PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1391 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)
Release Date: October 25, 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, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Lams, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ron Rowe, W2ELS, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:36:13
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1391
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Elects Officers
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Symposium Held In Phoenix
3. AMSAT: AMSAT Student Memberships Now Offered At No Cost
4. AMSAT: Is Low Earth Orbit Getting Too Crowded?
5. AMSAT: Swarm Reveals Growing Weak Spot In Earth’s Magnetic Field
6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
7. WIA: FCC Takes Action Against Foreign-Owned Electronic Labs
8. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain Launches Mobile App
9. ARRL: Pass The Bill Activity Continues
10. ARRL: Talking Up a Storm And Amateur Radio In Pennsylvania
11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Club Bootcamp A Success
12. ARRL: Tropical Storm Melissa Update
13. ARRL: US Air Force To Hold 77th Annual Special Event Station
14. In Its Fourth Decade Ensuring Driver Safety Is Pumpkin Patrol
15. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Now Accepting Grant Applications
16. First ARISS Contact Made In Seven Years By Ham TV
17. Expiration Dates For Broadcast Licenses In Canada Are Eliminated By CRTC
18. Noted Dx'er Charles Harpole K4VUD / HS0ZCW SK
19. Amateur Radio Historian K2TQN, John Dilks III, SK
20. New Modes For Emergency Communications Are Taught To Young Amateurs
21. ARRL: Many special event stations are planned for Veterans Day on November 11, 2025
22. ARRL: Club Spotlight: How does your club welcome new members and new hams?
23. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listings
24. ECARS: ECARS prepares for its annual Board of Director elections
25. ARD: DX Look introduces personalized band condition reports for you specific location
26. IFLS: Military spacecraft launched 56 years ago has been moved and nobody claims responsibility
27. ARRL: ARRL Year of The Club Website Contest is announced and calls for submissions
28. ARRL: FCC announces its intent to delete minor Part 97 provisions
29. Launch of Amazons Kuiper satellites is finally successful after multiple weather delays
30. Theft of copper at antenna sites is now high on the FCC list for action
31. The International Amateur Radio Union proposes inclusion of amateurs with disabilities
32. Ofcom, the UK regulation, implements more amateur radio license changes
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, returns to his construction project in a segment titled, "Bald Yak #13 - Monitoring The Sun, In Small Steps."
* 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. Our own amateur radio historian, returns with another encore edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to January of 1921 when the ARRL ran another round of transcontinental relays over several nights, setting new records for coast-to-coast round-trip message relaying.
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