PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1368

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1368 – Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: May 17, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:45:29

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1368

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
2. WIA: Chinese Researchers Design Compact High Performance Antenna
3. WIA: FCC Approves Amateur Information Collection Requirement
4. ARD: International Amateur Radio Union Considers Consolidation
5. RW: Florida Radio Pirate Agrees To $11K FCC Fine
6. SC: South Carolina Will Be A Hands Free Driving State In September
7. Rome University Ham Radio Logs QSOs To Welcome The New Pope
8. Ted Randall, WB8PUM, Of The QSO Radio Show, SK
9. Symposium Meeting Date Is Set In October By AMSAT
10. Record Turnout For Ham Radio Exam In Bangladesh
11. WSPR Radio Detectives Recognized By Award
12. ARRL: ARRL Renews Defense Of The 902-928 MHz Amateur Radio Band
13. ARRL: ARRL Seeks Entry-Level HF Privileges in FCC Proposal
14. ARRL: Next Generation DXing Track Videos Are Now Available
15. ARRL: ARRL Awards Phil Karn, KA9Q, with Mary Hobart, K1MMH, Medal of Distinction
16. ARRL: 2025 Hamvention Day Zero Coverage
17. ARRL: Amateur Operator Was Member Of The 1980 Olympic Torch Relay
18. ARRL: New Camp Greenough Station Is Opening Soon
19. ARRL: Amateur Radio Day Celebrated In Puerto Rico
20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional HamFests and Conventions
21. ARRL: 2025 Hamvention Day One Coverage
22. FCC: FCC Older Americans Month Webinar to be held on May 22nd, 2025
23. FCC: FCC wants to improve internet service from space
24. AMSAT: Amazon kicks off Kuiper Network with ambitious first satellite launch
25. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain participated in the IARU Region One meeting in Paris
26. ARRL: Johns Hopkins University to hold an ARRL Teachers Institute session
27. ARRL: Promote your clubs 2025 Field Day activity with posters
28. FCC: FCC wants imported electronics testing to be based in the United States

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present, “A Brief Introduction To The HamSci Community”
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
* Weekly Propagation and Solar Weather Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920’s where we find that at age 29 and already one of the most well-known radio engineers in the world, Edwin H. Armstrong was a veteran of the great war, and the president of the Radio Club of America. This week’s edition is titled, “Armstrong In QST”

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