PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1359 – Full Version

Release Date: March 15, 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, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:21:59

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1359

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. HCK: The Long Goodbye: More Instruments Shut Down On The Voyagers As End Nears
2. ARD: 2025 Hamvention Award Winners Announced
3. FCC Grants SpaceX A Key Waiver To Boost Cellular Starlink Network
4. AMSAT: New Textbook Featuring GNU Radio Published
5. AMSAT: ISS Astronauts Reject Call For Early Retirement Of The Station
6. ARRL: Radio Connects Is 2025 ARRL Field Day Theme — Merchandise Available for Preorder
7. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Site Locator Live, PR Workshop Registration
8. ARRL: Perfect Storm Exercise in California Gets Results
9. ARRL: Results Of ARRL Section Manager Elections
10. ARRL: Two Local Clubs Join Together To Sponsor Their Annual Spring Thaw Event
11. ARRL: Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Honors WWII Heros
12. Shortwave Station In Austria Adds Deutsche Amateur Radio Club Radio Program
13. Personnel Cuts At The US Weather Service Raises Questions
14. Fishermen and Farmer In India Find Amateur Radio An Important Tool
15. Radio Is deemed Essential Communication Against Wildfires In India
16. Six GigaHertz Band Is Opened By The FCC To More Unlicensed Very Low Power Devices
17. Lunar Lander On The Moon Tracked By Earth Navigation System
18. Amateurs To Celebrate 200th Anniversary Of The Erie Canal
19. FCC: FCC opens comment period on deregulating everything on a NPRM entitled, “Delete Delete Delete”
20. ARRL: Upcoming Radio Sport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
21. ARD: Brandmeister DMR Network to stop supporting certain DMR identifiers
22. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters urge the FCC to accelerate transition to NextGen Television

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, Can You Work DX on a Dummy Load?
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Will Rogers – K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, we travel back to January of 1921, where we find the league running another round of transcontinental messaging, setting new records for the coast-to-coast relay. This episode is entitled “Transcons at Record Speed”

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