PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1373 – Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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: 1:29:02

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1373

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. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART ONE) Is Next Weekend
5. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART TWO) Protect the Most Important Element of Field Day: The People
6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART THREE) Local, County, & State Governments Proclaim The Value Of Amateur Radio
7. ARRL: Hurricane Erick Update
8. ARRL: Ham Radio Reports Fire; Helicopter Crew Extinguishes Just In Time
9. Tribute To A Silent Key Will Originate From Island DxPedition
10. NASA Probe Receives Signals That Have Upward Propagation Through Ice In Antarctica
11. Do Hams Want To Have Fun?
12. Young CW Champion To Try And Top His Own World Record
13. Alberta’s Groups IP400 Digital Project Receives Grant
14. Copper Theft At AM Broadcast Sites Continue
15. World RadioSport Team Championship Announces Sponsored Team Bidding Winners
16. RW: Michigan AM Tower Toppled in Farmer Mishap
17. ARD: SAQ Grimeton On the Air for 100th Anniversary July 2nd
18. REC: Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty To The FCC To Fill Out Rosenworcel’s Term
19. ARRL: Kids Day On The Air is Saturday
20. RNZ: Papua New Guinea national broadcaster reintroduces shortwave radio nationwide
21. AMSAT: NOAA-18 satellite is decommissioned
22. AMSAT: Request for expression of interest for futureGEO Project
23. WIA: Digital Amateur television to resume from the International Space Station
24. ARRL: Are you ready for 2025 Field Day?
25. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute – multiplying the message
26. ARRL: Jobs for hams – Join the ARRL Team at Newington Headquarters
27. ARRL: Ham Radio 2025 – The biggest amateur exhibition in Europe at Friedrichshafen
28. Emergency communications group in Indiana switches from analog FM to digital
29. Latest State to Proclaim Amateur Radio Month is announced
30. WIA: WIA highlights concern regarding International Amateur Radio Union Restructuring

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 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
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, 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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