PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1410 – 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: March 7, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nickolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:58

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1HR1410

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Announces Students On The Air Satellite Activity Beginning March
2. AMSAT: ISS Amateur Radio Packet System Activated For Temporary APRS Testing
3. WIA: World Amateur Radio Day
4. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada Responds To The Closure Of The Weatheradio Service in Canada
5. ARRL: Hams Help Forecasters With Real-Time Data On Northeast Blizzard
6. ARRL: Indiana Hams Living Under Home Owners Association Gain Antenna Protections
7. ARRL: Tennessee Approves Credentials For Amateur Radio Technician License
8. Amateurs Assist A Girls Emergency Care During A Power Failure In Cuba
9. Australia Issues Adjustments To Their Amateur Band Plans
10. Hot Air Balloon Crashes Into Cell Tower
11. ARRL: Winter 2026 Section Manager Election results are published
12. ARRL: Icom America is named official sponsor of The ARRL Year Of The Club

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Australia’s own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, gets back to his The Big Yak building project. In this edition, Part 15, he finds himself Playing With Radio…Now With Software
• Monthly Volunteer Monitor Enforcement Report
• 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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