Release Date: February 28, 2026
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:32:23
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1409
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: AMSAT Membership Now Includes Getting Started Guide
2. AMSAT: AMSAT Publishes Satellites In Space Coloring Book As Part Of Its Youth Initiative
3. AMSAT: Satellites and Pollution Control Added To BuzzSat Online Courses
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: The 2026 CWops Award For Advancing The Art Of CW
6. ARD: 3Y0K DXPedition Departs Cape Town For Bouvet Island
7. ARD: Community HamClock Backend Server Now Available
8. ARRL: Winter 2026 Section Manager Election Results
9. ARRL: Icom America Named Official Sponsor Of The ARRL Year Of The Club
10. BZ: Amateur Astronomers Capture Voyager One’s Signal From 25 Billion Kilometers Away
11. ARD: futureGEO Continues To Be A Topic Of Discussion
12. ARRL: Hams Help Forecasters With Real-Time Data On Northeast Blizzard
13. Florida Students And Amateurs Conduct A Joint Balloon Launch
14. Former President Of The Radio Society of Great Britian, G3PSM, Silent Key
15. Full-Time Use Of A Mobile Trailer Is Permitted For New Mexico Radio Club
16. Artemis II Launch Delayed For At Least A Month Due To Repairs
17. Upcoming Digital Conference For Zero Retries Selects Site
18. Radio Amateurs Of Canada Select Amateur Of The Year
19. The World Wide Award Activity Is Just For YL’s
20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listing
21. AMSAT: New full duplex satellite HT released: The Anytone AT-D890UV
22. ARRL: FCC now requires that FRN contact information be updated withing ten days of a change
23. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee issues revisions to the 2026 – 2030 technician question pool
24. ARRL: The Worldwide Radio Operators Foundation assures WRTC.info website
25. ISS: ISS Crew-12 arrives at the Space Station
26. ARRL: The FCC is actively recruiting field agents and electronic engineers
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, will tell us how to go about documenting your shack setup
* 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, returns with another new edition of “A Century Of Amateur Radio”, this week, Will takes us back to 1924 where we find that for nearly a year, hams had been operating in their first assigned band of wavelengths, 150 to 200 meters. They had also been experimenting below 150 meters by special government permission. The story continues, in Part Three of a Four-Part episode titled, “Six Segments, Sans Spark”
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