PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1383 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: August 30, 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:43:02

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1383LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. RW: Ham Radio Users Explain Why They’re Worried About AST SpaceMobile’s Satellite Plans
2. AMSAT: Amateur Weather Satellite Reception Opportunities Beyond The Retired POES Fleet (NOAA-15/18/19)
3. AMSAT: Meteoglider Offers Reusable Radiosonde Alternative For High Altitude Weather Data Collection
4. AMSAT: SpaceX’s Starship Flight 10 To Demonstrate Expanded Booster And Upper Stage Test Objectives
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. WIA: Collins – Rewind
7. ARRL: Interview With ARRL CEO: Details On Recent Board Meeting, Huntsville Fest, Legislative Advocacy & DX
8. ARRL: Resilience Through Amateur Radio For National Preparedness Month 2025
9. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Marks 60 Years Of Service
10. ARRL: FCC Batch Filing System Unavailable
11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators And Shortwave Listeners Invited To Participate In A Unique Event On Aug. 30th
12. ARRL: ARRL Contest Advisory Committee Is Reviewing Canadian Section Multipliers
13. ARRL: HandiHam Program’s 58th Anniversary
14. Sailing Vessel Is Helped By The Maritime Mobile Network
15. Route 66 On The Air Adds An Aeronautical Rover
16. Launch Delays Plague AST SpaceMobile Satellites
17. Sonoma California Residents Build GMRS Network With The Help Of Local Hams
18. Young Operators Recruited By Andaman Island DxPedition
19. ARD: European Amateur Radio Retailer halts purchases and shipments to the United States due to tariffs
20. AMSAT: AMSAT organizations continue to challenge AST SpaceMobile Use of the 70 centimeter band
21. AMSAT: A NASA satellite relied on by both scientists and farmers may be destroyed on purpose
22. WIA: FCC tracks down a device at a local business that has been causing interference
23. NARA: The National Association of Radio Amateurs announces its Club Week coming up this fall
24. RI: The FCC opens a rulemaking on revamping the entire US Emergency Alert System
25. NASA: NASA is predicting that Betelgeuse may go supernova soon
26. ARRL: The candidates for ARRL Director and Vice Director position elections have been announced
27. ARRL: The league presents awards to the best of amateur radio
28. ARRL: ARRL announces a new book release on constructing stealth antennas
    29: ARRL: Scientists and amateurs are hacking for SETI at The Allen Telescope Array
    30: The Federal Government announces that broadcast funding for new EAS equipment excludes public radio & TV
29. Unauthorized handheld transceivers are the target for officials in India
30. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions and HamFests

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 how to use “An SDR as Measuring Equipment”
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and more
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”. This week, will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine, to March 20th, 1923, when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened his second national radio conference and where amateurs are assigned a band of wavelengths for the first time. This week is the concluding Part Two of a series titled “First Band, Top Band”

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