PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1358 – Full Version

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: 1:48:45

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1358

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: Amateur Satellites Scheduled For Launch
5. AMSAT: Nine New TEVEL Satellites Scheduled For Launch
6. AMSAT: Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Lander Beams Back First Images Of Earth – 4G
7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
8. WIA: British Science Week Gets Underway
9. WIA: No Amateur Radio Fest At The National Association of Broadcasters Show This Year
10. WIA: Remember The Video Chat Service Skype?
11. MSN: Discover The Hidden Stories Behind Your Favorite Devices At This New Huntsville Museum
12. ARRL: 2025 HamSCI Workshop is March 14th and 15th At The New Jersey Institute Of Technology
13. ARRL: Clubs Are Gearing Up For ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Yours Can, Too!
14. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Founder Gerald Murphy, K8YUW, a Silent Key
15. ARRL: ARRL Honorary Vice President Frank Butler, W4RH, Celebrates His Centenary
16. First Amateur Radio Club Station Is Installed At University of West Bengal
17. India Foundation Prepares For An Upcoming DxPedition
18. Three Kilmolin Cluster Beacons Are Shut Down To Relocate
19. Ham Radio In Brazil Outlined In Recent Survey
20. ARRL Presents the next On The Air Live for March 25, 2025
21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain Announce 2025 Band Plans
23. AMSAT: Hades R satellite repeater is activated and designated Spain Oscar 124 or SO-124
24. AMSAT: Solar Sails aim to enhance future space weather alerts
25. WIA: Australian Regulator ACMA finalizes license fee structures – New Zealand looks for proposal comments
26. WIA: Libyan Communications Amateur Society is admitted to the International Amateur Radio Union
27. WIA/RAC: Mike Kelly, VE3FFK is the recipient of the Radio Amateurs of Canada Amateur of the Year Award
28. VOA: Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting History reopens after seven month renovation
29. ARRL: Colorado High School students visit The Plishner Radio Astronomy Center
30. ARRL: How about some Pi with that transceiver?
31. ARRL: Hap Holly, KC9RP, moderator and creator of The RAIN Report is a Silent Key
32. ARRL: Registration begins mid-March for the 24th USA National Radio Orienteering Championship
33. RaDar/Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio is coming soon
34. Radio astronomers in a radio quiet zone battle RF Interference as combined technologies offer to assist
35. Volunteer Monitor Report for this month

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 answer the question, What’s the story you like to tell yourself?
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more.
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• 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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