PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1400 – 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: December 27, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:06:54

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1400HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: W2RS Memorial AMSAT CW Activity Day To Be Held January 1, 2026
2. AMSAT: New Satellite Tracking Application Released
3. WIA: Australia ACMA Moves To Stop Illegal Radio Imports
4. WIA: Google To Build Three New Undersea Cables
5. WIA: Russian UVB-76 Radio Still On The Air
6. WIA: Amateurs Worldwide Get Access To IP Addresses
7. AS: Eagles Guitarist Joe Walsh’s Auction Works, With Part of the Proceeds Benefiting Veterans Aid
8. Use Of International Reply Coupons (IRC’S) Is Ended By The Universal Postal Congress
9. Ham Radio University Featured Speaker Is Bouvet DxPeditioner
10. DMR Project With School Students In India Is Successful
11. Jim Shaffer, KE5AL, Advocate For Blind Amateurs, SK
12. A Large Holiday Gathering Is Kept Safe By Minnesota Amateurs
13. AMSAT: Satellites Experience “Orbital Summer” And “Orbital Winter”
14. ARD: DXLook Introduces Real-Time D-RAP Visualization For HF Absorption Events
15. IR: FCC Pushes Toward High-Stakes Upper C-Band Vote
16. ARRL: Get Your Keys and Bugs Ready For ARRL Straight Key Night
17. ARRL: Obsolete Part 97 Rules To Be Deleted February 10th, 2026
18. ARRL: New Technician Class Question Pool Released — Effective July 1st, 2026
19. ARRL: Up To $25,000 At Stake In New ARRL Student Coding Competition

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Our annual Christmas Special hosted and narrated by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS as he related what it was like to be a teen obsessed with amateur radio, and trying to also have a girlfriend. This story taken from one of his talk presentations on WOR-AM in New York.

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