Release Date: March 14, 2026
Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Josh Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:33:04
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1411
Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service
1. AMSAT: Kairos Number Three Launch Failure Destroys NUTSAT-3
2. AMSAT: Ten-Koh 2 To Be Deployed Soon
3. AMSAT: Cambodian Students Blast Off With Satellite Training
4. AMSAT: NASA Reveals Astronaut Who Required Evacuation From ISS
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. WIA: Amazon Reports Drones Damaged Three Facilities In The UAE and Bahrain
7. ARRL: Climbing High and Never Looking Back (Or Down!)
8. ARRL: Start Planning For ARRL Field Day 2026
9. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2026 Award Winners Announced
10. ARRL: Spring Section Manager Nomination Results Announced
11. ARRL: The Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club in Florida To Host Hamwaves of History
12. National Flags and Symbols Not Permitted At This Years World RadioSport Team Championship
13. Higher Fees On State Owned Lands Challenged By Australian Amateurs
14. Kanton Island DxPeditions Face Restrictions
15. Indiana Amateurs Living Under Homeowners Associations Gain Protection For Antennas and Towers
16. Voice Of America Leadership Gets Ruled Against In Federal Court
17. Hurdy Gurdy Museum Amateur Radio Is Back On The Air
18. FCC: FCC Announces Events To Commemorate 30th Anniversary Of The Telecommunications Act of 1996
19. FCC: FCC Issues Draft NPRM To Open Up Spectrum For “Weird Space Stuff”
20. ARRL: A group of young amateurs will operate N0A special event station
21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
22. AMSAT: Elon Musk suggests a moon based mass driver for future satellite deployment
23. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada responds to the closure of the Weather Radio Service in Canada
24. ARRL: ClubLog adds to its roster of volunteers
25. ARRL: Tennessee aproves credentials for amateur radio technician licensees
26. ARRL: Start planning now for your Ham Radio Open House coming up in April
27. The FCC issues its report to Congress on the sixth year of the PIRATE Act and its effectiveness
28. Australia issues adjestments to their amateur radio band plans
29. A Hot Air Balloon with passengers on board crashes into a cell tower
30. March edition of the Volunteer Monitoring Report
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, experiences a little set back on one project in an episode he calls “One Step Forward, Three Steps Back”
* 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 new edition of “Dead Electrical Dudes”. This week, Will looks back at the life and times of Volta
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