Release Date: May 10, 2025
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX.
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 2:12:58
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1367
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. VOA: United States Appeals Court Halts Order Allowing Voice of America Employees Back To Work
2. FCC: FCC Older Americans Month Webinar To Be Held On May 22, 2025
3. FCC: FCC Wants To Improve Internet From Space Satellites
4. ARDC: DLARC, Receives Grant To Continue Mission – ARDC To Hold Seminar At Dayton HamVention
5. AMSAT: AMSAT Prepares For Major Presence At 2025 Dayton Hamvention
6. AMSAT: Amazon Kicks Off Kuiper Network with Ambitious First Satellite Launch
7. AMSAT: Europe’s Vega C Rocket Launches Satellite to Map Forest Health
8. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
9. WIA: RSGB Participated In The International Amateur Radio Union Region One Meeting In Paris
10. ARRL: Plan Your Hamvention With ARRL App
11. ARRL: Johns Hopkins University To Hold ARRL Teachers Institute
12. ARRL: Promote Your Club’s 2025 ARRL Field Day With Posters
13. ARRL: Scouts and Hams Celebrate In The Rain
14. ARRL: The FBI ARA In Fredericksburg, Virigina, To Host Host A Special Event For National Police Week
15. ARRL: The 2nd Annual Queens Of The Mountains YL SOTA Special Event Weekend Announced
16. Australian Coast Is Challenged By Waste From Weather Balloons
17. FCC Wants Imported Electronics Testing Based In The United States
18. Portable Logger, Ham2K, Receives Software Award
19. Amateur Radio Is Added To West Bengal Police Operations
20. Disaster Training Highlighted By Image Transmission
21. Major Amateur Radio Exposition To Run Special Event Stations
22. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing
23. HACK: Is your GPS not working? Soon you will be able to use ATSC 3 television signals.
24. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union World Championship Contest is announced.
25. WIA: Rescue Radio: The summit of Emergency Preparedness. A short story for you.
26. W2PH: Amateur Radio comes to Internet Radio.
27. SPACEX: SpaceX’s spectrum surveillance ups the ante in an FCC fight with Echostar.
28. ARW: Italian radio amateurs get permission to use the 40 MegaHertz band – 8 meters.
29. ARRL:630 meter band Worked All States Award Issued.
30. ARRL: Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.
31. ARRL: ARRL announces changes in the Atlantic Division leadership.
32. ARRL: 2025 Hudson Division Convention is scheduled for July 13th.
33. ARRL: ARRL Hudson Division Leadership announces the division is now on Discord.
34. Amateurs in Brazil gain 11 meter CB privileges using their callsigns, and lose the CW requirement for licensing
35. A new low power FM broadcast station construction permit is issued to an amateur radio group.
36. BBC: The BBC is facing its Charter Expiration, and plans to rechart its course.
37. ARRL: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report.
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 we figure out how much the sun really affects propagation?”
* 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 – Will returns with another brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to 1922. Despite several attempts, no successor to the outdated 1912 radio law had yet emerged. Now it could wait no longer since things had changed so radically with the rise of broadcasting. In early March, 1922, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened the first National Radio Conference in Washington. Will brings us there in this weeks edition.
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