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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1385 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)
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: 1:36:02
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1386
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: CubeSats Deployed From The International Space Station On September 19th
2. AMSAT: Space Station’s Silver Jubilee Celebrated With Silver Research
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Four Research Volunteers Will Enter Mars Habitat Isolation
5. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain Responds To Ofcom Consultation
6. WIA: DXpedition Team Loses Equipment To Large Ocean Waves
7. ARRL: ARRL Launches Nationwide Grassroots Campaign To Pass Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
8. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: Know Your Risk
9. ARRL: Gear Packed For 3YØK DXpedition To Bouvet In February 2026
10. ARRL: Section Manager Workshop Held At League Headquarters
11. ARRL: WWV Amateur Radio Club To Host Special Event Stations, Using The Callsign WWØWWV
12. ARRL: Nominations For Orlando HamCation’s 2026 Awards Are Now Open
13. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeks Volunteers For 2026 Committees
14. ShakeOut 2025 – Amateur Radio Support For United States Geological Survey
15. Radio Hall Of Fame Posthumously Inducted Silent Key
16. Amateur Radio Licenses Suspended In Equatorial Guinea
17. FM Broadcast Station Receives $920,000 Piracy Penalty From The FCC
18. Parks On The Air Group Grows Statewide Across Minnesota
19. RCA Technical Symposium Offers Cryptology And Space Side Trips
20. The Radio Society Of Great Britains DMR Project Restarts In Schools Across The UK
21. Changes Are Made To The Citizen Band Radio Rules & Amateur Repeater Regulations In Australia
22. Voyager One Is Almost One Light Day Away From Earth
23. ARRL: Churches and Chapels on the air special event
24. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing
25. RW: Russia's mysterious shortwave station UVB-76 (Buzzer) resumes broadcasting cryptic messages
26. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassadors show at HamXposition Convention
27. AMSAT: AMSAT announces two new Gridmaster Award recipients
28. WIA: Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) selects six recipients for scholarships
29: ARRL National Preparedness Month: Ham Radio Supply List
30: ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination results are announced
31. FCC: ASTSpaceMobile is granted limited use of the amateur radio bands by the FCC
32. Amateur operators in India are mandated to convert from paper license to digital
33. Current Solar Cycle prediction methodology raises some doubts with researchers
34. FCC: Mobile phone jamming inside prisons is under consideration by the Commission
35. Direct satellite to mobile devices service is considered by Ofcom the regulation in the United Kingdom
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 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
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* 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 titled, "Trans-Pacifics"
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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss
Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss
Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss
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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.
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: 1:36:02
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1386
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: CubeSats Deployed From The International Space Station On September 19th
2. AMSAT: Space Station’s Silver Jubilee Celebrated With Silver Research
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Four Research Volunteers Will Enter Mars Habitat Isolation
5. WIA: Radio Society of Great Britain Responds To Ofcom Consultation
6. WIA: DXpedition Team Loses Equipment To Large Ocean Waves
7. ARRL: ARRL Launches Nationwide Grassroots Campaign To Pass Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
8. ARRL: National Preparedness Month: Know Your Risk
9. ARRL: Gear Packed For 3YØK DXpedition To Bouvet In February 2026
10. ARRL: Section Manager Workshop Held At League Headquarters
11. ARRL: WWV Amateur Radio Club To Host Special Event Stations, Using The Callsign WWØWWV
12. ARRL: Nominations For Orlando HamCation’s 2026 Awards Are Now Open
13. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeks Volunteers For 2026 Committees
14. ShakeOut 2025 – Amateur Radio Support For United States Geological Survey
15. Radio Hall Of Fame Posthumously Inducted Silent Key
16. Amateur Radio Licenses Suspended In Equatorial Guinea
17. FM Broadcast Station Receives $920,000 Piracy Penalty From The FCC
18. Parks On The Air Group Grows Statewide Across Minnesota
19. RCA Technical Symposium Offers Cryptology And Space Side Trips
20. The Radio Society Of Great Britains DMR Project Restarts In Schools Across The UK
21. Changes Are Made To The Citizen Band Radio Rules & Amateur Repeater Regulations In Australia
22. Voyager One Is Almost One Light Day Away From Earth
23. ARRL: Churches and Chapels on the air special event
24. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing
25. RW: Russia's mysterious shortwave station UVB-76 (Buzzer) resumes broadcasting cryptic messages
26. AMSAT: AMSAT Ambassadors show at HamXposition Convention
27. AMSAT: AMSAT announces two new Gridmaster Award recipients
28. WIA: Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) selects six recipients for scholarships
29: ARRL National Preparedness Month: Ham Radio Supply List
30: ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination results are announced
31. FCC: ASTSpaceMobile is granted limited use of the amateur radio bands by the FCC
32. Amateur operators in India are mandated to convert from paper license to digital
33. Current Solar Cycle prediction methodology raises some doubts with researchers
34. FCC: Mobile phone jamming inside prisons is under consideration by the Commission
35. Direct satellite to mobile devices service is considered by Ofcom the regulation in the United Kingdom
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 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
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* 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 titled, "Trans-Pacifics"
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Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss
Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss
Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss
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.