PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1420 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: May 16, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ
Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:19:43

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARLPFM1420

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. ARRL: Nominations For 2026 ARRL Media And PR Awards Accepted Through May 31st
2. ARRL: United States Coast Guard Adopted By The Barnstable Amateur Radio Club
3. ARRL: Youth On The Air At Hamvention 2026
4. ARRL: SteppIR Communications Is Serving The Ham Radio Market Once Again
5. ARRL: National WWI Museum and Memorial To Host Special Event Station WW1USA for Memorial Day
6. As BBC Transmitters Marked For Shutdown, UK Hams Plan A Special Tribute
7. Australian Licenses Get A New Website
8. Amateur Pursues The Mystery Of Sporadic E-Skip
9. Cyclone That Hit New Zealand Revs Up Recruitment Drive
10. New Modem Called A Vara Replacement Goes Open Source
11. Wireless Institute of Australia Asks For Changes In Sub-Antartic Call Prefixes
12. SK: Ross Merline WA2WDT Emergency Communications Professional
13. ARRL: Hamvention 2026 Thursday — Setup Day and Much More
14. ARRL: Hamvention 2026 Friday – Let The Fun Begin
15. AMSAT: NASA completes The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
16. AMSAT: The Artemis II moon astronauts visit The White House and President Trump
17. ARRL: The Boston SDR User Group invites you to come learn more about Software Defined Radio
18. ARRL: Salty Walt goes next level with a brand new antenna book
19. Singer and composer Alan Osmond KN0IZE, SK. (Yes those Osmonds)
20. CW operators are needed to copy CW from a new Japanese CubeSat

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
• Australia’s own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and “Foundations of Amateur Radio”, will tell us how to keep track of your adventures
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Our own amateur radio historian Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another special edition of Philip Neidlinger, KA4KOE’s “Dead Electrical Dudes”. This edition’s stiff is Dr. Edwin Howard Armstrong

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