February 12, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1353 – 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: February 1, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Tammy Sawyer, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:01:08

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1353HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. HACK: Sony Ends Blu-Ray, MiniDisk and MiniDV Media Production
  2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
  3. WIA: The Radio Society of Great Britain Announces British Science Week
  4. RAC: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Releases New Basic Amateur Question Bank
  5. RI: Senators Cruz and Markey Reintroduce AM Radio Act In The Senate
  6. ARRL: Warm Up At The 2025 Orlando HamCation To Be Held February 7th Thru The 9th
  7. ARRL: Long Time Ham Radio Outlet Employee Honored For 60 Years In Amateur Radio
  8. Repeater Group Plans To Enhance Safety In Eastern Colorado
  9. Historic Amateur Satellite QSO Honored By AMSAT Switzerland
  10. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
  11. AMSAT: A new ARISS proposal window is now open
  12. RI: With a designation from President Trump, Bendan Carr is now the new Chairman of the FCC
  13. ARRL: Get ready for a ham radio open house on World Amateur Radio Day
  14. ARRL: The ARRL club grant program awards a half million dollars to help grow amateur radio

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be here with Scene 7 of his open source project, “The Bald Yak”. This time out, Onno covers building a circuit without that burnt chicken smell.
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more.
  • Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This time out, Will has us board The Wayback Machine to 1916 when amateurs were experimenting with the atmosphere and trying to figure our how propagation worked, in a story called “Strangely Behaving Signals”.

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