Release Date: June 14, 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, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Joshua Turner, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:25:52
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1372
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. RNZ: Papua New Guinea National Broadcaster Moves To Reintroduce Shortwave Radio For Nationwide Coverage
2. NYP: New York State Lawmakers Vote To Stop NYPD’s Attempt To Block Radio Communications From Public
3. VRG: There Are Only Two Commissioners Left At The FCC
4. AMSAT: NOAA-18 Satellite Decommissioned
5. AMSAT: Request For Expression Of Interest For FutureGEO Project
6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
7. WIA: Digital Amateur Television To Resume From The ISS
8. WIA: On-Loan DMR Kit Starts Young UK Hams On Their Journeys
9. RSGB: The RSGB Launches The Special Event Stations/SES Cookbook
10. ARRL: Are You Ready For 2025 ARRL Field Day?
11. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute – Multiplying the Message
12. ARRL: Jobs for Hams: Join the ARRL Team
13. ARRL: ARRL Section Manager Nomination Results
14. ARRL: ARRL June VHF Contest Is This Weekend
15. ARRL: The 2025 Youth On The Air Camp For Young Amateur Radio Operators
16. ARRL: HAM RADIO 2025 The Biggest Amateur Radio Exhibition In Europe, To Take Place In Friedrichshafen
17. Emergency Communications Group In Indiana Switches From Analog FM To Digital
18. Whidbey Island Increases Its Radio Safety Net
19. Persian Gulf History Highlighted In Upcoming Special Event Station
20. Three DxPeditions Receive Funding Through The Northern California DX Foundation
21. Latest State To Declare Amateur Radio Month Is Announced
22. Radio Society of Great Britain Seeks Proposals For Its October Conference
23. WIA: Wireless Institute of Australia Highlights Concerns Regarding IARU Restructuring Plan
24. ARRL: World Wide Radio Operators Foundation awards three supporting grants
25. The YASME Awards are announced
26. ARRL: Well known and competitive contester Tom Taormina, K5RC/W7RN, passed away on June 10, 2025
27. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Conventions
28. WIA: Russian Over The Horizon Radar called “The Buzzer” is on the air. Have you heard it?
29. WIA: Ninth grader from Ukraine develops new technology for antennas used to control drones
30. ARRL: 2025 Field Day has categories for every operator
31. ARRL: SteppIR Communication Systems will cease production of of Consumer Antennas
32. NOAA: NOAA takes Weather Radio facilities off the air for technical upgrades
33. Citizen Band operator faces a $25,000 proposed fine from the FCC / ACMA proposes CB Radio actions
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 Be A Professional Amateur?”
* 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 – returns with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1922, where we find that amateurs were making progress taming the QRM problem. Sometimes a solution did not involve a new invention, or even technology at all
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