PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1390

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1390 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: October 18, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Ron Rowe, W2ELS, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:42:57 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1390 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: DXLook Introduces Personalized Band Conditions 2. ARD: SAQ Grimeton To Air United Nations Day Message 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. IFLS: Military Spacecraft Launched 56 Years Ago Has Been Moved By Persons Unknown 5. SN: FCC Launches Space Month To Fast Track Satellite Licensing and Spectrum Reforms 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Runs With The Chicago Marathon 7. ARRL: Ed Hare, W1RFI, Long Time ARRL Lab Engineer, Passes Away 8. ARRL: ARRL Year Of The Club Website Contest — Call for Submissions! 9. ARRL: FCC Announces Intent To Delete Minor Part 97 Provisions 10. ARRL: BOO! A Night On Bald Mountain 11. Launch Of Amazons Kuiper Satellites Is Finally Successful After Weather Delays 12. Copper Theft Is High On The FCC List For Action 13. International Amateur Radio Union Urges Inclusion Of Hams With Disabilities 14. Ofcom In The UK Implements More Ham Radio License Changes 15. North Star Radio Convention Sets A New Attendance Record 16. Amateurs In Idaho Receive Grant To Upgrade Outdated Emergency Communications Gear 17. Maldives Wet Square Activation Is Planned 18. Youth Operators To Be Featured During The Sundarbans DxPedition 19. MET: HamShack TV Presents A Chat With Bouvet Island DxPeditioner 20. 02H: Free Online General Class License Course Starting Soon 21. ARRL School Club Round-Up is being held on October 20, 2025 22. ARRL: Upcoming radiosport contests and regional convention listings 23. AMSAT: ARISS SSTV Event runs through October 20th, 2025 24. AMSAT: Four United States Schools and Organizations move forward in ARISS Contact Selection 25. WIA: The United States and Australia Sign a Space Agreement 26. WIA: The Tune-In app will now carry Emergency Alert Notifications 27. WIA: US Federal Judge orders the administration to halt layoffs at The Voice of America 28. BBC: The BBC now expects to close Radio 4 Longwave during 2026 29. FCC: The FCC releases a draft notice for NextGen TV rules, and ATSC 1.0 sunset 30. ARRL: Club Newsletter Contest - Call For Submissions 31. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation is accepting grant applications during October 32. Australia's Square Kilometer Antenna Array gains interference protection by building a surrounding Faraday Cage Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present an amateur radio story entitled "When Your Hobby Revolves Around Electricity" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with an encore presentation of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920's as vacuum tubes were making CW practical, they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone, or just phone to hams, began as experiments by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. This week's episode is titled, "Radio Telephone". ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at [e-mail]. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for t