PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1386 – Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: September 20, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate Running Time: 0:59:48

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1386HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Space Station’s Silver Jubilee Celebrated With Silver Research
2. WIA: Four Research Volunteers Will Enter Mars Habitat Isolation
3. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain Reponds To Ofcom Consultation
4. WIA: DXpedition Team Looses Equipment To Large Ocean Waves
5. ARRL: ARRL Launches Nationwide Grassroots Campaign To Pass Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
6. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: Know Your Risk
7. ARRL: Section Manager Workshop Held At League Headquarters
8. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeks Volunteers For 2026 Committees
9. Amateur Radio Licenses Suspended In Equatorial Guinea
10. FM Broadcast Station Receives $920,000 Piracy Penalty From The FCC
11. Changes Are Made To The Citizen Band Radio Rules & Amateur Repeater Regulations In Australia
12. Voyager One Is Almost One Light Day Away From Earth
13. RW: Russia’s mysterious shortwave station UVB-76 (Buzzer) resumes broadcasting cryptic messages
14. AMSAT: AMSAT announces two new Gridmaster Award recipients
15: ARRL National Preparedness Month: Ham Radio Supply List
16: ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination results are announced
17. FCC: AST SpaceMobile is granted limited use of the amateur radio bands by the FCC

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how Amateur Radio has changed his world view.
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more.
* Will Rogers, K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio – This week, Will takes us back to 1922 where we find the steadily increasing use of CW paralleled exploration of ever shorter wavelengths, and the two pursuits complemented each other. Amateurs were setting new records at a whirlwind pace. This week Part One of an episode entitled Trans-Pacifics.

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