PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1409 – Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: February 28, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:37

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1HR1409

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Membership Now Includes Getting Started Guide
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Publishes Satellites In Space Coloring Book As Part Of Its Youth Initiative
3. ARD: 3Y0K DXPedition Departs Cape Town For Bouvet Island
4. ARD: Community HamClock Backend Server Now Available
5. ARRL: Winter 2026 Section Manager Election Results
6. ARRL: Icom America Named Official Sponsor Of The ARRL Year Of The Club
7. BZ: Amateur Astronomers Capture Voyager One’s Signal From 25 Billion Kilometers Away
8. ARD: futureGEO Continues To Be A Topic Of Discussion
9. ARRL: Hams Help Forecasters With Real-Time Data On Northeast Blizzard
10. Artemis Two Launch Delayed For At Least A Month Due To Repairs
11. Radio Amateurs Of Canada Select Amateur Of The Year
12. ARRL: Upcoming RadoSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing
13. ARRL: FCC now requires that FRN contact information be updated withing ten days of a change
14. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee issues revisions to the 2026 thru 2030 technician question pool

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Australia’s own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, will tell us how to go about documenting your shack setup
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more
• Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”, this week, Will takes us back to 1924 where we find that for nearly a year, hams had been operating in their first assigned band of wavelengths, 150 to 200 meters. They had also been experimenting below 150 meters by special government permission. The story continues, in Part Three of a Four-Part episode titled, “Six Segments, Sans Spark”

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