February 12, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1351 – Full Version

Release Date: January 18, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 2:05:23

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1351

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. AMSAT: India Launches SpaDeX Satellites With Amateur Radio Experiment
  2. AMSAT: Parker Solar Probe Achieves Closest Ever Approach To The Sun
  3. AMSAT: Cold War Mystery: Why Did Jimmy Carter Save The Space Shuttle?
  4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
  5. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union To Celebrate 100th Anniversary
  6. WIA: Are You Ready For A Twenty Dollar Windfall?
  7. WIA: New Zealand Straight Key Night Coming Up
  8. HR: Harvey Laidman, W8DX, Director on ‘The Waltons’ and ‘Matlock,’ Dies at 82
  9. FCC: FCC Proposes $200,000 In Pirate Radio Fines
  10. FCC: FCC Seeks Comment On Reallocating 1675-1680 MegaHertz Band For Shared Uses
  11. ARRL: Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, Silent Key
  12. ARRL: Ham Radio Operators Serving During California Firestorms
  13. ARRL: Suspicious Bangladesh Border Ham Band Signals Now Of Interest To Indian Intelligence
  14. ARRL: Call For QST Articles About ARRL Field Day
  15. ARRL: A Weekend Of January Contests
  16. ARRL: The Northern Arizona DX Association Hosting Anual W7P Pluto Discovery Anniversary Special Event
  17. RI: FCC: Trump Names Olivia Trusty As Next FCC Commissioner Nominee
  18. Los Angeles Repeater Network Stays Up During California Firestorms
  19. Are You Ready For Winter Field Day?
  20. Museum On The Campus Of The Voice Of America Has Reopening Planned
  21. One Of The Holy Grail Islands On The Air To Be Activated
  22. Special Event Station In The Netherlands Is Hosted By Army Signal Regiment
  23. Radio Club Limburg, The North Limburg Region, The Netherlands, Will Activate Special Event Station PA8ØOV
  24. ARRL announces that DXCC processing returns to normal operations
  25. AMSAT: AMSAT student members win Quarter Century Wireless Association Scholarships
  26. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One turns 75
  27. WIA: Researchers develop a new type of Lithium Ion Battery
  28. WIA: Android SmartPhones are helping to map the ionosphere
  29. RW: Amateur Radio Operator must pay fine in first responder interference case
  30. HKD: Taking down the power grid over the air
  31. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute is coming to a town near you in 2025
  32. ARRL: ARRL launches it year long Dream Station Sweepstakes
  33. ARRL: The 129th Boston Marathon will take place Monday, April 21st, 2025. Amateurs provide communications
  34. ARRL: ARRL announces changes in the Kentucky Section
  35. Public broadcasters in Switzerland shut down analog FM repeaters in favor of DAB+ and streaming
  36. NVIS packet radio group is looking forward to expanding its network
  37. Amateurs in Germany receive extended privileges for the six and four meter bands
  38. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listings

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, takes a short break from his “Bald Yak” Open Source Project to talk about The 2025 Ham Challenge
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, and upcoming radiosport contests, and more
  • Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL and Solar Prognosticator Tadd Cook, K7RA
  • Will Rogers, K5WLR – A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the earlier 1920’s when the first female hams began to appear on the amateur radio scene, in a segment we’ll call, “The Ladies are Coming.”

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