PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1387 – 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 27, 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, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:17

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1387HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Open Letter From AMSAT-SM Highlights Need For Full Duplex Handheld Radio
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. WIA: NASA Contracts With SpaceX To Deorbit The International Space Station
4. WIA: California County Helping Residents Get Licensed and Provide Radios
5. ARRL: Wants Every Ham To Help Pass The Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act Now In Congress
6. ARRL: Hams Needed To Assist In Tracking Upcoming NASA Moon Mission
7. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: Use Your Ham Radio For Public Service
8. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Extra Class Question E6D07 From Use
9. ARD: MORE Project Seeks To License Youth Interested In Amateur Radio
10. Radio Club In California Helps Local Hams Replace Radios Lost In The Recent Wildfires
11. Programming Emergency Weather Radios Can Be A Struggle
12. WIA: Four NASA research volunteers entered the MARS Habitat to be in isolation for months
13. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain issues a response to the recent Ofcom Consultation
14. WIA: DxPedition team loses equipment to large ocean waves
15. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications seeks volunteers for its 2026 committees
16. Amateur Radio licenses are suspended in Equatorial Guinea
17. A US FM pirate broadcaster receives a $920,000 penalty from the Federal Communications Commission
18. RSGB: The Radio Society of Great Britain DMR project restarts in schools across the UK

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how he has fun when he Plays With SDR Radio
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
• Will Rogers, K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio – Will returns with Part Two of a brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to 1922 where we find the steadily increasing use of CW paralleled exploration of ever shorter wavelengths, and the two pursuits complemented each other. Amateurs were setting new records at a whirlwind pace. This weeks episode is titled, “Trans-Pacifics”

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