PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1359 – 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 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: 1:00:35

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1359HR

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: ISS Astronauts Reject Call For Early Retirement Of The Station
5. ARRL: Radio Connects Is 2025 ARRL Field Day Theme — Merchandise Available for Preorder
6. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Site Locator Live, PR Workshop Registration
7. ARRL: Perfect Storm Exercise in California Gets Results
8. ARRL: Results Of ARRL Section Manager Elections
9. ARRL: Two Local Clubs Join Together To Sponsor Their Annual Spring Thaw Event
10. ARRL: Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Honors WWII Heros
11. Shortwave Station In Austria Adds Deutsche Amateur Radio Club Radio Program
12. Personnel Cuts At The US Weather Service Raises Questions
13. Fishermen and Farmer In India Find Amateur Radio An Important Tool
14. Amateurs To Celebrate 200th Anniversary Of The Erie Canal
15. FCC: FCC opens comment period on deregulating everything on a NPRM entitled Delete Delete Delete
16. ARRL: Upcoming Radio Sport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
17. ARD: Brandmeister DMR Network to stop supporting certain DMR identifiers
18. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters urge the FCC to accelerate transition to NextGen Television

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
• 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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