November 1, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1384 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: September 6, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ,Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:39:59

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1384LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. ARD: ROC-HAM Radio Network Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Erie Canal
  2. AMSAT: NASA Seeks Volunteers to Track Artemis II Mission
  3. AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over
  4. WIA: NASA Deploys 39-Foot-Wide Radar Antenna In Orbit
  5. XRN: Weapons Detection At 300 GigaHertz
  6. XRN: Earthquake Prediction Experiments Continue / PhasorLabs Experiments With Spread Spectrum
  7. XRN: High Power Shortwave Stock Trading – An Update
  8. TVT: The FCC Will Allow ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC TV Stations To Shutdown Free ATSC 1.0 & Switch To ATSC 3.0
  9. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: 12 Ways To Prepare
  10. ARRL: Northeast HamXposition Draws Crowds
  11. ARRL: Ham YouTubers Boost ARRL Teachers Institute
  12. ARRL: ARRL Lab Helps Radio Amateurs Avoid Interfering With US Space Force PAVE PAWS Radar
  13. ARRL: Team USA Earns Medals At ARDF World Championships In Lithuania
  14. ARRL: K6C Will Operate At The California State Capitol Park On Tuesday, September 9th
  15. ARRL: The Swedish Amateur Radio Association To Celebrate Its 100th Anniversary Sept 10 thru Oct 12th 2025
  16. NZART: Band Plan Changes For 30 Meters Is Eyed By New Zealand Society of Radio Transmitters
  17. RAC: Straight Key Night Is Now On The Air In Canada
  18. European Amateur Radio Retailer Halts Shipments To The US Due To Tariffs
  19. Japan Amateurs Optimistic On Their New Multi-Mode Linear Transponder
  20. Markus Baseler, DL6YYM, BA-MA-TECH Owner SK
  21. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net enters the world of Podcasting
  22. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contesting and Regional Convention Listing
  23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
  24. RW: Ham radio uses explain why they are worried about AST SpaceMobile Satellite use of the 70cm band
  25. AMSAT: Amateur weather satellite reception opportunities beyond the retiring POES Fleet
  26. ARRL: Interview with ARRL CEO David Minster now available on The DX Mentor Podcast on YouTube
  27. ARRL: Resilience through amateur radio is the theme of National Preparedness Month 2025
  28. ARRL: ARRL Contest Advisory Committee is reviewing Canadian Section Multipliers
  29. Delays plague the launch of AST SpaceMobile Satellites

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, gets back to his Bald Yak Project, and in this edition, he covers the process of Getting Raw Data From A Remote Receiver
  • 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
  • September edition of The Volunteer Monitoring Report
  • 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 the late 1920’s. Though radio had changed rapidly and radically during the 1920’s, that change only accelerated in the early 20’s. New regulations, the broadcast boom, the abandonment of spark for CW, and new transmitter, receiver, and antenna designs were all happening simultaneously. This week’s edition is titled, “New Circuits”

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