PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1405 – Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: January 31, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:44:02

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1405

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Help Wanted: Feature Story Editors & Video Editor
2. AMSAT: Using Neural Networks to Recover Satellite Signals
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Iran Continues Blocking Internet Traffic
5. WIA: UK Regulator Ofcom Proposes Device Spectrum Sharing / FCC To Vote On 6 GigaHertz Use
6. ARD: ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communications Priority Areas Of Funding Offer Opportunities
7. ARD: IP400 Project Chooses Modulation Method For Supernode
8. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Announces Vote To Expand 900 MegaHertz Band To 10 MegaHertz
9. SPM: Kenya To Represent Africa In International Space Station ARISS Program 2026
10. NASA: NASA Selects Participants To Track Artemis II Mission
11. FR: World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee Schedules Its 4th Meeting on Feb.19
12. ARRL: Director Famiglio’s Recertification Decision
13. ARRL: North Carolina Students Scheduled to Make Contact with the International Space Station
14. ARRL: Student Coding Competition Is Underway With $25,000 Award
15. ARRL: Register Now for HamSCI 2026, Hosted By ARRL
16. ARRL: The Northern Arizona DX Association Announces Dates For Sixth Annual Pluto Discovery
17. ARRL: ARRL To Announce The Winner Of The ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station at Orlando Fest
18. ARRL: IARU Has Issued A Clarification On The Prosecution Amateur Radio Operators In Belarus
19. Dayton HamVention Announces The Theme For 2026 – Radio Adventure!
20. Plane Crash In Australia Takes The Life Of An Amateur Radio Business Owner
21. Go back in time and turn back the clock with The Annual AM Rally
22. Elwood Downey, WB0OEW, Creator Of HamClock – SK / David Assaf W5XU DXpeditioner – SK
23. Statewide Parks On The Air Activators Debut New Club Callsign
24. Space Station Astronaut Captures Artemis 2 Launch Pad Image
25. AMSAT: AMSAT sends a message to US Educators concerning upcoming ARISS contact opportunities
26. WIA: Communications News Shorts
27. WIA: The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing the end of its useful life
28. ARD: Spottedham.com launches a custom POTA and keyboard email alerts
29. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors approves funding, advocacy, and creates a new DXCC Award
30. ARRL: Vandals strike an amateur radio manufacturers facility
31. ARRL: Nominations are sought for the 2026 Dayton Hamvention Awards
32. US Congress agrees to restore funding for the Voice of America and other government broadcasting
33. Damage to Taiwanese undersea cables spurs a national interest in amateur radio
34. A hosting site for the World Radio Telecommunications Conference for 2030 is being sought

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News, get an update from AMSAT and what’s new with all those amateur satellites in orbit
• Australia’s own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, continues with Part Seven of his series entitled “Building A Shack”. In this edition Onno looks a different methods of powering your shack
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more
• Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
• Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. In this edition, Will takes a look at the early history of WWV. On the air since 1920, WWV began as a source of news from the Department of Agriculture, broadcast on CW. It also experimented with Friday evening concert broadcasts

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