PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1389 – 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 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: 0:59:38

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1389HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. WIA: United States and Australia Sign Space Agreement
2. WIA: US Federal Judge Orders Administration To Halt VOA Layoffs
3. BBC: BBC Now Expects To Close Radio 4 LongWave During 2026
4. ARRL: Club Newsletter Contest — Call For Submissions!
5. ARRL: FCC Issues Notice Of Violation For Unauthorized One-Way Transmissions and Denial of Inspection
6. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications In October
7. Four Chinese Owned Electronics Labs Are Black Listed By The FCC
8. Australia’s Square Kilometer Array Gains Interference Protection
9. ARRL: Amateur radio licensing update during the on-going Government Shutdown
10. ARRL: FCC issues an amateur a Notice Of Violation for unauthorized one way transmissions
11. ARRL: Ham Radio Influencers rally around the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness/HOA Antenna Bill
12. A newly licensed amateur is charged by the FCC with unauthorized operation
13. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• 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
• 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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