PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1390 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: October 18, 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, Ron Rowe, W2ELS, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:38:05

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1390LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. ARD: DXLook Introduces Personalized Band Conditions
2. ARD: SAQ Grimeton To Air United Nations Day Message
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. IFLS: Military Spacecraft Launched 56 Years Ago Has Been Moved By Persons Unknown
5. SN: FCC Launches Space Month To Fast Track Satellite Licensing and Spectrum Reforms
6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Runs With The Chicago Marathon
7. ARRL: Ed Hare, W1RFI, Long Time ARRL Lab Engineer, Passes Away
8. ARRL: ARRL Year Of The Club Website Contest — Call for Submissions!
9. ARRL: FCC Announces Intent To Delete Minor Part 97 Provisions
10. ARRL: BOO! A Night On Bald Mountain
11. Launch Of Amazons Kuiper Satellites Is Finally Successful After Weather Delays
12. Copper Theft Is High On The FCC List For Action
13. International Amateur Radio Union Urges Inclusion Of Hams With Disabilities
14. Ofcom In The UK Implements More Ham Radio License Changes
15. North Star Radio Convention Sets A New Attendance Record
16. Amateurs In Idaho Receive Grant To Upgrade Outdated Emergency Communications Gear
17. Maldives Wet Square Activation Is Planned
18. Youth Operators To Be Featured During The Sundarbans DxPedition
19. MET: HamShack TV Presents A Chat With Bouvet Island DxPeditioner
20. 02H: Free Online General Class License Course Starting Soon
21. ARRL School Club Round-Up is being held on October 20, 2025
22. ARRL: Upcoming radiosport contests and regional convention listings
23. AMSAT: ARISS SSTV Event runs through October 20th, 2025
24. AMSAT: Four United States Schools and Organizations move forward in ARISS Contact Selection
25. WIA: The United States and Australia Sign a Space Agreement
26. WIA: The Tune-In app will now carry Emergency Alert Notifications
27. WIA: US Federal Judge orders the administration to halt layoffs at The Voice of America
28. BBC: The BBC now expects to close Radio 4 Longwave during 2026
29. FCC: The FCC releases a draft notice for NextGen TV rules, and ATSC 1.0 sunset
30. ARRL: Club Newsletter Contest – Call For Submissions
31. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation is accepting grant applications during October
32. Australia’s Square Kilometer Antenna Array gains interference protection by building a surrounding Faraday Cage

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 present an amateur radio story entitled “When Your Hobby Revolves Around Electricity”
• 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
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with an encore presentation of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920’s as vacuum tubes were making CW practical, they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone, or just phone to hams, began as experiments by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. This week’s episode is titled, “Radio Telephone”.

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