PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1389 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: October 11, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Lama, KC2OJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Christ Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:33:32

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1389LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: ARISS SSTV Event Runs Through October 20th, 2025
2. AMSAT: Four US Schools and Organizations Move Forward In ARISS Selection Process
3. AMSAT: A Review Of The futureGEO Workshop 2025 In Bochum
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: United States and Australia Sign Space Agreement
6. WIA: TuneIn App To Carry Emergency Alert Notifications
7. WIA: US Federal Judge Orders Administration To Halt VOA Layoffs
8. K9YA: Armstrong Gave The World Static Free Radio
9. BBC: BBC Now Expects To Close Radio 4 LongWave During 2026
10. FCC: FCC Releases Draft Notice For NextGen TV Rules, ATSC 1.0 Sunset
11. ARRL: Zoe Rodriguez Named 2025 Craigie Memorial Educator
12. ARRL: Club Newsletter Contest — Call For Submissions!
13. ARRL: FCC Issues Notice Of Violation For Unauthorized One-Way Transmissions and Denial of Inspection
14. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications In October
15. ARRL: 13 Colonies Special Event Founder and Coordinator Ken Villone, KU2US, SK
16. ARRL: The Greater Saint Louis Area Scouting Council Will Be Active During This Year’s JOTA and JOTI
17. Four Chinese Owned Electronics Labs Are Blacklisted By The FCC
18. Sri Lanka’s New Amateur Radio Cubesats Are Now In Orbit
19. Australia’s Square Kilometer Array Gains Interference Protection
20. Emergency Radio Network Planned By Florida Baptist Church
21. ARRL: Colorado Students visit The Pilsner Radio Telescope
22. ARRL: New Jersey Special Event to celebrate Columbus Day
23. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listing
24. WIA: Equatorial Guinea Amateurs are still off the air, Italian amateurs gain access to 40 MegaHertz
25. WIA: Update: AM Radio For Every Vehicle bill advances in Congress
26. ARRL: Amateur radio licensing update during the on-going Government Shutdown
27. ARRL: Ham Radio Influencers rally around the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness/HOA Antenna Bill
28. ARRL: New leadership is announced for the ARRL New Hampshire Section
29. A New Zealand weather radar is destroyed by a direct lightning hit
30. Cellphone Jamming in prisons is passed by the FCC
31. A newly licensed amateur is charged by the FCC with unauthorized operation
32. Teenage DxPeditioner joins the Andaman Island DxPedition team
33. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

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 tell us how to properly prepare for an amateur radio outing, such as Parks On The Air
• 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
• Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with “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, as he wraps up with Part Two of the story titled, “High Latitudes and Low Wavelengths”

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