PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1419 – 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: May 9, 2026

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

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:00:07

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARHR1419

1. AMSAT: FCC Approves Limited Emergency Use of 70cm Band AST SpaceMobile Satellites Outside US
2. AMSAT: SpaceX Rocket Debris to Impact The Moon
3. AMSAT: Artemis 2 Moon Astronauts Visit the White House
4. WIA: Thousands Of Tiny Dots Could Save First Responders Lives
5. ARRL: The Ham Radio World Heads to Ohio
6. ARRL: Learn More About SDR From The Boston Software Defined Radio User Group
7. ARRL: STEM On and Off the Air
8. ARRL: Salty Walt Goes Next Level With New Portable Antenna Sketchbook
9. SK: Composer And Singer Alan Osmond, KN0IZE
10. CW Operators Needed To Copy Data From Cubesat Built In Tokyo
11. NASA: Want to help NASA with Space Science? Here is how to volunteer
12. The Radio Amateurs of Canada are looking for an editor for its magazine The Canadian Amateur

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Australia’s own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, will tell us How To Deal With “Complexity”
• 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 the final part of a series titled, “DX Records and Shortwave Reflections”
• We will take at look at this months Volunteer Monitoring Enforcement Report
• We will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more

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