February 15, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1339 – 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: October 26, 2024

ATTENTION: Due to the DDOS Cyberattack on Internet Archive, our host for files is offline until further notice, we are working to find a good alternative resource for the podcast until services are restored.

Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:01:24

Podcast Download (temp): https://bit.ly/TWIAR1339HR
Podcast Download: https://shorturl.at/9nSmE
SoundCloud Link: https://on.soundcloud.com/b3WmqKDasSXXFqiq9
Jumpshare Link: https://jmp.sh/joIdt2ML
Direct download: https://twiar.net/TWIAR_1339_ONE%20HOUR%20VERSION.mp3

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union To Celebrate Its Centenary In 2025
  2. SN: Intelsat 33e Breaks Up In Geostationary Orbit
  3. RW: Helicopter Tower Collision Takes Four Lives In Houston
  4. ARRL: Handbook 101: A New Generation Of Amateur Radio
  5. ARRL: Dream Rig Contest Underway
  6. ARRL: ARRL Systems Service Disruption Update
  7. ARRL: 2024 Pacificon Inspires Next Generation of Radio Amateurs
  8. ARRL: Online Ham Bootcamp Coming Up On Saturday, November 9th, 2024
  9. ARRL: 86th Anniversary Of The Orson Welles Broadcast Of War of the Worlds
  10. Shortwave Broadcaster In Austria Faces Shutdown
  11. Another Of The Navajo Code Talkers John Kinsel Senior Passes At 107
  12. Amateurs In New Zealand Put Volcanoes On The Air
  13. WIA: 40 Meter band plan harmonization – WIA announces next steps.
  14. FCC: FCC proposes fine against ESPN for violation of the Emergency Alert Rules

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
  • Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how amateur radio connects us in unexpected ways.
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming Radio Sport contests and more.
  • Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
  • Will Rogers – K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, this week, Will puts us all into The Wayback Machine to the early nineteen hundreds. In a segment Will calls The Lid: It’s war in 1917 and amateurs across the country are totally shut down, putting the lid on both transmitting and receiving by the government.

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This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more.

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