PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1417 – 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: April 25, 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 Nicolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnsen, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:55

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARHR1417

1. FCC: FCC Seeking Recent College Grads for Honors Engineer Program
2. FCC: FCC Asked To Adopt Plan Taking Nine UHF TV Channels From Broadcasters Reassignment to 6G
3. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2026 Offers Forums For Every Ham
4. ARRL: Indiana Company To Manufacture Hy‑Gain And Cushcraft Antennas
5. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day 2026 In Puerto Rico
6. FCC: FCC Grants New Satellite Service Frequencies For Use
7. Frequencies Identified For Expanding 6G On The 2.7 GigaHertz Band
8. SteppIR Antennas Is Returning To The Amateur Radio Market Place
9. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeking A Software Developer and Technical Writer
10. RSGB Headquarters Station Welcomes Guest Operators During July
11. AMSAT: AMSAT’s Satellite Status Page – The story behind the new colours
12. AMSATL FO-29 Update
13. The deadline to purchase repaired Econco tubes is approaching
14. ARRL: A below average Hurricane Season predicted for 2026
15. ARRL: League announces changes in the Central Division Leadership

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Australia’s own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will tell us that “You Don’t Need An Excuse To Get On The Air and Make Noise”
• 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 edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”. This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first transatlantic QSOs. This is Part One a series titled, “DX Records and Shortwave Reflections”

---

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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u
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 w2xbs77@gmail.com.

Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!
Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.