PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1388 – 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: October 4, 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, Rich Lawrence. KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:07

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1388HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. WIA: Equatorial Guinea Still Off The Bands – Italian Hams Back On 40 MegaHertz
2. WIA: Update: AM Radio For Every Vehicle Bill Advances IN US Congress
3. ARRL: Amateur Radio Licensing Update During United States Government Shutdown
4. ARRL: FCC Issues Notice Of Violation For Unauthorized One-Way Transmissions And Denial Of Inspection
5. ARRL: Ham Radio Influencers Rally Around Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
6. ARRL: Radio Activations During Hurricanes Imelda and Humberto
7. ARRL: Preview The 20th Annual ARRL Online Auction October 7th thru the 9th
8. ARRL: New Leadership For The ARRL New Hampshire Section
9. New Zealand Weather Radar Is Destroyed By A Direct Lightning Hit
10. Cell Phone Jamming In Prisons Is Passed By The FCC
11. Newly Licensed Ham Is Charged By The FCC With Unauthorized Operation
12. Teenager Joins Andaman Island DxPedition Team
13. Volunteer Monitor Program Report
14. ARRL: NASA is requesting amateurs to assist in passively tracking the upcoming Artemis Moon Mission
15. ARRL: National Council on Volunteer Examiners Question Pool Committee removes Extra Class Question
16. ARD: The MORE Project seeks to license 500 youth interested in amateur radio
17. Local radio club helps residents to learn how to program Weather Alert Radios properly

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
• Will Rogers, K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio. Will returns this week with a brand new edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”. This week, Will takes us back to 1923 to see how amateurs were investigating all sorts of things including aurora and even DXpeditions. This will be Part One of the story titled, “High Latitudes and Low Wavelengths”

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