PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1401 – 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: January 3, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:40

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1401HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Youth On The Air Camp 2026 Applications Open
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Youth Initiative Satellites and Climate Change Course Now Online
3. WIA: United States Jams Global Positioning System Signals In The Caribbean
4. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Highlights Agency Accomplishments In 2025
5. NC: FCC Petitioned To Expand GMRS and FRS To VHF Low Band
6. ARRL: 2026 Is ARRL’s Year of the Club – A Celebration Of Amateur Radio Clubs – PART ONE
7. ARRL: 2026 Is ARRL’s Year of the Club – A Celebration Of Amateur Radio Clubs – PART TWO
8. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Introduces “44Net Connect”
9. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Take Office in January
10. DXLook Adds Map Layers and Weather Radar Overlays
11. The Largest Commercial Satellite Is Launched By AST SpaceMobile
12. Hams In New Zealand Use ZM Prefix For Their Centenary Year
13. WIA: Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) moves to stop illegal radio imports
14. WIA: Google announces it will begin building three new undersea cables
15. WIA: The Russian UVB-76 radio transmissions are still on the air
16. Use of International Reply Coupons (IRC) is ended by the Universal Postal Congress

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more..
• Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
• Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with anoter brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This edition takes a look at the use of CQ, which is used as a general call for initiating a contact. This took time to become an acceptable practice in the early years. Serious operators frowned on its use, mostly because it had been used to excess in the old days among the little boys with squeak boxes, usually in exceedingly long and sparsely identified calls. This historic edition is titled “Call & Card.”

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