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
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