PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1350 – 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: January 11, 2025

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, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:43

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1350HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One Turns 75
2. WIA: Charged! A New Type Of Lithium Ion Battery Premiers
3. WIA: Solid State Era Started Earlier Than Commonly Thought
4. RW: Amateur Radio Operator Must Pay In First Responder Interference Case
5. HKD: Taking Down The Power Grid Over Radio
6. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute: Coming To A Town Near You
7. ARRL: The 129th Boston Marathon Will Take Place Monday April 21st, 2025
8. Public Broadcasters In Switzerland Shuts Down Analog FM Repeaters
9. Near Vertical Incidence Skywave/NVIS Packet Radio Group Looking To Expand Their Network
10. Amateurs In Germany Receive Extended Privileges For Six And Four Meters
11. AMSAT: NASA’s Deep Space Network is upgraded with the installation of a new antenna system
12. WIA: United States considers ban on home internet router manufacturer TP Link
13. ARRL: Winter Field Day Is coming up
14. ARRL: HamSci will hold its 2025 Community Workshop on March 14th & 15th
15. ARRL: Registration is now open for the 2025 Dayton Contest University
16. ARRL: This months Volunteer Monitor Report

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be covering Scene Six of his ongoing open source project entitled, The Bald Yak. This week’s episode is called, “Chaos Will Reign”
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
• Our Original amateur radio historian, the late Bill Continelli, W2XOY, returns in an encore presentation of one of his informative segments. This time, Bill will be talking about how you should develop what he calls a radio bag, a go kit of radios and accessories that you take with you when you walk out the door

---

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://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube
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

---

Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news.

You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less.

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.

This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area.

You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio!

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.

Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X!

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