November 4, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1392 – 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: 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: 1:01:35

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1392HR

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. ARRL: Hurricane Melissa Update
  4. ARRL: ARRL November Sweepstakes About To Get Underway
  5. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program Is Now Accepting Applications
  6. ARRL: ARRL Calls GMRS Operator To Help Pass The Emergency Preparedness Act
  7. ARRL: Livonia ARC To Commemorate 50th Anniversary Of Sinking Of The SS Edmund Fitzgerald
  8. A Century of Broadcast Radio Is Celebrated By Amateurs In Latvia
  9. Special Event Operation Remember The War Of The Worlds Martian Invasion
  10. ARRL: ARRL to feature club photos in every issue of QST during 2026.
  11. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors elects officers
  12. AMSAT: AMSAT Under age 25 student memberships now offered at no cost, free!
  13. AMSAT: Is low earth orbit getting too crowded?
  14. ARRL: Pass the Emergency Preparedness Act bill activity continues
  15. ARRL: United States Air Force to hold its 77th annual special event station
  16. ARDC, Amateur Radio Digital Communications is now accepting grant applications

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • 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.
  • 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 transoceanic 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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This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.

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