PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1356 – Full Version

Release Date: February 22, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Tuner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:40:52

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1356

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. ARRL: Call for QST Articles For The July 2025 Special Issue On EmComm
2. AMSAT: Current Active AMSAT Engineering Projects
3. RW: President Trump Expands White House Oversight Of The FCC
4. ARRL: Dayton HamVention Announces 2025 Theme – ARES Bootcamp Coming To California HAM ESCAPE
5. ARRL: More Openings Available for On the Air Live
6. ARRL: DX Opportunities Abound Around ARRL International DX Contest
7. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) Scholarships Available For Students
8. ARRL: Bob Buus, W2OD, ARRL Northern New Jersey Section Manager, Silent Key
9. ARRL: Changes in the ARRL Iowa Section
10. ARRL: High School and a Science Fiction Movie Spark Interest In Amateur Radio
11. ARRL: Have A Ham Radio Open House In April
12. ARRL: Grassroots Emergency Communications Operations In Arizona
13. ARD: Ham Radio Gizmos Platform Launches Documentary Series To Educate And Inspire Ham Enthusiasts
14. Michigan Upper Peninsula Dog Sled Race And Local Amateurs Both Pull Long Shifts
15. First Young Ladies Meet Up Hosted By Argentine Radio Club
16. Spectrum Sharing Is Eyed By The UK Ofcom On The 6 GigaHertz Band
17. Beloved New Zealand CW Operator Is Honored In A YouTube Tribute
18. Sound Engineer and Parks On The Air Enthusiast Ian Kuhn, KI9W, Silent Key
19. Youth At The International DX Convention Will Have Free Admission
20. Measuring RF Pollution In South Africa
21. ARRL: The North American QSO Party is this weekend
22. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions Listing
23. RSGB: Bletchley Park museum radio awareness talk
24. AMSAT: Interlune aims to mine lunar helium 3 for Quantum Computing on Earth
25. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union readies to celebrate its centenary
26. INDO: Ham radio users detect suspicious signals along the Indonesian-Bangladesh border
27. ARRL: Rig Expert administrative office destroyed in Russian missle attack
28. ARRL: Grant will help young amateur radio operators become contesters
29. ARRL: Stations acoss northeast Illinois gathered for a 70cm simplex research event
30. ARD: Actor Paul Giamatti to play Art Bell in proposed upcoming biopic
31. WRTC: World Radiosport Team Championship 2026 rules are published

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 update us on his open source Bald Yak Project in a segment called Phosphor and The Impertinence Of Software
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and a lot more
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Will Rogers, K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week will piles us all into The Wayback Machine to take us back to the early 1920’s as amateurs transition from Spark to CW.

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