PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1392 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: November 1, 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, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:24:58

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1392LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT President Outlines Future Directions
2. AMSAT: Is AO-7 Still The Oldest Satellite?
3. AMSAT: Amateur Radio Receiver Reveals Global Unsecured Satellite Privacy Issue
4. AMSAT: Russian Cosmonauts Conduct Spacewalk Outside The International Space Station
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
6. ARRL: Hurricane Melissa Update
7. ARRL: ARRL November Sweepstakes About To Get Underway
8. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program Is Now Accepting Applications
9. ARRL: The 20th Anniversary ARRL Online Auction Results
10. ARRL: ARRL Calls GMRS Operator To Help Pass The Emergency Preparedness Act
11. ARRL: Livonia ARC To Commemorate 50th Anniversary Of Sinking Of The SS Edmund Fitzgerald
12. ARRL: Log Submission Deadline For DX Marathon Sprint Upcoming
13. A Century of Broadcast Radio Is Celebrated By Amateurs In Latvia
14. Special Event Operation Remember The War Of The Worlds Martian Invasion
15. Europe’s Ham Radio Friedrichshafen To Debut Astronomy Trade
16. Colleges New Electronics and Computer Engineering Center To Be Chaired By An Amateur
17. ARRL: ARRL to feature club photos in every issue of QST during 2026.
18. ARRL: Upcoming contest sheet and upcoming regional conventions.
19. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors elects officers
20. AMSAT: AMSAT Student memberships now offered at no cost, free!
21. AMSAT: Is low earth orbit getting too crowded?
22. WIA: FCC takes action against foreign owned electronic testing labs.
23. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain launches its new mobile app
24. ARRL: Pass the Emergency Preparedness Act bill activity continues
25. ARRL: Amateur radio club boot camp is declared a success
26. ARRL: United States Air Force to hold its 77th annual special event station
27. ARDC, Amateur Radio Digital Communications is now accepting grant applications
28. Expiration dates of broadcast licenses in Canada are eliminated by the country’s regulator, CRTC.

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 about “Going Around in Circles One Way”, or a brief look at RF Circulators.
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more.
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1923, where amateurs were making trans-oceanic contacts and experimenting with the shorter wavelengths. This is part one of a two part episode titled, “The Fourth Time’s The Charm.”

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