PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1394 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: November 15, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:50:51

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

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: SpaceX Bandwagon-4 Mission Places CEVROSAT-1 In Orbit With Rideshare Payloads
2. AMSAT: CatSat To Open Microwave Linear Transponder Access For Amateur Radio Community
3. AMSAT: ARISS To Mark 25 Years Of ISS With Special Worldwide SSTV Event In November
4. AMSAT: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Adds AMSAT Publications
5. AMSAT: AI Fix From Earth Restores James Webb Telescope Clarity, No Astronauts Needed
6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
7. EXIT: Albanian Police Seize Amateur's Radio Equipment Over Suspected Espionage
8. AP: FCC Proposes Auctioning Additional Spectrum To Expand Wireless Services
9. NYS: Attorney General James Demands FCC Expand Multilingual Emergency Alerts
10. WIA: FCC Takes Step To Ban China Based Telecom
11. WIA: Brian Eno/Beatie Wolfe Really Launch New Album
12. RSGB: 146 Thru 147 MegaHertz NoV Extension Agreed By Ofcom
13. HACK: A Treasure Trove Of Random Vintage Tech Resources
14. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Division Elections: Voting Ends November 21st
15. ARRL: Images From Space Celebrate 25 Years Of Ham Radio On The International Space Station
16. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2025 ARRL November Sweepstakes — Phone!
17. ARRL: Save The Date: Annual ARRL YouTube Telethon To Support Teachers Institute
18. ARRL: Two Special Event Stations To Highlight Upcoming Weeks On Air Activity
19. ARRL: ARRL Has Published Its 2024 Annual Report - ARRL Has Open Positions Available
20. KFIZ: Moraine Park Technical College Donates Laptop Computers To Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club
21. Student Satellite Courses Are Funded Through ARDC Grant
22. Inaugural Q-Tech Conference To Be Held In Brisbane Australia
23. Amateurs In Sri Lanka Test Their Tsunami Response In Simulation Drill
24. Conductors Loss Of Electrical Conductivity Under Review
25. Newest Microwave Linear Transponder Onboard New CubeSat
26. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
27. AMSAT: AMSAT receives two ARDC grants for its Youth Initiative Program
28. CP: Neighbor objects to sixty foot ham radio tower - cites lack of notice and safety concerns
29. SPACE: Ukraine destroys giant radio telescope used by Russian military
31. WIA: Amateur Radio Digital Communications is now accepting grant applications
32. ARRL: RadioGram changes are announced
33. ARRL: Icom Dream Station - have you earned all your sweepstakes entries?
34. ARRL: The sixth annual Youth Dream Rig essay contest is about to get underway
35. Proposed Australian band plan sees reviews by amateurs in that country
36. Sunlight On Demand will come from a proposed new satellite constellation
37. Yasme Excellence Awards for work with young radio amateurs are awarded

Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will attempt to answer the question, "What Do You Call That Radio?, or Where Did The Word Radio Come From?"
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers, K5WLR- A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to witness the arrival of international amateur communications. And, the lack of a worldwide system of station identification that led to confusion over callsigns. Without prefixes as we know them today, there was no way to use a call sign to identify a station’s country. And since each country issued callsigns independently, duplicates were inevitable. We will hear all about it in this weeks edition entitled "Callsign Confusion"


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