PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1378 – 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 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: 1:00:38

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Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Board Of Directors Election Underway
2. WIA: Radio Amateurs Of Canada Issues New Question Pools
3. FCC: FCC Pirate Radio Crackdown Hits Washington Ranch
4. FCC: 91 Years Ago Marks The Birth Of The Federal Communications Commission
5. ARRL: Amateur Radio Helps Locate Missing Mother and Son
6. ARRL: ARRL Files Comments To Protect The 70 Centimeter Amateur Band
7. Field Testing At World RadioSport Site Conducted By Its Organizers
8. FCC Explores Overhauling The Emergency Alert System and Regains Authority For Spectrum Auction
9. British Amateurs To Activate UK Waterways Special Activations
10. ARRL: Flex Radio equips the ARRL with a complete FlexRadio 8000 series station for W1AW
11. ARRL: Antenna Safety – Look Up and Live
12. ARRL: Changes announced to the ARRL Pacific Division, Atlantic Division, and Sacramento Valley Section
13. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada announce that amateurs in the Yukon Territory now are a seperate RAC Section
14. ARRL: The ARRL and Radio Relay International sign a Memorandum of Understanding

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• 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
• 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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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss
Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss
Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss
Website: https://www.twiar.net
X: https://x.com/TWIAR
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari
YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube
RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2
Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3
Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3

This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.

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