PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1373 – 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: June 21, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:43

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1373HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. USN: Trump Urged EchoStar And FCC Chairman Brendon Carr To Cut A Deal on Spectrum
2. AMSAT: President Robert Bankston Introduces 2025 Hamvention AMSAT Forum
3. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART ONE) Is Next Weekend
4. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART TWO) Protect the Most Important Element of Field Day: The People
5. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART THREE) Local, County, & State Governments Proclaim The Value Of Amateur Radio
6. ARRL: Hurricane Erick Update
7. NASA Probe Receives Signals That Have Upward Propagation Through Ice In Antarctica
8. Do Hams Want To Have Fun?
9. Young CW Champion To Try And Top His Own World Record
10. Copper Theft At AM Broadcast Sites Continue
11. RW: Michigan AM Tower Toppled in Farmer Mishap
12. ARD: SAQ Grimeton On the Air for 100th Anniversary July 2nd
13. REC: Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty To The FCC To Fill Out Rosenworcel’s Term
14. RNZ: Papua New Guinea national broadcaster reintroduces shortwave radio nationwide
15. AMSAT: Request for expression of interest for future GEO Project
16. WIA: Digital Amateur television to resume from the International Space Station
17. ARRL: Jobs for hams – Join the ARRL Team at Newington Headquarters
18. Latest State to Proclaim Amateur Radio Month is announced
19. WIA: WIA highlights concern regarding International Amateur Radio Union Restructuring

Plus this Special Feature This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present us with some Random Serendipity.
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more..
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1921 where we find that Marconi had first done it back in 1901. 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.

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