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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1408 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 21, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:40:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1408 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT At Orlando HamCation 2. AMSAT: New Full-Duplex Satellite Capable HT: The Anytone AT-D890UV 3. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA Submits IARU Coordination Request For UNNE-1B, HADES-E2 4. WIA: Artemis II Mission Delayed 5. ARRL: FCC Requires That FRN Contact Information Be Updated Within Ten Days Of A Change 6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station Winner Announced At Orlando HamCation 7. ARRL: Ham Radio Helped During Hawaii Severe Weather 8. ARRL: POTA SOTA BOTA 9. ARRL: New Book Release: Digital Networking For Ham Radio 10. ARRL: 3YØK DXpedition Back On Track 11. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Issues Revision To 2026 Thru 2030 Technician Pool 12. ARRL: The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation Has Assumed Responsibility For WRTC.Info 13. VHF Society Is Seeking Presenters For Upcoming VHF Conference 14. ISS Crew 12 Arrives At The International Space Station 15. Amateurs In Chile Respond To A Tragedy In The Andes Mountains 16. Satellite Direct To Device Service Begins In The United Kingdom 17. Amateur Radio Software Award Deadline Approaches 18. ARRL: FCC Recruiting 7 Field Agents – Electronics Engineers 19. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 20. AMSAT: Fuji Oscar 29 is approaching full sunlight 21. AMSAT: Declassifying JumpSat, an American pioneer in space 22. WIA: New comedy podcast tackles amateur radios "Gatekeeping Problem". 23. WIA: Radio Society Of Great Britain publishes new band plans 24. FCC: Amazon gets approval to launch 4500 LEO Satellites for its internet from space network 25. ARRL: Start planning now for the Ham Radio Open House in April, and World Amateur Radio Day 26. ARRL: Digital or Paper? 27. BBC: The BBC launches shortwave program in its crisis service beamed to Iran 28. Texas military base issues GPS interference warnings 29. Amateur Radio License Plates are poised for approval in the state of New Hampshire 30. FCC: Obsolete Part 97 Rules are officially deleted Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will tell us why he has a radio transmitting into a dummy load continuously for the last year, on purpose * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924 where we find that for nearly a year, hams had been operating in their first assigned band of wavelengths, 150 to 200 meters. They had also been experimenting below 150 meters by special government permission. The story continues, in Part Two of a Four Part episode titled, "Six Segments, Sans Spark" ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
In deze aflevering is Nicoline van Klaveren te gast. Ze is arbeidsdeskundige, WIA-expert, en auteur van Wegwijs in de WIA. In deze podcast spreken we over arbeidsongeschiktheid en wat dat met mensen doet. We bespreken in een notendop hoe een WIA-uitkering aanvragen werkt en hoe iemand in dit traject terechtkomt. Daarnaast bespreken we de angsten en onzekerheden die vaak spelen: de wet is complex, informatie is lastig te doorgronden en veel mensen ervaren onzekerheid over hun toekomst, financiën en identiteit. Ook staan we stil bij de rol van werkgevers en het UWV. Communicatie kan tekortschieten, antwoorden zijn niet altijd eenduidig en werknemers voelen zich regelmatig onvoldoende geïnformeerd. Tot slot vertelt Nicoline waarom zij haar boek schreef: om mensen in begrijpelijke taal wegwijs te maken in de WIA. Veel luisterplezier!
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1407 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 14, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:45:50 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1407 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: FUJI OSCAR 29 Approaches Full Sunlight 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Grounds Its Falcon 9 Rocket 3. AMSAT: Declassifying JUMPSEAT: An American Pioneer In Space 4. AMSAT: Kenya To Represent Africa In The ARISS Program During 2026 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: New Comedy Podcast Tackles Ham Radio's "Gatekeeping Problem" With Humour and Education 7. WIA: IARU Region One Issues Clarification On Reports Of Ham Radio Prosecutions In Belarus 8. WIA: Radio Society Of Great Britain Publishes Band Plans 9. WIA: Radio Station Looks To Share WKRP Callsign 10. FCC: Keep Your FRN Information Updated: FCC Fines Could Add Up Quickly 11. FCC: Amazon Gets FCC Approval To Launch 4,500 Leo Internet Satellites 12. ARRL: Start Planning Now For Ham Radio Open House In April - World Amateur Radio Day 13. ARRL: Digital Or Paper? 14. ARRL: Special Event Station Will Be Honoring The Titanic Radio Men 15. ARRL: ARRL Mourns The Loss Of Sharon Taratula, Awards Manager 16. ARRL: William Reed Whitten, AB4W, SK 17. BBC Shortwave Radio Programs Are Received In Iran 18. Amateur In Scotland Gets Approval For Installation Of A Tower 19. Texas Military Base Issues GPS Interference Warning 20. Advanced Class US Operators To Host A Popular Net 21. Amateur Radio License Plates Are Poised For Approval In New Hampshire 22. The Maker Community Eyes A Contruction Competition In The UK 23. The FCC deletes obsolete Part 97 Rules after their publication in the Federal Register on February 10th 24. ARRL: Irvine Disaster Emergency Communications offering a Technician-level licensing course 25. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings 26. AMSAT: NASA selects global tracking volunteers for the upcoming Artemis II mission 27. AMSAT: OpenSpace Phased Array antenna project targets low cost Earth Moon Earth for amateurs 28. FCC: FCC requires disclosure of Foreighn Adversaries interest, exempts amateurs 29. FCC: FCC fast-tracks SpaceX plan for one million satellites, and it wants your thoughts 30. ARRL: ARRL joins America250 as a supporting partner for the nations 250th anniversary 31. ARRL: The National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators removes three questions from use 32. ARRL: The league announces that more funding is available for radio clubs 33. ARD: Open HamClock backend aims to keep HamClock ticking Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, will be here with another edition of Foundations of Amateur Radio, This week's program is titled "How to become an amateur today" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio", this week, Will takes us back to 1924 where we find that for nearly a year, hams had been operating in their first assigned band of wavelengths, 150 to 200 meters. They had also been experimenting below 150 meters by special government permission. We will hear all about in this episode titled, "Six Segments, Sans Spark" ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
Pete Cherry VK2LP the Returning Officer of the WIA. - John VK4JPM, President of the Darling Downs Radio Club accepts the HamChallenge. - BBC launch shortwave radio service for listeners in Iran. - NASA no longer planning a February launch of Artemis 2. - Bush to Beach with Alan VK2COD.
Nadat Arthur Stil arbeidsongeschikt raakte, kwam hij terecht in de soberste uitkering van Nederland. Hij leefde maandenlang van minder dan zeshonderd euro per maand. Door politieke keuzes van het nieuwe kabinet komen mensen als Arthur straks nog sneller in de knel, ziet redacteur Christiaan Pelgrim. Hoe sociaal is Nederland nog?Presentatie: Bram Endedijk Gast: Christiaan PelgrimRedactie: Yara van Heugten & Henk Ruigrok van der Werven Eindredactie: Anna Korterink Montage: Gal Tsadok-HaiCoördinatie: Elze van DrielProductie: Rhea StroinkHeb je vragen, suggesties of ideeën over onze journalistiek? Mail dan naar onze redactie via podcast@nrc.nl.Verder lezen en luisteren:Podcast Haagse Zaken - De vuurdoop van het aanstaande kabinetArtikel Christiaan Pelgrim - Naar de soberste uitkering van Nederland zakken arbeidsongeschikten straks nog eerder afZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Replay!On today's episode of Architectette we welcome Alexandra Chaves. Alexandra is a project manager at Restructure Studio in Austin TX, a mom, an Austin Women in Architecture (WiA) member, as well as the founder of the WiA 'Profiles' Subcommittee.We talk about:- Starting her education in Venezuela, finishing a graduate degree in the United States, and starting a career in New York City.- Alexandra's career experience leading up to and during the 2008 recession and how she overcame getting laid off.- We chat about her transition to Austin, working for a women-led and women employed architecture firm, and finding support and encouragement in WiA.- What inspired her to establish the 'Profiles' series and how she works with her husband to put together exciting, thoughtful conversations with featured women in architecture.- We end by chatting a bit about the architectural growth in Austin and how the design community is looking forward to encouraging positive change.>>>Connect with Architectette:- Website: www.architectette.com (Learn more)- Instagram: @architectette (See more)- Newsletter: www.architectette.com/newsletter (Behind the Scenes Content)- LinkedIn: The Architectette Podcast Page and/or Caitlin Brady>>>Support Architectette by leaving us a rating and review!>>>Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1406 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 7, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:44:10 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1406 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA Selects Global Tracking Volunteers for Artemis II Lunar Mission 2. AMSAT: Thailand's KNACKSAT-2 CubeSat Preparing For Deployment From The ISS 3. AMSAT: Open.Space Phased Array Project Targets Low-Cost Earth-Moon-Earth For Hams 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 5. WIA: Belarus Threatens Ham Radio Operators With The Death Penalty 6. WIA: Vandals Strike Ham Factory 7. WIA: Earth Hit by Biggest 'Solar Radiation Storm' in 23 Years 8. WIA: Artemis II Mission Crew Enters Quarantine Before Flying To The Moon 9. FCC: FCC Requires Disclosure Of Foreign Adversaries' Interests In Entities With FCC Licenses 10. FCC: FCC Fast-Tracks SpaceX's Plan For One Million Satellites. And It Wants Your Thoughts 11. ARRL: ARRL Joins America250 As A Supporting Partner For The Nation's 250th Anniversary - Pt. 1 12. ARRL: ARRL Joins America250 As A Supporting Partner For The Nation's 250th Anniversary - Pt. 2 13. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Three Questions from Use 14. ARRL: Chasing Balloons Around the World 15. ARRL: Clubs Across The US Will Run Special Event Stations For Presidents Day & Washington's B'day 16. ARRL: Additional Funding Is Available For Radio Clubs 17. ARD: Open Hamclock Backend Aims To Keep HamClock Ticking 18. Amateurs In Brazil Mark Anniversary With SSTV Special Event Station 19. Four Amateurs Are Among Those Chosen To Track Artemis 2 Flight 20. HamSci March Workshop Opens For Registration 21. Historic Satellite QSO Is Celebrated 22. Young Ladies Radio League Scholarships Are Available 23. 16-day event will held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the city of Gdynia, Poland...1926-2026 24. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional amateur conventions 25. AMSAT: Help wanted: Feature story editors and video editors 26. WIA: Iran continues blocking internet traffic 27. ARD: Amateur Radio Digital Communications priority areas of funding offer opportunites for amateurs 28. ARD: IP400 project chooses modulation method for SuperNode 29. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr announces vote to expand 900 mHz Band to 10 MegaHertz 30. SPM: Kenya will represent Africa in ISS ARISS program during 2026 31. FR: World Radiocommunication Conference advances to schedule 4th meeting February 18th 32. ARRL: ARRL Director Famiglio's Recertification decision 33. ARRL: Student Conding Competition is underway with a 25k award 34. ARRL: Register now for HamSCI 2026 hosted by the ARRL 35. ARRL: ARRL to announce the winnerr of the ARRL Icom Dream Station at Orlando HamCation 36. ARRL: IARU issued a clarification on reports of the prosecution of Amateur Radio Operators in Belarus 37. Dayton HamVention announces the theme for the 2026 show - Radio Adventure! 38. Plane crash in Australia takes the life of amateur radio business owner Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will present Part Eight of his series titled "Building A Shack". This episode is sub-titled "Will It Ever End?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Monthly Volunteer Monitor Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Georg Simon Ohm. A German physicist and mathematician ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
Het eerste Tweede Kamerdebat over de plannen van de coalitie was de voordoop van het aanstaande kabinet. Vooral het plan om de AOW-leeftijd sneller te verhogen zorgde afgelopen week voor harde kritiek. Het scheelde weinig of een Kamermeerderheid had het AOW-plan al in de prullenbak gegooid voordat de coalitie van D66, VVD en CDA goed en wel begonnen is. Een koude douche voor aanstaand premier Rob Jetten, want zelfs aan zijn betrouwbaarheid werd openlijk getwijfeld. Extra vervelend, want als leider van een minderheidskabinet is hij afhankelijk van een goede relatie met de oppositie.In deze Haagse Zaken vertellen redacteur sociaal-economische politiek Christiaan Pelgrim en politiek verslaggever Liam van de Ven waarom juist die AOW-leeftijd zo'n heikel thema is. Welke gevolgen hebben de bezuinigingen voor de sociale zekerheid? En wat zegt het eerste debat over de manier waarop de Tweede Kamer zich de komende tijd tegenover het minderheidskabinet gaat opstellen?Gasten: Liam van de Ven en Christiaan Pelgrim Presentatie: Erik van der Walle Redactie & productie: Iris VerhulsdonkMontage: Pieter BakkerHeeft u vragen, suggesties of ideeën over onze journalistiek? Mail dan naar onze redactie via podcast@nrc.nl.Verder lezen en luisteren:Podcast Vandaag - Wat een minderheidskabinet vraagt van coalitie én oppositiePodcast Zo simpel is het niet - Zijn de bezuinigingen van Jetten écht zo desastreus?Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day a fellow amateur revealed that they qualified for membership of the QWCA, the Quarter Century Wireless Association .. twice over .. there may have been some innocent whistling involved. During the ensuing discussion it emerged that it all started with a crystal radio set built together with dad, which triggered a whole lot of memories and made me consider just how you'd get into the hobby of amateur radio today. I think it's important to notice that amateur radio is a hobby. There are public service and emergency communication aspects to the experience, but it's essentially a hobby. It's supposed to be fun. I'm mentioning this because that might get obfuscated when I tell you that in order to actually be a radio amateur, you need a license. This license is required because when you transmit, radio waves don't know about international borders, don't know about interference, don't know about priorities and other aspects of our deeply interconnected world. Think of it as a way to formalise your responsibilities. Note that I said "when you transmit". You don't need an amateur radio license to listen, which you can do right now using all manner of online tools in your web browser, "WebSDR", "KiwiSDR" and "shortwave listener" are useful search terms if you're inclined. Getting an amateur license is not difficult. There are many amateurs who were licensed as a teenager, or even younger. It sets you up for life and amateur radio license in hand, you can start transmitting on dedicated amateur frequencies or so-called "bands". A license is required in every country and how that specifically happens in your country will require that you do a little research. Most countries have a so-called "peak body", an association that represents amateur radio to their government, it's a good place to start. In Australia where I live, it's called the Wireless Institute of Australia or WIA. In the United States, it's the ARRL, the UK it's called the RSGB. Searching for "amateur radio peak body" and your country should get you there. If you're stumped, your national telecommunications regulator is often another good place to find information, ultimately you'll be obtaining your amateur license from them anyway, even if they don't actually run courses and exams, though some do. Essentially what you're looking for is, where you need to go to get an amateur license and what's involved. As far as I know, most of this infrastructure is run by volunteers, fellow radio amateurs, even if there's a fee involved. You should also know that amateur licenses generally come in different flavours or levels. For example, in Australia there's currently three levels of license, Foundation, Standard and Advanced. The USA has Technician, General and Extra. The UK has Foundation, Intermediate and Full. The Netherlands has Novice and Full. In other words, what it's called and how many levels there are is country dependent, as are their requirements. I'll also mention that whatever license level you pursue, it's your hobby. You get to decide if, how and when you look for more responsibilities with a higher level of license. It might surprise you to know that I hold the basic Foundation license in Australia. I've held it since 2010. So-far I've yet to have a need to pursue anything further, despite regular "encouragement" to "upgrade" to a "real" license. You do you. It's your hobby. Some countries allow all of this to happen online, others require that you use pen and ink in person in a dedicated classroom, and everything in between. If you are hard of hearing, blind, or unable to physically attend, there are often specific tools and processes available to help you, make sure you ask. As an aside, I will mention that, as in life, there are people in this community who are less than welcoming and will go out of their way to be obnoxious, obstructionist or worse. Fortunately, while vocal and destructive, they are in the minority. Don't let their behaviour dissuade you from participating. You'll find amateurs all over the planet who will welcome you into the community with open arms. There are thousands of local amateur clubs, online resources and of course potentially a couple of million radio amateurs at the other end of your antenna. It's important to understand that the journey into amateur radio is different for everyone. For many long term amateurs the experience came from a family member or neighbour. While that route still exists, it's much less common as an introduction as it used to be. I first came across it as a teenager during a sea scouting event called JOTA or Jamboree On The Air. Whilst memorable, it wasn't until two more amateur radio interactions, decades apart, that I finally got to the point of actually discovering the hobby. For your journey, just being here, today, right now, is already a start. Welcome, it's nice to have you here. You've found the community! What are you waiting for? I'm Onno VK6FLAB
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1405 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 31, 2026 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, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:44:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1405 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Help Wanted: Feature Story Editors & Video Editor 2. AMSAT: Using Neural Networks to Recover Satellite Signals 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Iran Continues Blocking Internet Traffic 5. WIA: UK Regulator Ofcom Proposes Device Spectrum Sharing / FCC To Vote On 6 GigaHertz Use 6. ARD: ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communcations Priority Areas Of Funding Offer Opportunities 7. ARD: IP400 Project Chooses Modulation Method For Supernode 8. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Announces Vote To Expand 900 MegaHertz Band To 10 MegaHertz 9. SPM: Kenya To Represent Africa In International Space Station ARISS Program 2026 10. NASA: NASA Selects Participants To Track Artemis II Mission 11. FR: World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee Schedules Its 4th Meeting on Feb.19 12. ARRL: Director Famiglio's Recertification Decision 13. ARRL: North Carolina Students Scheduled to Make Contact with the International Space Station 14. ARRL: Student Coding Competition Is Underway With $25,000 Award 15. ARRL: Register Now for HamSCI 2026, Hosted By ARRL 16. ARRL: The Northern Arizona DX Association Announces Dates For Sixth Annual Pluto Discovery 17. ARRL: ARRL To Announce The Winner Of The ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station at Orlando Fest 18. ARRL: IARU Has Issued A Clarification On The Prosecution Amateur Radio Operators In Belarus 19. Dayton HamVention Announces The Theme For 2026 - Radio Adventure! 20. Plane Crash In Australia Takes The Life Of An Amateur Radio Business Owner 21. Go back in time and turn back the clock with The Annual AM Rally 22. Elwood Downey, WB0OEW, Creator Of HamClock - SK / David Assaf W5XU DXpeditioner - SK 23. Statewide Parks On The Air Activators Debut New Club Callsign 24. Space Station Astronaut Captures Artemis 2 Launch Pad Image 25. AMSAT: AMSAT sends a message to US Educators concerning upcoming ARISS contact opportunities 26. WIA: Communications News Shorts 27. WIA: The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing the end of its useful life 28. ARD: Spottedham.com launches a custom POTA and keyboard email alerts 29. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors approves funding, advocacy, and creates a new DXCC Award 30. ARRL: Vandals strike an amateur radio manufacturers facility 31. ARRL: Nominations are sought for the 2026 Dayton Hamvention Awards 32. US Congress agrees to restore funding for the Voice of America and other government broadcasting 33. Damage to Taiwanese undersea cables spurs a national interest in amateur radio 34. A hosting site for the World Radio Telecommunications Conference for 2030 is being sought Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News, get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, continues with Part Seven of his series entitled "Building A Shack". In this edition Onno looks a different methods of powering your shack * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. In this edition, Will takes a look at the early history of WWV. On the air since 1920, WWV began as a source of news from the Department of Agriculture, broadcast on CW. It also experimented with Friday evening concert broadcasts ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1404 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 24, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:38:53 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1404 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Membership Now Includes “Getting Started” Guide 2. AMSAT: Message To U.S. Educators: ARISS Contact Opportunity Call For Proposals 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Chinese National Damages Undersea Cable 5. WIA: Communication News Shorts 6. WIA: Hubble Space Telescope Nearing Its End Of Life 7. WIA: Amateur Issues Call For More Ham Radio Accessible Digital Software Development 8. ARD: SpottedHam.com Launches Custom POTA and Keyword Email Alerts 9. ARRL: ARRL Director Tharp, KB7HDX Receives Search-and-Rescue Award 10. ARRL: ARRL Board Approves Funding for Federal Advocacy; Creates New DXCC Single-Band Honor Roll 11. ARRL: Vandals Strike Ham Factory 12. ARRL: ARRL Honorary Vice President John Cadwallader Kanode, N4MM, Silent Key 13. ARRL: Nominations Are Now Being Accepted For The 2026 Dayton Hamvention Awards. 14. ARRL: Former FCC Official John B. Johnston, W3BE, Of Derwood, Maryland, Silent Key 15. PY: Amateurs Arrested In Belarus Under Suspicion Of Espionage 16. NASA Artemis Two Spacecraft Is Rolled Out To The Launch Pad 17. Congress Agrees To Restore Funding To The Voice Of America 18. Hamvention Awards Nomination Window Closes Soon 19. Damage To Taiwanese Undersea Cables Spurs More Interest In Amateur Radio 20. Hosting Site For World RadioSport Team Championship 2030 Is Being Sought 21. Hindu Pilgrimage Safety Is Provided By Indian Amateurs 22. ARRL: 2026 Repeater Directory is now shipping 23. ARRL: 2026 Winter Field Day Is up and running 24. ARRL Upcoming radiosport contests and regional convention listings 25. AMSAT: NASA marks fifty years of the GOES satellites 26. AMSAT: Two US schools & organizations move forward in the ARISS contact selection process 27. FCC: FCC approves Starlink expansion to 19,000+ satellites with direct to device service 28. RW: Financial Traders seek permanency for shortwave data transmissions 29. ARRL: New 60 Meter frequencies will become available as of February 13th, 2026 30. ARRL: The FCC is poised to exempt radio amateurs from Foreign Adversary Reporting System 31. ARD: DX Look introduces VOACAP view professional HF propagation prediction 32. FutureGeo is the most important amateur radio initiative of the decade 33. Device frequency sharing is eyes by Ofcom in the United Kingdom 34: HamCation will be featuring an APRS Digipeater Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, presents Part Five of his series on "Building A Shack". The episode Onno tackles the problem of "Noise" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, with yet another edition of "Dead Electrical Dudes". This week's stiff is Guglielmo Marconi ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1403 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 17, 2026 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, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nickolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:46:38 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1403 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA Ends Crew 11 Mission Due To 'Medical Concern' With An Astronaut 2. AMSAT: NASA Marks 50 Years Of GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites 3. AMSAT: Two U.S. Schools and Organizations Moved Forward In ARISS Selection Process 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. FCC: FCC Approves Starlink Expansion To 19,000+ Satellites With Direct To Device Capability 6. ITB: KernWi-Fi Builds Carrier Grade Yaesu Internet-linked Multi-Repeater System Network 7. CWU: Case Amateur Radio Club W8EDU Receives DXCC Trident National Award 8. RW: Financial Traders Seek Permanency For Shortwave Data Transmissions 9. ARRL: New 60-Meter Frequencies Available As Of February 13th, 2026 10. ARRL: FCC Poised To Exempt Amateurs From Foreign Adversary Reporting Requirements 11. ARRL: Bob Jones, VE7RWJ, Silent Key -- Former ITU Official and IARU Expert 12. ARRL: Texas Ham Radio Repeaters Now Solar-Powered 13. ARD: DXLook Introduces VOACAP View Professional HF Propagation Prediction 14. FutureGEO Is The Most Important Amateur Radio Initiative Of This Decade 15. Device Frequency Sharing Is Eyed By Ofcom In The UK 16. Airlines Grounded In Greece -- Cancelled Due To Radio Noise 17. Winter Field Day Is Expanded By California Amateurs 18. HamCation To Feature An APRS Digipeater 19. Silent Key: VU2AF, Adolf Shepherd and Linux In The HamShack Host Russ Woodman K5TUX - SK 20. ARRL: ARISS is seeking contact schools and organization proposals 21. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listings 22. AMSAT: AMSAT membership now includes 'Getting Started With Amateur Satellites' book 23. AMSAT: HDMI Converter is installed on the ISS Ham TV System that expands video capabilities 24. WIA: Radio station played a pivotal role in the history of wireless celebrates its 125th anniversary 25. WIA: No time like the present - Maybe - KLOE-AM in Kansas packs it up after tower collapse 26. WIA: Moody Bible Institutes WMBI-FM instructed to lower power due to airport interference 27. ARD: 52 Week Amateur Radio Challenge returns for 2026 28. FCC: FCC bans sale of all foreign made drones in the US 29. FCC: FCC plans to expand unlicensed operations in the six gigahertz band 30. FCC: FCC reminds experimental digital shortwave stations to identify themselves in analog voice or CW 31. ARRL: Join the ARRL in celebrating Americas 250th anniversary - on the air 32. ARRL: The nomination period is open for the three Heritage CQ Magazine Hall of Fame 33. Amateurs in Germany find their access to 70 megaHertz is in limbo Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio continues with Part Five of his series entitled "Building A Shack", this weeks episode is called "Antenna Shenanigans" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This episodes stiff is Major Edwin Howard Armstrong. ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1402 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 10, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 2:01:38 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1402 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Membership Now Includes “Getting Started with Amateur Satellites” Guide 2. AMSAT: Soyuz Rideshare Launch Deploys Several New Amateur Radio Satellites In Orbit 3. AMSAT: HDMI Converter Installed on ISS HamTV System, Expanding Video Capabilities 4. AMSAT: CubeSat Developers Workshop 2026 Opens Call For Abstract Submissions 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 6. WIA: Radio Station Played A Pivotal Role In The History Of Wireless Is Celebrating Its 125th Anniversary 7. WIA: No Time Like The Present...Maybe - KLOE-AM In Kansas Off The Air Due To Tower Problems 8. WIA: Moody Bible Institute Stand Lowers Power Due To Airport Interference 9. ARD: 52 Week Ham Challenge Returns For 2026 10. FCC: FCC Bans Sale Of All Foreign Drones In The United States 11. FCC: FCC Plans To Expand Unlicensed Operations In 6 GigaHertz Band 12. FCC: FCC Reminds Experimental HF Stations To Identify Themselves 13. ARRL: Join ARRL In Celebrating America's 250th – On the Air! 14. ARRL: Richard Dean Straw, N6BV, ARRL Antenna Expert, Silent Key 15. ARRL: John Bartscherer, N1GNV Owner Of Quicksilver Radio Products, Silent Key 16. ARRL: Peter Schimmelbusch, W7HPS, Wins 2025 Amateur Radio For The Greater Good Competition 17. ARRL: Nominations Open For The Three Heritage CQ Magazine Halls of Fame 18. Regulation Changes Also In Store For Drones In The United Kingdom 19. World War II Military Chaplain Honored By Minnesota Amateurs 20. Amateurs In Germany Find Their Access To 70 MegaHertz Is In Limbo 21. Conway Reef Plans Are Expedited By The DX Rebel Group 22. First Satellite Is Launched For Montenegro 23. Amateur Club Helps Build Newcomers Confidence With CW 24. ARRL Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 25. AMSAT: Youth On The Air Camp 2026 Application Period is now open 26. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr highlights agency accomplishments in 2025 27. FCC: The FCC has been petitioned to expand GMRS and FRS to include low band VHF 28. ARRL: 2026 is ARRL's Year Of The Club - A celebration of amateur radio clubs - PART ONE 29. ARRL: 2026 is ARRL's Year Of The Club - A celebration of amateur radio clubs - PART TWO 30. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications introduces "44 Net Connect" for amateurs 31. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Take Office in January 2026 32. ARRL: ARRL awards the Colvin Grant to the upcoming Bouvet Island DxPedition 33. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation awarded more than $4 million in grants in 2024 34: AST Space Mobile has launched the largest to date commercial satellite 35: Amateurs in New Zealand will use ZM prefix for their Centenary year Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, will have Part Four of his series "Building A Shack". This week he takes a look at "Coaxial Cable Alternatives" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This edition takes a look at the use of "CQ", which is used as a general call for initiating a contact. This took time to become an acceptable practice in the early years. Serious operators frowned on its use, mostly because it had been used to excess in the old days among the little boys with squeak boxes, usually in exceedingly long and sparsely identified calls. This will be Part Two of the edition titled, "Call & Card." * We will have a look at this months 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1401 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 3, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:40:10 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1401 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Youth On The Air Camp 2026 Applications Open 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Youth Initiative Satellites and Climate Change Course Now Online 3. AMSAT: Launch Teams Practiced Artemis 2 Countdown 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Cobb Island Maryland Celebrates The Birth Of Radio 6. WIA: Israel's Amateur Radio Operators Used Quiet Diplomacy, Saved Lives 7. WIA: Previous Radio Society of Great Britain President Bob Whelan, G3PJT, SK 8. WIA: 2026 Marks A Year Of Many Amateur Radio Related Celebrations 9. WIA: United States Jams Global Positioning System Signals In The Caribbean 10. WIA: Florida Team Wins National Emergency Communications Award 11. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Highlights Agency Accomplishments In 2025 12. NC: FCC Petitioned To Expand GMRS and FRS To VHF Low Band 13. ARRL: 2026 Is ARRL's Year of the Club - A Celebration Of Amateur Radio Clubs - PART ONE 14. ARRL: 2026 Is ARRL's Year of the Club - A Celebration Of Amateur Radio Clubs - PART TWO 15. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Introduces “44Net Connect” 16. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Take Office in January 17. ARRL: ARRL Awards Colvin Grant to Bouvet DXpedition 18. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Foundation Awarded More Than $4 Million In Grants 19. DXLook Adds Map Layers and Weather Radar Overlays 20. For A New Amateur Radio Club In Montana, It's Time To Grow 21. The Largest Commercial Satellite Is Launched By AST SpaceMobile 22. Making It Easier For Vision Impaired Amateurs To Use Digital Modes 23. Chilean Amateurs Sign Emergency Communications Contract With Their Local Government 24. Four Amateur Radio Regulations Are Set For Elimination By The FCC 25. Hams In New Zealand Use ZM Prefix For Their Centenary Year 26. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 27. AMSAT: New satellite tracking applications is released 28. WIA: Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) moves to stop illegal radio imports 29. WIA: Google announces it will begin building three new undersea cables 30. WIA: The Russian UVB-76 radio transmissions are still on the air 31. Use of International Reply Coupons (IRC) is ended by the Universal Postal Congress Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, continues his series on building a radio shack, with Part Three which is entitled "The ingress of coaxial cable." * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This edition takes a look at the use of CQ, which is used as a general call for initiating a contact. This took time to become an acceptable practice in the early years. Serious operators frowned on its use, mostly because it had been used to excess in the old days among the little boys with squeak boxes, usually in exceedingly long and sparsely identified calls. This historic edition is titled "Call & Card." ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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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Although no WIA Director this week we do have a prospective director stepping up to the mic. That's Klaus, VK3IU. - We also have Amanda VK1AH Chair and Secretary of the WIA education committee. - And as we head into the first chapter of WIA NATIONAL NEWS for the first broadcast of this new year a reminder of SUMMER VHF-UHF FIELD DAY THIS WEEKEND.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1400 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: December 27, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:32 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1400 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: W2RS Memorial AMSAT CW Activity Day To Be Held January 1, 2026 2. AMSAT: New Satellite Tracking Application Released 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Australia's ACMA Moves To Stop Illegal Radio Imports 5. WIA: Google To Build Three New Undersea Cables 6. WIA: Russian UVB-76 Radio Still On The Air 7. WIA: Amateurs Worldwide Get Access To IP Addresses 8. AS: Eagles Guitarist Joe Walsh's Auction Works, With Part of the Proceeds Benefitting Veterans Aid 9. Use Of International Reply Coupons (IRC'S) Is Ended By The Universal Postal Congress 10. Ham Radio University Featured Speaker Is Bouvet DxPeditioner 11. DMR Project With School Students In India Is Successful 12. Jim Shaffer, KE5AL, Advocate For Blind Amateurs, SK 13. Jim Heath, W6LG, Noted YouTube Elmer, SK 14. A Large Holiday Gathering Is Kept Safe By Minnesota Amateurs 15. AMSAT: Satellites Experience “Orbital Summer” And “Orbital Winter” 16. AMSAT: A Dying Satellite May Photograph Asteroid Apophis In 2029 17. AMSAT: Boeing's Next Starliner Mission Will Carry Cargo Only 18. ARD: DXLook Introduces Real-Time D-RAP Visualization For HF Absorption Events 19. EHAM: High Levels Of CO2 In The Atmosphere Can Affect Radio Propagation 20. IR: FCC Pushes Toward High-Stakes Upper C-Band Vote 21. ARRL: Get Your Keys and Bugs Ready For ARRL Straight Key Night 22. ARRL: Obsolete Part 97 Rules To Be Deleted February 10th, 2026 23. ARRL: New Technician Class Question Pool Released -- Effective July 1st, 2026 24. ARRL: Up To $25,000 At Stake In New ARRL Student Coding Competition 25. ARRL: 2026 Southeast VHF Society Conference Will Be Held On April 16th thru 19th In Macon, Georgia 26. New Video From NASA Explores The ARISS Experience 27. $25,000 Grant Awarded To Upcoming Sable Island DxPedition 28. Former Vermont RACES Amateurs Welcomed By The Medical Reserve Corps Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, presents Part Two of his series entitled "Building A Shack" In Part Two Onno covers the topic "How Much Space Do You Need?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, is back this week with another chapter from the new series entitled "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Nicola Tesla. * Our annual Christmas Special hosted and narrated by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS as he related what it was like to be a teen obsessed with amateur radio, and trying to also have a girlfriend. This story taken from one of his talk presentations on WOR-AM in New York ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1399 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: December 20, 2025 THIS IS A TEMPORARY FEED AS INTERNET ARCHIVE IS OFFLINE DUE TO AN OUTAGE - ONCE RESTORED THE LINKS WILL BE ADJUSTED BACK TO INTERNET ARCHIVE Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:32 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1399temp Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Soyuz Crew Lands Ending Eight-Month Space Research Journey 2. AMSAT: Satellites Experience “Orbital Summer” And “Orbital Winter” 3. AMSAT: A Dying Satellite May Photograph Asteroid Apophis In 2029 4. AMSAT: Boeing's Next Starliner Flight Will Carry Cargo Only 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 6. ARD: DXLook Introduces Real-Time D-RAP Visualization For HF Absorption Events 7. ARD: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Launches 44Net Connect 8. RSGB: Two Exciting Opportunities To Make An Impact With The RSGB 9. EHAM - High Levels Of CO2 In The Atmosphere Can Affect Radio Propagation 10. WIA: World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station In Sweden To Be On Air Christmas Eve 11. IR: FCC Pushes Toward High-Stakes Upper C-Band Vote 12. RW: American Public Media Settles With FCC Over False Emergency Alert Service Tones 13. ARRL: A Great After-Holiday Gift ... ARRL Kids Day! 14. ARRL: Get Your Keys and Bugs Ready for ARRL Straight Key Night 15. ARRL: Obsolete Part 97 Rules To Be Deleted February 10th, 2026 16. ARRL: New Technician Class Question Pool Released -- Effective July 1st, 2026 17. ARRL: Up To $25,000 At Stake In New ARRL Student Coding Competition 18. ARRL: Happy Belated Birthday To Entertainer and Comedian Dick Van Dyke 19. ARRL: 2026 Southeast VHF Society Conference Will Be Held On April 16th thru 19th In Macon, Georgia 20. New Video From NASA Explores The ARISS Experience 21. Still Time To Participate In The 12 Days Of Christmas Special Event 22. $25,000 Grant Awarded To Upcoming Sable Island DxPedition 23. Former RSGB President Bob Whelan, G3PJT, SK 24. Former Vermont RACES Amateurs Welcomed By The Medical Reserve Corps 25. ARRL: FCC allocates 60 Meter World-wide Amateur Radio Band - Makes minor changes to 70cm band 26. ARRL: ARRL to host 2026 HamSci Workshop at Central Connecticut University 27. ARRL: Deadline is fast approaching for 2026 ARRL Foundation Grant applications 28. ARRL: Registration is now open for the 2026 sessions of the ARRL Teachers Institute 29. ARRL: Pre-Registration is open for the ARRL Student Coding Competition 30. Christmas Eve 2025 is a great opportunity for radio transmission from vintage gear 31. The first HamTV transmission from the ISS has taken place since 2018 32. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will present Part One of a new series on Building A Shack. This weeks episode is entitled "Setting The Scene" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, begins a brand new series that will be on air a couple of times a month, entitled, "Dead Electrical Dudes". And Will's first stiff is James Clerk Maxwell, the father of all that we hams hold sacred ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1398 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: December 13, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:40:54 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1398 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: KSLV-II Mission Deploys 13 Satellites, Including New Amateur Radio Payloads 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. ARRL: FCC Allocates 60-Meter World-Wide Amateur Band Approved at WRC-15; Continues Amateur Use of Four Additional 60-Meter Channels, and Updates 420 MHz Coordination Info 4. ARRL: ARRL To Host 2026 HamSCI Workshop At Central Connecticut State University 5. ARRL: ARRL 10-Meter Contest This Weekend 6. ARRL: Help Someone Get Their First Ham Radio License By The End of 2025 7. ARRL: Deadline Approaching: Apply Now For The 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarships 8. ARRL: The Greater Cincinnati Amateur Radio Association 1936 Net Will Host Its Annual AM Night 9. ARRL: Registration Is Open For The 2026 Sessions Of The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Tech 10. ARRL: Pre-Registration Is Open For The ARRL Student Coding Competition 11. ARRL: Christmas Eve 2025 Is A Great Opportunity For Radio Transmissions From Vintage Equipment 12. First HamTV Transmission From ISS Since 2018 13. New Club Station And Callsign Approved By Jordanian Amateurs 14. RACES Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service Ends In Vermont 15. Battle Of The Bulge Anniversary To Be Marked By Special Event 16. Youth On The Air Camp Application Period Opens 17. Six Santa Christmas Station Are On The Air From Dutch Amateurs 18. Smartphones In The UK To Receive Direct To Device Satellite Service 19. QSL Dot Net Founder Alan L. Waller, K3TKJ, SK 20. ARRL: Spokane County Amateurs Hold Weather Ground Truth Event 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 22. AMSAT: Registration is open the the 25-26 European Astro-Pi Challenge 23. AMSAT: Optical communication systems test the limits of FCC authority 24. FCC: FCC Closes more than 2000 inactive proceedings 25. TvT: China will host International Telecommunications Union World Radio Conference 2027 26. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Annual Report promotes, protects, inspires, and educates amateurs 27. ARRL Orlando HamCation Award winners are announced 28. ARRL: The league encourages amateurs to send a holiday RadioGram 29. Short range UHF radios in Germany face new restrictions 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 have yet another update on his Bald Yak Project. This time he presents a segment he calls, "Choices and Software Flexibility". * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, is here with another brand new edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the mid 1920's as amateurs were rapidly coming to appreciate that there was something strange and unexpected about the shorter wavelengths. Clearly, it was time to press on downward, but their hands were somewhat tied by the lack of an allocation in this unused, unexplored territory. This is Part Two of an episode titled, "Onward, Downward" ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
WIA Director, Lee Moyle VK3GK. - WIA past Director John Williams VK4JJW pops in with International News. - and I'll pop in with a reminder for NEXT week's edition of this news, because? ALARA members will deliver!
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1397 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: December 6, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by ordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:42:09 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1397 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Registration Is Open For The 2025–2026 European Astro Pi Challenge 2. AMSAT: Optical Communications Systems Test the Limits of FCC Authority 3. AMSAT: REALOP CubeSat To Test Hard Drives For ADC System 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: What Has 5000 Batteries and Floats? 6. WIA: NASA Deep Space Antenna Suffers Rotation Damage 7. FCC: FCC Extends Dates For Comments On Transitioning Voice Telephone Services To All IP 8. FCC: FCC Closes More Than 2,000 Inactive Proceedings 9. FCC: FCC Urges Action After Obscene Material Airs In Hack 10. TvT: China To Host International Telecommunications Union World Radiocommunication Conference '27 11. ARRL: Space Sailors Seeking Download Help From Ham Radio Operators 12. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Annual Report: Promote, Protect, Inspire, Educate 13. ARRL: Orlando HamCation Award Winners Announced 14. ARRL: Teachers Institute Telethon Raises Over $23,000 15. ARRL: Send A Holiday Radiogram 16. ARRL: Radio Amateur Society of Norfolk, Virginia Awarded $12,000 Grant 17. ARRL: Joe Walsh, WB6ACU, Is Getting Ready For A Very Personal Auction 18. ARRL: HamSci Is Seeking Monitors For Upcoming Meteor Scatter Experiments 19. Short Range UHF Radios In Germany Face New Restrictions 20. Two Silent Keys: John Walker, ZL3IB and Ganesh Subramaniam, VU2TS 21. Radio Transmissions And Aurora's Are Linked 22. Students Face The European Space Agency Challenge Of Computing In Space 23. Woman Lost In Bangladesh Is Assisted By Indian Amateurs 24. ARRL: Pacificon 2025 picture album is now available on line 25: Upcoming RadioSport Contest Listings and Regional Convention Listings 26: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report. 27. RSGB: The Radio Society of Great Britain is looking for a Volunteer Accessibility Champion 28. AMSAT: SO-124 is nearing the end of orbital life 29. FCC: FCC deletes 21 obsolete rules and regulations 30. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Board of Directors election results are announced 31. ARRL: ARRL VEC has now completed processing most of the backlog 0f 2500+ license applications 32. ARRL: December is Youth On The Air Month (YOTA) 33. ARRL: Santa Net 2025 Is Now On The Air 34. RSGB: UK Regulator takes steps to ensure disabled amateurs are not excluded 35. FCC: FCC says hackers have hijacked US radio STL using Barix IP to send fake alerts 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 propose a few solutions when you are Having Problems With Logging. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more.. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, is here with another brand new edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the mid 1920's as amateurs were rapidly coming to appreciate that there was something strange and unexpected about the shorter wavelengths. Clearly, it was time to press on downward, but their hands were somewhat tied by the lack of an allocation in this unused, unexplored territory. This is Part One of a two part episode titled, "Onward, Downward". ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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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Buma constateerde deze week dat een meerderheidskabinet niet haalbaar is en lijkt nu steun te zoeken voor een rechts minderheidskabinet (D66, CDA, VVD). Pieter, Raoul, Sheila en Gijs bespreken het tussendocument van Jetten en Bontenbal: een pragmatische uitnodiging waarin geen pijnlijke keuzes worden gemaakt. Verder komt aan bod: de WIA-chaos als symptoom van onuitvoerbare, te complexe overheid en natuurlijk het Nexperia-dossier, waarin de drieste ingreep van minister Karremans tot brede discussie leidt. Studenten opgelet! De Volkskrant biedt een gratis studentenabonnement aan, af te sluiten via volkskrant.nl/studenten Presentatie: Gijs GroentemanRedactie: Corinne van Duin, Lotte Grimbergen, Julia van Alem, Jasper Veenstra en Iris BransMontage: Rinkie BartelsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
De rekenkamer publiceerde een pittig rapport over de WIA-uitkering. Het UWV zou tienduizenden mensen een te hoge of te lage uitkering hebben uitgereikt. De fouten die zijn gemaakt bij de WIA-uitkeringen, lijken een gevolg van een opstapeling van problemen die sinds 2020 zijn ontstaan bij het UWV. Hoe hebben deze problemen kunnen ontstaan? Hoe zit ons uitkeringsstelsel nu in elkaar en wat is er nodig om dit systeem gezond te houden? Te gast is hoogleraar arbeidsmarkt en sociale zekerheid Pierre Koning.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1396 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: November 29, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnson, W2PH. Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:38:08 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1396 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RSGB: The RSGB Is Looking For A Volunteer Accessibility Champion 2. AMSAT: SO-124 Nears End Of Orbital Life 3. EW: Amateur Radio Sleuth Detects Secret Signals From SpaceX Military Satellites 4. FCC: FCC Proposes Upper C-Band Rules For 2027 Auction 5. FCC: FCC To Delete 21 Obsolete Rules 6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Board of Directors Election Results 7. ARRL: ARRL VEC Has Processed Most Of The Backlog Of 2,500 Plus License Applications 8. ARRL: December Is Youth On The Air Month 9. ARRL: Battleship Iowa Amateur Radio Association Will Activate The Ship's Original NEPM Navy Call Sign 10. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2025 Santa Net 11. RSGB: Radio Society Of Great Britain Takes Steps To Ensure Disabled Amateurs Are Not Excluded 12. Cape Cod FM Broadcast Pirate Agrees To Pay FCC Voluntary Contribution 13. Grants From YASME Foundation Boosts Bangladesh Amateur College Outreach 14. Airplane Collision With a Weather Balloon Prompts Investigation 15. Deadline Approaches For ARRL Scholarships 16. Cincinnati Amateurs Rekindle Their Annual AM Night 17. FCC: FCC Says Hackers Hijack US Radio Equipment To Send Fake Alerts, Obscenities 18. ARD: EvoHam Provides Resources for Digital Voice Operators 19. FCC: FCC Seeks Comment on Transitioning Voice Telephone Services to All Internet Protocol 20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions Listing 21. AMSAT: The BOTAN CubeSat Digipeater Schedule A Challenge For US Amateurs 22. AMSAT: Alarm over reduction at Goddard Space Flight Center 23. AMSAT: Comet photos plagued by LEO Satellite Streaks 24. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain announces Amateur Radio Construction Competition 25. WIA: HD Car Radios and Meta Data RDS problems plague some receivers 26. WIA: Space Debris is now officially a problem 27. ARRL: League puts out a call for technical manuscripts 28. ARRL: ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communications has funding opportunities 29. ARRL: Several prominent amateurs are among the 2025 Radio Club of America awardees 30. ARRL: SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 has been cancelled 31. RW: Spain's Radio Nacional de Espana to shut down medium wave AM transmitters 32. Internet archive hits one trillion web pages archived 33. FutureGeo is the most important Amateur Radio initiative of this decade 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 To Make Our Hobby and Community Resilient" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR- A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us back to Thanksgiving week in November of 1923 as we witness amateurs setting new records, and view the MacMillan Expedition to the north pole operating station WNP, as he finishes up with Part Two of this story titled, "Scooped" ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1395 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: November 22, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:42:30 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1395 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program Campaign Focuses On HF and VLF Propagation 2. AMSAT: The BOTAN CubeSat Digipeater Schedule A Challenge For United States Amateurs 3. AMSAT: Launch Scrubbed Due To Highly Elevated Solar Activity 4. AMSAT: Alarm Over Reductions At Goddard Space Flight Center 5. AMSAT: Comet Photos Plagued By Low Earth Orbit Satellite Streaks 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. RSGB: Radio Society Of Great Britain Announces Amateur Radio Construction Competition 8. WIA: HD Car Radios and Metadata RDS Problems Plague Some Receivers 9. WIA: Space Debris Is Now Officially A Problem 10. WIA: Older Versions Of Software For Amateurs 11. ARRL: ARRL VEC Ready To File 2,500+ Ham Radio License Applications; FCC Extends Deadlines 12. ARRL: Call For Technical Manuscripts 13. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Funding Opportunities 14. ARRL: Several Prominent Hams Among 2025 Radio Club of America Awardees 15. ARRL: SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 Cancelled 16. ARRL: 2025 CQ World Wide DX Contest On CW 17. AP: Over a Dozen Attorneys General Call On FCC To Expand Multilingual Emergency Alerts 18. RW: Cape Cod FM Pirate Agrees To FCC Settlement 19. RW: Spain's Radio Nacional de España To Shut Down AM Transmitters 20. Radio Centennial In Hungary Is Celebrated With Special Event Stations 21. How About A Season's Transition Field Day? 22. Deep Space Network Antenna Disabled Found In NASA Study 23. A Milestone For Digital Voice Is Found In A New Neural Codec 24. New Repeaters Create A New Crucial Network In Kansas 25. Amateurs Are Ready For The Geminids Meteor Scatter Experiments 26. HACK: Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages 27. TWIAR: futureGEO Is The Most Important Amateur Radio Initiative Of This Decade 28. AMSAT: Digital Library Of Amateur Radio and Communications adds AMSAT Publications 29. AMSAT: AI fix from earth restores The James Webb Telescope, no astronauts needed 30. AP: FCC proposes auctioning additional spectrum to expand wireless services 31. RSGB: 146 thru 147 MHz NoV extension agreed to by Ofcom in the UK 32. HACK: A treasure trove of Random Vintage Technology Resources 33. ARRL: ARRL has published its 2024 Annual Report, and has open positions available 34. ARDC: Student satellite courses are funded through an ARDC grant 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 a story entitled "A New Year With New Services To The Public In 1905" * 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 back to Thanksgiving week in November of 1923 as we witness amateurs setting new records, and view the MacMillan Expedition to the north pole operating station WNP, in Part One called "Scooped" ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1394 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: November 15, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:50:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1394 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: SpaceX Bandwagon-4 Mission Places CEVROSAT-1 In Orbit With Rideshare Payloads 2. AMSAT: CatSat To Open Microwave Linear Transponder Access For Amateur Radio Community 3. AMSAT: ARISS To Mark 25 Years Of ISS With Special Worldwide SSTV Event In November 4. AMSAT: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Adds AMSAT Publications 5. AMSAT: AI Fix From Earth Restores James Webb Telescope Clarity, No Astronauts Needed 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. EXIT: Albanian Police Seize Amateur's Radio Equipment Over Suspected Espionage 8. AP: FCC Proposes Auctioning Additional Spectrum To Expand Wireless Services 9. NYS: Attorney General James Demands FCC Expand Multilingual Emergency Alerts 10. WIA: FCC Takes Step To Ban China Based Telecom 11. WIA: Brian Eno/Beatie Wolfe Really Launch New Album 12. RSGB: 146 Thru 147 MegaHertz NoV Extension Agreed By Ofcom 13. HACK: A Treasure Trove Of Random Vintage Tech Resources 14. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Division Elections: Voting Ends November 21st 15. ARRL: Images From Space Celebrate 25 Years Of Ham Radio On The International Space Station 16. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2025 ARRL November Sweepstakes — Phone! 17. ARRL: Save The Date: Annual ARRL YouTube Telethon To Support Teachers Institute 18. ARRL: Two Special Event Stations To Highlight Upcoming Weeks On Air Activity 19. ARRL: ARRL Has Published Its 2024 Annual Report - ARRL Has Open Positions Available 20. KFIZ: Moraine Park Technical College Donates Laptop Computers To Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club 21. Student Satellite Courses Are Funded Through ARDC Grant 22. Inaugural Q-Tech Conference To Be Held In Brisbane Australia 23. Amateurs In Sri Lanka Test Their Tsunami Response In Simulation Drill 24. Conductors Loss Of Electrical Conductivity Under Review 25. Newest Microwave Linear Transponder Onboard New CubeSat 26. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 27. AMSAT: AMSAT receives two ARDC grants for its Youth Initiative Program 28. CP: Neighbor objects to sixty foot ham radio tower - cites lack of notice and safety concerns 29. SPACE: Ukraine destroys giant radio telescope used by Russian military 31. WIA: Amateur Radio Digital Communications is now accepting grant applications 32. ARRL: RadioGram changes are announced 33. ARRL: Icom Dream Station - have you earned all your sweepstakes entries? 34. ARRL: The sixth annual Youth Dream Rig essay contest is about to get underway 35. Proposed Australian band plan sees reviews by amateurs in that country 36. Sunlight On Demand will come from a proposed new satellite constellation 37. Yasme Excellence Awards for work with young radio amateurs are awarded 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 Call That Radio?, or Where Did The Word Radio Come From?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR- A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to witness the arrival of international amateur communications. And, the lack of a worldwide system of station identification that led to confusion over callsigns. Without prefixes as we know them today, there was no way to use a call sign to identify a station's country. And since each country issued callsigns independently, duplicates were inevitable. We will hear all about it in this weeks edition entitled "Callsign Confusion" ----- 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1393 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: November 8, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Alan Shepard, WK8W, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:48:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1393 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Receives Two ARDC Grants for Youth Initiative Program 2. AMSAT: Alan Johnston, KU2Y, Presents CubeSat Simulator 2025 Updates 3. AMSAT: ARISS 2025 Highlights Presented by Frank Bauer, KA3HDO 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. CP: Neighbor Objects To Sixty Foot Ham Radio Tower, Cites Notice and Safety Concerns 6. SPACE: Ukraine Destroys Giant Radio Telescope Used By Russian Military 7. WIA: Amateur Radio Digital Communications, ARDC, Is Accepting Grant Applications 8. WIA: Youngsters In The Air Month Is Coming Up 9. ARD: ISS SSTV Event To Celebrate 25 Years Of The International Space Station 10. ARRL: Time Is Running Out To Vote In ARRL Division Elections 11. ARRL: New ARRL Technician Class LIVE Video Course For Ham Radio Licensing 12. ARRL: Special Event Unites Two Pennsylvania Colleges and Amateur Station W3USR 13. ARRL: Radiogram Changes Are Announced 14. ARRL: ICOM Dream Station: Have You Earned All Your Sweepstakes Entries? 15. ARRL: The 6th Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest Is About To Get Underway! 16. ARRL: On Air Commemorations And Special Events For Veterans Day 2025 17. Proposed Australian Band Plan Seeks A Review By Amateurs 18. Sunlight On Demand Will Come From A Proposed New Satellite Constellation 19. YASME Excellence Award For Work With Young Amateurs Are Given Out 20. Quicksilver Radio Products John Bartscherer, N1GNV, SK 21. Summits On The Air Enthusiast Robert Hannan G4RQJ, SK 22. Silent Keys Trust Endows Library At His Alma Mater 23. Mountain Radio Challenge Will Test Your Skills 24. ARRL: ARRL now has new ways for amateurs and GMRS users to help pass the HOA Bill in Congress 25. The BBC proposes shutting down its long wave transmitters 26. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contest listings and regional conventions 27. AMSAT: New AMSAT President outlines future directions for the organization 28. AMSAT: Is AO-7 still the oldest satellite? 29. AMSAT: Amateur radio receiver reveals global satellite transmissions privacy issue 30. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program is now accepting applications 31. ARRL: ARRL calls General Mobile Radio Service operators to help pass Emergency Preparedness Act 32. Europe's ham radio Friedrichshafen to debut astronomy trade 33. ARRL: ARRL to feature club photos in every QST issue during 2026 Plus these Special Features This Week: * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us about the origins of The RF Circulator * 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 year 1923, where amateurs were making trans-oceanic contacts and experimenting with the shorter wavelengths. This is part two of a two part episode titled "The Fourth Time's The Charm" ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1392 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: November 1, 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, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:29:08 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1392 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT President Outlines Future Directions 2. AMSAT: Is AO-7 Still The Oldest Satellite? 3. AMSAT: Amateur Radio Receiver Reveals Global Unsecured Satellite Privacy Issue 4. AMSAT: Russian Cosmonauts Conduct Spacewalk Outside The International Space Station 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 6. ARRL: Hurricane Melissa Update 7. ARRL: ARRL November Sweepstakes About To Get Underway 8. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program Is Now Accepting Applications 9. ARRL: The 20th Anniversary ARRL Online Auction Results 10. ARRL: ARRL Calls GMRS Operator To Help Pass The Emergency Preparedness Act 11. ARRL: Livonia ARC To Commemorate 50th Anniversary Of Sinking Of The SS Edmund Fitzgerald 12. ARRL: Log Submission Deadline For DX Marathon Sprint Upcoming 13. A Century of Broadcast Radio Is Celebrated By Amateurs In Latvia 14. Special Event Operation Remember The War Of The Worlds Martian Invasion 15. Europe's Ham Radio Friedrichshafen To Debut Astronomy Trade 16. Colleges New Electronics and Computer Engineering Center To Be Chaired By An Amateur 17. ARRL: ARRL to feature club photos in every issue of QST during 2026. 18. ARRL: Upcoming contest sheet and upcoming regional conventions. 19. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors elects officers 20. AMSAT: AMSAT Student memberships now offered at no cost, free! 21. AMSAT: Is low earth orbit getting too crowded? 22. WIA: FCC takes action against foreign owned electronic testing labs. 23. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain launches its new mobile app 24. ARRL: Pass the Emergency Preparedness Act bill activity continues 25. ARRL: Amateur radio club boot camp is declared a success 26. ARRL: United States Air Force to hold its 77th annual special event station 27. ARDC, Amateur Radio Digital Communications is now accepting grant applications 28. Expiration dates of broadcast licenses in Canada are eliminated by the country's regulator, CRTC. 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 "Going Around in Circles One Way", or a brief look at RF Circulators. * 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 1923, where amateurs were making trans-oceanic contacts and experimenting with the shorter wavelengths. This is part one of a two part episode titled, "The Fourth Time's The Charm." ----- 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.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1391 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: October 25, 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, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Lams, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ron Rowe, W2ELS, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:36:13 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1391 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Elects Officers 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Symposium Held In Phoenix 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Student Memberships Now Offered At No Cost 4. AMSAT: Is Low Earth Orbit Getting Too Crowded? 5. AMSAT: Swarm Reveals Growing Weak Spot In Earth's Magnetic Field 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: FCC Takes Action Against Foreign-Owned Electronic Labs 8. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain Launches Mobile App 9. ARRL: Pass The Bill Activity Continues 10. ARRL: Talking Up a Storm And Amateur Radio In Pennsylvania 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Club Bootcamp A Success 12. ARRL: Tropical Storm Melissa Update 13. ARRL: US Air Force To Hold 77th Annual Special Event Station 14. In Its Fourth Decade Ensuring Driver Safety Is Pumpkin Patrol 15. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Now Accepting Grant Applications 16. First ARISS Contact Made In Seven Years By Ham TV 17. Expiration Dates For Broadcast Licenses In Canada Are Eliminated By CRTC 18. Noted Dx'er Charles Harpole K4VUD / HS0ZCW SK 19. Amateur Radio Historian K2TQN, John Dilks III, SK 20. New Modes For Emergency Communications Are Taught To Young Amateurs 21. ARRL: Many special event stations are planned for Veterans Day on November 11, 2025 22. ARRL: Club Spotlight: How does your club welcome new members and new hams? 23. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listings 24. ECARS: ECARS prepares for its annual Board of Director elections 25. ARD: DX Look introduces personalized band condition reports for you specific location 26. IFLS: Military spacecraft launched 56 years ago has been moved and nobody claims responsibility 27. ARRL: ARRL Year of The Club Website Contest is announced and calls for submissions 28. ARRL: FCC announces its intent to delete minor Part 97 provisions 29. Launch of Amazons Kuiper satellites is finally successful after multiple weather delays 30. Theft of copper at antenna sites is now high on the FCC list for action 31. The International Amateur Radio Union proposes inclusion of amateurs with disabilities 32. Ofcom, the UK regulation, implements more amateur radio license changes 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, returns to his construction project in a segment titled, "Bald Yak #13 - Monitoring The Sun, In Small Steps." * 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. Our own amateur radio historian, returns with another encore edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to January of 1921 when the ARRL ran another round of transcontinental relays over several nights, setting new records for coast-to-coast round-trip message relaying. ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1390 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: October 18, 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, Ron Rowe, W2ELS, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:42:57 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1390 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: DXLook Introduces Personalized Band Conditions 2. ARD: SAQ Grimeton To Air United Nations Day Message 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. IFLS: Military Spacecraft Launched 56 Years Ago Has Been Moved By Persons Unknown 5. SN: FCC Launches Space Month To Fast Track Satellite Licensing and Spectrum Reforms 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Runs With The Chicago Marathon 7. ARRL: Ed Hare, W1RFI, Long Time ARRL Lab Engineer, Passes Away 8. ARRL: ARRL Year Of The Club Website Contest — Call for Submissions! 9. ARRL: FCC Announces Intent To Delete Minor Part 97 Provisions 10. ARRL: BOO! A Night On Bald Mountain 11. Launch Of Amazons Kuiper Satellites Is Finally Successful After Weather Delays 12. Copper Theft Is High On The FCC List For Action 13. International Amateur Radio Union Urges Inclusion Of Hams With Disabilities 14. Ofcom In The UK Implements More Ham Radio License Changes 15. North Star Radio Convention Sets A New Attendance Record 16. Amateurs In Idaho Receive Grant To Upgrade Outdated Emergency Communications Gear 17. Maldives Wet Square Activation Is Planned 18. Youth Operators To Be Featured During The Sundarbans DxPedition 19. MET: HamShack TV Presents A Chat With Bouvet Island DxPeditioner 20. 02H: Free Online General Class License Course Starting Soon 21. ARRL School Club Round-Up is being held on October 20, 2025 22. ARRL: Upcoming radiosport contests and regional convention listings 23. AMSAT: ARISS SSTV Event runs through October 20th, 2025 24. AMSAT: Four United States Schools and Organizations move forward in ARISS Contact Selection 25. WIA: The United States and Australia Sign a Space Agreement 26. WIA: The Tune-In app will now carry Emergency Alert Notifications 27. WIA: US Federal Judge orders the administration to halt layoffs at The Voice of America 28. BBC: The BBC now expects to close Radio 4 Longwave during 2026 29. FCC: The FCC releases a draft notice for NextGen TV rules, and ATSC 1.0 sunset 30. ARRL: Club Newsletter Contest - Call For Submissions 31. ARRL: The ARRL Foundation is accepting grant applications during October 32. Australia's Square Kilometer Antenna Array gains interference protection by building a surrounding Faraday Cage 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 an amateur radio story entitled "When Your Hobby Revolves Around Electricity" * 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 * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with an encore presentation of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920's as vacuum tubes were making CW practical, they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone, or just phone to hams, began as experiments by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. This week's episode is titled, "Radio Telephone". ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1389 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: October 11, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Lama, KC2OJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Christ Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:38:19 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1389 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: ARISS SSTV Event Runs Through October 20th, 2025 2. AMSAT: Four US Schools and Organizations Move Forward In ARISS Selection Process 3. AMSAT: A Review Of The futureGEO Workshop 2025 In Bochum 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: United States and Australia Sign Space Agreement 6. WIA: TuneIn App To Carry Emergency Alert Notifications 7. WIA: US Federal Judge Orders Administration To Halt VOA Layoffs 8. K9YA: Armstrong Gave The World Static Free Radio 9. BBC: BBC Now Expects To Close Radio 4 LongWave During 2026 10. FCC: FCC Releases Draft Notice For NextGen TV Rules, ATSC 1.0 Sunset 11. ARRL: Zoe Rodriguez Named 2025 Craigie Memorial Educator 12. ARRL: Club Newsletter Contest — Call For Submissions! 13. ARRL: FCC Issues Notice Of Violation For Unauthorized One-Way Transmissions and Denial of Inspection 14. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Accepting Grant Applications In October 15. ARRL: 13 Colonies Special Event Founder and Coordinator Ken Villone, KU2US, SK 16. ARRL: The Greater Saint Louis Area Scouting Council Will Be Active During This Year's JOTA and JOTI 17. Four Chinese Owned Electronics Labs Are Blacklisted By The FCC 18. Sri Lanka's New Amateur Radio Cubesats Are Now In Orbit 19. Australia's Square Kilometer Array Gains Interference Protection 20. Emergency Radio Network Planned By Florida Baptist Church 21. ARRL: Colorado Students visit The Pilsner Radio Telescope 22. ARRL: New Jersey Special Event to celebrate Columbus Day 23. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listing 24. WIA: Equatorial Guinea Amateurs are still off the air, Italian amateurs gain access to 40 MegaHertz 25. WIA: Update: AM Radio For Every Vehicle bill advances in Congress 26. ARRL: Amateur radio licensing update during the on-going Government Shutdown 27. ARRL: Ham Radio Influencers rally around the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness/HOA Antenna Bill 28. ARRL: New leadership is announced for the ARRL New Hampshire Section 29. A New Zealand weather radar is destroyed by a direct lightning hit 30. Cellphone Jamming in prisons is passed by the FCC 31. A newly licensed amateur is charged by the FCC with unauthorized operation 32. Teenage DxPeditioner joins the Andaman Island DxPedition team 33. 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 tell us how to properly prepare for an amateur radio outing, such as Parks On The Air * 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 own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1923 to see how amateurs were investigating all sorts of things including aurora and even DXpeditions, as he wraps up with Part Two of the story titled, "High Latitudes and Low Wavelengths" ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1388 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: October 4, 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, Rich Lawrence. KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:40:17 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1388 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Symposium Registration Continues / AMSAT-DL Hosts futureGEO Meeting 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Equatorial Guinea Still Off The Bands - Italian Hams Back On 40 MegaHertz 4. WIA: Update: AM Radio For Every Vehicle Bill Advances IN US Congress 5. RAC: Canadian Special Event Operation To Highlight Fire Prevention Week 6. ARRL: Amateur Radio Licensing Update During United States Government Shutdown 7. ARRL: FCC Issues Notice Of Violation For Unauthorized One-Way Transmissions And Denial Of Inspection 8. ARRL: Ham Radio Influencers Rally Around Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act 9. ARRL Simulated Emergency Test Is Coming Up In October 10. ARRL: Radio Activations During Hurricanes Imelda and Humberto 11. ARRL: Preview The 20th Annual ARRL Online Auction October 7th thru the 9th 12. ARRL: New Leadership For The ARRL New Hampshire Section 13. ARRL: United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Will Operate Special Event Station N2S 14. New Zealand Weather Radar Is Destroyed By A Direct Lightning Hit 15. Amateur Radio Is Incorporated Into A Nuclear Cleanup Drill For The First Time 16. Cell Phone Jamming In Prisons Is Passed By The FCC 17. Newly Licensed Ham Is Charged By The FCC With Unauthorized Operation 18. Upcoming Pennsylvania QSO Party Offers New Incentives 19. World Space Week Will Feature Special SSTV Transmissions From The ISS 20. Teenager Joins Andaman Island DxPedition Team 21. RSGB: Must See Presentations At The Upcoming RSGB 2025 Convention 22. Volunteer Monitor Program Report 23. AMSAT: AMSAT 2025 Board Of Directors Election results are announced 24. AMSAT: Open letter from AMSAT-SM highlights the need for full duplex handheld transceivers 25. AMSAT: The Wow@Home projects builds worldwide SDR telescope network 26. WIA: China's great Solar Wall is a real big deal visible from space 27. WIA: NASA contracts with SpaceX to deorbit the International Space Station in 2030 28. ARRL: NASA is requesting amateurs to assist in passively tracking the upcoming Artemis Moon Mission 29. ARRL: National Council on Volunteer Examiners Question Pool Committee removes Extra Class Question 30. ARD: The MORE Project seeks to license 500 youth interested in amateur radio 31: Local radio club helps residents to learn how to program Weather Alert Radios properly 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 "Where's The Fun In That?" * 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 this week with a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1923 to see how amateurs were investigating all sorts of things including aurora and even DXpeditions. This will be Part One of the story titled, "High Latitudes and Low Wavelengths" ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1387 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: September 27, 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, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:36:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1387 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT 2025 Board of Directors Election Results Announced To Membership 2. AMSAT: AMSAT July/August 2025 AMSAT Journal Now Available for Member Download 3. AMSAT: Open Letter From AMSAT-SM Highlights Need For Full Duplex Handheld Radio 4. AMSAT: Wow@Home Project Builds Worldwide SDR Telescope Network to Monitor the Sky 5. AMSAT: Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL Debuts With Record Cargo Delivery To The ISS 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: China's Great Solar Wall Is A Big Deal 8. WIA: NASA Contracts With SpaceX To Deorbit The International Space Station 9. WIA: California County Helping Residents Get Licensed and Provide Radios 10. ARRL: Wants Every Ham To Help Pass The Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act Now In Congress 11. ARRL: Hams Needed To Assist In Tracking Upcoming NASA Moon Mission 12. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: Use Your Ham Radio For Public Service 13. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Extra Class Question E6D07 From Use 14. ARRL: JOTA - JOTI Amateur Radios Largest On The Air Scouting Events 15. ARD: MORE Project Seeks To License Youth Interested In Amateur Radio 16. SUNY: SUNY Canton EMS Joins County-Wide Emergency Communications Simulation 17. Radio Club In California Helps Local Hams Replace Radios Lost In The Recent Wildfires 18. Programming Emergency Weather Radios Can Be A Struggle 19. Satellite License Procedures Under Review By Ofcom 20. CYØS Team Announce DXpedition Dates To Sable Island 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional/Divisional Conventions and HamFests 22. AMSAT: Amateur Radio CubeSats deployed from the ISS on September 19th 23. WIA: Four NASA research volunteers entered the MARS Habitat to be in isolation for months 24. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain issues a response to the recent Ofcom Consultation 25. WIA: DxPedition team loses equipment to large ocean waves 26. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications seeks volunteers for its 2026 committees 27. Amateur Radio licenses are suspended in Equatorial Guinea 28. A US FM pirate broadcaster receives a $920,000 penalty from the Federal Communications Commission 29. RSGB: The Radio Society of Great Britain DMR project restarts in schools across the UK 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 you how he has fun when he Plays With SDR Radio * 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 Solar Weather and Terrestrial Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - Will returns with Part Two of a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1922 where we find the steadily increasing use of CW paralleled exploration of ever shorter wavelengths, and the two pursuits complemented each other. Amateurs were setting new records at a whirlwind pace. This weeks episode is titled, "Trans-Pacifics" ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1386 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: September 20, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:36:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1386 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: CubeSats Deployed From The International Space Station On September 19th 2. AMSAT: Space Station's Silver Jubilee Celebrated With Silver Research 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Four Research Volunteers Will Enter Mars Habitat Isolation 5. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain Responds To Ofcom Consultation 6. WIA: DXpedition Team Loses Equipment To Large Ocean Waves 7. ARRL: ARRL Launches Nationwide Grassroots Campaign To Pass Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act 8. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: Know Your Risk 9. ARRL: Gear Packed For 3YØK DXpedition To Bouvet In February 2026 10. ARRL: Section Manager Workshop Held At League Headquarters 11. ARRL: WWV Amateur Radio Club To Host Special Event Stations, Using The Callsign WWØWWV 12. ARRL: Nominations For Orlando HamCation's 2026 Awards Are Now Open 13. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeks Volunteers For 2026 Committees 14. ShakeOut 2025 – Amateur Radio Support For United States Geological Survey 15. Radio Hall Of Fame Posthumously Inducted Silent Key 16. Amateur Radio Licenses Suspended In Equatorial Guinea 17. FM Broadcast Station Receives $920,000 Piracy Penalty From The FCC 18. Parks On The Air Group Grows Statewide Across Minnesota 19. RCA Technical Symposium Offers Cryptology And Space Side Trips 20. The Radio Society Of Great Britains DMR Project Restarts In Schools Across The UK 21. Changes Are Made To The Citizen Band Radio Rules & Amateur Repeater Regulations In Australia 22. Voyager One Is Almost One Light Day Away From Earth 23. ARRL: Churches and Chapels on the air special event 24. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing 25. RW: Russia's mysterious shortwave station UVB-76 (Buzzer) resumes broadcasting cryptic messages 26. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassadors show at HamXposition Convention 27. AMSAT: AMSAT announces two new Gridmaster Award recipients 28. WIA: Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) selects six recipients for scholarships 29: ARRL National Preparedness Month: Ham Radio Supply List 30: ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination results are announced 31. FCC: ASTSpaceMobile is granted limited use of the amateur radio bands by the FCC 32. Amateur operators in India are mandated to convert from paper license to digital 33. Current Solar Cycle prediction methodology raises some doubts with researchers 34. FCC: Mobile phone jamming inside prisons is under consideration by the Commission 35. Direct satellite to mobile devices service is considered by Ofcom the regulation in the United Kingdom 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 Amateur Radio has changed his world view * 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 - This week, Will takes us back to 1922 where we find the steadily increasing use of CW paralleled exploration of ever shorter wavelengths, and the two pursuits complemented each other. Amateurs were setting new records at a whirlwind pace. This week Part One of an episode titled, "Trans-Pacifics" ----- 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.
New Radiocommunications License Conditions (Amateur License) Determination 2025 will commence 30 September 2025 and a fresh look at our breeding ground, CB, here in Australia aligns to much of the rest of the world. - WIA's Roger Harrison VK2ZRH, Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine & WIA director Steven Green VK2TSG join us.. -
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1385 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: September 13, 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, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:39:34 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1385 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. Russia's Mysterious Buzzer Resumes Broadcast With Secret Codes 2. FCC: FCC Chairman Climbs Nexstar Broadcast Tower To Promote Industry, and Jobs 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassadors Show At HamXposition Convention 4. AMSAT: AMSAT Announces Two New GridMaster Award Recipients 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Young Ladies Radio League Selects Six Recipients For Scholarships 7. ARRL: Amateur Radio Serves During New England Tornadoes 8. ARRL: National Preparedness Month – Ham Radio Supply List 9. ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination Results 10. ARRL: Arkansas Club Shares Ham Radio At Maker Faire 11. ARRL: Northern Panhandle Amateur Radio Club Will Operate W8ZQ, For POW / MIA Awareness Special Event 12. AST SpaceMobile Is Granted Limited Use Of The Amateur Bands By The FCC 13. Indian Amateurs Are Mandated To Convert To Digital Licenses 14. Solar Cycle Prediction Methodology Raises Doubts 15. Mobile Phone Jamming At Prisons Is Eyed By The FCC 16. Amateurs Across New York State Activate The States Erie Canal 17. Satellite To Cellphone Service Is Considered By Ofcom The UK Regulator 18. World RadioSport Championship Wild Card Members Are Chosen 19. ARRL: Battleship Iowa upcoming special event station 20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 21. LBK: Equatorial Guinea suspends all amateur licenses in the country 22. AMSAT: NASA seeks volunteers to assist in tracking the upcoming Artemis II mission 23. WIA: NASA deploys a 39 foot wide radar antenna in orbit 24. XRN: High power shortwave stock trading transmitters adjacent to amateur HF bands 25. TVR: The FCC will allow ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC to shutdown free ATSC 1.0 and switch to ATSC 3.0 26. ARRL: National Preparedness Month is here. 12 ways to prepare 27. ARRL: ARRL Labs helps radio amateurs avoid interfering with the US Space Force PAVE PAWS radar 28. Band plans changes for 30 meters is eyed by New Zealand amateurs 29. Well known European Amateur Radio Retailer halts shipments to the US due to tariffs 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, in amateur radio, How Small is Small? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. W2XOY, Silent Key, returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives. This week we look back at the events of 9-11-2001, when Bill found himself in New York City on that fateful morning, and how radio helped him escape the city * 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.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1384 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: September 6, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ,Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:44:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1384 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: ROC-HAM Radio Network Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Erie Canal 2. AMSAT: NASA Seeks Volunteers to Track Artemis II Mission 3. AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: NASA Deploys 39 Foot Wide Radar Antenna In Orbit 5. XRN: Weapons Detection At 300 GigaHertz 6. XRN: Earthquake Prediction Experiments Continue / PhasorLabs Experiments With Spread Spectrum 7. XRN: High Power Shortwave Stock Trading - An Update 8. TVT: The FCC Will Allow ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC TV Stations To Shutdown Free ATSC 1.0 & Switch To ATSC 3.0 9. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: 12 Ways To Prepare 10. ARRL: Northeast HamXposition Draws Crowds 11. ARRL: Ham YouTubers Boost ARRL Teachers Institute 12. ARRL: ARRL Lab Helps Radio Amateurs Avoid Interfering With US Space Force PAVE PAWS Radar 13. ARRL: Team USA Earns Medals At ARDF World Championships In Lithuania 14. ARRL: K6C Will Operate At The California State Capitol Park On Tuesday, September 9th 15. ARRL: The Swedish Amateur Radio Association To Celebrate Its 100th Anniversary Sept 10 thru Oct 12th 2025 16. NZART: Band Plan Changes For 30 Meters Is Eyed By New Zealand Society of Radio Transmitters 17. RAC: Straight Key Night Is Now On The Air In Canada 18. European Amateur Radio Retailer Halts Shipments To The US Due To Tariffs 19. Japan Amateurs Optimistic On Their New Multi-Mode Linear Transponder 20. Markus Baseler, DL6YYM, BA-MA-TECH Owner SK 21. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net enters the world of Podcasting 22. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contesting and Regional Convention Listing 23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 24. RW: Ham radio uses explain why they are worried about AST SpaceMobile Satellite use of the 70cm band 25. AMSAT: Amateur weather satellite reception opportunities beyond the retiring POES Fleet 26. ARRL: Interview with ARRL CEO David Minster now available on The DX Mentor Podcast on YouTube 27. ARRL: Resilience through amateur radio is the theme of National Preparedness Month 2025 28. ARRL: ARRL Contest Advisory Committee is reviewing Canadian Section Multipliers 29. Delays plague the launch of AST SpaceMobile 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, gets back to his Bald Yak Project, and in this edition, he covers the process of Getting Raw Data From A Remote Receiver * 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 * September edition of The Volunteer Monitoring Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the late 1920's. Though radio had changed rapidly and radically during the 1920's, that change only accelerated in the early 20's. New regulations, the broadcast boom, the abandonment of spark for CW, and new transmitter, receiver, and antenna designs were all happening simultaneously. This week's edition is titled, "New Circuits" ----- 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.
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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1383 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: August 30, 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:48:06 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1383 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RW: Ham Radio Users Explain Why They're Worried About AST SpaceMobile's Satellite Plans 2. AMSAT: Amateur Weather Satellite Reception Opportunities Beyond The Retired POES Fleet (NOAA-15/18/19) 3. AMSAT: Meteoglider Offers Reusable Radiosonde Alternative For High Altitude Weather Data Collection 4. AMSAT: SpaceX's Starship Flight 10 To Demonstrate Expanded Booster And Upper Stage Test Objectives 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Collins - Rewind 7. ARRL: Interview With ARRL CEO: Details On Recent Board Meeting, Huntsville Fest, Legislative Advocacy & DX 8. ARRL: Resilience Through Amateur Radio For National Preparedness Month 2025 9. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Marks 60 Years Of Service 10. ARRL: FCC Batch Filing System Unavailable 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Operators And Shortwave Listeners Invited To Participate In A Unique Event On Aug. 30th 12. ARRL: ARRL Contest Advisory Committee Is Reviewing Canadian Section Multipliers 13. ARRL: HandiHam Program's 58th Anniversary 14. Sailing Vessel Is Helped By The Maritime Mobile Network 15. Route 66 On The Air Adds An Aeronautical Rover 16. Launch Delays Plague AST SpaceMobile Satellites 17. Sonoma California Residents Build GMRS Network With The Help Of Local Hams 18. Young Operators Recruited By Andaman Island DxPedition 19. ARD: European Amateur Radio Retailer halts purchases and shipments to the United States due to tariffs 20. AMSAT: AMSAT organizations continue to challenge AST SpaceMobile Use of the 70 centimeter band 21. AMSAT: A NASA satellite relied on by both scientists and farmers may be destroyed on purpose 22. WIA: FCC tracks down a device at a local business that has been causing interference 23. NARA: The National Association of Radio Amateurs announces its Club Week coming up this fall 24. RI: The FCC opens a rulemaking on revamping the entire US Emergency Alert System 25. NASA: NASA is predicting that Betelgeuse may go supernova soon 26. ARRL: The candidates for ARRL Director and Vice Director position elections have been announced 27. ARRL: The league presents awards to the best of amateur radio 28. ARRL: ARRL announces a new book release on constructing stealth antennas 29: ARRL: Scientists and amateurs are hacking for SETI at The Allen Telescope Array 30: The Federal Government announces that broadcast funding for new EAS equipment excludes public radio & TV 31. Unauthorized handheld transceivers are the target for officials in India 32. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions and HamFests 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 use "An SDR as Measuring Equipment" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine, to March 20th, 1923, when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened his second national radio conference and where amateurs are assigned a band of wavelengths for the first time. This week is the concluding Part Two of a series titled "First Band, Top Band" ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1382 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: August 23, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, 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: 1:51:37 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1382 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: MESAT1 Named A Finalist In Global Satellite Contest 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Organizations Continue To Challenge AST SpaceMobile Use Of Ham Radio Spectrum 3. AMSAT: NASA Satellite That Scientists And Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed On Purpose 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: FCC Cites Device In Use At A Spa For Interference 6. ARD: Club Week is Coming This Fall 7. RI: FCC To Open Rulemaking On Revamping United States Emergency Alert System 8. NASA: NASA Says Betelgeuse May Go Supernova Soon 9. ARRL: Candidates Named For ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections 10. ARRL: The Best Of Amateur Radio Honored With ARRL Awards 11. ARRL: New ARRL Book Release: Stealth Antennas For Ham Radio 12. ARRL: Lou Dietrich, N2TU, Noted DXer, Past INDEXA Chairman, Passes Away 13. ARRL: Hacking For SETI At The Allen Telescope Array 14. ARRL: The Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Will Participate In Jamboree-On-The-Air 15. ARRL: Wedding Day QSOs From Mount Princeton In Colorado 16. An Important Part Of The South Georgia DxPedition Will Involve Youth 17. Federal Emergency Alert Grants Will Exclude Public Radio 18. AST SpaceMobile Proposes Its Satellite Launch Window 19. Student Satellite Project From Canada Moves Ahead 20. Unauthorized Handheld Radios Are The Target Of Indian Officials 21. Radio Society of Great Britain Invites The World To Work In UK 22. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contests 23. CYN: Fatal Texas floods trigger the FCC to review and possibly update the US Emergency Alert System 24. ARD: A candidate for US Congress focuses on issues related to amateur radio 25. AMSAT: New ISS Crew expands the space station population to eleven 26. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Societies file comments with the FCC on AST/70cm concerns 27. WIA: Hawaiian Broadcasters are seeking access to encrypted Police Scanner traffic 28. HKDY: WiFi is being allowed near the Greenback Observatory in the West Virginia Radio Quiet Zone for the first time 29. ARRL: Amateurs prepare for the forecasted busy Hurricane Season 30. NOAA: Legacy NOAA Weather Satellites are being decommissioned 31. NOAA: The National Weather Service is now hiring following recent mass firings 32. Florida retirees are preparing for the upcoming storm season by building a local radio network 33. ARD: The HamCation Awards Committee seeks nominations for the upcoming 2026 season 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 explain "How to listen to local RF via a web browser." * 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 March 20th, 1923, when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened his second National Radio Conference and where amateurs are assigned a band of wavelengths for the first time. This week is Part One of a Two-Part series titled, "First Band, Top Band" ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1381 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: August 16, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:36:19 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1381 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Moves To Protect US Submarine Cables From Foreign Adversaries 2. CYN: Fatal Texas Floods Trigger FCC Review Of US Emergency Alert System 3. ARD: Candidate For US Congress Focuses On Issues Related To Amateur Radio 4. AMSAT: 2025 AMSAT Symposium Keynote Speaker Announced 5. AMSAT: NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Mission Ends In Disappointment 6. AMSAT: International Space Station Crew Expands To Eleven 7. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Societies File Comments With The FCC On AST/70cm Concerns 8. WIA: Hawaiian Broadcasters Want Access To Police Scanner Information For Emergencies 9. HKDY: Wi-Fi Being Allowed Near Green Bank Observatory For First Time Ever 10. ARRL: Amateurs Prepare For Forecasted Busy Hurricane Season 11. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Awards Alexia Snethen, KM6LGG, The 2025 Goldfarb Memorial Scholarship 12. ARRL: Hams Track Campers' High-Altitude Balloon, Decode Images 13. ARRL: ARRL Serving Its Members: NU2W's Story 14. ARRL: Seven Year Old Gertrude Takagi Earns Her Amateur Radio License 15. ARRL: 26th Anniversary Of The Route 66 Special Event 16. Legacy NOAA Weather Satellites Are Decommissioned 17. National Weather Service Now Rehiring Following Recent Mass Firings 18. Upcoming 3Y0K DxPedition Sites Legal Issues For Cancellation Of Lottery 19. Amateurs In The United Kingdom Accept The Challenge To Build Balloon Tracker 20. Florida Retirees Prepare For Upcoming Storm Season 21. Indiana Amateurs Celebrate Parks Centennial By Having A POTA Activation 22. Australian Young Amateurs Prepare For Their First Youth On The Air Contest 23. ARD: HamCation Awards Seeks Nominations For 2026 Season 24. ARRL: The Swedish Amateur Radio Society, SSA, will celebrate its 100-year anniversary on September 10, 2025 25. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing 26. AMSAT: AO-123 FM Transponder To Enter Continuous Service / Ham-TV is activated on the Space Station 27. WIA: Radio Amateurs Of Canada develops Auxiliary Communications Service 28. IARU: Registration for IARU Region 2 XXII General Assembly Is Now Open 29. ARRL: New ARRL DXCC Trident Award Plaque Honors 100 Confirmed On Three Modes 30. ARRL: Jobs for amateurs at ARRL Headquarters 31. Indian student amateurs are seeking a patent on new lightning avoidance device 32. HOIP: HamShack Hotline users are invited to apply for service on Hams Over IP 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 discuss How To Decode Distant Signals Over The Web. * 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 own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with the conclusion of his three part series titled, "Crossings, The Reply". We witness another Atlantic Crossing, but this time European as well as American amateurs are participating. ----- 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1380 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: August 9, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:36 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1380 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AO-123 FM Transponder To Enter Continuous Service / HamTV Installed On The Space Station 2. AMSAT: NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 To Be Decommissioned 3. WIA: Radio Amateurs of Canada Develops Auxiliary Communications Service 4. IARU: Registration For The International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 XXII General Assembly Is Now Open 5. ASTM: No Interference? AST SpaceMobile Defends Use of Ham Radio Spectrum 6. ARRL: New ARRL DXCC Trident Award Plaque Honors 100 Confirmed Entities On Three Modes 7. ARRL: ARRL Celebrates The Jeffrey B. Goldman, K3DUA, Teachers Institute Week 8. ARRL: High Altitude Camp Needs Amateur Radio Tracking Operators 9. ARRL: HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Party August 11th Through The 12th, 2025 10. ARRL: W9GIG, Passes Away 11. ARRL: Frank Butler, W4RH, Former ARRL Southeastern Division Director, Passes Away At 100 12. ARRL: The U.S. Coast Guard's 235th Birthday Will Be Celebrated On August 9th, 2025 13. ARRL: The 28th International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend Is Coming Up 14. ARRL: Jobs For Hams At ARRL Headquarters 15. The New ISS Crew-11 Starts Its Work On The Space Station 16. Navajo Code Talkers Of World War II Are Honored By Special Event Station 17. US/India Joint New Satellite Will Focus On Natural Disasters 18. Indian Student Amateurs Are Seeking A Patent On New Lightning Avoidance Device 19. Decoding Skills Are Tested By Upcoming Enigma Machine Special Event 20. HOIP: Hamshack Hotline Users Invited To Apply For Services At Hams Over IP 21. ARRL: ARRL was well-represented at the 2025 Maine State Convention in Augusta on August 2 22. ARRL: Polish Amateur Radio Union will celebrate the anniversaries of three Polish lighthouses August 9 – 17 23. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contests 24. AMSAT: AMSAT submits a formal objection to the AST SpaceMobile 70cm acquisition plan for satellite control 25. AMSAT: Amateur Radio enthusiasts decode SSMIS satellite data after DoD ends public access. 26. NCM: Washington DC area GMRS licensee files FCC Petition for VHF Low band allocations 27. ARRL: Introducing Radio Alpha, the ARRL Museum and Research Library 28. ARRL: ARRL special events app is now available for the Huntsville HamFest 29. ARRL: 28th International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend is coming up August 16/17 30. New callsign suffixes and prefixes are introduced in Sweden and India 31. International response to AST SpaceMobile 70cm commercial use plan 32. Radio related fees are on the rise in Pakistan 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, is having a quiet weekend and answers the question "What Can We Activate Today?" * 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 own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to October of 1922 when the second round of cross-Atlantic tests were being made. This time though, it was European stations turn to participate, We will here about it as Will presents Part Two of "Crossings, The Reply" * 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.
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1379 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: August 2, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:46:43 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1379 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Submits Formal Objection To AST SpaceMobile Plan, FCC Records 2,220 Comments 2. AMSAT: Amateur Radio Enthusiasts Decode SSMIS After DoD Ends Public Hurricane Data Stream 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches NASA's TRACERS Mission To Study Solar Wind and Magnetic Reconnection 4. AMSAT: NASA, ISRO Set to Launch NISAR Satellite to Map Earth and Monitor Glaciers, Faults, and Crops 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. NCM: Washington DC Area GMRS Licensee Files FCC Petition For VHF Low Band Frequencies 7. ARRL: Ham Radio Responds During Tsunami Threat 8. ARRL: Introducing Radio Alpha, The ARRL Museum and Research Library 9. ARRL: ARRL Field Day 2025 Saw Growth In Participants And Entries 10. ARRL: ARRL Events App Available For Huntsville Hamfest 11. ARRL: 100th Anniversary Of The Wreck Of The USS Shenandoah Airship 12. ARRL: Yasme Foundation Awards A Grant To Cover License Exams For Youth In Malawi, Africa 13. ARRL: Doctor Ulrich L. Rohde, N1UL, Has Been Awarded The Bavarian Order Of Merit 14. ARRL: 28th International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend Will Take Place August 16 and 17, 2025 15. New Callsign Suffixes and Prefixes Are Introduced In Sweden and India 16. Station In Mexico To Honor Maximilian Kolbe The Patron Saint of Amateur Radio 17. International Response To Business FCC Filing For Amateur Radio Frequencies 18. Radio Related Fees Are On The Rise In Pakistan 19. Heritage and History Is The focus Of South African Awards 20. Amateurs Teach Police In India the advantages of the role amateur radio can play in crisis 21. ACUW: World longest lightning flash is confirmed as a new world record 22. WIA/RAC: Radio Amateurs Of Canada issues new Question Pool 23. FCC: FCC pirate radio crackdown hits a Washington State Ranch 24. FCC: 91 years ago marks the birth of the Federal Communications Commission 25. ARRL: ARRL Board Meeting Highlights 26. ARRL: ARRL files comments to protect the 70 centimeter amateur radio band 27. FCC: FCC Explores overhauling the Emergency Alert System, and regains its authority to hold Spectrum Auctions 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 comment on the proposed grab of our 70 centimeter band in a segment he calls, "Using The Amateur Band For Other Purposes." * 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 Volunteer Monitor Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to 1922 to witness yet another Cross-Atlantic test. In October of that year the ARRL announced that another round of Trans-Atlantic tests would be run in December, with preliminary trials from 25 October through 3 November. This time the test would include British, French and Dutch amateurs, and be two way communications ----- 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.
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
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.
Season 5: Episode 206In this episode of North American Ag Spotlight podcast, Chrissy Wozniak sits down with Svitlana Synkovska, a global event management expert with two decades of experience in agribusiness. Svitlana has organized and marketed nearly 50 international events across 12 countries, bringing together key players in commodities trading, biofuels, and more. Now serving as the Portfolio Director for Women in Agribusiness (WIA), she shares her insights into how WIA fosters a thriving community of professional women through networking, career development, and collaboration.Svitlana discusses the evolution of agribusiness events, highlighting the meticulous planning, market research, and industry relationships required to create impactful conferences. She emphasizes the Women in Agribusiness Summit, which has grown from 200 attendees in 2012 to over 1,100 professionals today, establishing itself as the premier event for women in agribusiness. The upcoming 2025 WIA Summit will focus on key industry topics, including ag commodities markets, U.S. trade policy, extreme weather impacts, consumer trends, and the role of AI in agriculture.Throughout the conversation, Svitlana offers invaluable career advice for women looking to establish themselves in agribusiness, stressing the importance of networking, building authentic connections, and embracing industry associations. She also explores the biggest disruptors in agriculture today, from global trade shifts to technological innovations like biological pesticides and robotics.Tune in to hear about the power of community, the future of agribusiness, and how the Women in Agribusiness Summit is shaping the industry. For more information, visit WomenInAg.com and follow them on social media.