PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1377 – Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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: 1:37:38

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1377

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: ARISS Slow Scan Television Event Starts July 14th And Runs Through July 20th
2. AMSAT: ARISS Call for Proposals for School Contacts Now Underway
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: FCC West Coast Pirate Radio Enforcement
5. WIA: Global Semiconductor Production Could Be Affected By Copper Shortage
6. WIA/NL: Let’s Go With The Flow…New Contest “Toilets On The Air”
7. ARD: Opposition to NextNav and AST SpaceMobile Encroachment on Amateur Radio Spectrum Continues.
8. FCC: Emergency Alert System Reform Added To Carr’s FCC Priorities
9. ARRL: FlexRadio Equips ARRL With FLEX-8000 Series Station For W1AW
10. ARRL: Take Part In HamSCI’s Meteor Scatter QSO Party
11. ARRL: Safety Stand-Down: Look Up and Live
12. ARRL: Changes in the ARRL Pacific Division, Atlantic Division, and Sacramento Valley Section Are Announced
13. AST Satellites Experimental License Clears Amateur Band Use
14. Teen Hams On Dave Kalter Memorial DX Adventure Are Calling CQ
15. RAC: Canadian Amateurs In The Yukon Territory Get A New Separate RAC Section
16. Solar Car Special Event Gets Great Mileage With Amateurs
17. Junior Youth On The Air Camp Holds Its First Session
18. Daughter Missing For Eight Years Is Reunited With Her Family By Amateurs
19. ARRL: Radio Relay International and ARRL Sign a Memorandum of Understanding
20. ARRL: 2025 Field Day numbers are fantastic so far
21. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contest Listings
22. FCC: FCC proposes Fast Track Regulation to streamline obsolete rules
23. WIA: Solar Storm causes Global Positioning System to be off by up to 70 meters
24. RW: National Voice Of America Museum celebrates makeover in renovated facility
25. RW: FCC reaches $10,000 settlement with a Boston Pirate Radio Operator
26. FCC: FCC finally gets its spectrum authority reinstated
27. FCC: Miami radio pirate blasts as unconstitutional FCC fines in landmark pirate radio court challenge
28. HH: Hamshack Hotline releases a public announcement bidding a fond farewell shutting down at the end of August
29. ARRL: Amateur Radio volunteers are providing communications during the severe floods

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 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..
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• 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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