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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1378 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: July 26, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:26:41 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1378 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Board Of Directors Election Underway 2. AMSAT: AMSAT-UK Supports Student Payload On Sub-Orbital Launch From Oman 3. WIA: Radio Amateurs Of Canada Issues New Question Pools 4. FCC: FCC Pirate Radio Crackdown Hits Washington Ranch 5. FCC: 91 Years Ago Marks The Birth Of The Federal Communications Commission 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Helps Locate Missing Mother and Son 7. ARRL: ARRL July Board Meeting Highlights 8. ARRL: QSL Manager Joseph L. Arcure, Jr., W3HNK, Passes Away At 91 9. ARRL: ARRL Files Comments To Protect The 70 Centimeter Amateur Band 10. ARRL: Beginning In Early August, Amateur Radio Frequencies Will Be Active With Feline and Canine QSO's 11. Field Testing At World RadioSport Site Conducted By Its Organizers 12. FCC Explores Overhauling The Emergency Alert System and Regains Authority For Spectrum Auction 13. British Amateurs To Activate UK Waterways Special Activations 14. AMSAT: ARISS Call for proposals for future school contacts now underway 15. WIA: Global Semiconductor production could be affected by current copper shortage 16. ARRL: Flex Radio equips the ARRL with a complete FlexRadio 8000 series station for W1AW 17. ARRL: The league urges members to take part in HamSci's Meteor Scatter QSO Party 18. ARRL: Antenna Safety - Look Up and Live 19. ARRL: Changes announced to the ARRL Pacific Division, Atlantic Division, and Sacramento Valley Section 20. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada announce that amateurs in the Yukon Territory now are a seperate RAC Section 21. ARRL: The ARRL and Radio Relay International sign a Memorandum of Understanding 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 tell us "There's Promotion, and Then There's Amateur Radio" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming Radio Sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY (SK) - The Ancient Amateur Archives. This week, Bill returns in this encore presentation of one of his most popular segments: A Brief History of Amateur Radio Repeaters ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently I came across a series of strident posts about the injustice associated with a non-amateur service using the 70cm band. Complete with links to discussions, spectrum plots, angst and even incoherent outrage, all related to the notion that whomever "allowed" this user to transmit on this band was clearly incompetent. Except, that this is probably not the case, or the full story. So, what's going on and why are people incensed? This all started at least six years ago. Since then AST SpaceMobile has deployed seven low Earth orbit satellites and used the 70cm band to communicate with them. Although in the trial phase, there's plans for an additional 243 satellites, and there's at least one other company playing in the same space, Atmos Space Cargo. The outcry from amateurs is around the commercial use of "their" 70cm amateur band. It's an emotional statement, but what is the reality? Before I dig in, let's set some terms. Radio frequencies are globally coordinated because electromagnetism doesn't care about sovereign borders. This coordination is conducted at the United Nations by a body called the ITU, the International Telecommunications Union. Within that body, amateur radio gets a seat at the table from an organisation called the IARU, the International Amateur Radio Union. For the purposes of the ITU, the world is divided into three, Region 1, or essentially Europe, Russia and Africa, Region 2, the Americas and Greenland, and Region 3, the rest of the world. There's more to it, for example, Antarctica is split across all three, but for the moment, that really doesn't matter. Of interest is that the band plan, the agreements that outline which frequencies are set aside for what service, might be defined differently across each of those three regions. To add complexity, each country can be granted exceptions. I don't know the exact mechanics of how this is achieved, but I can guarantee that there's lots of haggling and foot stomping, diplomatically of course. If you're curious how I come to that observation, just look at the absurd list of exceptions associated with each band plan allocation. Further complexity is added by the fact that not all allocations occupy the same frequency range. For example, in Region 1, the 2m band for Amateurs exists between 144 and 146 MHz, in Region 2 and 3 it's between 144 and 148 MHz. Within an allocation there is the concept of shared and exclusive priorities. These determine who "wins" if two stations with a different service are transmitting on the same frequency. Essentially, a secondary user may not interfere with a primary user and a tertiary user may not interfere with either a secondary or a primary user and so on. A primary user can pretty much do what they want, as long as they stay within the allocation and don't interfere with other primary users. As a result, the order in which services are listed, matters. An exclusive allocation doesn't have to be shared at all. Between regions these service priorities might not be the same. For example, in Region 1 between 430 and 432 MHz is allocated to Amateurs and Radio Location, but in Region 2 and 3 it's between Radio Location and Amateurs. So an amateur using that frequency whilst in Region 1 would be a primary user, but in Region 2 or 3 they wouldn't. As an added wrinkle, for example in Australia, that slice is "primarily for the purposes of defence and national security", even though Radio Location is the primary service and Amateurs the secondary one. As a bonus, amateurs in Australia have access to 420.8 to 421.2 MHz as a secondary service, even though the ITU designates this as Fixed, then Mobile, except Aeronautical Mobile, and then Radio Location. Although amateurs are a secondary service, they come after the Department of Defence who are the primary users for those frequencies in Australia. Between 420 and 430 MHz, and from 440 to 450 MHz in several countries, Australia included, the Amateur Service is explicitly designated as a secondary service even though the band plan doesn't actually show this. If you're confused, you're in good company, since this tapestry of regulation isn't as straightforward as the "70cm band is an amateur band", in fact, I'd go so far as to say that it's not an amateur band at all, except perhaps in Region 1 between 430 and 440 MHz where Amateur is designated as the non-exclusive primary service. Back to the blow up. AST was at one time authorised to use 430 to 440 MHz for trial purposes by a regulator in Region 2, the FCC, the United States Federal Communications Commission. I suspect that at the time, the Blue Walker 1 nano satellite was experimental and the approval made sense. You can argue that whomever initially allowed this made a mistake, but, reality is whatever the regulator says it is, unless someone at the ITU objects. It appears that the FCC has since been attempting to make AST comply, instead with billions of dollars at stake, AST continues to apply for more spectrum, which they apparently originally filed with the ITU through the Papua New Guinea administration. It's unclear if the FCC has since capitulated. There is evidence that the new commercial AST satellites are transmitting outside of their authorisation, euphemistically described as "IARU Uncoordinated". Ask yourself, how is it possible, or even allowable, that a regulator permits use of radio spectrum outside its borders and what penalties and remedies exist? The ground stations using these disputed frequencies are all outside the USA. One of the five ground stations is in my own city, Perth in Western Australia. I haven't noticed any discussion on this topic within my local community, even though this has been brewing for years. It does raise a bigger question. How is the band plan enforced? I mean, the 40m band is pretty much unusable in VK6 between sunset and midnight thanks to the fishing fleet of our northern neighbours, it's been like that for as long as I've been an amateur and I expect no change during my lifetime. How is this satellite fleet operating on the 70cm band any different? That said, I cannot help but wonder, will the originally authorised 50 kHz signal every eight seconds, not for phone calls to space, and only for 24 hours after launch or in the unlikely event of an emergency, for Telemetry, Tracking and Command, actually cause issues, or will it be an opportunity for radio amateurs to learn how to deal with interference? Speaking of interference and considering the allocated services, who is interfering with whom here and what priorities and remedies exist? Recently I talked about promotion, and the lack thereof, across our community. This is an example of promotion, and despite the uproar this week, a very poor example at that. Searching for "AST SpaceMobile", the oldest post I could find was on the German AMSAT, or Amateur Satellite forums back in September 2022 by Peter DB2OS who has been very active on this matter. His original post was in English, but went on to discuss the issue in German. I only found it after specifically looking for the names of the organisation involved. Peter's posts supplied links to many of the documents I consulted. Despite having links to specific pages, I found no search results for "AST SpaceMobile" on the websites for the regulators in the US, UK, Germany or Australia, and none on the ARRL, RSGB or DARC. The WIA produced two glowing news reports around the beginning of 2023 about this wonderful new mobile phone service. No mention of the 70cm band. The only active discussions appear to be the German and UK AMSAT forums, that and all the glowing investor posts. In other words. This is the equivalent of publishing the information at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri, 50 years before the event and hoping for a good outcome. As a potential path forward, in January 2023 the German regulator forced AST to shut off 70cm operations whilst it was within radio visibility of Germany. I don't know if that's still in effect, or how and if it's being enforced. It appears that AST has been lobbying for the use of this spectrum for a long time, not just the 340 page submission made last month. For example, NASA made its first response to this satellite constellation in October 2020. It appears that the WIA responded four years later, but I have yet to see it, and this week the Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs, the ARRL, and RSGB added theirs. The IARU issued a statement this week too. The fact that we're still arguing about it over half a decade later is a good indication that how we're responding as a global community is clearly ineffectual. Perhaps that is what we should be arguing stridently about. So, where do you stand on this? Should something be done about this, and if-so, what, and more importantly, how? I'm Onno VK6FLAB

ARRL Audio News July 25, 2025

GB2RS News Sunday the 27th of July The news headlines: RSGB confirms more speakers for its Convention in October Get involved with the RSGB LoRa high-altitude balloon challenge The RSGB releases a high-contrast logbook to improve accessibility  The RSGB has shared details of more presentations that you can enjoy at its Convention in October. If you'd like to broaden your technical knowledge, you'll enjoy presentations by Bob Burns, G3OUU, on ‘Getting the most from an oscilloscope' and ‘Ladder crystal filter design'. As part of the Society's focus on supporting modern amateur radio operating practices, Paul Galwas, M0WLG, will be discussing ‘Can we ‘DX' over an IoT mesh?'. The comprehensive programme of speakers also includes Dr Marcus Walden, G0IJZ, who will explain the numerical modelling of the historical Grimeton VLF antenna, and Paul Beaumont, G7VAK, who will take ‘A brief look at Number Stations: 1950 to the present'. With even more captivating and thought-provoking speakers already confirmed, you'll need to purchase a ticket to guarantee attendance. Buy your tickets before Monday, the 11th of August, to ensure you receive early-bird ticket pricing. Tickets are available to purchase via rsgb.org/convention National Coding Week takes place in the third week of September, and the RSGB is once again dedicating a whole month to amateur radio and coding activities. As part of the Society's strategy to encourage practical skills development, it is inviting you to take part in its LoRa high-altitude balloon challenge. The project has been developed by the RSGB Outreach team and takes place on Saturday, the 20th of September. The balloon will be equipped with a LoRa digipeater, and your challenge is to follow the instructions provided and build a LoRa tracker. If your tracker build is successful, it will beam up packets to the airborne relay, which will transmit them to a local i-gate. Your goal is to get your signal the furthest distance from the launch. Anyone can enter, but to win one of the prizes, you need to be an RSGB member. Get involved as a single operator or as a team in your RSGB-affiliated club. The RSGB is delighted that Moonraker is sponsoring this event and will award a £200 Moonraker voucher to the winner of each category. Find out how to get involved with this exciting LoRa event by going to rsgb.org/lora-balloon The RSGB is proud to announce the release of a new high-contrast logbook designed to support amateur radio operators with visual impairments or learning difficulties. Responding to feedback from members and accessibility advocates, the RSGB developed the logbook with wider spacing and a high-contrast black-and-yellow design to improve ease of use. This release reflects the RSGB's wider commitment to improving accessibility across all areas of the Society and amateur radio as a whole. The organisation continues to explore ways to make the hobby more inclusive and user-friendly for all participants. This version will be available through Amazon and is expected to be a useful addition for both seasoned operators and newcomers looking for a more accessible logging option. As part of its long-term vision, the RSGB is looking to recruit a dedicated team to assess and enhance accessibility throughout the Society and help shape a more inclusive future for amateur radio. If you're interested in contributing to this important initiative, please email RSGB Board Director Nathan Nuttall, 2M0OCC, via 2m0occ@rsgb.org.uk Since the launch of its DMR project in May, the RSGB Outreach team is delighted that four schools and one homeschool have signed up. The project aims to help young people get on the air and build their confidence in making QSOs. Each of the successful applicants will be loaned a TYT DMR handheld radio and a Pi-Star-based hotspot. The RSGB Youth Chair and Youth Champion for Schools, Chris Aitken, MM0WIC, is supporting two new school amateur radio clubs that have chosen this as an entry-level activity for their club members. DMR is particularly useful in a school club scenario where antenna placement is a challenge and can be easily deployed, giving young people access to the world. During the summer holidays, the DMR handsets will be used at the West Sussex International Jamboree with Regional Representative 10, Simon Harris, G4WQG, attending the event and Wick High School Radio Club member Jacob, MM7IFL, supporting remotely via DMR. Listen out for further updates after the summer when the RSGB plans to get a youth net operational on Brandmeister Talk Group 23554. The net aims to encourage young operators to get on the air and become comfortable with QSO structure and general rag-chewing. If you want to start a school club or are interested in being part of the DMR project, email Chris via youthchampion.school@rsgb.org.uk The prospect of a USA constellation of 240 commercial satellites that would use 430 to 440MHz for wideband control and telemetry has prompted an unprecedented response from the amateur radio community to a Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, consultation. FCC Proceeding 25-201 would see AST SpaceMobile utilise much of 430 to 440MHz for downlinks, as well as a series of ground stations around the world. The RSGB and several other IARU member societies, along with the ARRL and over 2,000 individuals, have submitted comments to this consultation. The IARU itself has also issued a statement on the matter. Links for this, including the RSGB response, can be found on the RSGB website. Go to rsgb.org/spectrumforum and then choose the ‘Papers and consultations' option in the right-hand menu. Following the main submission deadline of the 21st of July, the FCC process has further phases to go through. Amateur radio operators are invited to take part in a special operating event in August, celebrating the rich history of the UK's wartime and Cold War airfield bunkers. AFB25 – that's Airfield Bunkers 2025 – is a nationwide activity taking place from Friday the 1st to Sunday the 31st of August. Organised by UK Bunkers on the Air, or UKBOTA, the event encourages amateurs to activate historic airfield sites with known bunker installations. All bands and modes are welcome. Special recognition awards will be given for activators, hunters and shortwave listeners' efforts. To learn more, including how to participate and which locations qualify, visit tinyurl.com/AFB-2025  And now for details of rallies and events Wiltshire Radio Rally is taking place today, Sunday the 27th, at Kington Langley Village Hall, Church Road, Kington Langley, SN15 5NJ. The doors open for traders at 7 am and 9 am for visitors. Refreshments are available on site. You can find out more by visiting chippenhamradio.club Part 1 of the BATC Convention for Amateur TV 2025 is taking place on Sunday, the 3rd of August at Midland Air Museum in Coventry. The doors will be open from 10 am to 4 pm. The Convention will include show and tell, test and fix-it, and bring and buy. Also, on Sunday, the 3rd of August, King's Lynn Amateur Radio Club Rally is taking place at Gaywood Community Centre, PE30 4EL. The doors will open at 9 am and the entrance fee will be £2.50. An outdoor trader's stall costs £8, and an indoor one is £10. To book, email rally.klarc@gmail.com or call 07709 074 951. Now the Special Event news Special callsign 5P0TA will operate from Bornholm Island, EU-030, from the 31st of July to the 3rd of August in connection with this year's European Ham Radio Show meet-up event. Both presenters and viewers of The European Ham Radio Show on YouTube will gather with the goal of activating all of the POTA parks on Bornholm Island within four days. Both 5P0TA and the participants' own call signs will be used. They are aiming to use as many modes and bands as conditions allow. Attending from the UK are Charlotte, 2M0LVY and Steve, M1SDH. If you hear them on the air, give them a call! Throughout 2025, José, HP2AT, is using the special callsign H82AT to celebrate his 35th anniversary in amateur radio. Recently, the station has been spotted on the HF bands using CW, FT4 and FT8. All QSOs will be uploaded to QRZ.com, Club Log, eQSL and Logbook of the World. Paper cards will not be available. Now the DX news Today, the 27th, is your last chance to catch the IP1X team, which is active from Gallinara Island, EU-083. The team is using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands. QSL via OQRS, via the Bureau or directly to IU1JCZ. More information is available at QRZ.com Red, DL1BUG is active as TY5FR from Cotonou, Benin, in West Africa until the 6th of August. He is operating using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, Logbook of the World or via Red's home call. Now the contest news Today, the 27th, the UK Microwave Group 5.7 and 10GHz Contest runs from 0600 to 1800UTC. Using all modes on 5.7 and 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The RSGB IOTA Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday, the 26th and ends at 1200UTC today, Sunday, the 27th of July. Using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report, serial number and IOTA reference. On Monday, the 28th, the RSGB FT4 Series Contest runs from 1900 to 2100UTC. Using FT4 on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is your report. On Saturday, the 2nd of August, the EU HF Championship runs from 1200 to 2359UTC. Using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and the last two digits of the year you were first licensed. Also on Saturday, the 2nd of August, the RSGB 4th 144MHz Backpackers Contest runs from 1400 to 1800UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and two-letter postcode. On Saturday, the 2nd, the 144MHz Low Power Contest runs from 1400 to 1800UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Sunday, the 3rd, the 432MHz Low Power Contest runs from 0800 to 1200UTC. Using all modes on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and two-letter postcode. The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon started on Saturday, the 3rd of May and ends on Sunday, the 3rd of August. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is your four-character locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Thursday the 24th of July It was a bit of a mixed bag last week. The first half saw settled geomagnetic conditions, but from the 22nd of July, we had a disturbance thanks to output from a solar coronal hole. This saw the Kp index rise to 4.67 and ultimately 5. The stream from the Sun reached around 730 kilometres per second, while the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field, or IMF, was mostly neutral with a few brief periods when it pointed slightly south. So, its effects were perhaps not as bad as they could have been. The coronal hole has now rotated out of view, so we may have some better days. Meanwhile, the solar flux index has been in the range of 140 to 150, which is pretty good. There were no M-class or higher solar flares over the past week, which is unusual. So overall, HF propagation was humming, at least until the Kp index hit 5. Maximum useable frequencies, or MUFs, over a 3,000km path during daylight continue to be around 21MHz, but often dip to 18MHz at times. Nighttime conditions can be variable. If the 14MHz band isn't open for you, try 10MHz. Earlier in the week, some daytime tests with WSPR on the 20m band saw stations logged from Australia and the far west of Canada. DP0POL, the Polarstern research vessel doing work in the Artic, was also logged. Next week, NOAA predicts that the solar flux index may decline slightly to be in the range of 130 to 135. Geomagnetic conditions are predicted to be settled until the 1st of August, when the Kp index could rise to 4. This period of unsettled conditions, with reduced MUFs, could last until the 4th of August. And now the VHF and up propagation news from G3YLA and G4BAO We will see the return of a weak ridge of high pressure today. This will last until the middle of the coming week. The second half of the week will be a little more unsettled with some occasional spells of rain. This suggests that some Tropo is possible, before a gradual swap over to rain scatter. However, high pressure near the Azores may still influence the western side of Britain. This week will see the peak of two meteor showers, the Alpha Capricornids and Delta Aquariids. These are worth checking out, if only to get your practice time in before one of the major showers of the year – the Perseids on the 12th and 13th of August. Barely a day passes without some auroral alert, and this can be an exciting mode. Several good indicators are available, such as when the Kp index is above 5, or watery-sounding signals on the 40 and 20m bands. If you hear these, try looking north on the 6, 4 or 2m bands. Sporadic-E continues to be mentioned on the clusters somewhere in Europe on most days. But remember that it's a very localised mode and is rarely available for everyone at the same time. The best way to track it down is to use the clusters and a good list of beacons, to see who your ‘locals' are working on FT8. It's a very hit-and-miss mode. Meteor activity is a good indicator, whereas a high Kp index is a bad one. Whether it happens is often a balance between many opposing components. So, even a potentially good day may not be good where you are. The good news is that the last openings of the summer can occur into the first week of September. Moon declination is still positive but going negative again on Tuesday, the 29th. Moon windows and peak elevation will reduce. Path losses are rising now as we are past perigee. 144MHz sky noise starts the coming week low but will rise to moderate by the weekend. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1377 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: July 19, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY. Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marlor, AA4DX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:38 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1377 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ARISS Slow Scan Television Event Starts July 14th And Runs Through July 20th 2. AMSAT: ARISS Call for Proposals for School Contacts Now Underway 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: FCC West Coast Pirate Radio Enforcement 5. WIA: Global Semiconductor Production Could Be Affected By Copper Shortage 6. WIA/NL: Let's Go With The Flow...New Contest "Toilets On The Air" 7. ARD: Opposition to NextNav and AST SpaceMobile Encroachment on Amateur Radio Spectrum Continues. 8. FCC: Emergency Alert System Reform Added To Carr's FCC Priorities 9. ARRL: FlexRadio Equips ARRL With FLEX-8000 Series Station For W1AW 10. ARRL: Take Part In HamSCI's Meteor Scatter QSO Party 11. ARRL: Safety Stand-Down: Look Up and Live 12. ARRL: Changes in the ARRL Pacific Division, Atlantic Division, and Sacramento Valley Section Are Announced 13. AST Satellites Experimental License Clears Amateur Band Use 14. Teen Hams On Dave Kalter Memorial DX Adventure Are Calling CQ 15. RAC: Canadian Amateurs In The Yukon Territory Get A New Separate RAC Section 16. Solar Car Special Event Gets Great Mileage With Amateurs 17. Junior Youth On The Air Camp Holds Its First Session 18. Daughter Missing For Eight Years Is Reunited With Her Family By Amateurs 19. ARRL: Radio Relay International and ARRL Sign a Memorandum of Understanding 20. ARRL: 2025 Field Day numbers are fantastic so far 21. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contest Listings 22. FCC: FCC proposes Fast Track Regulation to streamline obsolete rules 23. WIA: Solar Storm causes Global Positioning System to be off by up to 70 meters 24. RW: National Voice Of America Museum celebrates makeover in renovated facility 25. RW: FCC reaches $10,000 settlement with a Boston Pirate Radio Operator 26. FCC: FCC finally gets its spectrum authority reinstated 27. FCC: Miami radio pirate blasts as unconstitutional FCC fines in landmark pirate radio court challenge 28. HH: Hamshack Hotline releases a public announcement bidding a fond farewell shutting down at the end of August 29. ARRL: Amateur Radio volunteers are providing communications during the severe floods 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 talk about various ways of Decoding a Signal. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our original amateur radio historian, the late Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with a special encore presentation of a classic edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back in time to teach us all about the early warning communication system known in the United States as CONELRAD. ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News July 18, 2025

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief, and the episode's feature is Ham Radio Friedrichshafen 2025 Part One. We would like to thank Dino Papas (KL0S), Philip Heckingbottom (VK6ADF) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate PRSENTER OPINION : Is it time to bring back the club leadership course? POTA Activator Dies in Accidental Electrocution Volunteers Bring Last Commercial Maritime Station Back on Air for 26th Year Hamshack Hotline To Be Discontinued Grant to Aid Clublog Operations Upgrade Testing for WRTC 2026 in Suffolk Bye Bye Friedrichshafen for another year! HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Party 11-12 August 2025 International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend 100th Anniversary of JARL and Amateur Radio in Japan  

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1376 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: July 12, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:47:44 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1376 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Proposes Fast Track Regulation Removal To Streamline Obsolete Rules 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day Submissions Now Due 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeking Additional Volunteers For Moon Day At Dallas Frontiers Of Flight Museum 4. AMSAT: French Astronaut Will Take Food From Michelin-Starred Chef To International Space Station 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Solar Storm Causes GPS Signals To Be Off By Up To 70 Meters 7. WIA: Mexico Tries To Sue SpaceX and Google 8. WIA: Images Released From The World's Highest Resolution Camera 9. RW: National Voice Of America Museum Celebrates Makeover In New Renovated Facility 10. RW: FCC Reaches $10,000 Settlement With Boston Pirate Radio Operator 11. FCC: FCC Finally Gets Its Spectrum Auction Authority Back 12. FCC: Pirate Blasts Unconstitutional FCC Fine In Landmark Pirate Radio Challenge 13. HH: Hamshack Hotline Public Announcement - A Fond Farewell 14. ARRL: Amateur Radio Volunteers Serving During Texas Floods 15. ARRL: Special Call Signs For This Year's International Amateur Radio Union Contest 16. ARRL: Great Numbers Stacking Up For 2025 ARRL Field Day 17. ARRL: Tripp Owens, N4NTO, SK / Michael Dean, K5MFD, ARRL Oklahoma Section PIC - SK 18. ARRL: Changes In the ARRL Idaho Section 19. ARRL: Youth On The Air Camp Junior Is Set To Debut On July 25 - 27, 2025 20. A Long Gone Maritime Tradition Is Honored During Night Of Nights Celebration 21. Amateurs In Japan Celebrate A Double Centenary 22. ClubLog Receives Operations Upgrade Via A New Grant 23. ARRL: Masayoshi 'Masa' Ebisawa JA1DM, SK 24. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contests 25. VRG: Trumps Big Beautiful Bill could mean slower wi-fi for you 26. WAMU: Person who climbed Up WAMU Radio Tower and stayed on the lofty perch for three days, has died 27. WIA: Russia moves forward planning its new Space Station 28. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director 29. Roger Smallwood, N8EKG, R&L Electronics Executive, SK 30. ARD: 100th Anniversary of The Japan Amateur Radio League and Amateur Radio in Japan 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 tell us all about "Antenna Modelling With Genetic Algorithms" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation 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 year 1922, where we find new broadcasting stations packed the air with signals as growing crowds of listeners in the general public clamored for even more. And, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover who convened the first radio conference, which included radio luminaries from across the spectrum, government, the new radio broadcasting industry, academia, and of course, the amateurs * Monthly activity report from The Volunteer Monitor Program ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News July 11, 2025

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1375 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: July 5, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:45:32 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1375 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. VRG: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Could Mean Slower Wi-Fi For You 2. AMSAT: AMSAT South Africa To Host 2025 Virtual Symposium On 68 Years Of Amateur Radio Progress 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Seeks Additional Volunteers For Moon Day At Dallas Frontiers Of Flight Museum 4. AMSAT: SpaceX Transporter-14 Rideshare Delivers Small Sats, Reentry Tech, and Memorial Ashes 5. AMSAT: Axiom-4 Reaches Orbit After Delays with Multinational Crew Bound for Space Station 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WAMU: Person Who Remained On WAMU Radio Tower For 3 Days Dies 8. WIA: Russia Moves Forward Planning New Space Station 9. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director And Vice Director 10. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Declared A Success 11. ARRL: ARRL At HAM RADIO 2025 In Germany 12. ARRL: United States Radio Orienteering Champs Crowned 13. ARRL: The Panhellenic Celebration Of Maritime Week Is Being Revived This Year 14. Roger Smallwood, N8EKG, R and L Electronics Executive SK 15. New Record Set For Copying Callsigns In CW 16. Competitors From Russia Prepare For A Second Round Of Earth-Moon-Earth QSO's 17. Hurricane Response Communications Is Focus Of FCC Roundtable 18. Russia Is Constructing Modules For Its New Space Station 19. ARRL: ARRL Logbook Of The World returns to service from the cloud 20. ARD: JARL/Japan Amateur Radio League prepares to celebrate its upcoming 100th anniversary 21. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 22. RTBR: Majority Of US House Coalesces Behind The AM Radio In Vehicles Bill 23. AMSAT: HamSat to test new super-black paint that could fix satellite light pollution problem for astronomers 24. WIA: DxPedition receives financial support for upcoming operations 25. WIA: NASA and The US Department of Defence rehearse Artemis Rescue Mission 26. FCC: FCC finalizes its ban of certain telecommunications type certification bodies 27. ARD: Satellite communications company AST SpaceMobile seeks use of 70 centimeters at the FCC 28. Amateurs in Europe gear up for the upcoming Youngsters Of The Air Camp 29. China sets amazing new data transmission speeds with its orbiting satellites 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 tell us about The ARRL Incident of May 2024, A Year Later. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio: This week, Will piles us all into The Wayback Machine and takes us back to 1914, where we find the Radio Club of Hartford in Connecticut, held its first meeting on January 14th that year, and would soon play a larger role than most in amateur radio history * ARRL Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News July 4, 2025

Foundations of Amateur Radio Just over a year ago, the ARRL, the American Radio Relay League, the peak body for amateur radio in the United States and one of the oldest of such organisations, experienced an incident. During the weeks following, the ARRL was tight-lipped about the extent of the incident and most amateurs only really noticed that services were off-line or slow to respond. After months of delay and disinformation, the ARRL finally revealed that it was the subject of a ransomware attack and that it had paid a million dollar ransom. It went on to blame the authorities for its silence. Mind you, it didn't tell me personally, it made public statements on its website. Similarly when I specifically contacted the ARRL to discover what information of mine it held, and what the status of that information was, the ARRL responded that I should refer to its public statements. It continued to state that my information was not compromised, since it only lived in LoTW, the Logbook of The World, the system it uses to coordinate the verification of amateur radio contacts, which are used to distribute awards like the DXCC and Worked All whatever. Imagine my surprise when I received an email this week, sent from "memberlist@arrl.org" to my non-amateur radio email address. I confirmed with several amateurs that they too received this email. Informative, to a point, but likely well beyond anything intended by its author, it stated that LoTW was being updated with associated down time, incidentally, inexplicably, coinciding with the 2025 ARRL Field day, and it "will be fully migrated to the cloud". It went on to solicit donations. It made no reference whatsoever to the ransomware attack. There's a lot hidden in that email. Although the attack last year was linked to the outage associated with LoTW, the ARRL has continued to claim that the LoTW data was not impacted by the ransomware attack, but the email reveals that the system is being migrated to the cloud, in other words, right now, it's not in the cloud. Which begs the question, where is the server infrastructure for LoTW today, and more importantly, where was it a year ago when its systems were compromised? From a public post by Dave AA6YQ, dated the 2nd of February 2021, in response to a message about a January LoTW committee meeting, we know that the LoTW server "now employs the current version of an SAP database engine". A month before that, Dave wrote another informative email that indicated that 105 thousand callsigns submitted logs to LoTW in the last 1,826 days or the five years between 2016 and 2021. There were logs from 21 thousand callsigns in the week prior to that January post. In all, according to Dave, there were 153,246 callsigns who submitted contacts to LoTW. The LoTW committee meeting minutes are no longer available from the ARRL website, but I have a copy. The document states that there were 1.2 billion contacts entered into LoTW, big number right? The next line tells us that this resulted in 262 million QSO records. I wonder what happened to the other billion records? This activity was generated by 139 thousand users using 200 thousand certificates. For context, every VK callsign automatically comes with an AX callsign, but LoTW requires that you separately register each with its own certificate. As someone who has been playing with databases since the 1980's I can tell you that LoTW is a tiny database. For comparison, the WSPR database is an order of magnitude larger, not to mention, more active. I have no insight into the business rules within the LoTW database, but the fact that updates are being processed in batches and that it regularly has delays indicates a level of complexity that I cannot account for. As an aside, the LoTW committee document lists 10 members. Dave is not one of those listed. It makes me wonder who else has access to this database. Note that I have no reason to believe that Dave's information is questionable, nor that he has access that he shouldn't, he was after all a member of the LoTW committee from 2013 until 2017 when the ARRL removed all development resources from the LoTW. I'm asking who else has access and why? While we're here, who has been doing maintenance and updates on this system over the past seven years? Moving on. The database for LoTW contains information from amateurs all over the planet, including those in Europe where the GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, enacted in 2016, is extremely strict on the security and disclosure of personal data with very heavy penalties for breaches. The GDPR requires notifications be sent within 72 hours of a breach, and that an organisation must designate a data protection officer. I wonder who has that role at the ARRL and I wonder if they told anyone? Did any European amateurs receive personal notification from the ARRL about their data, I know I didn't. My first activation of LoTW was in 2013, now twelve years ago. I received certificate expiry messages in 2016 and 2019. Since then there have been no such messages. That's unsurprising, since I stopped using LoTW once I discovered just how broken it was. Don't get me started on portable and QRP variants of my callsign. My care factor is low as to when I last actually used it, since attempting to dig up that information would take considerable effort, but I can guarantee that it was before 28 October 2019, when the last certificate expired. You might come to this point and ask yourself why am I digging into this at all? Let me ask you some questions in addition to those I've already mentioned. SAP, the database system which apparently runs LoTW, had 254 CVEs, or Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures listed, in 2020 alone. It continues to have exploits. When was SAP updated and is it up to date today? Is it credible that LoTW wasn't compromised during the ransomware attack? Does the ARRL know this for sure, or did it just not detect the compromise? We know that LoTW was down during the incident and according to the UptimeRobot service showed outages on the 14th of May 2024 but we still don't know exactly when this attack started. As you might know, the ARRL is also the headquarters for the IARU International Secretariat, the administration body for the global representation of our hobby. It presumably shares infrastructure with the ARRL, but at no point in the past year have we been advised of the impact of this breach to the IARU. What information is stored in LoTW and why has the ARRL continued to ignore requests for disclosing the specific information it holds on the users of that system? I know for sure that it knows my callsigns and my email address. I also know for sure that it required identity documents to prove my identity and right to use those callsigns. I have been told in writing that LoTW never deletes anything, so what does it store and can I delete all my records and if-so, how? Why did I receive an update about the upgrade for LoTW when I'm clearly not an active user of the system? The memberlist@arrl.org is used for all manner of services, including the propagation updates, and the three other ARRL bulletins. In other words, this address is used for a myriad of messaging. Is this information stored in a database and if so, where is this database? Was it compromised? What information is stored in that database? Are my details in that database, are yours? While discussing this LoTW update email with other amateurs, I was informed by one amateur that even after they stopped being a member of the ARRL, as a direct result of the ransomware attack and the discontinuation of the delivery of QST magazine they paid for, the ARRL continued to send regular email updates as-if they were still a current member. Where is that data stored and how are the ARRL not considered a source of SPAM? While we're exploring the blurred lines between being a member of the ARRL and not, why did it send the update about the incident via email to its members on 21 August 2024 and update the website a day later, and why did it not send that same email to me and every other amateur directly? Why does the ARRL continue to ignore its obligations in relation to the personal information it clearly and demonstrably holds? The GDPR has been a fact of life since 2016. It's not optional if you store data for European citizens, but the ARRL doesn't even mention it on their privacy policy page. Did European users receive specific notification about the breach, now a year ago, which clearly the ARRL had both the capacity and obligation to? Has the GDPR been invoked by European amateurs? Should it? You could attempt to explain all this as incompetence or mismanagement. That's a response, but it doesn't pass the sniff test. For example, implementing SAP is a non-trivial process. I have over 40 years professional experience in the ICT field and I'm not sure I would stick up my hand to have a go at doing this. Mind you, if I did, there's no way I'd choose SAP, I'd find an open source solution, but that's just me, not to mention that SAP license costs are significant, this in an organisation asking users for donations. The thing is, we're talking about a system that's now at least 22 years old, running in an organisation that's been around for over a century, an organisation that deals in regulation and legalese at the very foundation of its existence. In other words, there's a massive amount of legal and technical skill and history available within the organisation, but we're still seeing this level of at best questionable, at worst illegal behaviour. I'm not a member of the ARRL and nothing I've seen to date makes me want to give them any of my money. If you are, perhaps you should be asking some questions. If you're a citizen of Europe, perhaps you should start asking some questions about your data. If you pay money to your own peak body, then you should ask it to find out what happend at the IARU International Secretariat during the attack. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1374 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 28, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:30:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1374 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RTBR: Majority of US House Coalesces Behind AM Radio Bill 2. AMSAT: Hamsat to Test New Super-Black Paint That Could Fix Satellite Light Pollution 3. AMSAT: NASA Science Missions Could Be Cut In 2026 Budget 4. AMSAT: SpaceX To Launch Fourth Commercial Axiom Mission To The Space Station 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: DxPedition Receives Financial Support For Upcoming Operation 7. WIA: NASA and The Department Of Defense Rehearse Artemis Rescue Mission 8. FCC: FCC to Host July 7 Hurricane Season Roundtable 9. FCC: FCC Finalizes Ban On Telecommunications Certification Bodies' Certifications 10. NASA: Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Emits Powerful Radio Pulse 11. ARD: Satellite Communications Company AST SpaceMobile Seeks Use Of 70 Centimeter Amateur Band 12. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Is This Weekend! 13. ARRL: Sharing ARRL Field Day With Others Via Social Media 14. ARRL: Field Day Safety Tips From An Experienced Compliance Officer 15. ARRL: ARRL Announces Logbook Of The World Systems Upgrade 16. ARRL: The Annual 13 Colonies Special Event 2025 17. ARRL: International Space Station To Take Part In 2025 Field Day Operations 18. ARRL: Deadline To Apply For ARRL Foundation Grants Is June 30, 2025 19. Amateurs In Europe Gear Up For Youngsters On The Air Camp 20. Summits On The Air Learns Lifesaving Skills 21. Chinese Satellites Reach Amazing Data Transmission Speeds 22. BBC Transmits Exclusively To Antarctica 23. Grimeton Radio SAQ To Send Jubilee Transmission 24. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings 25. ARRL: Ham radio operator reports a fire in the California Mountains and a helicopter crew extinguishes just in time 26. NASA: NASA probe receives signals that have upward propagation through the ice and rock of Antarctica 27. Copper theft at AM Broadcast radio sites across the country continues 28. CW Speed Record set to be broken at Ham Radio 2025 in Friedrichshafen Germany 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 tell us about "The Art of Decoding a Signal." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on upcoming and currently operating DXpeditions, DX, and upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early days of radio, where we find that humor played a prominent role in QST from its first issue, born of the evident joy hams derived in pursuing their passion for radio. This weeks edition is entitled "Humor, Poetry, and Rotten Rants" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News June 27, 2025

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1373 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 21, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:29:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1373 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. USN: Trump Urged EchoStar And FCC Chairman Brendon Carr To Cut A Deal on Spectrum 2. AMSAT: President Robert Bankston Introduces 2025 Hamvention AMSAT Forum 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART ONE) Is Next Weekend 5. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART TWO) Protect the Most Important Element of Field Day: The People 6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: (PART THREE) Local, County, & State Governments Proclaim The Value Of Amateur Radio 7. ARRL: Hurricane Erick Update 8. ARRL: Ham Radio Reports Fire; Helicopter Crew Extinguishes Just In Time 9. Tribute To A Silent Key Will Originate From Island DxPedition 10. NASA Probe Receives Signals That Have Upward Propagation Through Ice In Antarctica 11. Do Hams Want To Have Fun? 12. Young CW Champion To Try And Top His Own World Record 13. Alberta's Groups IP400 Digital Project Receives Grant 14. Copper Theft At AM Broadcast Sites Continue 15. World RadioSport Team Championship Announces Sponsored Team Bidding Winners 16. RW: Michigan AM Tower Toppled in Farmer Mishap 17. ARD: SAQ Grimeton On the Air for 100th Anniversary July 2nd 18. REC: Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty To The FCC To Fill Out Rosenworcel's Term 19. ARRL: Kids Day On The Air is Saturday 20. RNZ: Papua New Guinea national broadcaster reintroduces shortwave radio nationwide 21. AMSAT: NOAA-18 satellite is decommissioned 22. AMSAT: Request for expression of interest for futureGEO Project 23. WIA: Digital Amateur television to resume from the International Space Station 24. ARRL: Are you ready for 2025 Field Day? 25. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute - multiplying the message 26. ARRL: Jobs for hams - Join the ARRL Team at Newington Headquarters 27. ARRL: Ham Radio 2025 - The biggest amateur exhibition in Europe at Friedrichshafen 28. Emergency communications group in Indiana switches from analog FM to digital 29. Latest State to Proclaim Amateur Radio Month is announced 30. WIA: WIA highlights concern regarding International Amateur Radio Union Restructuring 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 us with some Random Serendipity. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1921 where we find that Marconi had first done it back in 1901. For amateurs, crossing the Atlantic was the next natural challenge, they had been thinking about it since before the war. Many in the scientific community were skeptical that such a feat could possibly be achieved at such a short wavelength as 200 meters, especially with power as low as one kilowatt. ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News June 20, 2025

In this episode, we join  Martin Butler M1MRB, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and Ed Durrant DD5LP  to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief, and the episode's feature is Xiegu G90 one year on. We would like to thank our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate Shame on the ARRL Again Iranian Special Event Station Honours Persian Gulf History Indiana Emcomm Group in Debate Over Digital Switch Broadcast Honors Armstrong's Demo of FM Radio 13 Colonies Event Founder Passing the Reins After 16 Years Father's Day activity at the RSGB National Radio Centre Ham Radio Ireland Magazine

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1372 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 14, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Turner, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:25:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1372 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RNZ: Papua New Guinea National Broadcaster Moves To Reintroduce Shortwave Radio For Nationwide Coverage 2. NYP: New York State Lawmakers Vote To Stop NYPD's Attempt To Block Radio Communications From Public 3. VRG: There Are Only Two Commissioners Left At The FCC 4. AMSAT: NOAA-18 Satellite Decommissioned 5. AMSAT: Request For Expression Of Interest For FutureGEO Project 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 7. WIA: Digital Amateur Television To Resume From The ISS 8. WIA: On-Loan DMR Kit Starts Young UK Hams On Their Journeys 9. RSGB: The RSGB Launches The Special Event Stations/SES Cookbook 10. ARRL: Are You Ready For 2025 ARRL Field Day? 11. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute – Multiplying the Message 12. ARRL: Jobs for Hams: Join the ARRL Team 13. ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination Results 14. ARRL: ARRL June VHF Contest Is This Weekend 15. ARRL: The 2025 Youth On The Air Camp For Young Amateur Radio Operators 16. ARRL: HAM RADIO 2025 The Biggest Amateur Radio Exhibition In Europe, To Take Place In Friedrichshafen 17. Emergency Communications Group In Indiana Switches From Analog FM To Digital 18. Whidbey Island Increases Its Radio Safety Net 19. Persian Gulf History Highlighted In Upcoming Special Event Station 20. Three DxPeditions Receive Funding Through The Northern California DX Foundation 21. Latest State To Declare Amateur Radio Month Is Announced 22. Radio Society of Great Britain Seeks Proposals For Its October Conference 23. WIA: Wireless Institute of Australia Highlights Concerns Regarding IARU Restructuring Plan 24. ARRL: World Wide Radio Operators Foundation awards three supporting grants 25. The YASME Awards are announced 26. ARRL: Well known and competitive contester Tom Taormina, K5RC/W7RN, passed away on June 10, 2025 27. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions 28. WIA: Russian Over The Horizon Radar called "The Buzzer" is on the air. Have you heard it? 29. WIA: Ninth grader from Ukraine develops new technology for antennas used to control drones 30. ARRL: 2025 Field Day has categories for every operator 31. ARRL: SteppIR Communication Systems will cease production of of Consumer Antennas 32. NOAA: NOAA takes Weather Radio facilities off the air for technical upgrades 33. Citizen Band operator faces a $25,000 proposed fine from the FCC / ACMA proposes CB Radio actions 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 answer the question "Can You Be A Professional Amateur?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation 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 year 1922, where we find that amateurs were making progress taming the QRM problem. Sometimes a solution did not involve a new invention, or even technology at all ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News June 13, 2025

With ARRL Field Day weekend just a little more than two weeks away, we talk to ARRL's Contest Program Manager Paul Bourque, N1SFE; Digital RF Engineer John McAuliffe, W1DRF and Education and Learning Support Specialist Max Freedman, N4ML, about how newer hams can navigate the most popular on-air event of the year. Get recommendations for setups, modes, goals, and more.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1371 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 7, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:46:50 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1371 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Welcome SO-125! AMSAT-EA's HADES-ICM Joins The OSCAR Fleet 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Starship Ninth Flight Yields Data, Misses Reentry Goals 3. AMSAT: Japanese Private Lander Resilience Nears Lunar Touchdown 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Radio Quiet Zone In Sedona Arizona Looks To the Skies 6. WIA: Russian Over The Horizon Radar Buzzer. Have You Heard It? 7. WIA: Ninth Grader From Ukraine Develops Technology For Manufacturing Antennas For Controlling UAV's 8. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day Has Categories For Every Operator 9. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Called A Success In Louisiana 10. ARRL: ARRL International Digital Contest Presents Fun Despite Active Sun 11. ARRL: 13 Colonies Event Founder Passing The Reins After 16 Years 12. ARRL: Tehachapi Amateur Radio Association Recognized As Tehachapi's Finest Non-Profit Organization 13. ARRL: Wellesley Amateur Radio Society In Massachusetts Planning A Summer Group Build 14. ARRL: SteppIR Communication Systems Will Cease Production Of Consumer Antennas 15. NOAA Takes Weather Radio Facilities Off The Air For Technical Updates 16. Sable Island DXpedition Team Plans Return 17. NASA Website For International Space Station Spotting Is Being Discontinued 18. CB Operator Faces Proposed $25,000 Fine From The FCC / ACMA Proposes CB Rule Actions 19. 65th Anniversary Of The Canadian Trail Is Marked By Special Event Station 20. June Is Amateur Radio Month In New Hampshire 21. HamSCI, Announces A Substantial Expansion To Its Advisory Board 22. SEA-PAC, To Host The ARRL Northwestern Division Convention 23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing 24. AMSAT: Nominations open for the 2025 AMSAT Board of Directors Election 25. FCC: FCC proposes to unlock 20,000+ MegaHertz of spectrum for satellite broadband 26. ARD: 13 colonies special event upcoming this July 1st through the 7th 27. ARD: ARRL influence over the IARU could be reduced with the proposed IARU restructuring 28. RW: 42.9 MHz WA2XMN Armstrong Broadcast returns to New Jersey's Alpine Tower this month 29. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day FAQ with the Contest Program Manager 30. ARRL: Amateur Radio ready for the projected above average hurricane season that is coming up 31. ARRL: ARRL announces leadership changes in the Pacific Division 32. ARRL: ARRL Foundation is now accepting grant applications 33. An amateur radio Geosynchronous Satellite is the goal of a new ham radio project 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 tell us "What's Really Happening At The International Amateur Radio Union?" * 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 Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to January of 1921 where we find the league running another round of transcontinental relays over several nights, setting new records for coast-to-coast round-trip message relaying. This weeks episode is entitled "Transcons At Record Speed." * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News June 6, 2025

In this episode, we join  Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Frank Howell (K4FMH) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief, and the episode's feature is Making 433 Come Alive We would like to thank John Mendez (KJ5JDM), Mariusz Kliber (G5ANT) along with our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate ARRL Influence Over IARU Could be Reduced with Proposed Restructuring On-Loan DMR Kit Starts Young UK Hams On Their Journeys Special Event Follows Trail of 19th Century Explorers RETEVIS Launches High-Power Portable Repeater, Transforming Off-Grid Communication U.S. FM Landscape by the Numbers Newcomer Survey 2021-22 Results New Book Release - Using the Baofeng® Radio RSGB 2025 Convention ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications in June

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1370 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 31, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:41:56 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1370 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Dick Jansson, KD1K, Former AMSAT Vice President – Engineering, SK 2. AMSAT: Nominations Open For 2025 AMSAT Board of Directors Election 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Sixteen Countries Represented At The 2025 Dayton HamVention Attendance 5. WIA: Over 900 Candidates Take Amateur Radio Exam In Bangladesh 6. WIA: The Dynamic Duo Of The Universe 7. FCC: FCC To Unlock 20,000+ MegaHertz Of Spectrum For Satellite Broadband 8. ARD: 13 Colonies Special Event July 1st Through The 7th 9. ARD: ARRL Influence Over IARU Could Be Reduced With Proposed Restructuring 10. RW: 42.8 MegaHertz, WA2XMN, Armstrong Broadcast Returns To New Jersey In June 11. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: FAQ With The Contest Program Manager 12. ARRL: Amateur Radio Ready For Above Average Hurricane Season 13. ARRL: ARRL Announces Leadership Changes In The Pacific Division 14. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Set For Record Year 15. ARRL: Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Receives POTA Wiggin's Acalypha Achievement Award 16. ARRL: The Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club Has Introduced Scouts To Amateur Radio 17. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Is Accepting Grant Applications 18. 48 New Radio Amateurs Receive Licenses In South Africa 19. Fifty Years Of Community Service By Ohio Traffic Net 20. Single DXpeditioner Completes 61,000 QSO's Is Honored 21. Geosynchronous Satellite Is The Goal Of New Ham Radio Project 22. Amateur Radio Month In Hawaii Is Coming Up In June 23. Queens Of The Mountains Special YL Event Announced 24. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listings. 25. AMSAT: Buzzsat satellite meteorology course is now available 26. WIA: The Centennial Cycle will impact the next solar cycle 27. ARRL: Amateur Spectrum Addressed in the US House Reconciliation Bill 28. ARRL: Spring season Section Manager Election results are announced 29. ARRL: Hams across the US can now use the 2025 Field Day Site Locator 30. RSGB: Digital Mobile Radio Kits start young hams in the United Kingdom 31. SBE: Funds for Society of Broadcast Engineers are raised by auctioning ESB Broadcast Antenna Elements 32. Another electronics supplier in the US closes its doors 33. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada updates members on phishing attemps and cyber security tips 34. FCC: FCC bans "Bad Labs" from the United States Type Acceptence Authorization Process 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 attempt to answer the question, "What Do You Think You're Doing?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Monthly Report From The Volunteer Monitoring System * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - Will returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920's where we find out that vacuum tubes were now making CW practical. And that they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone, or just phone to hams, began as experimental radio broadcasts by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. This weeks episode is simply called "Radio Telephone." ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day a report in "Amateur Radio Daily" caught my eye. Under the heading "IARU Considers Consolidation", I read that the International Amateur Radio Union, celebrating 100 years of representing our hobby, is considering significant change. Links in the report reveal a PDF document titled "IARU Consultation on Proposed Restructuring March 2025". The document, dated 21 March, outlines the structure of the IARU, four organisations, one for each ITU Region, and one global organisation, the International Secretariat. It provides some insights on how the funding arrangements between these organisations exist and goes on to talk about how the IARU operates, including incorporation, or not, currencies, committees, priorities and other background and historic information. All excellent. Stuff that should be public knowledge, but having spent the better part of a year reading IARU documents, this one brought several new eye opening things to the table. The document attributes no authors but is at least spell-checked in US English, and appears to be part of a discussion started long before I became an amateur. In 2005, the IARU started the "IARU 2025 Committee" to look into the future of the organisation. It concluded its work in 2012. In 2020 a new committee was started, the "Future Committee", consisting of representation from each of the regions. The introductory wording is curious and includes these words: "We can no longer afford not to move the process forward" - at least implying that this document is a foregone conclusion. Searching for the document on the IARU sites will give you no results. Searching for "Future Committee", gives you two results, neither actually having the words "Future Committee". The only reference which makes any sense in either of those two results, and only after the fact, is a paragraph, published on 12 October 2020, that refers to the Administrative Council, or AC, and states: "The AC received and discussed an in-depth report from its Working Group on the Future of IARU and agreed to steps for evolving toward a more flexible organization and strengthened relationships with all stakeholders in the global amateur radio community and telecommunications ecosystem." For a process that started 20 years ago, this is the first I've heard of it. Curious wouldn't you say, in an organisation that claims to represent both you and I? It's almost like the IARU wants to keep this whole thing a secret. There's more. The thrust of the document is to explore the notion of simplifying the operation of the IARU by consolidating the four organisations into one incorporated body based in Switzerland, where the IARU Region 1 organisation is currently incorporated. It goes on to discuss how this is great for the hobby, how it will save on resources and how it will allow the mostly volunteer run organisation to operate more democratically. It outlines the process for adoption, including a 60 day consultation period for the 167 Member Societies, as-in peak bodies in your country. I'll save you the suspense, the consultation period ended before I saw the document. There's a 30 day "Detailed Draft Proposal phase" and a "Final Proposal and Voting stage", neither of which are on any specific time-line that I could find. You might say, well, Onno, you're not a member society, it's none of your business. That's true. Here's the thing. Let me quote from Section 5, on page 11: "In many cases the IARU Member-Society does not represent the majority of the national amateur community." So .. not to belabour the point, the IARU, who is proud to represent Amateur Radio on the International Stage, writes in its own documentation that the organisation doesn't represent the majority of amateurs while claiming its intention to make the organisation more flexible and democratic. Gotta say, feeling all warm and fuzzy. In Section 6, the document goes into great detail about finance. I'm kidding, it has one sub-sub section about money, section 6.1.3, less than 10% of the document, no less explosive for its brevity. It states that each region contributes to the overall IARU budget, but that this contribution remains insufficient to cover the many critical representation efforts required. It goes on to say that "Historically, the ARRL has played a key role in bridging this financial gap". For its contribution, the ARRL currently nominates the President and Vice President which the member societies get to vote on. I wonder what happens if they don't vote for the nominated candidate and what happens when the ARRL is no longer first among equals, will it continue to fund the IARU? While pointing out that all direct representation of the IARU at the ITU are made by volunteers, as well as "nearly all" other activities, I wonder which activities are paid and how much? There's also discussion about a "not ideal" "compromise", namely that we'll have to be virtual attendees to save money. Really? In 2025, after a century of representing amateur radio, we're still attending meetings in person? Has nobody at the IARU heard of this new technology, you know, the one it claims to promote, radio? Or the more modern version, teleconference? You'd think that a bunch of volunteer radio amateurs would jump at the chance to debate things over radio. Moving on. The finance section includes an interesting statement. "Many regions have accumulated cash reserves" and "where these reserves are substantial and have resulted from a specific region's activities, they may need to be held in trust and designated exclusively for initiatives related to that former region". Let's unpack this. There's three regions. "Many regions" means more than one, but not all, so, two. In other words, one region has no money. Which one? Moreover, "substantial" reserves from "a specific region", means one of the other two, so, one. So, it made money, it's substantial, it's intended to be designated exclusively for that one region. Which one? The Wireless Institute of Australia, which claims to have existed longer than the IARU and the ARRL before it, was a federation. In 2004 the regulator indicated that it should consolidate its efforts because apparently the various state WIA organisations "could never agree on a single outcome". This organisation was incorporated in VK3 where it continues to exist as a first among equals. Curiously the Victorian, Tasmanian and South Australia with Northern Territory Divisions of the Wireless Institute of Australia are each still incorporated and active. Today if you're in VK6, like I am, your experience of the WIA is completely different from that if you're in VK3 and to a lesser extent VK2. Remind you of anything? The document mentions that "only fully paid up member-societies in good standing have the right to vote" and "The current fee structure will need to be harmonized across all three regions, which may lead to increased dues for some Member-Societies". That tells us that some member societies will have to pay more money and if they don't they won't be able to vote. I wonder if these are members of the region with all the money, or from the region without money? I'll remind you that member societies have already been acknowledged by the IARU as being underfunded, offering reduced services with some member societies being disbanded. The point being that we're finding out behind the scenes, after the fact, of a process that has been in play for 20 years, that aims to create a single harmonised body whilst exacerbating existing inequities, and doing so in secret. Is that the kind of body that you want to represent you on the world stage? Is this something that your member society knows about, is it actively participating, does it share that information with you or hide it? Are you informed, or did you learn more today from me than you have in the past 20 years? Before I leave you to your thoughts, credit to Cale K4HCK for publishing the story and thanks to their source for sharing the document. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

ARRL Audio News May 30, 2025

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1369 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 24, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zitel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:57:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1369 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: BuzzSat Satellite Meteorology Course Now Available 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Volunteers Power Hamvention Exhibit 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: The Centennial Gleissberg Cycle Will Impact The Next Solar Cycle 5. WIA: A Pulsar Packs A Punch Into Our Galaxy 6. NASA: In Memory Of Ed Smylie, Whose Famous Hack Saved The Apollo 13 Crew 7. FCC: Starks To Depart FCC By June, Calls Role Honor Of A Lifetime 8. ARRL: Amateur Spectrum Addressed in US House Reconciliation Bill 9. ARRL: Spring Season Section Manager Election Results 10. ARRL: Highlights From 2025 Dayton Hamvention 11. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Remembers And Celebrates 60 Years 12. ARRL: Use The 2025 ARRL Field Day Site Locator 13. ARRL: New Book Release: Using The Baofeng Radio 14. ARRL: The Deep Space Exploration Society KØPRT, Holds Community Event 15. RSGB: Digital Mobile Radio Kits Start Young Hams In The UK 16. Funds For Scholarships Raised By Auctioning Empire State Building Broadcast Antenna Elements 17. Major Solar Storm Drill Is Held And The Government Agencies Failed 18. Country Of Luxembourg Issues Postage Stamp For IARU Centenary 19. Another Electronics Supplier In The US Shuts Its Doors 20. Johnstown Flood Of 1889 Is Recalled In New Special Event Station 21. RAC: Update on Phishing Attempts and Cybersecurity Tips 22. CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inducts Three New Members at The Dayton HamVention 23. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional conventions 24. FCC: FCC bans "Bad Labs" from US Equipment Type Acceptance authorization process 25. WIA: Chinese researchers design compact high performance antenna 26. WIA: FCC approves amateur information collection requirement 27. ARD: International Amateur Radio Union considers consolidation - eliminating regional entities 28. RW: Florida radio pirate agrees to pay $11,000 fine - in installments 29. SC:: South Carolina, among a few other states, announce it will be a hands free driving state in September 30. VAT: Rome University ham radio logs thousands of QSO's to welcome the new Pope 31. AMSAT: AMSAT set the date in October, and location for the upcoming 2025 AMSAT Symposium 32. ARRL: ARRL renews its defense of the 902 to 928 MegaHertz amateur radio band 33. ARRL: ARRL seeks entry level technician HF privileges in its latest proposal 34. ARRL: ARRL releases next generation DXing track videos 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 answer the question, "How Does Your IARU Member Society Represent Itself?" * 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 - Will returns returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920, where we find that the uneven, partly unpredictable nature of radio wave propagation continued to fascinate hams after the war. This week's episode is simply called "Freaks" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

Richard "Dick" Norton N6AA, ARRL Southwestern Division Director, talks about the state of the ARRL at the Orange (CA) Section Convention.

As seen at Hamvention 2025. Neil Rapp, WB9VPG Amateur of The Year. ARRL reader, Pi-Apps, FM Radio Kit, Cheap Emergency Strobe Build and much more. 1:22:57

As seen at Hamvention 2025. Neil Rapp, WB9VPG Amateur of The Year. ARRL reader, Pi-Apps, FM Radio Kit, Cheap Emergency Strobe Build and much more. 1:22:57

ARRL Audio News May 23, 2025

In this episode, we join  Martin Butler M1MRB, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MN and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief, and the episode's feature is Are Radio Scanners Still Relevant? We would like to thank our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate IARU Considers Consolidation Weather-Watching Satellites Entering End-of-Life Stage University Station Activates to Welcome New Pope New Grant Boosts Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications City Police Stations Prepare to Add Amateur Radio Record Number of Licence Test-Takers in Bangladesh Promote Your Club's 2025 ARRL Field Day With Posters The RSGB EMC Committee has Updated Leaflets on Mains Wiring and Earthing Requirements Help the RSGB celebrate International Women in Engineering Day

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" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

Foundations of Amateur Radio Around the world are thousands of associations, groups of people, clubs if you like, that represent radio amateurs. Some of those associations are anointed with a special status, that of "member society" or "peak body", which allows them to represent their country with their own governments and on the international stage to the ITU, the International Telecommunications Union, through a global organisation, the IARU, the International Amateur Radio Union. Some of these are known across our whole community, the ARRL in the USA, the RSGB in the UK, and the WIA in Australia. Some much less so, the CRAC, the Chinese Radio Amateurs Club, or the ARSI, the Amateur Radio Society of India, for example. In an attempt to get a deeper understanding of what distinguishes these organisations, I visited a dozen member society websites. Cultural sensibilities and aesthetics aside, the variety and sense of priority is both pleasing and astounding. Starting close to home, the WIA, the Wireless Institute of Australia, shows news as the most important and the top story is a radio contact between the International Space Station and a school, held about two weeks ago. The ERAU, the Estonian Radio Amateurs Association, features an article about the 2025 General Meeting outlining who was there, what was discussed and thanking the participants for their contributions. When I visited, the ARRL, the American Radio Relay League, top news item, was the renewed defence of the 902-928 MHz Amateur Radio Band, from a few days ago. The most important issue for the ARRL is that you read the latest edition of QST magazine, but only if you're a member. The RSGB, the Radio Society of Great Britain, has an odd landing page that links to the main site, which features much of the same content. The latest news is "Mental Health Awareness Week" and encourages us to celebrate kindness in our community. The DARC, the German Amateur Radio Club, has a page full of announcements and the top one was an article about current solar activity including a coronal hole and various solar flares. The ERASD, the Egyptian Radio Amateurs Society for Development, uses qsl.net as its main website. It features many images with text, presumably in Arabic, that unfortunately I was not able to translate. Curiously the landing page features some English text that welcomes all interested to join. I confess that I love the juxtaposition between a Yaesu FT-2000 transceiver and the images of Tutankhamun and the pyramids. The RAC, the Radio Amateurs of Canada, use their homepage to promote its purpose, and features many pictures of their bi-monthly magazine, which you can only read if you're a member, which is where many of the homepage links seem to go. The RCA, the Radio Club of Argentina, is promoting the 2024-2025 Railway Marathon, including links to descriptions of what constitutes a Railway Activation, how to reserve your station, and upcoming and past activations. There's also a reminder to renew your license. The ARSI, the Amateur Radio Society of India, has a very sparse landing page showing their mission and not much else. Clicking around gives you lots of information about the history, activities, awards and the like. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find out how to become licensed in India. There's hardly any images. In contrast, the URA, the Union of Radio Amateurs of Andorra, lands you on a page with contact details and not much else. Clicking through the site gives you lots of pictures of happy people and maps, lots of maps. The KARL, the Korean Amateur Radio League, features an announcement with a link to the 24th Amateur Radio Direction Finding, from a week ago, but it requires a login to actually read it. The JARL, the Japan Amateur Radio League, features an announcement to a form you can complete to join the "List of stations from which you do not wish to receive QSL cards." The NZART, the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters, features a big button to latest news and clicking on it shows the "Jock White Field Day", which was held several months ago. I wasn't able to see the CRAC, the Chinese Radio Amateurs Club, since the page didn't load for me. The "Wayback machine", also known as archive.org, from a capture a few days ago, showed a news item announcing the intent to organise the 1st Class C Amateur Radio Technical "something", I say "something" because I cannot actually load the article and see what it has to say. The event was scheduled for a month ago, the announcement was from several months ago. Content aside, finding sites was interesting too, mind you, there's plenty of member associations that don't have any web presence at all. Is that by choice, or necessity? The IARU list of member societies conflicts with the list of national organisations shown on Wikipedia. The IARU has about 160 entries, I say about, since the list isn't really formatted as much as it's congealed. Let's just say, perhaps a table for tabular data might be a novel approach. Wikipedia is slightly better formatted, it lists 93 national organisations. As it happens, both include a link to the national organisation for China, which is either the Chinese Radio Sports Association, with apparently two different acronyms, either CRSAOA, or CRSA, or if you believe the IARU as a source, it's the one I mentioned earlier, the CRAC. I don't know which one is right, but at least we can assume that the IARU page was updated formally, rather than edited by someone on the internet. Regardless of which one is the "real" Chinese national amateur radio organisation, none of the websites loaded for me. Let's move on. It's interesting that several non-English sites like Korea, Japan and Germany feature a button that allows their site to be translated into English. What's even more interesting is that the English version of the site is not in any way the same content. In many cases it appears to be information relevant to English visitors rather than a translation. One notable exception is Estonia, which allows a visitor to read their site in Estonian or English right out of the box. Unsurprisingly, the ARRL website has no buttons for Spanish, even though that represents about 13 percent of the USA population, let alone any other language. I'd encourage you to visit a few and see what you can learn about the other members of our community around the world. My visits leave me with questions. What do these organisations stand for? What do they do? Are they there for amateurs, for aspirant members, the general public, for regulators, for their members, for fund raising and advertising, or international visitors and tourism? It seems to me that looking at just a few of these organisations reveals a great many things about how they understand their own role and how they deliver service and just how much money they have to play with to make that happen. I'll leave you to ponder how effective they might be and what your role is in that endeavour. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

ARRL Audio News May 16, 2025

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1367 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 10, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 2:12:58 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1367 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. VOA: United States Appeals Court Halts Order Allowing Voice of America Employees Back To Work 2. FCC: FCC Older Americans Month Webinar To Be Held On May 22, 2025 3. FCC: FCC Wants To Improve Internet From Space Satellites 4. ARDC: DLARC, Receives Grant To Continue Mission - ARDC To Hold Seminar At Dayton HamVention 5. AMSAT: AMSAT Prepares For Major Presence At 2025 Dayton Hamvention 6. AMSAT: Amazon Kicks Off Kuiper Network with Ambitious First Satellite Launch 7. AMSAT: Europe's Vega C Rocket Launches Satellite to Map Forest Health 8. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 9. WIA: RSGB Participated In The International Amateur Radio Union Region One Meeting In Paris 10. ARRL: Plan Your Hamvention With ARRL App 11. ARRL: Johns Hopkins University To Hold ARRL Teachers Institute 12. ARRL: Promote Your Club's 2025 ARRL Field Day With Posters 13. ARRL: Scouts and Hams Celebrate In The Rain 14. ARRL: The FBI ARA In Fredericksburg, Virigina, To Host Host A Special Event For National Police Week 15. ARRL: The 2nd Annual Queens Of The Mountains YL SOTA Special Event Weekend Announced 16. Australian Coast Is Challenged By Waste From Weather Balloons 17. FCC Wants Imported Electronics Testing Based In The United States 18. Portable Logger, Ham2K, Receives Software Award 19. Amateur Radio Is Added To West Bengal Police Operations 20. Disaster Training Highlighted By Image Transmission 21. Major Amateur Radio Exposition To Run Special Event Stations 22. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing 23. HACK: Is your GPS not working? Soon you will be able to use ATSC 3 television signals. 24. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union World Championship Contest is announced. 25. WIA: Rescue Radio: The summit of Emergency Preparedness. A short story for you. 26. W2PH: Amateur Radio comes to Internet Radio. 27. SPACEX: SpaceX's spectrum surveillance ups the ante in an FCC fight with Echostar. 28. ARW: Italian radio amateurs get permission to use the 40 MegaHertz band - 8 meters. 29. ARRL:630 meter band Worked All States Award Issued. 30. ARRL: Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. 31. ARRL: ARRL announces changes in the Atlantic Division leadership. 32. ARRL: 2025 Hudson Division Convention is scheduled for July 13th. 33. ARRL: ARRL Hudson Division Leadership announces the division is now on Discord. 34. Amateurs in Brazil gain 11 meter CB privileges using their callsigns, and lose the CW requirement for licensing 35. A new low power FM broadcast station construction permit is issued to an amateur radio group. 36. BBC: The BBC is facing its Charter Expiration, and plans to rechart its course. 37. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report. 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 answer the question, "Can we figure out how much the sun really affects propagation?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - Will returns with another brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to 1922. Despite several attempts, no successor to the outdated 1912 radio law had yet emerged. Now it could wait no longer since things had changed so radically with the rise of broadcasting. In early March, 1922, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened the first National Radio Conference in Washington. Will brings us there in this weeks edition. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. 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ARRL Audio News May 9, 2025

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1366 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 3, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:53:35 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1366 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HACK: Is Your GPS Broken? Try ATSC 3.0 Television! 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day 2025 3. WIA: New Zealand Straight Key Night 4. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union HF World Championship Contest 5. WIA: An Oldie But A Goodie 6. WIA: APRS Foundation To Host Education Summit 7. WIA: Rescue Radio - The Summit Of Emergency Preparedness 8. W2PH: Amateur Radio Comes to Internet Radio 9. SpaceX: SpaceX's Spectrum Surveillance Ups Ante in FCC Fight 10. WH: White House Cancels News Service After Reporter Asks Tough Question 11. ARW: Italian Radio Amateurs Get Permission To Use The 40 MegaHertz Band 12. ARRL: 630-Meter Band Worked All States Awards Issued 13. ARRL: Clock Is Ticking Down To 2025 Dayton Hamvention 14. ARRL: Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 15. ARRL: Star Wars Meets Amateur Radio 16. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union Gathers In Paris To Honor Centennial 17. ARRL: ARRL Announces Change In Atlantic Division Leadership 18. ARRL: 2025 Hudson Division Convention Scheduled For July 13th 19. ARRL: ARRL Hudson Division Now On Discord 20. ARRL: Recently Established School Club Rapidly Grows New Hams 21. Amateurs In Brazil Gain CB Privileges, And Lose The CW Requirement 22. New Low Power FM Broadcast Station Is Lead By An Amateur Group 23. New Satelite To Help Study Forests Of The World 24. Low Power FM Station In Florida Hit By The FCC For Excessive Power 25. BBC Is Facing Charter Expiration, Plans To Rechart Its Course 26. Bell Laboratories Prepare For Relocation As It Prepares To Celebrate 100 Years 27. Alford Master FM Antenna From The Empire State Building Being Auctioned 28. Guru Of The Re-Gen Receiver And Engineer For The Boston Symphony Charles Kitchin, N1TEV, SK 29. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 30. Camp Lazarus Centennial Celebration On The Air 31. Granite State Amateur Radio Association Hold Amateur Radio Youth Demonstration 32. ARRL: Select Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing 33. AMSAT: Volunteer For Engineering Drawings Needed 34. AMSAT: AMSAT At Hamvention 2025 – Volunteer At The AMSAT Booth 35. AMSAT: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT Banquet To Be Held On Friday, May 16th 36. AMSAT: AMSAT Forum On Saturday, May 17th / AMSAT Dinner at Tickets – Thursday, May 15th 37. AMSAT: Jet Propulsion Lab Lays Off Its K-12 Education Team 38. HRF: Ham Radio 2025 48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Friedrichshafen / Belgium HamConBe 2025 39. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House Events Find Success, Media Coverage 40. ARRL: ARRL Exhibits and Forums Planned For 2025 Dayton Hamvention 41. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test, Department of Defense, Scheduled For Saturday May 10th, 2025 42. International Amateur Radio Union Eyes Restructuring 43. Ham Radio Bootcamp Opens For Registration 44. Hams In South Africa Foster Radios Growth In The Sub-Sahara Region 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 tell us how how to be an amateur radio operator without either a radio or an antenna. * 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 Forecast from the ARRL * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of "A Century of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early and mid-1920's to answer the question, 'What Is An Amateur?' As the demarcation between amateur and broadcaster becomes gray ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News May 2, 2025

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1365 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 26, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:28:05 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1365 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Volunteer For Engineering Drawings Needed 2. AMSAT: AMSAT At Hamvention 2025 – Volunteer At The AMSAT Booth 3. AMSAT: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT Banquet To Be Held On Friday, May 16th 4. AMSAT: AMSAT Forum On Saturday, May 17th / AMSAT Dinner at Tickets – Thursday, May 15th 5. AMSAT: Jet Propulsion Lab Lays Off Its K-12 Education Team 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. HRF: Ham Radio 2025 48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Friedrichshafen / Belgium HamConBe 2025 8. RW: Judge Halts Shutdown Of Voice Of America 9. IC: Efforts Underway To Save Marconi Radio Towers In Canada 10. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House Events Find Success, Media Coverage 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Helps 2025 Boston Marathon 12. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Application Deadline April 30th 13. ARRL: New Book Release: Salty Walt's Portable Antenna Sketchbook 14. ARRL: ARRL Exhibits and Forums Planned For 2025 Dayton Hamvention 15. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test, Department of Defense, Scheduled For Saturday May 10th, 2025 16. World Radiosport Team Championship Issues Deadline For Sponsored Teams Is April 30th 17. International Amateur Radio Union Eyes Restructuring 18. Ham Radio Bootcamp Opens For Registration 19. Canoe Challenge Fundraiser Involves Hams 20. Fram2Ham Announces SSTV Contest Winners Announced 21. Hams In South Africa Foster Radios Growth In The Sub-Saharan Region 22. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Area Conventions and HamFests 23. ARRL: ARRL documents next generation DX'ing program at the International DX Convention 24. Young amateurs can attend the upcoming Dayton HamVention 2025 for free 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 tell us "How To Become Mode Agile" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B 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, and 'A Century Of Amateur Radio' will take us aboard The Wayback Machine to January 1922 as amateur signals successfully cross the Atlantic. Despite the broadcast community saying it couldn't be done. This week's episode is entitled, 'Crossing Three: The Accolades' ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News April 25, 2025

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1364 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 19, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:59:30 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1364 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Fram2Ham Mission Declared A Success 2. AMSAT: OpenGD77 Handheld Radio Firmware Aids FM Satellite Operating 3. AMSAT: A New Breed of Satellite and Space Focused Makers Is Emerging 4. AMSAT: Starliner's Wild Ride 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. ARRL: ARRL Files Comments Responding To FCC Request for Input On "Delete Delete Delete" NPRM - Four parts 7. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day – International Amateur Radio Union Formed 100 Years Ago 8. ARRL: Events to Honor World Amateur Radio Day 9. ARRL: ARRL Documents Next Generation DXing Program At International DX Convention 10. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union - Amateur Radio Services At The Forefront 11. ARRL: Former ARRL Vice Director and Contest Advisory Committee Chairman Wayne Overbeck, PhD N6NB/SK 12. ARRL: Solar Prognosticator Paul “Tad” Cook, K7RA, SK 13. Zero Retries Is Hosting Its Inaugural Conference 14. Australian Communications & Media Authority Seeks Comments On Class License Conditions 15. Young Amateurs Can Attend The Upcoming Dayton HamVention For Free 16. Florida Trail Events Takes Ham Radio On Its First Journey 17. HamSci Receives Two Honors From The RSGB For Propagation Studies 18. ARRL: ARRL Public Relations Field Day Workshop is coming up on April 23rd, 2025 19. ARRL: The Youth On The Air Camp is set for July 2025. Registration is now open. 20. ARRL: The 2024 Cass Awards are announced. 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings. 22. FCC: FCC to weigh loosening power limit rules for Starlink Satellites 23. WIA: Ford Motor Company patents new technology to support AM radio in electric vehicles 24. WIA: United Airlines receives FAA approval to add Starlink Wifi on planes 25. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada will not be attending HamVention this year 26. RWD: Mystery surrounds three pending United States Shortwave Stations 27. ARRL: ARRL Iowa section wins ham radio exemption from new hands free driving law 28. ARRL: Effort to save Marconi Towers in Canada - Public invited to vote on proposed project 29. ARRL: Broadcast audio processor manufacturer Orban donates unit to the ARRL for upcoming auction 30. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test is scheduled for Saturday, May 10, 2025 31. Montana Radio Club donates amateur radio books to several public libraries 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 answer the question, "What is Amateur Radio Really About?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the mid 1920's to witness amateurs' continued efforts to get their signals across the Atlantic in an episode called, "Crossing Two, Androsan" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News April 18, 2025

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1363 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 12, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 2:04:23 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1363 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: "Delete Delete Delete" Commenters Worry About The Future Of Ham Radio Under The FCC's Deregulatory Effort 2. FCC: FCC To Weigh Loosening Power Limit Rules For Starlink 3. RW: Here's A Copper Theft Mystery 4. HCKD: Tennessee Hams Rise Up: Amateur Radio Gains Traction After Deadly Tornadoes 5. AMSAT: Fram2 Mission Blends Polar Orbit, Amateur Radio, and Private Spaceflight 6. AMSAT: Spectrum's Fiery Debut Marks Bold First Step for Isar Aerospace 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: Ford Motor Company Patents New Technology To Support AM Radio In Electric Cars 9. WIA: United Airlines Receives FAA Approval To Add Starlink Wi-Fi On Planes 10. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada Will Not Attend Hamvention This Year 11. RAC: City Of Ottawa World Amateur Radio Day Proclamation 12. RWD: Mystery Surrounds Three Pending United States Shortwave Stations 13. ARRL: Interesting ARRL Ham Radio Open House Locations 14. ARRL: ARRL Iowa Section Wins Ham Exemption From Handsfree Law 15. ARRL: Effort To Save Marconi Towers In Canada – Public Invited To Vote On Project 16. ARRL: Broadcast Audio Processor Manufacturer Orban Donates Unit To The ARRL 17. ARRL: Tad Cook, K7RA, Has Received The ARRL President's Award 18. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test, Is Scheduled For Saturday May 10th, 2025 19. Contacts To Mount Athos Are Valid Toward DXCC 20. Upcoming Meteor Scatter Events - Hams Are Invited To Monitor 21. Great Falls Masonic Radio Club In Montana Donates Ameteur Radio Books To Public Libraries 22. Paper Based Battery Performs Well...On Paper 23. ARRL: National Library Day Special Event Station 24. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Upcoming Regional Conventions and HamFest Listing 25. RW: Voice Of America fights its way back on the air 26. RTBR: HC2 Broadcasting asks FCC to allow 5G Broadcast LPTV station 27. FCC: FCC launches proceeding on Global Positioning System alternatives 28. WIA: Earth based radio telescope successfully bounces a signal off of Venus 29. WIA: United States Naval Undersea Warfare Center look to amateur radio for backup communications 30. ARRL: 100 years of the International Amateur Radio Union 31. ARRL: The ARRL Repeater Directory - 2025 edition now powered by Repeater Book 32. ARRL: HamSci issues call for operators and monitors 33. ARRL: ARRL New Hampshire section signs a Memorandum Of Understanding with State Emergency Services 34. Pittsburgh DJ Jim Quinn W3VEX/sk - Don Craugh KF7DC Mingus Mountain SK 35. Research beacon on Antarctica goes silent after 46 years on the air 36. Deadline grows close for CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Nominees 37. Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report 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 answer the question, "What is Amateur Radio Really About?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - Will returns with Part One of a brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the mid 1920's to witness amateurs' continued efforts to get their signals across the Atlantic in an episode called, "Crossing Two, Androsan" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- 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. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

ARRL Audio News April 11, 2025

This month, ARRL Education Specialist Wayne Greene, KB4DSF, returns to the podcast to update us on ARRL's new monthly livestream, On the Air Live. The April session of On the Air Live will be a tutorial on the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS). A handheld radio will allow you to use the APRS. Listen in to find out how easy it is, and how to join the April 22 session of On the Air Live.

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