November 11, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1385 – 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: September 13, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:06

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1385HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. Russia’s Mysterious Buzzer Resumes Broadcast With Secret Codes
  2. FCC: FCC Chairman Climbs Nexstar Broadcast Tower To Promote Industry, and Jobs
  3. ARRL: Amateur Radio Serves During New England Tornadoes
  4. ARRL: National Preparedness Month – Ham Radio Supply List
  5. AST SpaceMobile Is Granted Limited Use Of The Amateur Bands By The FCC
  6. Indian Amateurs Are Mandated To Convert To Digital Licenses
  7. Solar Cycle Prediction Methodology Raises Doubts
  8. Mobile Phone Jamming At Prisons Is Eyed By The FCC
  9. LBK: Equatorial Guinea suspends all amateur licenses in the country
  10. AMSAT: NASA seeks volunteers to assist in tracking the upcoming Artemis II mission
  11. XRN: High power shortwave stock trading transmitters adjacent to amateur HF bands
  12. ARRL: National Preparedness Month is here. 12 ways to prepare
  13. ARRL: ARRL Labs helps radio amateurs avoid interfering with the US SpaceForce PAVE PAWS radar
  14. Band plans changes for 30 meters is eyed by New Zealand amateurs

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, in amateur radio, How Small is Small?
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more
  • Bill Continelli, W2XOY – The History of Amateur Radio. W2XOY, Silent Key, returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives. This week we look back at the events of 9-11-2001, when Bill found himself in New York City on that fateful morning, and how radio helped him escape the city
  • Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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
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Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3
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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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