Release Date: May 31, 2025
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:41:56
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1370
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: Dick Jansson, KD1K, Former AMSAT Vice President – Engineering, SK
2. AMSAT: Nominations Open For 2025 AMSAT Board of Directors Election
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Sixteen Countries Represented At The 2025 Dayton HamVention Attendance
5. WIA: Over 900 Candidates Take Amateur Radio Exam In Bangladesh
6. WIA: The Dynamic Duo Of The Universe
7. FCC: FCC To Unlock 20,000+ MegaHertz Of Spectrum For Satellite Broadband
8. ARD: 13 Colonies Special Event July 1st Through The 7th
9. ARD: ARRL Influence Over IARU Could Be Reduced With Proposed Restructuring
10. RW: 42.8 MegaHertz, WA2XMN, Armstrong Broadcast Returns To New Jersey In June
11. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Field Day: FAQ With The Contest Program Manager
12. ARRL: Amateur Radio Ready For Above Average Hurricane Season
13. ARRL: ARRL Announces Leadership Changes In The Pacific Division
14. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute Set For Record Year
15. ARRL: Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Receives POTA Wiggin’s Acalypha Achievement Award
16. ARRL: The Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club Has Introduced Scouts To Amateur Radio
17. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Is Accepting Grant Applications
18. 48 New Radio Amateurs Receive Licenses In South Africa
19. Fifty Years Of Community Service By Ohio Traffic Net
20. Single DXpeditioner Completes 61,000 QSO’s Is Honored
21. Geosynchronous Satellite Is The Goal Of New Ham Radio Project
22. Amateur Radio Month In Hawaii Is Coming Up In June
23. Queens Of The Mountains Special YL Event Announced
24. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention listings.
25. AMSAT: Buzzsat satellite meteorology course is now available
26. WIA: The Centennial Cycle will impact the next solar cycle
27. ARRL: Amateur Spectrum Addressed in the US House Reconciliation Bill
28. ARRL: Spring season Section Manager Election results are announced
29. ARRL: Hams across the US can now use the 2025 Field Day Site Locator
30. RSGB: Digital Mobile Radio Kits start young hams in the United Kingdom
31. SBE: Funds for Society of Broadcast Engineers are raised by auctioning ESB Broadcast Antenna Elements
32. Another electronics supplier in the US closes its doors
33. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada updates members on phishing attemps and cyber security tips
34. FCC: FCC bans “Bad Labs” from the United States Type Acceptence Authorization Process
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 attempt to answer the question, “What Do You Think You’re Doing?”
* 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
* Monthly Report From The Volunteer Monitoring System
* Will Rogers, K5WLR – A Century Of Amateur Radio – Will returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the early 1920’s where we find out that vacuum tubes were now making CW practical. And that they were also making voice transmissions possible. Experimental broadcasts using radiotelephone, or just phone to hams, began as experimental radio broadcasts by amateurs and some of the wireless telegraph companies, including Marconi and DeForest. This weeks episode is simply called “Radio Telephone.”
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