PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1421 – LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: May 23, 2026

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

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:19:42

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARLPFM1421

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL To Highlight QO-100 At Friedrichshafen
2. AMSAT: Launching Satellites With Zero Emissions
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: International Women in Engineering Day
5. WIA: Young Drivers Pay Attention To MetaData On Car Screens
6. RTBR: House E&C Committee Embeds AM Radio Act Into Larger Vehicle Bill
7. ARRL: Report From The World’s Largest Hamfest
8. ARRL: Outstanding Contesters and DXers Recognized At HamVention
9. ARRL: June Proclaimed Amateur Radio Month In New Hampshire
10. ARRL: Start Packing for ARRL Field Day
11. Amateur Radio Club Debuts Its Innovative Trailer At Dayton
12. Antique Wireless Association Communications Museum Announces A New Net
13. Moon Based Amateur Radio Plan Is Announced By ARISS
14. Caribbean Girl Guides Earn Licenses
15. Engineering Student Joins The South Georgia Island DXpedition Team
16. Pennsylvania Flood Victims Are Remembered By Ham Community
17. LIMARC Officer Jerry Abrams WB2ZEX – SK
18. ARRL: ARRL CEO David Minster is the guest on the latest DX Mentor podcast
19. BBC to shutdown its longwave transmitters in June
20. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing
21. Canada to shut down time signal station CHU
22. ARRL: Nominations for the 2026 ARRL Media and Public Relation Awards are accepted
23. As BBC transmitters are marked for shutdown, amateurs plan corresponding special event stations
24. Australian licenses get a new web site
25. An amateur pursues the mystery of Sporadic-E skip
26. WIA: The WIA asks for changes in the sub-Antarctic call prefixes

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 tell us how “Some Days Are Like Running In Place.”
• 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 “Dead Electrical Dudes”. This week’s stiff is Henrich Hertz

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