PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1418 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: May 2, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:26:37

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Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. NASA: Want To Help NASA With Space Science? Here Is How To Volunteer
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Update Presented At 2026 CubeSat Developers Workshop Available Online
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Traces Of Ballpoint Pen Ink Found In Martian Rocks
5. WIA: The International Telecommunications Union Releases New Handbook On Amateur Satellite Services
6. ARRL: FCC Approves Limited Emergency Use Of 70cm Band by AST SpaceMobile Satellites Outside US
7. ARRL: Texas Emergency Management Conference Coming Up In May
8. ARRL: 2025 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Winners Awarded
9. ARRL: Free ARRL Events App Now Live For 2026 Dayton Hamvention
10. ARRL: New Book Release: Satellite Operating for Amateur Radio
11. ARRL: Naval Academy Amateur Radio Club, W3ADO, Will Participate In The DoD’s Armed Forces Day
12. FCC: FCC Modernizes Its Satellite Spectrum Sharing Rules to Boost Real-Fast, Space-Based Broadband
13. Canadian Special Events To Highlight Public Safety
14. Amateur Radio Software Award Goes To HamLib For 2026
15. DXpeditions Featuring Remote Activations Are Honored
16. Amateur Radio Instruction Helps Prepare Students For an Adventure
17. Radio Amateurs Of Canada Seek An Editor For Its Canadian Amateur Magazine
18. Recognition For Youth On DxPeditions
19. Japanese Amateurs Give A Warm Reception To Antartic Research
20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions
21. AMSAT: AMSAT/TAPR Banquet To Feature Ray Roberge, WA1CYB, Update On AMSAT’s SDR Gen 2
22. FCC: FCC Seeking Recent College Grads for Honors Engineer Program
23. FCC: FCC Asked To Adopt Plan Taking Nine UHF Channels From Broadcasters For Reassignment to 6G
24. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2026 Offers Forums For Every Ham
25. ARRL: Indiana Company To Manufacture Hy‑Gain And Cushcraft Antennas
26. Frequencies Identified For Expanding 6G On The 2.7 GigaHertz Band
27. SteppIR Antennas Is Returning To The Amateur Radio Market Place
28. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeking A Software Developer and Technical Writer
29. RSGB Headquarters Station Welcomes Guest Operators During July

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
• Australia’s own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will answer the question “What does amateur radio bring to your life?”
• 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
• Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
• Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”. This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first transatlantic QSOs. This is Part Two of a series titled, “DX Records and Shortwave Reflections”

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