PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1380 – 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: August 9, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:21

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1380HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AO-123 FM Transponder To Enter Continuous Service / hamTV Installed On The Space Station
2. AMSAT: NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 To Be Decommissioned
3. WIA: Radio Amateurs of Canada Develops Auxiliary Communications Service
4. IARU: Registration For The International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 XXII General Assembly Is Now Open
5. ASTM: No Interference? AST SpaceMobile Defends Use of Ham Radio Spectrum
6. ARRL: New ARRL DXCC Trident Award Plaque Honors 100 Confirmed Entities On Three Modes
7. ARRL: High Altitude Camp Needs Amateur Radio Tracking Operators
8. ARRL: HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Party August 11th Through The 12th, 2025
9. ARRL: Jobs For Hams At ARRL Headquarters
10. The New ISS Crew-11 Starts Its Work On The Space Station
11. Navajo Code Talkers Of World War II Are Honored By Special Event Station
12. US/India Joint New Satellite Will Focus On Natural Disasters
13. Decoding Skills Are Tested By Upcoming Enigma Machine Special Event
14. HOIP: Hamshack Hotline Users Invited To Apply For Services At Hams Over IP
15. AMSAT: AMSAT submits a formal objection to the AST SpaceMobile 70cm acquisition plan for satellite control
16. NCM: Washington DC area GMRS licensee files FCC Petition for VHF Low band allocations
17. ARRL: Introducing Radio Alpha, the ARRL Museum and Research Library
18. ARRL: ARRL special events app is now available for the Huntsville HamFest
19. ARRL: 28th International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend is coming up August 16/17
20. New callsign suffixes and prefixes are introduced in Sweden and India
21. International response to AST SpaceMobile 70cm commercial use plan
22. Radio related fees are on the rise in Pakistan

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, is having a quiet weekend and answers the question “What Can We Activate Today?”
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more..
• Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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