PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1357

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1357 - Full Version Release Date: March 1, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:48:34 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1357 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC Issues Warning Over Payola Practices 2. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain 2025 Band Plans Released 3. AMSAT: HADES-R FM Repeater Activated and Designated Spain-OSCAR 124 (SO-124) 4. AMSAT: ARISS Completes Successful FRAM2Ham Simulation Event Using ISS Radio 5. AMSAT: Blue Ghost and Resilience: Private Landers On Course For Lunar Touchdowns 6. AMSAT: Solar Sails Aim to Enhance Space Weather Alerts 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: Australian Regulator ACMA Finalizes License Fee Changes, New Zealand Seeks Feedback On Changes 9. WIA: Libyan Communications Amateur Society Admitted To International Amateur Radio Union 10. WIA: UPDATE: RigExpert Administrative Offices Destroyed In Russian Missile Attack 11. WIA/RAC: Mike Kelly, VE3FFK Is The Recipient Of The Radio Amateurs Of Canada Amateur Of The Year Award 12. VOA: VOA Museum of Broadcasting History Reopened After Seven Month Renovation 13. INDIA: India's First 24 Hour Ham Radio Learning Marathon Held In West Bengal 14. ARRL: Get On The Air For The ARRL International DX Contest 15. ARRL: ARRL’s “On the Air Live” Continues to Grow 16. ARRL: Colorado High School Students Visit The Plishner Radio Astronomy and Space Sciences Center 17. ARRL: How About Some Pi With That Transceiver? 18. ARRL: Hap Holly, KC9RP, Moderator Of The Weekly Amateur Radio Audio Feature Magazine, RAIN Report, SK 19. ARRL: Registration Begins Mid-March For The 24th USA National Radio-Orienteering Championships 20. A Bloody Sunday During The US Civil Rights Era Is Recalled During An Alabama Activation 21. Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio (RaDAR) Is Coming Soon 22. New Development May Make Solar Panels More Affordable 23. Astronomers Battle RF Interference As Combined Technologies Offers To Assist 24. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 25. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 26. ARRL: ARRL issues call for QST articles for the July 2025 special issue on Emergency Communications 27. RW: President Trump expands White House oversight of the Federal Communications Commission 28. ARRL: Dayton HamVention announces its 2025 Theme, and ARES bootcamp at California HamEscape 29. ARRL: YLRL/Young Ladies Radio League scholarships are available for students 30. ARRL: Changes are announces in the ARRL Iowa Section 31. ARRL: High School and a science fiction movie spark interest in amateur radio 32. ARD: Ham Radio Gizmos platform launches a new documentary series to inspire amateur radio operators 33. Spectrum Sharings is eyed by UK regulator Ofcom on the six gigahertz band 34. Youth attending the 2025 International DX Convention will have free admission 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, presents part ten of his open source project The Bald Yak. This week he answers the question, how does it all fit together? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and a lot more more * Weekly Solar Weather and Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to a time when vacuum tubes were making CW practical, they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone began as experiments by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. ----- 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.