PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1388 – Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

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: 1:40:17

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1388

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Symposium Registration Continues / AMSAT-DL Hosts futureGEO Meeting
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. WIA: Equatorial Guinea Still Off The Bands – Italian Hams Back On 40 MegaHertz
4. WIA: Update: AM Radio For Every Vehicle Bill Advances IN US Congress
5. RAC: Canadian Special Event Operation To Highlight Fire Prevention Week
6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Licensing Update During United States Government Shutdown
7. ARRL: FCC Issues Notice Of Violation For Unauthorized One-Way Transmissions And Denial Of Inspection
8. ARRL: Ham Radio Influencers Rally Around Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
9. ARRL Simulated Emergency Test Is Coming Up In October
10. ARRL: Radio Activations During Hurricanes Imelda and Humberto
11. ARRL: Preview The 20th Annual ARRL Online Auction October 7th thru the 9th
12. ARRL: New Leadership For The ARRL New Hampshire Section
13. ARRL: United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Will Operate Special Event Station N2S
14. New Zealand Weather Radar Is Destroyed By A Direct Lightning Hit
15. Amateur Radio Is Incorporated Into A Nuclear Cleanup Drill For The First Time
16. Cell Phone Jamming In Prisons Is Passed By The FCC
17. Newly Licensed Ham Is Charged By The FCC With Unauthorized Operation
18. Upcoming Pennsylvania QSO Party Offers New Incentives
19. World Space Week Will Feature Special SSTV Transmissions From The ISS
20. Teenager Joins Andaman Island DxPedition Team
21. RSGB: Must See Presentations At The Upcoming RSGB 2025 Convention
22. Volunteer Monitor Program Report
23. AMSAT: AMSAT 2025 Board Of Directors Election results are announced
24. AMSAT: Open letter from AMSAT-SM highlights the need for full duplex handheld transceivers
25. AMSAT: The Wow@Home projects builds worldwide SDR telescope network
26. WIA: China’s great Solar Wall is a real big deal visible from space
27. WIA: NASA contracts with SpaceX to deorbit the International Space Station in 2030
28. ARRL: NASA is requesting amateurs to assist in passively tracking the upcoming Artemis Moon Mission
29. ARRL: National Council on Volunteer Examiners Question Pool Committee removes Extra Class Question
30. ARD: The MORE Project seeks to license 500 youth interested in amateur radio
    31: Local radio club helps residents to learn how to program Weather Alert Radios properly

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 attempt to answer the question “Where’s The Fun In That?”
• 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
• 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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