PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1378 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: July 26, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:22:43

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1378LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Board Of Directors Election Underway
2. AMSAT: AMSAT-UK Supports Student Payload On Sub-Orbital Launch From Oman
3. WIA: Radio Amateurs Of Canada Issues New Question Pools
4. FCC: FCC Pirate Radio Crackdown Hits Washington Ranch
5. FCC: 91 Years Ago Marks The Birth Of The Federal Communications Commission
6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Helps Locate Missing Mother and Son
7. ARRL: ARRL July Board Meeting Highlights
8. ARRL: QSL Manager Joseph L. Arcure, Jr., W3HNK, Passes Away At 91
9. ARRL: ARRL Files Comments To Protect The 70 Centimeter Amateur Band
10. ARRL: Beginning In Early August, Amateur Radio Frequencies Will Be Active With Feline and Canine QSO’s
11. Field Testing At World RadioSport Site Conducted By Its Organizers
12. FCC Explores Overhauling The Emergency Alert System and Regains Authority For Spectrum Auction
13. British Amateurs To Activate UK Waterways Special Activations
14. AMSAT: ARISS Call for proposals for future school contacts now underway
15. WIA: Global Semiconductor production could be affected by current copper shortage
16. ARRL: Flex Radio equips the ARRL with a complete FlexRadio 8000 series station for W1AW
17. ARRL: The league urges members to take part in HamSci’s Meteor Scatter QSO Party
18. ARRL: Antenna Safety – Look Up and Live
19. ARRL: Changes announced to the ARRL Pacific Division, Atlantic Division, and Sacramento Valley Section
20. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada announce that amateurs in the Yukon Territory now are a seperate RAC Section
21. ARRL: The ARRL and Radio Relay International sign a Memorandum of Understanding

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 “There’s Promotion, and Then There’s Amateur Radio”
• 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
• Bill Continelli, W2XOY (SK) – The Ancient Amateur Archives. This week, Bill returns in this encore presentation of one of his most popular segments: A Brief History of Amateur Radio Repeaters

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