PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1391 – 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 25, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Lams, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ron Rowe, W2ELS, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:46

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1391HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Elects Officers
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Student Memberships Now Offered At No Cost
3. AMSAT: Is Low Earth Orbit Getting Too Crowded?
4. WIA: FCC Takes Action Against Foreign-Owned Electronic Labs
5. ARRL: Pass The Bill Activity Continues
6. ARRL: Talking Up a Storm And Amateur Radio In Pennsylvania
7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Club Bootcamp A Success
8. ARRL: Tropical Storm Melissa Update
9. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Now Accepting Grant Applications
10. Expiration Dates For Broadcast Licenses In Canada Are Eliminated By CRTC
11. ARRL: Club Spotlight: How does your club welcome new members and new hams?
12. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listings
13. ARD: DX Look introduces personalized band condition reports for you specific location
14. ARRL: ARRL Year of The Club Website Contest is announced and calls for submissions
15. ARRL: FCC announces its intent to delete minor Part 97 provisions
16. Theft of copper at antenna sites is now high on the FCC list for action
17. Ofcom, the UK regulation, implements more amateur radio license changes

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, returns to his construction project in a segment titled, “Bald Yak #13 – Monitoring The Sun, In Small Steps.”
• 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. Our own amateur radio historian, returns with another encore edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to January of 1921 when the ARRL ran another round of transcontinental relays over several nights, setting new records for coast-to-coast round-trip message relaying

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