PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1356

This Week in Amateur Radio - A podcast by George Bowen, W2XBS - Sundays

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1356 - Full Version Release Date: February 22, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Tuner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:40:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1356 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Call for QST Articles For The July 2025 Special Issue On EmComm 2. AMSAT: Current Active AMSAT Engineering Projects 3. RW: President Trump Expands White House Oversight Of The FCC 4. ARRL: Dayton HamVention Announces 2025 Theme - ARES Bootcamp Coming To California HAM ESCAPE 5. ARRL: More Openings Available for On the Air Live 6. ARRL: DX Opportunities Abound Around ARRL International DX Contest 7. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) Scholarships Available For Students 8. ARRL: Bob Buus, W2OD, ARRL Northern New Jersey Section Manager, Silent Key 9. ARRL: Changes in the ARRL Iowa Section 10. ARRL: High School and a Science Fiction Movie Spark Interest In Amateur Radio 11. ARRL: Have A Ham Radio Open House In April 12. ARRL: Grassroots Emergency Communications Operations In Arizona 13. ARD: Ham Radio Gizmos Platform Launches Documentary Series To Educate And Inspire Ham Enthusiasts 14. Michigan Upper Peninsula Dog Sled Race And Local Amateurs Both Pull Long Shifts 15. First Young Ladies Meet Up Hosted By Argentine Radio Club 16. Spectrum Sharing Is Eyed By The UK Ofcom On The 6 GigaHertz Band 17. Beloved New Zealand CW Operator Is Honored In A YouTube Tribute 18. Sound Engineer and Parks On The Air Enthusiast Ian Kuhn, KI9W, Silent Key 19. Youth At The International DX Convention Will Have Free Admission 20. Measuring RF Pollution In South Africa 21. ARRL: The North American QSO Party is this weekend 22. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions Listing 23. RSGB: Bletchley Park museum radio awareness talk 24. AMSAT: Interlune aims to mine lunar helium 3 for Quantum Computing on Earth 25. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union readies to celebrate its centenary 26. INDO: Ham radio users detect suspicious signals along the Indonesian-Bangladesh border 27. ARRL: Rig Expert administrative office destroyed in Russian missle attack 28. ARRL: Grant will help young amateur radio operators become contesters 29. ARRL: Stations across northeast Illinois gathered for a 70cm simplex research event 30. ARD: Actor Paul Giamatti to play Art Bell in proposed upcoming biopic 31. WRTC: World Radiosport Team Championship 2026 rules are published 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 update us on his open source Bald Yak Project in a segment called Phosphor and The Impertinence Of Software * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and a lot more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week will piles us all into The Wayback Machine to take us back to the early 1920's as amateurs transition from Spark to CW. ----- 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 [email protected]. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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