September 20, 2026

This Week in Amateur Radio

North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1425 – 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: September 19, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored byMike Nikolich, K9DXM, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ,
Josh Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:01:29

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1HR1425

  1. ARRL: Candidates Named for ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections
  2. ARRL: Hamvention Names First Woman as General Chair
  3. ARRL: Rich Moseson, W2VU, Named ARRL News Editor
  4. ARRL: Entrepreneur and Amateur Radio Operator Invests in the Next Generation of Problem Solvers
  5. ARRL: 10-Year-Old Receives Ham License and More
  6. ARRL: ARISS Receives Challenger-7 Recognition
  7. ARRL: FCC Cites GMRS Licensee for Illegal Linked Repeater Network
  8. ARRL: New ARRL Maine Section Manager
  9. ARRL: ARRL Board Reviews and Approves Potential Alabama Section Move to the Delta Division & More
  10. ARRL: WRTC 2026 Organizers Honored by FOC
  11. ARRL: Get Ready for Jamboree on the Air
  12. FCC Vote Will Give High Speed Satellite More Spectrum
  13. Solar Power From Space To Be Delivered By LASER

Plus these Special Features This Week:

  • Australia’s own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, will cover Coronal Mass Ejections, Wind Flares, Solar Flux, and Geomagnetic Storms
  • The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more
  • Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with Part One of a brand new edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”

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This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com.

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