PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1382 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)

Release Date: August 23, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:51:37

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1382

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: MESAT1 Named A Finalist In Global Satellite Contest
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Organizations Continue To Challenge AST SpaceMobile Use Of Ham Radio Spectrum
3. AMSAT: NASA Satellite That Scientists And Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed On Purpose
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: FCC Cites Device In Use At A Spa For Interference
6. ARD: Club Week is Coming This Fall
7. RI: FCC To Open Rulemaking On Revamping United States Emergency Alert System
8. NASA: NASA Says Betelgeuse May Go Supernova Soon
9. ARRL: Candidates Named For ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections
10. ARRL: The Best Of Amateur Radio Honored With ARRL Awards
11. ARRL: New ARRL Book Release: Stealth Antennas For Ham Radio
12. ARRL: Lou Dietrich, N2TU, Noted DXer, Past INDEXA Chairman, Passes Away
13. ARRL: Hacking For SETI At The Allen Telescope Array
14. ARRL: The Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Will Participate In Jamboree-On-The-Air
15. ARRL: Wedding Day QSOs From Mount Princeton In Colorado
16. An Important Part Of The South Georgia DxPedition Will Involve Youth
17. Federal Emergency Alert Grants Will Exclude Public Radio
18. AST SpaceMobile Proposes Its Satellite Launch Window
19. Student Satellite Project From Canada Moves Ahead
20. Unauthorized Handheld Radios Are The Target Of Indian Officials
21. Radio Society of Great Britain Invites The World To Work In UK
22. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and RadioSport Contests
23. CYN: Fatal Texas floods trigger the FCC to review and possibly update the US Emergency Alert System
24. ARD: A candidate for US Congress focuses on issues related to amateur radio
25. AMSAT: New ISS Crew expands the space station population to eleven
26. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Societies file comments with the FCC on AST/70cm concerns
27. WIA: Hawaiian Broadcasters are seeking access to encrypted Police Scanner traffic
28. HKDY: WiFi is being allowed near the Greenback Observatory in the West Virginia Radio Quiet Zone for the first time
29. ARRL: Amateurs prepare for the forecasted busy Hurricane Season
30. NOAA: Legacy NOAA Weather Satellites are being decommissioned
31. NOAA: The National Weather Service is now hiring following recent mass firings
32. Florida retirees are preparing for the upcoming storm season by building a local radio network
33. ARD: The HamCation Awards Committee seeks nominations for the upcoming 2026 season

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 explain "How to listen to local RF via a web browser."
* 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, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine, to March 20th, 1923, when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened his second National Radio Conference and where amateurs are assigned a band of wavelengths for the first time. This week is Part One of a Two-Part series titled, "First Band, Top Band"

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