PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1422 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marv Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnsen, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Release Date: May 30, 2026

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:36:56

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARLPFM1422

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. ARRL: Senator Ted Cruz Praises Amateur Radio Volunteers for Emergency Preparedness
2. AMSAT: OrigamiSat-2 Receives Fuji-OSCAR 126 (FO-126) Designation from AMSAT
3. AMSAT: AMSAT Opens Candidate Nominations For 2026 Board of Directors Election
4. AMSAT: AMSAT’s Dayton Forum Covers Education, Operations, and Future Satellite Projects
5. AMSAT: Bird Chaser Bingo Summer 2026 Adds New Twist To Satellite Operating
6. AMSAT: Hamvention 2026 Brings Estimated $35 Million Impact to Xenia Region
7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
8. WIA: RSGB Exams Team Has Published New Mock Exams
9. WIA: China Announces Massive Breakthrough Battery Technology
10. WIA: Australia’s “New National Sport”
11. ARRL: Radio Amateurs of Canada Vice-President Brent Taylor, VY2HF, Silent Key
12. ARRL: Registration Is Open For The 2026 ARRL National Convention In Huntsville, Alabama
13. ARRL: Suffolk County, New York, Legislature Has Designated June As Amateur Radio Month
14. Canada Will Be Taking Time Signal Station CHU Off The Air In June
15. Amateurs In Gibraltar Double Down On Their Celebration
16. Free CW Training For Field Day Is Offered By Long Island CW Club
17. RSGB: Solar Eclipse In The UK On August 12, 2026
18. Presenters Are Sought For Upcoming Electromagnetic Field Festival
19. 38,000 Guests Visited This Year’s Dayton HamVention
20. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings
21. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL (Germany) to highlight QO-100 at Friedrichshafen
22. RTBR: House E&C Committee embeds AM radio act into larger vehicle bill
23. ARRL: June is proclaimed Amateur Radio Month in the state of New Hampshire
24. ARRL: The league urges your club to start packing for 2026 Field Day now
25. AWA Communications Museum announces a new on air net
26. Moon-Based Amateur Radio plan is announced by ARISS
27. Engineering student joins the South Georgia Island DXpedition team

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
• Australia’s own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will take a close look at why you should use Logbook of The World
• 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 edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”. This week, Will takes us back to the Summer of 1924, which brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. This is part one of a three part series titled, “DX Records and Shortwave Reflections”, or, “The Heaviside Road to the Antipode”

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