November 23, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1395 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: November 22, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:37:51

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Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

  1. ARD: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program Campaign Focuses On HF and VLF Propagation
  2. AMSAT: The BOTAN CubeSat Digipeater Schedule A Challenge For United States Amateurs
  3. AMSAT: Launch Scrubbed Due To Highly Elevated Solar Activity
  4. AMSAT: Alarm Over Reductions At Goddard Space Flight Center
  5. AMSAT: Comet Photos Plagued By Low Earth Orbit Satellite Streaks
  6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
  7. RSGB: Radio Society Of Great Britain Announces Amateur Radio Construction Competition
  8. WIA: HD Car Radios and Metadata RDS Problems Plague Some Receivers
  9. WIA: Space Debris Is Now Officially A Problem
  10. WIA: Older Versions Of Software For Amateurs
  11. ARRL: ARRL VEC Ready To File 2,500+ Ham Radio License Applications; FCC Extends Deadlines
  12. ARRL: Call For Technical Manuscripts
  13. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Funding Opportunities
  14. ARRL: Several Prominent Hams Among 2025 Radio Club of America Awardees
  15. ARRL: SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 Cancelled
  16. ARRL: 2025 CQ World Wide DX Contest On CW
  17. AP: Over a Dozen Attorneys General Call On FCC To Expand Multilingual Emergency Alerts
  18. RW: Cape Cod FM Pirate Agrees To FCC Settlement
  19. RW: Spain’s Radio Nacional de España To Shut Down AM Transmitters
  20. Radio Centennial In Hungary Is Celebrated With Special Event Stations
  21. How About A Season’s Transition Field Day?
  22. Deep Space Network Antenna Disabled Found In NASA Study
  23. A Milestone For Digital Voice Is Found In A New Neural Codec
  24. New Repeaters Create A New Crucial Network In Kansas
  25. Amateurs Are Ready For The Geminids Meteor Scatter Experiments
  26. HACK: Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages
  27. TWIAR: futureGEO Is The Most Important Amateur Radio Initiative Of This Decade
  28. AMSAT: Digital Library Of Amateur Radio and Communications adds AMSAT Publications
  29. AMSAT: AI fix from earth restores The James Webb Telescope, no astronauts needed
  30. AP: FCC proposes auctioning additional spectrum to expand wireless services
  31. RSGB: 146 thru 147 MHz NoV extension agreed to by Ofcom in the UK
  32. HACK: A treasure trove of Random Vintage Technology Resources
  33. ARRL: ARRL has published its 2024 Annual Report, and has open positions available
  34. ARDC: Student satellite courses are funded through an ARDC grant

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 a story entitled “A New Year With New Services To The Public In 1905”
  • 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
  • Will Rogers, K5WLR, – A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to Thanksgiving week in November of 1923 as we witness amateurs setting new records, and view the MacMillan Expedition to the north pole operating station WNP, in Part One called “Scooped”

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