PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1371 – Full Version (LPFM, no ID Breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: June 7, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:41:12

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1371LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Welcome SO-125! AMSAT-EA’s HADES-ICM Joins The OSCAR Fleet
2. AMSAT: SpaceX Starship Ninth Flight Yields Data, Misses Reentry Goals
3. AMSAT: Japanese Private Lander Resilience Nears Lunar Touchdown
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: Radio Quiet Zone In Sedona Arizona Looks To the Skies
6. WIA: Russian Over The Horizon Radar Buzzer. Have You Heard It?
7. WIA: Ninth Grader From Ukraine Develops Technology For Manufacturing Antennas For Controlling UAV’s
8. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Has Categories For Every Operator
9. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Called A Success In Louisiana
10. ARRL: ARRL International Digital Contest Presents Fun Despite Active Sun
11. ARRL: 13 Colonies Event Founder Passing The Reins After 16 Years
12. ARRL: Tehachapi Amateur Radio Association Recognized As Tehachapi’s Finest Non-Profit Organization
13. ARRL: Wellesley Amateur Radio Society In Massachusetts Planning A Summer Group Build
14. ARRL: SteppIR Communication Systems Will Cease Production Of Consumer Antennas
15. NOAA Takes Weather Radio Facilities Off The Air For Technical Updates
16. Sable Island DXpedition Team Plans Return
17. NASA Website For International Space Station Spotting Is Being Discontinued
18. CB Operator Faces Proposed $25,000 Fine From The FCC / ACMA Proposes CB Rule Actions
19. 65th Anniversary Of The Canadian Trail Is Marked By Special Event Station
20. June Is Amateur Radio Month In New Hampshire
21. HamSCI, Announces A Substantial Expansion To Its Advisory Board
22. SEA-PAC, To Host The ARRL Northwestern Division Convention
23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing
24. AMSAT: Nominations open for the 2025 AMSAT Board of Directors Election
25. FCC: FCC proposes to unlock 20,000+ MegaHertz of spectrum for satellite broadband
26. ARD: 13 colonies special event upcoming this July 1st through the 7th
27. ARD: ARRL influence over the IARU could be reduced with the proposed IARU restructuring
28. RW: 42.9 MHz WA2XMN Armstrong Broadcast returns to New Jersey’s Alpine Tower this month
29. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day FAQ with the Contest Program Manager
30. ARRL: Amateur Radio ready for the projected above average hurricane season that is coming up
31. ARRL: ARRL announces leadership changes in the Pacific Division
32. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications
33. An amateur radio Geosynchronous Satellite is the goal of a new ham radio project

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 “What’s Really Happening At The International Amateur Radio Union?”
• 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
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to January of 1921 where we find the league running another round of transcontinental relays over several nights, setting new records for coast-to-coast round-trip message relaying. This weeks episode is entitled “Transcons At Record Speed.”
• Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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