PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1369 – Full Version (LPFM, no ID Breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: May 24, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zitel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:51:25

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1369LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: BuzzSat Satellite Meteorology Course Now Available
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Volunteers Power Hamvention Exhibit
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: The Centennial Gleissberg Cycle Will Impact The Next Solar Cycle
5. WIA: A Pulsar Packs A Punch Into Our Galaxy
6. NASA: In Memory Of Ed Smylie, Whose Famous Hack Saved The Apollo 13 Crew
7. FCC: Starks To Depart FCC By June, Calls Role Honor Of A Lifetime
8. ARRL: Amateur Spectrum Addressed in US House Reconciliation Bill
9. ARRL: Spring Season Section Manager Election Results
10. ARRL: Highlights From 2025 Dayton Hamvention
11. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Remembers And Celebrates 60 Years
12. ARRL: Use The 2025 ARRL Field Day Site Locator
13. ARRL: New Book Release: Using The Baofeng Radio
14. ARRL: The Deep Space Exploration Society KØPRT, Holds Community Event
15. RSGB: Digital Mobile Radio Kits Start Young Hams In The UK
16. Funds For Scholarships Raised By Auctioning Empire State Building Broadcast Antenna Elements
17. Major Solar Storm Drill Is Held And The Government Agencies Failed
18. Country Of Luxembourg Issues Postage Stamp For IARU Centenary
19. Another Electronics Supplier In The US Shuts Its Doors
20. Johnstown Flood Of 1889 Is Recalled In New Special Event Station
21. RAC: Update on Phishing Attempts and Cybersecurity Tips
22. CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inducts Three New Members at The Dayton HamVention
23. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional conventions
24. FCC: FCC bans “Bad Labs” from US Equipment Type Acceptance authorization process
25. WIA: Chinese researchers design compact high performance antenna
26. WIA: FCC approves amateur information collection requirement
27. ARD: International Amateur Radio Union considers consolidation – eliminating regional entities
28. RW: Florida radio pirate agrees to pay $11,000 fine – in installments
29. SC:: South Carolina, among a few other states, announce it will be a hands free driving state in September
30. VAT: Rome University ham radio logs thousands of QSO’s to welcome the new Pope
31. AMSAT: AMSAT set the date in October, and location for the upcoming 2025 AMSAT Symposium
32. ARRL: ARRL renews its defense of the 902 to 928 MegaHertz amateur radio band
33. ARRL: ARRL seeks entry level technician HF privileges in its latest proposal
34. ARRL: ARRL releases next generation DXing track videos

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, “How Does Your IARU Member Society Represent Itself?”
• 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 and Solar Weather Forecast from the ARRL
• Will Rogers, K5WLR – Will returns returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920, where we find that the uneven, partly unpredictable nature of radio wave propagation continued to fascinate hams after the war. This week’s episode is simply called “Freaks”

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