PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1377 – 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: July 19, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY. Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marlor, AA4DX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:24

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1377HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. WIA: Global Semiconductior Production Could Be Affected By Copper Shortage
2. WIA/NL: Let’s Go With The Flow…New Contest “Toilets On The Air”
3. ARD: Opposition to NextNav and AST SpaceMobile Encroachment on Amateur Radio Spectrum Continues.
4. FCC: Emergency Alert System Reform Added To Carr’s FCC Priorities
5. ARRL: FlexRadio Equips ARRL With FLEX-8000 Series Station For W1AW
6. ARRL: Safety Stand-Down: Look Up and Live
7. AST Satellites Experimental License Clears Amateur Band Use
8. Teen Hams On Dave Kalter Memorial DX Adventure Are Calling CQ
9. RAC: Canadian Amateurs In The Yukon Territory Get A New Separate RAC Section
10. ARRL: Radio Relay International and ARRL Sign a Memorandum of Understanding
11. ARRL: 2025 Field Day numbers are fantastic so far
12. FCC: FCC proposes Fast Track Regulation to streamline obsolete rules
13. WIA: Solar Storm causes Global Positioning System to be off by up to 70 meters
14. FCC: FCC finally gets its spectrum authority reinstated
15. HH: Hamshack Hotline releases a public announcement bidding a fond farewell shutting down at the end of August
16. ARRL: Amateur Radio volunteers are providing communications during the severe floods

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about various ways of Decoding a Signal.
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more..
• Our original amateur radio historian, the late Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with a special encore presentation of a classic edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back in time to teach us all about the early warning communication system known in the United States as CONELRAD.

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