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"
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