PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1376 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: July 12, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:42:38

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1376LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. FCC: FCC Proposes Fast Track Regulation Removal To Streamline Obsolete Rules
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day Submissions Now Due
3. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeking Additional Volunteers For Moon Day At Dallas Frontiers Of Flight Museum
4. AMSAT: French Astronaut Will Take Food From Michelin-Starred Chef To International Space Station
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. WIA: Solar Storm Causes GPS Signals To Be Off By Up To 70 Meters
7. WIA: Mexico Tries To Sue SpaceX and Google
8. WIA: Images Released From The World’s Highest Resolution Camera
9. RW: National Voice Of America Museum Celebrates Makeover In New Renovated Facility
10. RW: FCC Reaches $10,000 Settlement With Boston Pirate Radio Operator
11. FCC: FCC Finally Gets Its Spectrum Auction Authority Back
12. FCC: Pirate Blasts Unconstitutional FCC Fine In Landmark Pirate Radio Challenge
13. HH: Hamshack Hotline Public Announcement – A Fond Farewell
14. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Serving During Texas Floods
15. ARRL: Special Call Signs For This Year’s International Amateur Radio Union Contest
16. ARRL: Great Numbers Stacking Up For 2025 ARRL Field Day
17. ARRL: Tripp Owens, N4NTO, SK / Michael Dean, K5MFD, ARRL Oklahoma Section PIC – SK
18. ARRL: Changes In the ARRL Idaho Section
19. ARRL: Youth On The Air Camp Junior Is Set To Debut On July 25 – 27, 2025
20. A Long Gone Maritime Tradition Is Honored During Night Of Nights Celebration
21. Amateurs In Japan Celebrate A Double Centenary
22. ClubLog Receives Operations Upgrade Via A New Grant
23. ARRL: Masayoshi ‘Masa’ Ebisawa JA1DM, SK
24. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contests
25. VRG: Trumps Big Beautiful Bill could mean slower wi-fi for you
26. WAMU: Person who climbed Up WAMU Radio Tower and stayed on the lofty perch for three days, has died
27. WIA: Russia moves forward planning its new Space Station
28. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director
29. Roger Smallwood, N8EKG, R&L Electronics Executive, SK
30. ARD: 100th Anniversary of The Japan Amateur Radio League and Amateur Radio in Japan

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 all about “Antenna Modelling With Genetic Algorithms”
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1922, where we find new broadcasting stations packed the air with signals as growing crowds of listeners in the general public clamored for even more. And, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover who convened the first radio conference, which included radio luminaries from across the spectrum, government, the new radio broadcasting industry, academia, and of course, the amateurs
• Monthly activity report from The Volunteer Monitor Program

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