PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1375 – Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: July 5, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, 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: 1:45:32

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1375

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. VRG: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Could Mean Slower Wi-Fi For You
2. AMSAT: AMSAT South Africa To Host 2025 Virtual Symposium On 68 Years Of Amateur Radio Progress
3. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Additional Volunteers For Moon Day At Dallas Frontiers Of Flight Museum
4. AMSAT: SpaceX Transporter-14 Rideshare Delivers Small Sats, Reentry Tech, and Memorial Ashes
5. AMSAT: Axiom-4 Reaches Orbit After Delays with Multinational Crew Bound for Space Station
6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
7. WAMU: Person Who Remained On WAMU Radio Tower For 3 Days Dies
8. WIA: Russia Moves Forward Planning New Space Station
9. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director And Vice Director
10. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Declared A Success
11. ARRL: ARRL At HAM RADIO 2025 In Germany
12. ARRL: United States Radio Orienteering Champs Crowned
13. ARRL: The Panhellenic Celebration Of Maritime Week Is Being Revived This Year
14. Roger Smallwood, N8EKG, R and L Electronics Executive SK
15. New Record Set For Copying Callsigns In CW
16. Competitors From Russia Prepare For A Second Round Of Earth-Moon-Earth QSO’s
17. Hurricane Response Communications Is Focus Of FCC Roundtable
18. Russia Is Constructing Modules For Its New Space Station
19. ARRL: ARRL Logbook Of The World returns to service from the cloud
20. ARD: JARL/Japan Amateur Radio League prepares to celebrate its upcoming 100th anniversary
21. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
22. RTBR: Majority Of US House Coalesces Behind The AM Radio In Vehicles Bill
23. AMSAT: HamSat to test new super-black paint that could fix satellite light pollution problem for astronomers
24. WIA: DxPedition receives financial support for upcoming operations
25. WIA: NASA and The US Department of Defence rehearse Artemis Rescue Mission
26. FCC: FCC finalizes its ban of certain telecommunications type certification bodies
27. ARD: Satellite communications company AST SpaceMobile seeks use of 70 centimeters at the FCC
28. Amateurs in Europe gear up for the upcoming Youngsters Of The Air Camp
29. China sets amazing new data transmission speeds with its orbiting satellites

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 about The ARRL Incident of May 2024, A Year Later.
• 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 – A Century Of Amateur Radio: This week, Will piles us all into The Wayback Machine and takes us back to 1914, where we find the Radio Club of Hartford in Connecticut, held its first meeting on January 14th that year, and would soon play a larger role than most in amateur radio history
• ARRL Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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