Release Date: January 3, 2026
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:40:10
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1401
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: Youth On The Air Camp 2026 Applications Open
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Youth Initiative Satellites and Climate Change Course Now Online
3. AMSAT: Launch Teams Practiced Artemis 2 Countdown
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: Cobb Island Maryland Celebrates The Birth Of Radio
6. WIA: Israel’s Amateur Radio Operators Used Quiet Diplomacy, Saved Lives
7. WIA: Previous Radio Society of Great Britain President Bob Whelan, G3PJT, SK
8. WIA: 2026 Marks A Year Of Many Amateur Radio Related Celebrations
9. WIA: United States Jams Global Positioning System Signals In The Caribbean
10. WIA: Florida Team Wins National Emergency Communications Award
11. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Highlights Agency Accomplishments In 2025
12. NC: FCC Petitioned To Expand GMRS and FRS To VHF Low Band
13. ARRL: 2026 Is ARRL’s Year of the Club – A Celebration Of Amateur Radio Clubs – PART ONE
14. ARRL: 2026 Is ARRL’s Year of the Club – A Celebration Of Amateur Radio Clubs – PART TWO
15. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Introduces “44Net Connect”
16. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Take Office in January
17. ARRL: ARRL Awards Colvin Grant to Bouvet DXpedition
18. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Foundation Awarded More Than $4 Million In Grants
19. DXLook Adds Map Layers and Weather Radar Overlays
20. For A New Amateur Radio Club In Montana, It’s Time To Grow
21. The Largest Commercial Satellite Is Launched By AST SpaceMobile
22. Making It Easier For Vision Impaired Amateurs To Use Digital Modes
23. Chilean Amateurs Sign Emergency Communications Contract With Their Local Government
24. Four Amateur Radio Regulations Are Set For Elimination By The FCC
25. Hams In New Zealand Use ZM Prefix For Their Centenary Year
26. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
27. AMSAT: New satellite tracking applications is released
28. WIA: Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) moves to stop illegal radio imports
29. WIA: Google announces it will begin building three new undersea cables
30. WIA: The Russian UVB-76 radio transmissions are still on the air
31. Use of International Reply Coupons (IRC) is ended by the Universal Postal Congress
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
* Australia’s own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, continues his series on building a radio shack, with Part Three which is entitled “The ingress of coaxial cable.”
* The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more..
* Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL
* Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another brand new edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”. This edition takes a look at the use of CQ, which is used as a general call for initiating a contact. This took time to become an acceptable practice in the early years. Serious operators frowned on its use, mostly because it had been used to excess in the old days among the little boys with squeak boxes, usually in exceedingly long and sparsely identified calls. This historic edition is titled “Call & Card.”
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