Release Date: January 25, 2025
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:47:31
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1352
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. EAB: Secret Listeners – Revealing The Life Of Amateur Radio Heroes
2. DLARC: What Is New At The Digital Library Of Amateur Radio and Communications
3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches Hamsats on Rideshare Mission
4. AMSAT: Two Private Moon Landers Have Launched At Once
5. AMSAT: Blue Origin New Glenn Reaches Orbit On Its First Launch
6. AMSAT: SpaceX Success & Failure In Starship Flight 7
7. AMSAT: New ARISS Proposal Window Is Now Open
8. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over
9. WIA: Remotely Controlled Vehicles Over Starlink
10. WIA: Binghamton New York Radio Club Hosts Kids Day
11. RI: With Trump Designation, Brendan Carr Is Now FCC Chairman
12. HACK: Forget the Coax, Wire Up Your Antennas With Cat 6 Cable
13. ARRL: Get Ready For Ham Radio Open House On World Amateur Radio Day 2025
14. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Program Awards A Half Million Dollars To Grow Ham Radio
15. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Funds Hardware For Florida Students To Make Contact With The ISS
16. ARRL: Ham Radio Demonstration Helps Survivors Of Violence At Camp
17. ARRL: Former QST Columnist, Doctor Emil Pocock, W3EP, Silent Key
18. ARRL: Winter Field Day Is This Weekend
19. ARRL: The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program To Conduct Research Campaign January 27th-31st
20. ARRL: The 76th Annual International DX Convention Is Announced
21. ARRL: The National Traffic System 2.0 Subcommittee Have Completed A Number Of Projects And Initiatives
22. ARRL: The Southeastern VHF Society Will Hold Its Annual Conference On April 4th and 5th, 2025
23. Wearable Avalanche Transceiver Helps To Pinpoint Trapped Skier
24. Lake Placid Olympic Museum Receives Amateur Radio Gift
25. Ofcom Announces More Privileges For Visiting Amateurs To The United Kingdom
26. Ham Radio Ireland Magazine Is Published On Line Once Again
27. Award Recipients Named By The Organizers Of The Orlando HamCation
28. Amateur Helps Find Children Lost During Pilgrimage
29: ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listing
30. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union to celebrate its upcoming 100th Anniversary
31. WIA: Are you ready for a twenty dollar windfall from Apple?
32. HR: Harvey Laidman, W8DX, Director of The Waltons and Matlock, SK at 82
33. FCC: FCC proposes $200,000 in pirate radio fines
34. FCC: FCC seeks comments on reallocating the 1675-1680 MegaHertz band for shared uses
35. ARRL: The league issues a call for QST articles about Field Day
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 why he moved his WSPR or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter beacon to 15 meters.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers – K5WLR and A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920, where we find a young radio engineer by the name of Edwin H. Armstrong gave QST permission to reprint his article entitled A New Method for the Reception of Weak Signals at Short Wavelength.
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