This Week in Amateur Radio

George Bowen, W2XBS
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This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio is North America's premier news magazine of the airwaves. We're coming back from hiatus! Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!

  1. 2D AGO

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio SPECIAL BONUS AUDIO - AJ8B Interview with ARRL CEO NA2AA

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio SPECIAL BONUS AUDIO - AJ8B Interview with ARRL CEO NA2AA With permission from the "DX Mentor" Bill Salyers, AJ8B, we are proud to present his interview with ARRL CEO David Minster. This is from Episode 63 of "The DX Mentor". You can visit Bill's Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@thedxmentor and be sure to like/subscribe to his channel to get notified of future episodes. You can watch the video on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/yxWD-qI2DJM?si=TRK4mHSFsQt7ZpuP Send Bill an email at "thedxmentor" at gmail Facebook: facebook.com/thedxmentor About the DX Mentor: The purpose of The DX Mentor channel is to provide a way to recruit, educate, and retain amateurs who have some level of interest in DX. Whether it is a passing interest in chasing DX, someone who is fully invested in chasing DX but needs the “next level” of information to continue their journey, or those amateurs that are interested in DX and want to learn more on a broad array of topics, we want to help them all along the journey. The format of these videos is a little different than other amateur radio channels for several reasons. First, it is not a host waxing philosophically about their personal experiences. The host will play the role of mediator ensuring that the topic is addressed while allowing flexibility for the guests to share experiences and knowledge. The host is the DX Mentor, not the DX Guru! Approximate Running Time: 1:59:45 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARNA2AADXM ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  2. 2D AGO

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1361

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1361 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: March 29, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:33 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1361 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Fram2Ham SSTV Transmissions Planned 2. AMSAT: Alba Orbital Assists AMSAT-EA With HADES-ICM Project 3. AMSAT: Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Photographs Eclipse From The Moon 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Hello Moon? Anybody Home? Please Pick Up 6. WIA: WABC Promotes AM Radio In New York City Post Advertising 7. WIA: Solar Max Has Been Announced, Is A Second Peak Coming? 8. ARRL: Five Steps to Get Ready for April’s Ham Radio Open House - Part One 9. ARRL: Five Steps to Get Ready for April’s Ham Radio Open House - Part Two 10. ARRL: Sign Up Now For The ARRL Youth Rally At The Dayton Hamvention 11. ARRL: Caribe Wave 2025 Tsunami Exercise In Puerto Rico 12. ARRL: HF Geratol Net’s 52nd Anniversary Will Be Held April 6th – 13th, 2025 13. ARRL: Get Ready For 2025 ARRL Field Day June 28/29 14. ARRL: New Two Hour Interview With ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, Now Available 15. ARRL: United Nations General Assembly Designated April 2nd World Autism Awareness Day 16. Navy Looks To Ham Radio Technology For Backup Communications 17. Government Shutdown Of Voice of America And Other International News Services 18. New Zealand's New Mobile Emergency Operations Center 19. ARRL: ARRL Announces this month's cover plaque award winner 20. The Shortwave Broadcast Museum in Dayton Ohio announces opening hours during HamVention weekend 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention/Hamfest listings 22. AMSAT: International Space Station changes crew for Expedition 73 23. WIA: Democrats introduce legislation to prohibit the FCC from revoking licenses 24. WIA: New "GOTA" - Grids On The Air activity and awards 25. WIA: African Telecommunications Union discusses expansion of amateur radio in Africa 26. WIA: You can listen in on Russian Communications from Ukraine 27. FCC: FCC opens the comment period on deregulating everything 28. ARRL: ARRL plans comments on the FCC "Delete Delete Delete" Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 29. ARRL: 76th International DX Convention coming up on April 11-13 in Visalia, California 30. Young amateurs are getting ready for the upcoming DX Youth Adventure 31. A west coast amateur loses his county job due to work at a repeater site 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 present an article he calls, "Echoes From The Past. 150 micro seconds ago" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radiosport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast and Space Weather Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to the mid 1920's where we find that for amateurs, crossing the Atlantic was the next natural challenge. They had been thinking about it since before the war. Many in the scientific community were skeptical that such a feat could possibly be achieved at such a short wavelength as 200 meters, especially with power as low as one kilowatt. This week's Episode is called "Crossings, Part One: Aquitania" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  3. MAR 22

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1360

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1360 - Full Version Release Date: March 22, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, 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: 1:47:41 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1360a Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Amateur Satellites Finally Launch After Delays 2. AMSAT: NASA’s SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions Launch 3. AMSAT: International Space Station Changes Crew for Expedition 73 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Democrats Introduce Legislation To Prohibit FCC From Revoking Licenses 6. WIA: New "GOTA" Grids On The Air Activity and Awards 7. WIA: African Telecommunications Union Discusses Amateur Radio Expansion On The African Continent 8. WIA: Listen In On Russian Communications From Ukraine 9. FCC: FCC Opens Comment Period On Deregulating Everything 10. FCC: Geoffrey Starks To Step Down As FCC Commissioner 11. ARRL: ARRL On The FCC's "Delete Delete Delete" Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking 12. ARRL: Ham Radio, Students and Scientists At The 2025 HamSCI Workshop 13. ARRL: 76th International DX Convention April 11 – 13 in Visalia, California 14. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House Continues To Grow 15. ARRL: Great Falls Masonic Amateur Radio Club Receives Grant To Donate Books 16. US Federal Government Shutters Voice of America And Other US Based News Services 17. Walter Carlington, VP9KD Former Net Director For Caribus Net, SK 18. Young Amateurs Are Getting Ready For The DX Youth Adventure 19. West Coast Amateur Loses His County Job Due To Work At A Repeater Site 20. Navy Radio Personnel Look Toward Ham Radio Technology 21. New Zealand's New Mobile Emergency Operations Center Provides Assistance 22. Polio Vaccine 70th Anniversary Marked By Amateur Special Event Station 23. ARRL: Upcoming Parks On The Air Activations of note 24. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions and HamFests 25. HCK: The Long Goodbye - More instruments shut down on the Voyagers as the end nears 26. ARD: The 2025 HamVention Award Winners are announced 27. ARRL: "Radio Connects" is the 2025 ARRL Field Day Theme - Merch is available now 28. ARRL: Results of recent ARRL Section Manager Elections 29. Shortwave station in Austria is now carrying the DARC Radio Program 30. Personnel cuts at the US National Weather Service has amateurs nationwide concerned 31. The 6GHz band is opened by the FCC to more VLP (Very Low Power) devices 32. Amateurs in Warren County New York prepare to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Erie Canal 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, returns to his ongoing Bald Yak Project, this week in Pt 11, he talks about The Goo Between The Hardware and the Software * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will sets The Wayback Machine for the mid nineteen twenties, where, in a drama worthy of a Broadway play, amateurs were making progress taming the QRM problem. Sometimes a solution did not involve a new invention, or even technology at all ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  4. MAR 16

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1359

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1359 - Full Version - (CORRECTED LINK) Release Date: March 15, 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, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:21:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1359 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HCK: The Long Goodbye: More Instruments Shut Down On The Voyagers As End Nears 2. ARD: 2025 Hamvention Award Winners Announced 3. FCC Grants SpaceX A Key Waiver To Boost Cellular Starlink Network 4. AMSAT: New Textbook Featuring GNU Radio Published 5. AMSAT: ISS Astronauts Reject Call For Early Retirement Of The Station 6. ARRL: Radio Connects Is 2025 ARRL Field Day Theme — Merchandise Available for Preorder 7. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Site Locator Live, PR Workshop Registration 8. ARRL: Perfect Storm Exercise in California Gets Results 9. ARRL: Results Of ARRL Section Manager Elections 10. ARRL: Two Local Clubs Join Together To Sponsor Their Annual Spring Thaw Event 11. ARRL: Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Honors WWII Heros 12. Shortwave Station In Austria Adds Deutsche Amateur Radio Club Radio Program 13. Personnel Cuts At The US Weather Service Raises Questions 14. Fishermen and Farmer In India Find Amateur Radio An Important Tool 15. Radio Is deemed Essential Communication Against Wildfires In India 16. Six GigaHertz Band Is Opened By The FCC To More Unlicensed Very Low Power Devices 17. Lunar Lander On The Moon Tracked By Earth Navigation System 18. Amateurs To Celebrate 200th Anniversary Of The Erie Canal 19. FCC: FCC opens comment period on deregulating everything on a NPRM entitled, "Delete Delete Delete" 20. ARRL: Upcoming Radio Sport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 21. ARD: Brandmeister DMR Network to stop supporting certain DMR identifiers 22. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters urge the FCC to accelerate transition to NextGen Television 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 answer the question, Can You Work DX on a Dummy Load? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, we travel back to January of 1921, where we find the league running another round of transcontinental messaging, setting new records for the coast-to-coast relay. This episode is entitled "Transcons at Record Speed" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  5. MAR 9

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1358

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1358 - Full Version Release Date: March 8, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:48:45 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1358 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: Brandmeister DMR Network To Stop Supporting Some DMR IDs 2. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters Urges FCC To Accelerate NextGen TV Transition 3. WKRN: FCC Chairman Carr Climbs Nexstar Broadcast Tower To Promote Industry Jobs 4. AMSAT: Amateur Satellites Scheduled For Launch 5. AMSAT: Nine New TEVEL Satellites Scheduled For Launch 6. AMSAT: Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Lander Beams Back First Images Of Earth - 4G 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: British Science Week Gets Underway 9. WIA: No Amateur Radio Fest At The National Association of Broadcasters Show This Year 10. WIA: Remember The Video Chat Service Skype? 11. MSN: Discover The Hidden Stories Behind Your Favorite Devices At This New Huntsville Museum 12. ARRL: 2025 HamSCI Workshop is March 14th and 15th At The New Jersey Institute Of Technology 13. ARRL: Clubs Are Gearing Up For ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Yours Can, Too! 14. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Founder Gerald Murphy, K8YUW, a Silent Key 15. ARRL: ARRL Honorary Vice President Frank Butler, W4RH, Celebrates His Centenary 16. First Amateur Radio Club Station Is Installed At University of West Bengal 17. India Foundation Prepares For An Upcoming DxPedition 18. Three Kilmolin Cluster Beacons Are Shut Down To Relocate 19. Ham Radio In Brazil Outlined In Recent Survey 20. ARRL Presents the next On The Air Live for March 25, 2025 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain Announce 2025 Band Plans 23. AMSAT: Hades R satellite repeater is activated and designated Spain Oscar 124 or SO-124 24. AMSAT: Solar Sails aim to enhance future space weather alerts 25. WIA: Australian Regulator ACMA finalizes license fee structures - New Zealand looks for proposal comments 26. WIA: Libyan Communications Amateur Society is admitted to the International Amateur Radio Union 27. WIA/RAC: Mike Kelly, VE3FFK is the recipient of the Radio Amateurs of Canada Amateur of the Year Award 28. VOA: Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting History reopens after seven month renovation 29. ARRL: Colorado High School students visit The Plishner Radio Astronomy Center 30. ARRL: How about some Pi with that transceiver? 31. ARRL: Hap Holly, KC9RP, moderator and creator of The RAIN Report is a Silent Key 32. ARRL: Registration begins mid-March for the 24th USA National Radio Orienteering Championship 33. RaDar/Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio is coming soon 34. Radio astronomers in a radio quiet zone battle RF Interference as combined technologies offer to assist 35. Volunteer Monitor Report for this month 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 answer the question, What's the story you like to tell yourself? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to the early 1920's, when among a lot of other things, the US Navy was pressing for control of the airwaves again. We will here all about this and more in this edition entitled "Strays" ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  6. MAR 2

    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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  7. FEB 23

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1356

    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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  8. FEB 15

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1355

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1355 - Full Version Release Date: February 15, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Alan Shephard, WK8W Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:58:52 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1355 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RSGB: Bletchley Park Museum Radio Awareness Talk 2. RSGB: New RSGB Emerging Technology Web Page 3. HACK: Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3 4. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA’s HADES-R Successfully Deployed and Transmitting Telemetry 5. AMSAT: Blue Origin Simulates Lunar Gravity On Landmark New Shepard Flight 6. AMSAT: Interlune Aims To Mine Lunar Helium-3 For Quantum Computing On Earth 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union To Celebrate Centenary 9. INDO: Ham Radio Users Detect Suspicious Signals Along Indo-Bangladesh Border 10. RW: WJLX Returns To 1240 AM After Tower Theft 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio Emergency Service Renews Relationship with Red Cross in Puerto Rico 12. ARRL: RigExpert’s Administrative Office Destroyed in Russian Missile Attack — Production Remains Intact 13. ARRL: Robert Naumann, W5OV, Silent Key 14. ARRL: Grant Will Help Young Amateur Radio Operators Become Contesters 15. ARRL: Have A Ham Radio Open House For World Amateur Radio Day 16. ARRL: Stations Across Northeast Illinois Gathered For A 70 Centimeter Simplex Research Event 17. ARD: Actor Paul Giamatti To Play Art Bell In Biopic Film 18. Starlink Satellites Re-entries Are Leaving Metallic Vapor Trails 19. An Amateur Radio Operator Turns Out To Be The Frontrunner To Lead Germany 20. AM Radio Act To Save AM Radio In US Vehicles Gets Revived Effort 21. Meteorites Landing Location Activated By Amateur Radio Operator 22. World Radiosport Team Championship 2026 Rules Are Published 23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 24. AMSAT: SO-120 Antennas Deployed 25. AMSAT: Fram2Ham SSTV Simulation is now onboard the International Space Station 26. RW: Austria's historic Moosbrunn shortwave transmission site is dismantled 27. RW: SiriusXM SXM-9 satellite is now operational 28. FCC: FCC upholds order against an amateur licensee 29. PROP: The magnetic north pole has officially shifted its position 30. ARRL: Training the next generation of net control operators 31. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net is turning 60 years old, and is seeking net control operators 32. ACMA: The Australian Communications & Media Authority finalizes license fee charges for Australian amateurs 33. Living the good life on the air at a senior living community as it launches a ham radio club 34. Senators reintroduce legislation to protect amateur radio operators in an HOA 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, returns this week to his open source Bald Yak Project, where he will teach us to pay attention to the details. * 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 * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another new edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920 when amateurs discovered that radio waves didn’t simply move from point to point along a straight line and decrease in strength with distance. Something else was happening too, but what? Will answers this question in an episode titled, "The QSS Tests." ----- 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 w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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This Week in Amateur Radio is North America's premier news magazine of the airwaves. We're coming back from hiatus! Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!

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    George Bowen, W2XBS
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    2016 - 2025
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