Release Date: April 26, 2025
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:28:05
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1365
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: Volunteer For Engineering Drawings Needed
2. AMSAT: AMSAT At Hamvention 2025 – Volunteer At The AMSAT Booth
3. AMSAT: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT Banquet To Be Held On Friday, May 16th
4. AMSAT: AMSAT Forum On Saturday, May 17th / AMSAT Dinner at Tickets – Thursday, May 15th
5. AMSAT: Jet Propulsion Lab Lays Off Its K-12 Education Team
6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
7. HRF: Ham Radio 2025 48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Friedrichshafen / Belgium HamConBe 2025
8. RW: Judge Halts Shutdown Of Voice Of America
9. IC: Efforts Underway To Save Marconi Radio Towers In Canada
10. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House Events Find Success, Media Coverage
11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Helps 2025 Boston Marathon
12. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Application Deadline April 30th
13. ARRL: New Book Release: Salty Walt’s Portable Antenna Sketchbook
14. ARRL: ARRL Exhibits and Forums Planned For 2025 Dayton Hamvention
15. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test, Department of Defense, Scheduled For Saturday May 10th, 2025
16. World Radiosport Team Championship Issues Deadline For Sponsored Teams Is April 30th
17. International Amateur Radio Union Eyes Restructuring
18. Ham Radio Bootcamp Opens For Registration
19. Canoe Challenge Fundraiser Involves Hams
20. Fram2Ham Announces SSTV Contest Winners Announced
21. Hams In South Africa Foster Radios Growth In The Sub-Saharan Region
22. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Area Conventions and HamFests
23. ARRL: ARRL documents next generation DX’ing program at the International DX Convention
24. Young amateurs can attend the upcoming Dayton HamVention 2025 for free
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us “How To Become Mode Agile”
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
* Weekly Propagation and Solar Weather Forecast from the ARRL
* Will Rogers, K5WLR, and ‘A Century Of Amateur Radio’ will take us aboard The Wayback Machine to January 1922 as amateur signals successfully cross the Atlantic. Despite the broadcast community saying it couldn’t be done. This week’s episode is entitled, ‘Crossing Three: The Accolades’
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