz Of Spectrum For Satellite Broadband 8. ARD: 13 Colonies Special Event July 1st Through The 7th 9. ARD: ARRL Influence Over IARU Could Be Reduced With Proposed Restructuring 10. RW: 42.8 MegaHertz, WA2XMN, Armstrong Broadcast Returns To New Jersey In June 11. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: FAQ With The Contest Program Manager 12. ARRL: Amateur Radio Ready For Above Average Hurricane Season 13. ARRL: ARRL Announces Leadership Changes In The Pacific Division 14. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Set For Record Year 15. ARRL: Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Receives POTA Wiggin’s Acalypha Achievement Award 16. ARRL: The Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club Has Introduced Scouts To Amateur Radio 17. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Is Accepting Grant Applications 18. 48 New Radio Amateurs Receive Licenses In South Africa 19. Fifty Years Of Community Service By Ohio Traffic Net 20. Single DXpeditioner Completes 61,000 QSO's Is Honored 21. Geosynchronous Satellite Is The Goal Of New Ham Radio Project 22. Amateur Radio Month In Hawaii Is Coming Up In June 23. Queens Of The Mountains Special YL Event Announced 24. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listings. 25. AMSAT: Buzzsat satellite meteorology course is now available 26. WIA: The Centennial Cycle will impact the next solar cycle 27. ARRL: Amateur Spectrum Addressed in the US House Reconciliation Bill 28. ARRL: Spring season Section Manager Election results are announced 29. ARRL: Hams across the US can now use the 2025 Field Day Site Locator 30. RSGB: Digital Mobile Radio Kits start young hams in the United Kingdom 31. SBE: Funds for Society of Broadcast Engineers are raised by auctioning ESB Broadcast Antenna Elements 32. Another electronics supplier in the US closes its doors 33. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada updates members on phishing attemps and cyber security tips 34. FCC: FCC bans "Bad Labs" from the United States Type Acceptence Authorization Process 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 Think You're Doing?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Monthly Report From The Volunteer Monitoring System * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - Will returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920's where we find out that vacuum tubes were now making CW practical. And that they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone, or just phone to hams, began as experimental radio broadcasts by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. This weeks episode is simply called "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.