Release Date: March 22, 2025
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chirs Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:47:41
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1360
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: Amateur Satellites Finally Launch After Delays
2. AMSAT: NASA’s SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions Launch
3. AMSAT: International Space Station Changes Crew for Expedition 73
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: Democrats Introduce Legislation To Prohibit FCC From Revoking Licenses
6. WIA: New “GOTA” Grids On The Air Activity and Awards
7. WIA: African Telecommunications Union Discusses Amateur Radio Expansion On The African Continent
8. WIA: Listen In On Russian Communications From Ukraine
9. FCC: FCC Opens Comment Period On Deregulating Everything
10. FCC: Geoffrey Starks To Step Down As FCC Commissioner
11. ARRL: ARRL On The FCC’s “Delete Delete Delete” Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking
12. ARRL: Ham Radio, Students and Scientists At The 2025 HamSCI Workshop
13. ARRL: 76th International DX Convention April 11 – 13 in Visalia, California
14. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House Continues To Grow
15. ARRL: Great Falls Masonic Amateur Radio Club Receives Grant To Donate Books
16. US Federal Government Shutters Voice of America And Other US Based News Services
17. Walter Carlington, VP9KD Former Net Director For Caribus Net, SK
18. Young Amateurs Are Getting Ready For The DX Youth Adventure
19. West Coast Amateur Loses His County Job Due To Work At A Repeater Site
20. Navy Radio Personnel Look Toward Ham Radio Technology
21. New Zealand’s New Mobile Emergency Operations Center Provides Assistance
22. Polio Vaccine 70th Anniversary Marked By Amateur Special Event Station
23. ARRL: Upcoming Parks On The Air Activations of note
24. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions and HamFests
25. HCK: The Long Goodbye – More instruments shut down on the Voyagers as the end nears
26. ARD: The 2025 HamVention Award Winners are announced
27. ARRL: “Radio Connects” is the 2025 ARRL Field Day Theme – Merch is available now
28. ARRL: Results of recent ARRL Section Manager Elections
29. Shortwave station in Austria is now carrying the DARC Radio Program
30. Personnel cuts at the US National Weather Service has amateurs nationwide concerned
31. The 6GHz band is opened by the FCC to more VLP (Very Low Power) devices
32. Amateurs in Warren County New York prepare to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Erie Canal
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 ongoing Bald Yak Project, this week in Pt 11, he talks about The Goo Between The Hardware and the Software
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on 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 sets The Wayback Machine for the mid nineteen twenties, where, in a drama worthy of a Broadway play, amateurs were making progress taming the QRM problem. Sometimes a solution did not involve a new invention, or even technology at all
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