Release Date: January 24, 2026
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:38:53
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1404
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: AMSAT Membership Now Includes “Getting Started” Guide
2. AMSAT: Message To U.S. Educators: ARISS Contact Opportunity Call For Proposals
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: Chinese National Damages Undersea Cable
5. WIA: Communication News Shorts
6. WIA: Hubble Space Telescope Nearing Its End Of Life
7. WIA: Amateur Issues Call For More Ham Radio Accessible Digital Software Development
8. ARD: SpottedHam.com Launches Custom POTA and Keyword Email Alerts
9. ARRL: ARRL Director Tharp, KB7HDX Receives Search-and-Rescue Award
10. ARRL: ARRL Board Approves Funding for Federal Advocacy; Creates New DXCC Single-Band Honor Roll
11. ARRL: Vandals Strike Ham Factory
12. ARRL: ARRL Honorary Vice President John Cadwallader Kanode, N4MM, Silent Key
13. ARRL: Nominations Are Now Being Accepted For The 2026 Dayton Hamvention Awards.
14. ARRL: Former FCC Official John B. Johnston, W3BE, Of Derwood, Maryland, Silent Key
15. PY: Amateurs Arrested In Belarus Under Suspicion Of Espionage
16. NASA Artemis Two Spacecraft Is Rolled Out To The Launch Pad
17. Congress Agrees To Restore Funding To The Voice Of America
18. Hamvention Awards Nomination Window Closes Soon
19. Damage To Taiwanese Undersea Cables Spurs More Interest In Amateur Radio
20. Hosting Site For World RadioSport Team Championship 2030 Is Being Sought
21. Hindu Pilgrimage Safety Is Provided By Indian Amateurs
22. ARRL: 2026 Repeater Directory is now shipping
23. ARRL: 2026 Winter Field Day Is up and running
24. ARRL Upcoming radiosport contests and regional convention listings
25. AMSAT: NASA marks fifty years of the GOES satellites
26. AMSAT: Two US schools & organizations move forward in the ARISS contact selection process
27. FCC: FCC approves Starlink expansion to 19,000+ satellites with direct to device service
28. RW: Financial Traders seek permanency for shortwave data transmissions
29. ARRL: New 60 Meter frequencies will become available as of February 13th, 2026
30. ARRL: The FCC is poised to exempt radio amateurs from Foreign Adversary Reporting System
31. ARD: DX Look introduces VOACAP view professional HF propagation prediction
32. FutureGeo is the most important amateur radio initiative of the decade
33. Device frequency sharing is eyes by Ofcom in the United Kingdom
34: HamCation will be featuring an APRS Digipeater
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, presents Part Five of his series on “Building A Shack”. The episode Onno tackles the problem of “Noise”
* 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
* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, with yet another edition of “Dead Electrical Dudes”. This week’s stiff is Guglielmo Marconi
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