PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1355 – 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 15, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Alan Shephard, WK8W 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: 1:00:23

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1355HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. HACK: Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3
2. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union To Celebrate Centenary
3. INDO: Ham Radio Users Detect Suspicious Signals Along Indo-Bangladesh Border
4. RW: WJLX Returns To 1240 AM After Tower Theft
5. ARRL: RigExpert’s Administrative Office Destroyed in Russian Missile Attack — Production Remains Intact
6. ARRL: Grant Will Help Young Amateur Radio Operators Become Contesters
7. ARD: Actor Paul Giamatti To Play Art Bell In Biopic Film
8. An Amateur Radio Operator Turns Out To Be The Front Runner To Lead Germany
9. AM Radio Act To Save AM Radio In US Vehicles Gets Revived Effort
10. RW: Austria’s historic Moosbrunn shortwave transmission site is dismantled
11. FCC: FCC upholds order against an amateur licensee
12. PROP: The magnetic north pole has officially shifted its postion
13. ARRL: Training the next generation of net control operators

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more..
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920 when amateurs discovered that radio waves didn’t simply move from point to point along a straight line and decrease in strength with distance. Something else was happening too, but what? Will answers this question in an episode titled, “The QSS Tests.”

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