PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1358 – 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: March 8, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:09

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1358HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. ARD: Brandmeister DMR Network To Stop Supporting Some DMR IDs
2. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters Urges FCC To Accelerate NextGen TV Transition
3. WKRN: FCC Chairman Carr Climbs Nexstar Broadcast Tower To Promote Industry Jobs
4. AMSAT: Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Lander Beams Back First Images Of Earth – 4G
5. WIA: No Amateur Radio Fest At The National Association of Broadcasters Show This Year
6. WIA: Remember The Video Chat Service Skype?
7. MSN: Discover The Hidden Stories Behind Your Favorite Devices At This New Huntsville Museum
8. ARRL: 2025 HamSCI Workshop is March 14th and 15th At The New Jersey Institute Of Techonolgy
9. ARRL: Clubs Are Gearing Up For ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Yours Can, Too!
10. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britian Announce 2025 Band Plans
11. WIA: Australian Regulator ACMA finalizes license fee structures – New Zealand looks for proposal comments
12. WIA: Libyan Communicationsd Amateur Society is admitted to the International Amateur Radio Union
13. WIA/RAC: Mike Kelly, VE3FFK is the recipient of the Radio Amateurs of Canada Amateur of the Year Award
14. VOA: Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting History reopens after seven month renovation
15. Volunteer Monitor Report for this month

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more.
• * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to the early 1920’s, when among a lot of other things, the US Navy was pressing for control of the airwaves again. We will here all about this and more in this edition entitled “Strays”

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