PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1366 – 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: May 3, 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, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:41

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1366HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union HF World Championship Contest
2. WIA: An Oldie But A Goodie
3. WIA: Rescue Radio – The Summit Of Emergency Preparedness
4. W2PH: Amateur Radio Comes to Internet Radio
5. SpaceX: SpaceX’s Spectrum Surveillance Ups Ante in FCC Fight
6. WH: White House Cancels News Service After Reporter Asks Tough Question
7. ARW: Italian Radio Amateurs Get Permission To Use The 40 MegaHertz Band
8. ARRL: 630-Meter Band Worked All States Awards Issued
9. ARRL: Clock Is Ticking Down To 2025 Dayton Hamvention
10. ARRL: Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
11. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union Gathers In Paris To Honor Centennial
12. ARRL: ARRL Announces Change In Atlantic Division Leadership
13. ARRL: 2025 Hudson Division Convention Scheduled For July 13th
14. ARRL: ARRL Hudson Division Now On Discord
15. ARRL: Recently Established School Club Rapidly Grows New Hams
16. Amateurs In Brazil Gain CB Privileges, And Lose The CW Requirement
17. New Low Power FM Broadcast Station Is Lead By An Amateur Group
18. BBC Is Facing Charter Expiration, Plans To Rechart Its Course
19. Alford Master FM Antenna From The Empire State Building Being Auctioned
20. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
21. ARRL: Select Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing
22. AMSAT: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT Banquet To Be Held On Friday, May 16th
23. HRF: Ham Radio 2025 48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Friedrichshafen / Belgium HamConBe 2025
24. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House Events Find Success, Media Coverage
25. ARRL: ARRL Exhibits and Forums Planned For 2025 Dayton Hamvention

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 tell us how how to be an amateur radio operator without either a radio or an antenna.
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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