PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1361

Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: March 29, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:37:33

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1361

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Fram2Ham SSTV Transmissions Planned
2. AMSAT: Alba Orbital Assists AMSAT-EA With HADES-ICM Project
3. AMSAT: Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Photographs Eclipse From The Moon
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: Hello Moon? Anybody Home? Please Pick Up
6. WIA: WABC Promotes AM Radio In New York City Post Advertising
7. WIA: Solar Max Has Been Announced, Is A Second Peak Coming?
8. ARRL: Five Steps to Get Ready for April’s Ham Radio Open House – Part One
9. ARRL: Five Steps to Get Ready for April’s Ham Radio Open House – Part Two
10. ARRL: Sign Up Now For The ARRL Youth Rally At The Dayton Hamvention
11. ARRL: Caribe Wave 2025 Tsunami Exercise In Puerto Rico
12. ARRL: HF Geratol Net’s 52nd Anniversary Will Be Held April 6th – 13th, 2025
13. ARRL: Get Ready For 2025 ARRL Field Day June 28/29
14. ARRL: New Two Hour Interview With ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, Now Available
15. ARRL: United Nations General Assembly Designated April 2nd World Autism Awareness Day
16. Navy Looks To Ham Radio Technology For Backup Communications
17. Government Shutdown Of Voice of America And Other International News Services
18. New Zealand’s New Mobile Emergency Operations Center
19. ARRL: ARRL Announces this month’s cover plaque award winner
20. The Shortwave Broadcast Museum in Dayton Ohio announces opening hours during HamVention weekend
21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention/Hamfest listings
22. AMSAT: International Space Station changes crew for Expedition 73
23. WIA: Democrats introduce legislation to prohibit the FCC from revoking licenses
24. WIA: New “GOTA” – Grids On The Air activity and awards
25. WIA: African Telecommunications Union discusses expansion of amateur radio in Africa
26. WIA: You can listen in on Russian Communications from Ukraine
27. FCC: FCC opens the comment period on deregulating everything
28. ARRL: ARRL plans comments on the FCC “Delete Delete Delete” Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
29. ARRL: 76th International DX Convention coming up on April 11-13 in Visalia, California
30. Young amateurs are getting ready for the upcoming DX Youth Adventure
31. A west coast amateur loses his county job due to work at a repeater site

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 present an article he calls, “Echoes From The Past. 150 micro seconds ago”
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and more
• Weekly Propagation Forecast and Space Weather Forecast from the ARRL
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to the mid 1920’s where we find that for amateurs, crossing the Atlantic was the next natural challenge. They had been thinking about it since before the war. Many in the scientific community were skeptical that such a feat could possibly be achieved at such a short wavelength as 200 meters, especially with power as low as one kilowatt. This week’s Episode is called “Crossings, Part One: Aquitania”

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