PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1366 – Full Version (LPFM, no ID Breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: May 3, 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, 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: 1:47:55

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1366LPFM

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. HACK: Is Your GPS Broken? Try ATSC 3.0 Television!
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day 2025
3. WIA: New Zealand Straight Key Night
4. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union HF World Championship Contest
5. WIA: An Oldie But A Goodie
6. WIA: APRS Foundation To Host Education Summit
7. WIA: Rescue Radio – The Summit Of Emergency Preparedness
8. W2PH: Amateur Radio Comes to Internet Radio
9. SpaceX: SpaceX’s Spectrum Surveillance Ups Ante in FCC Fight
10. WH: White House Cancels News Service After Reporter Asks Tough Question
11. ARW: Italian Radio Amateurs Get Permission To Use The 40 MegaHertz Band
12. ARRL: 630-Meter Band Worked All States Awards Issued
13. ARRL: Clock Is Ticking Down To 2025 Dayton Hamvention
14. ARRL: Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
15. ARRL: Star Wars Meets Amateur Radio
16. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union Gathers In Paris To Honor Centennial
17. ARRL: ARRL Announces Change In Atlantic Division Leadership
18. ARRL: 2025 Hudson Division Convention Scheduled For July 13th
19. ARRL: ARRL Hudson Division Now On Discord
20. ARRL: Recently Established School Club Rapidly Grows New Hams
21. Amateurs In Brazil Gain CB Privileges, And Lose The CW Requirement
22. New Low Power FM Broadcast Station Is Lead By An Amateur Group
23. New Satelite To Help Study Forests Of The World
24. Low Power FM Station In Florida Hit By The FCC For Excessive Power
25. BBC Is Facing Charter Expiration, Plans To Rechart Its Course
26. Bell Laboratories Prepare For Relocation As It Prepares To Celebrate 100 Years
27. Alford Master FM Antenna From The Empire State Building Being Auctioned
28. Guru Of The Re-Gen Receiver And Engineer For The Boston Symphony Charles Kitchin, N1TEV, SK
29. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
30. Camp Lazarus Centennial Celebration On The Air
31. Granite State Amateur Radio Association Hold Amateur Radio Youth Demonstration
32. ARRL: Select Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing
33. AMSAT: Volunteer For Engineering Drawings Needed
34. AMSAT: AMSAT At Hamvention 2025 – Volunteer At The AMSAT Booth
35. AMSAT: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT Banquet To Be Held On Friday, May 16th
36. AMSAT: AMSAT Forum On Saturday, May 17th / AMSAT Dinner at Tickets – Thursday, May 15th
37. AMSAT: Jet Propulsion Lab Lays Off Its K-12 Education Team
38. HRF: Ham Radio 2025 48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Friedrichshafen / Belgium HamConBe 2025
39. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House Events Find Success, Media Coverage
40. ARRL: ARRL Exhibits and Forums Planned For 2025 Dayton Hamvention
41. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test, Department of Defense, Scheduled For Saturday May 10th, 2025
42. International Amateur Radio Union Eyes Restructuring
43. Ham Radio Bootcamp Opens For Registration
44. Hams In South Africa Foster Radios Growth In The Sub-Sahara Region

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 how to be an amateur radio operator without either a radio or an antenna.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of “A Century of Amateur Radio”. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early and mid-1920’s to answer the question, ‘What Is An Amateur?’ As the demarcation between amateur and broadcaster becomes gray

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