Release Date: March 7, 2026
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nickolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:44:05
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Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: AMSAT Announces Students On The Air Satellite Activity Beginning March
2. AMSAT: ISS Amateur Radio Packet System Activated For Temporary APRS Testing
3. AMSAT: Launch Planned For NUTSAT-3 With Voice Repeater And APRS Digipeater
4. AMSAT: Astro Pi Mission Zero Challenge Offers Youth Chance To Run Code Aboard ISS
5. AMSAT: Elon Musk Suggests Moon-Based Mass Driver For Future Satellite Deployment
6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
7. WIA: World Amateur Radio Day
8. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada Responds To The Closure Of The Weatherradio Service in Canada
9. RAC: Geoff Smith, VA3GS (SK) Appointed To Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 2025
10. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Pitches Plan To Apply Spectrum To Weird Space Stuff
11. ARRL: Hams Help Forecasters With Real-Time Data On Northeast Blizzard
12. ARRL: CLUBLOG Adds Volunteers
13. ARRL: Indiana Hams Living Under Home Owners Association Gain Antenna Protections
14. ARRL: Tennessee Approves Credentials For Amateur Radio Technician License
15. ARRL: Start Planning Now For Ham Radio Open House In April
16. FCC Issues Report To Congress On The Sixth Year Of The Pirate Act
17. Student QSO With Antartica Part Of Family Space Day
18. Amateurs Assist A Girls Emergency Care During A Power Failure In Cuba
19. Amateurs Are Front Center At National Hurricane Conference
20. Australia Issues Adjustments To Their Amateur Band Plans
21. The Foundation Of DX India Makes A New Go Of Arnala Island
22. Hot Air Balloon Crashes Into Cell Tower
23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
24. AMSAT: AMSAT membership now includes the new Getting Started Guide
25. AMSAT: AMSAT publishes its new Satellites In Space Colouring Book as part of its new youth inititive
26. ARRL: Winter 2026 Section Manager Election results are published
27. ARRL: Icom America is named official sponsor of The ARRL Year Of The Club
28. Amateur radio astronomers captures signals from Voyager One over 25 billion miles away
29. The Radio Amateurs of Canada selects its Amateur Of The Year
Plus these Special Features This Week:
* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO – AMSAT Satellite News
* Australia’s own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, gets back to his The Big Yak building project. In this edition, Part 15, he finds himself Playing With Radio…Now With Software
* Monthly Volunteer Monitor Enforcement Report
* 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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