https://www.twiar.net Podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio, amateur radio's news magazine of the airwaves en-us gregk4hsm@gmail.com (Greg Williams) gregk4hsm@gmail.com (Greg Williams) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. https://www.twiar.net https://twiar.net/twiar-logo-2026.png 122 96 noTWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,historyThis Week in Amateur Radio is North America's premier news magazine of the airwaves. We're coming back from hiatus! Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!North America's Premier News MagazineGeorge Bowen, W2XBSw2xbs77@gmail.comGeorge Bowen, W2XBS Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1425 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1425 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1425 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: September 19, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:36:54 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1425 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Candidates Named for ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections 2. ARRL: Hamvention Names First Woman as General Chair 3. ARRL: Former ARRL COO Harold Kramer, WJ1B, Silent Key 4. ARRL: Rich Moseson, W2VU, Named ARRL News Editor 5. ARRL: Entrepreneur and Amateur Radio Operator Invests in the Next Generation of Problem Solvers 6. ARRL: 10-Year-Old Receives Ham License and More 7. ARRL: ARISS Receives Challenger-7 Recognition 8. ARRL: FCC Cites GMRS Licensee for Illegal Linked Repeater Network 9. ARRL: New ARRL Maine Section Manager 10. ARRL: ARRL Board Reviews and Approves Potential Alabama Section Move to the Delta Division & More 11. ARRL: New ARRL 10-Band DXCC Award 12. ARRL: Upcoming: 2026 ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) 13. ARRL: Florida’s Space Coast Expands Digital Communications Infrastructures 14. ARRL: WRTC 2026 Organizers Honored by FOC 15. ARRL: Get Ready for Jamboree on the Air 16. ARRL: AMSAT Youth Initiative Course, ARISS Announces Schedule Deadline 17. Gibralter Amateurs Mark Milestones With New Stamps and Coins 18. 12,000 Year Old Archaeological Site Gets HF Radio 19. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeks Volunteers 20. FCC Vote Will Give High Speed Satellite More Spectrum 21. Indonesian Volcano Eruption Activates Emergency Net 22. A Tribute Transmission From Alaska To NYC On September 11th 23. Solar Power From Space To Be Delivered By LASER 24. AMSAT: World Amateur Radio Broadcasting & Send Your Name into Space Campaign 25. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 26. ARRL: Upcoming Contest Listing and Regional Conventions 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, will cover Coronal Mass Ejections, Wind Flares, Solar Flux, and Geomagnetic Storms * 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 Part One of a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1425 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: September 19, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:36:54 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1425 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Candidates Named for ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections 2. ARRL: Hamvention Names First Woman as General Chair 3. ARRL: Former ARRL COO Harold Kramer, WJ1B, Silent Key 4. ARRL: Rich Moseson, W2VU, Named ARRL News Editor 5. ARRL: Entrepreneur and Amateur Radio Operator Invests in the Next Generation of Problem Solvers 6. ARRL: 10-Year-Old Receives Ham License and More 7. ARRL: ARISS Receives Challenger-7 Recognition 8. ARRL: FCC Cites GMRS Licensee for Illegal Linked Repeater Network 9. ARRL: New ARRL Maine Section Manager 10. ARRL: ARRL Board Reviews and Approves Potential Alabama Section Move to the Delta Division & More 11. ARRL: New ARRL 10-Band DXCC Award 12. ARRL: Upcoming: 2026 ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) 13. ARRL: Florida’s Space Coast Expands Digital Communications Infrastructures 14. ARRL: WRTC 2026 Organizers Honored by FOC 15. ARRL: Get Ready for Jamboree on the Air 16. ARRL: AMSAT Youth Initiative Course, ARISS Announces Schedule Deadline 17. Gibralter Amateurs Mark Milestones With New Stamps and Coins 18. 12,000 Year Old Archaeological Site Gets HF Radio 19. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeks Volunteers 20. FCC Vote Will Give High Speed Satellite More Spectrum 21. Indonesian Volcano Eruption Activates Emergency Net 22. A Tribute Transmission From Alaska To NYC On September 11th 23. Solar Power From Space To Be Delivered By LASER 24. AMSAT: World Amateur Radio Broadcasting & Send Your Name into Space Campaign 25. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 26. ARRL: Upcoming Contest Listing and Regional Conventions 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, will cover Coronal Mass Ejections, Wind Flares, Solar Flux, and Geomagnetic Storms * 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 Part One of a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1424 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1424 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1424 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 13, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:17:56 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1424 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Submits Letter of Intent for NASA SLS CubeSat Opportunity on Artemis III, IV, and V 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 3. WIA: Canadian Radio Station Forms Amateur Radio Club 4. WIA: OscarWatch Tracker: A New Satellite Tracking Program from MM9SQL 5. ARRL: Washington Governor Highlights Amateur Radio Volunteers Ahead of ARRL Field Day 6. ARRL: Watch Salty Walt’s Portable Antenna Forum 7. ARRL: Get Ready For ARRL Kids Day 2026 8. ARRL: Orlando HamCation is seeking nominations for its 2027 awards 9. ARRL: ARRL Great Lakes Division Director Scott Yonally, N8SY, Guest Speaker 10. ITU Corporation Acquires Ameritron and Mirage RF Amplifier Brands from MFJ Enterprises 11. US Radio Station Copper Thief Is Arrested 12. Ireland Radio Transmitter Society Is Looking For HF World Championship Operators 13. Artemis III Mission Astronauts Are Announced By NASA 14. Amateurs Experimenting With Teletext For Amateur Radio 15. Astronauts Return To The Space Station After Air Leak 16. Reminder: Hamclock Backend Server Switch Coming Up 17. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Has Launched A New Discord Server 18. CubeSats Boost Data Rates With Foldable Antennas 19. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day 2026 20. FCC: FCC kicks off its first spectrum auction in four years 21. ARRL: The league launches its "Find The Right Rig" new comparison tool for ARRL members 22. China's space station now has a new crew 23. Canada is assked by HamSci to reconsider shutting down its shortwave time signal CHU 24. FCC: Newest warning from the FCC targets unlicensed radio operator Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * 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 ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1424 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 13, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:17:56 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1424 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Submits Letter of Intent for NASA SLS CubeSat Opportunity on Artemis III, IV, and V 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 3. WIA: Canadian Radio Station Forms Amateur Radio Club 4. WIA: OscarWatch Tracker: A New Satellite Tracking Program from MM9SQL 5. ARRL: Washington Governor Highlights Amateur Radio Volunteers Ahead of ARRL Field Day 6. ARRL: Watch Salty Walt’s Portable Antenna Forum 7. ARRL: Get Ready For ARRL Kids Day 2026 8. ARRL: Orlando HamCation is seeking nominations for its 2027 awards 9. ARRL: ARRL Great Lakes Division Director Scott Yonally, N8SY, Guest Speaker 10. ITU Corporation Acquires Ameritron and Mirage RF Amplifier Brands from MFJ Enterprises 11. US Radio Station Copper Thief Is Arrested 12. Ireland Radio Transmitter Society Is Looking For HF World Championship Operators 13. Artemis III Mission Astronauts Are Announced By NASA 14. Amateurs Experimenting With Teletext For Amateur Radio 15. Astronauts Return To The Space Station After Air Leak 16. Reminder: Hamclock Backend Server Switch Coming Up 17. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Has Launched A New Discord Server 18. CubeSats Boost Data Rates With Foldable Antennas 19. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day 2026 20. FCC: FCC kicks off its first spectrum auction in four years 21. ARRL: The league launches its "Find The Right Rig" new comparison tool for ARRL members 22. China's space station now has a new crew 23. Canada is assked by HamSci to reconsider shutting down its shortwave time signal CHU 24. FCC: Newest warning from the FCC targets unlicensed radio operator Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * 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 ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 6 Jun 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1423 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1423 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1423 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 6, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:55:40 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1423 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day 2026 2. AMSAT: RADIANT Project Aims to Bring Delay-Tolerant Networking to Amateur Radio 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Starship V3’s First Test Flight Largely Successful 4. AMSAT: China Launches Shenzhou 23 Spacecraft 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Radio Frequency Changes Cause Drones To Fall 7. WIA: Japan Amateur Radio League 100th Anniversary 8. WIA: US Space Command Launches War Games 9. WIA: School Is Now In Session 10. RW: Ohio Valley 100,000 Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight 11. RTS: The FCC Plans Tighter Rules That Will Help Undersea Internet Cables 12. FCC: FCC Kicks Off First Spectrum Auction In Four Years 13. ARRL: Find The Right Rig: New Comparison Tool For ARRL Members 14. ARRL: CHU Canada’s Official Shortwave Time Signal To Go Silent 15. ARRL: Florida Field Day Preparations Under Way 16. ARRL: Santa Barbara Wireless Foundation Scholarship 2026 Winner 17. ARRL: International Dog Day On August 26, 2026 18. ARRL: The Lewis and Clark Trail On The Air Special Event 19. China's Space Station Now Has A New Crew 20. Canada Is Asked By Hamsci To Reconsider Shutting Down CHU 21. Microwave Update Conference Registration Is Now Open 22. Newest Warning From The FCC Targets An Unlicensed Radio Operator 23. Youngsters Are Ready For IARU Region 1 Camp 24. ARRL: Senator Ted Cruz praises amateur radio volunteers for Emergency Preparedness 25. AMSAT: AMSAT opens candidate nominations for 2026 Board of Directors Election 26. AMSAT: AMSAT BirdChaser Bingo Summer 2026 adds a new twist to satellite operating 27. WIA: China announces massive break-through battery technology 28. ARRL: RAC/Radio Amateurs of Canada Vice President Brent Taylor, VY2HF, Silent Key 29. ARRL: Registration is open for the 2026 National Convention in Huntsville, Alabama 30. ARRL: Sufflok County New York legislator has designated June as amateur radio month 31. RSGB: A Solar Eclipse will happen in the UK on August 12, 2026 Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO, and get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, returns to his Bald Yak Project. This edition is titled "Soapy Audio Adventures" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * We will have the Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL and Space Weather * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week Will takes us back to the Summer of 1924, which brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. This is part two of a three part edition titled "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections", or "The Heaviside Road to the Antipode" * This month's update from The Volunteer Monitoring System ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1423 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: June 6, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:55:40 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1423 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Field Day 2026 2. AMSAT: RADIANT Project Aims to Bring Delay-Tolerant Networking to Amateur Radio 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Starship V3’s First Test Flight Largely Successful 4. AMSAT: China Launches Shenzhou 23 Spacecraft 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Radio Frequency Changes Cause Drones To Fall 7. WIA: Japan Amateur Radio League 100th Anniversary 8. WIA: US Space Command Launches War Games 9. WIA: School Is Now In Session 10. RW: Ohio Valley 100,000 Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight 11. RTS: The FCC Plans Tighter Rules That Will Help Undersea Internet Cables 12. FCC: FCC Kicks Off First Spectrum Auction In Four Years 13. ARRL: Find The Right Rig: New Comparison Tool For ARRL Members 14. ARRL: CHU Canada’s Official Shortwave Time Signal To Go Silent 15. ARRL: Florida Field Day Preparations Under Way 16. ARRL: Santa Barbara Wireless Foundation Scholarship 2026 Winner 17. ARRL: International Dog Day On August 26, 2026 18. ARRL: The Lewis and Clark Trail On The Air Special Event 19. China's Space Station Now Has A New Crew 20. Canada Is Asked By Hamsci To Reconsider Shutting Down CHU 21. Microwave Update Conference Registration Is Now Open 22. Newest Warning From The FCC Targets An Unlicensed Radio Operator 23. Youngsters Are Ready For IARU Region 1 Camp 24. ARRL: Senator Ted Cruz praises amateur radio volunteers for Emergency Preparedness 25. AMSAT: AMSAT opens candidate nominations for 2026 Board of Directors Election 26. AMSAT: AMSAT BirdChaser Bingo Summer 2026 adds a new twist to satellite operating 27. WIA: China announces massive break-through battery technology 28. ARRL: RAC/Radio Amateurs of Canada Vice President Brent Taylor, VY2HF, Silent Key 29. ARRL: Registration is open for the 2026 National Convention in Huntsville, Alabama 30. ARRL: Sufflok County New York legislator has designated June as amateur radio month 31. RSGB: A Solar Eclipse will happen in the UK on August 12, 2026 Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO, and get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, returns to his Bald Yak Project. This edition is titled "Soapy Audio Adventures" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more * We will have the Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL and Space Weather * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week Will takes us back to the Summer of 1924, which brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. This is part two of a three part edition titled "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections", or "The Heaviside Road to the Antipode" * This month's update from The Volunteer Monitoring System ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 30 May 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWiAR1422 https://bit.ly/TWiAR1422 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1422 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 30, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marv Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnsen, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:42:22 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1422 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Senator Ted Cruz Praises Amateur Radio Volunteers for Emergency Preparedness 2. AMSAT: OrigamiSat-2 Receives Fuji-OSCAR 126 (FO-126) Designation from AMSAT 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Opens Candidate Nominations For 2026 Board of Directors Election 4. AMSAT: AMSAT's Dayton Forum Covers Education, Operations, and Future Satellite Projects 5. AMSAT: Bird Chaser Bingo Summer 2026 Adds New Twist To Satellite Operating 6. AMSAT: Hamvention 2026 Brings Estimated $35 Million Impact to Xenia Region 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: RSGB Exams Team Has Published New Mock Exams 9. WIA: China Announces Massive Breakthrough Battery Technology 10. WIA: Australia's "New National Sport" 11. ARRL: Radio Amateurs of Canada Vice-President Brent Taylor, VY2HF, Silent Key 12. ARRL: Registration Is Open For The 2026 ARRL National Convention In Huntsville, Alabama 13. ARRL: Suffolk County, New York, Legislature Has Designated June As Amateur Radio Month 14. Canada Will Be Taking Time Signal Station CHU Off The Air In June 15. Amateurs In Gibraltar Double Down On Their Celebration 16. Free CW Training For Field Day Is Offered By Long Island CW Club 17. RSGB: Solar Eclipse In The UK On August 12, 2026 18. Presenters Are Sought For Upcoming Electromagnetic Field Festival 19. 38,000 Guests Visited This Year's Dayton HamVention 20. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings 21. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL (Germany) to highlight QO-100 at Friedrichshaven 22. RTBR: House E and C Committee embeds AM radio act into larger vehicle bill 23. ARRL: June is proclaimed Amateur Radio Month in the state of New Hampshire 24. ARRL: The league urges your club to start packing for 2026 Field Day now 25. AWA Communications Museum announces a new on air net 26. Moon-Based Amateur Radio plan is announced by ARISS 27. Engineering student joins the South Georgia Island DXpedition team 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 take a close look at why you should use Logbook of The World * 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 edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to the Summer of 1924, which brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. This is part one of a three part series titled, "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections", or, "The Heaviside Road to the Antipode" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1422 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 30, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marv Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnsen, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:42:22 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1422 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Senator Ted Cruz Praises Amateur Radio Volunteers for Emergency Preparedness 2. AMSAT: OrigamiSat-2 Receives Fuji-OSCAR 126 (FO-126) Designation from AMSAT 3. AMSAT: AMSAT Opens Candidate Nominations For 2026 Board of Directors Election 4. AMSAT: AMSAT's Dayton Forum Covers Education, Operations, and Future Satellite Projects 5. AMSAT: Bird Chaser Bingo Summer 2026 Adds New Twist To Satellite Operating 6. AMSAT: Hamvention 2026 Brings Estimated $35 Million Impact to Xenia Region 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: RSGB Exams Team Has Published New Mock Exams 9. WIA: China Announces Massive Breakthrough Battery Technology 10. WIA: Australia's "New National Sport" 11. ARRL: Radio Amateurs of Canada Vice-President Brent Taylor, VY2HF, Silent Key 12. ARRL: Registration Is Open For The 2026 ARRL National Convention In Huntsville, Alabama 13. ARRL: Suffolk County, New York, Legislature Has Designated June As Amateur Radio Month 14. Canada Will Be Taking Time Signal Station CHU Off The Air In June 15. Amateurs In Gibraltar Double Down On Their Celebration 16. Free CW Training For Field Day Is Offered By Long Island CW Club 17. RSGB: Solar Eclipse In The UK On August 12, 2026 18. Presenters Are Sought For Upcoming Electromagnetic Field Festival 19. 38,000 Guests Visited This Year's Dayton HamVention 20. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings 21. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL (Germany) to highlight QO-100 at Friedrichshaven 22. RTBR: House E and C Committee embeds AM radio act into larger vehicle bill 23. ARRL: June is proclaimed Amateur Radio Month in the state of New Hampshire 24. ARRL: The league urges your club to start packing for 2026 Field Day now 25. AWA Communications Museum announces a new on air net 26. Moon-Based Amateur Radio plan is announced by ARISS 27. Engineering student joins the South Georgia Island DXpedition team 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 take a close look at why you should use Logbook of The World * 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 edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to the Summer of 1924, which brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. This is part one of a three part series titled, "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections", or, "The Heaviside Road to the Antipode" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 23 May 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWiAR1421 https://bit.ly/TWiAR1421 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1421 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 23, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:23:18 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWiAR1421 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL To Highlight QO-100 At Friedrichshafen 2. AMSAT: Launching Satellites With Zero Emissions 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: International Women in Engineering Day 5. WIA: Young Drivers Pay Attention To MetaData On Car Screens 6. RTBR: House E and C Committee Embeds AM Radio Act Into Larger Vehicle Bill 7. ARRL: Report From The World’s Largest Hamfest 8. ARRL: Outstanding Contesters and DXers Recognized At HamVention 9. ARRL: June Proclaimed Amateur Radio Month In New Hampshire 10. ARRL: Start Packing for ARRL Field Day 11. Amateur Radio Club Debuts Its Innovative Trailer At Dayton 12. Antique Wireless Association Communications Museum Announces A New Net 13. Moon Based Amateur Radio Plan Is Announced By ARISS 14. Caribbean Girl Guides Earn Licenses 15. Engineering Student Joins The South Georgia Island DXpedition Team 16. Pennsylvania Flood Victims Are Remembered By Ham Community 17. LIMARC Officer Jerry Abrams WB2ZEX - SK 18. ARRL: ARRL CEO David Minster is the guest on the latest DX Mentor podcast 19. BBC to shutdown its longwave transmitters in June 20. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing 21. Canada to shut down time signal station CHU 22. ARRL: Nominations for the 2026 ARRL Media and Public Relation Awards are accepted 23. As BBC transmitters are marked for shutdown, amateurs plan corresponding special event stations 24. Australian licenses get a new web site 25. An amateur pursues the mystery of Sporadic-E skip 26. WIA: The WIA asks for changes in the sub-Antarctic call prefixes 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 will tell us how "Some Days Are Like Running In Place." * 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 edition of "Dead Electrical Dudes". This week's stiff is Heinrich Hertz ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1421 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 23, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Ed Johnson. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:23:18 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWiAR1421 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT-DL To Highlight QO-100 At Friedrichshafen 2. AMSAT: Launching Satellites With Zero Emissions 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: International Women in Engineering Day 5. WIA: Young Drivers Pay Attention To MetaData On Car Screens 6. RTBR: House E and C Committee Embeds AM Radio Act Into Larger Vehicle Bill 7. ARRL: Report From The World’s Largest Hamfest 8. ARRL: Outstanding Contesters and DXers Recognized At HamVention 9. ARRL: June Proclaimed Amateur Radio Month In New Hampshire 10. ARRL: Start Packing for ARRL Field Day 11. Amateur Radio Club Debuts Its Innovative Trailer At Dayton 12. Antique Wireless Association Communications Museum Announces A New Net 13. Moon Based Amateur Radio Plan Is Announced By ARISS 14. Caribbean Girl Guides Earn Licenses 15. Engineering Student Joins The South Georgia Island DXpedition Team 16. Pennsylvania Flood Victims Are Remembered By Ham Community 17. LIMARC Officer Jerry Abrams WB2ZEX - SK 18. ARRL: ARRL CEO David Minster is the guest on the latest DX Mentor podcast 19. BBC to shutdown its longwave transmitters in June 20. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing 21. Canada to shut down time signal station CHU 22. ARRL: Nominations for the 2026 ARRL Media and Public Relation Awards are accepted 23. As BBC transmitters are marked for shutdown, amateurs plan corresponding special event stations 24. Australian licenses get a new web site 25. An amateur pursues the mystery of Sporadic-E skip 26. WIA: The WIA asks for changes in the sub-Antarctic call prefixes 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 will tell us how "Some Days Are Like Running In Place." * 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 edition of "Dead Electrical Dudes". This week's stiff is Heinrich Hertz ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 16 May 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1420 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1420 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1420 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 16, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:23:25 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1420 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Nominations For 2026 ARRL Media And PR Awards Accepted Through May 31st 2. ARRL: United States Coast Guard Adopted By The Barnstable Amateur Radio Club 3. ARRL: Youth On The Air At Hamvention 2026 4. ARRL: SteppIR Communications Is Serving The Ham Radio Market Once Again 5. ARRL: National WWI Museum and Memorial To Host Special Event Station WW1USA for Memorial Day 6. As BBC Transmitters Marked For Shutdown, UK Hams Plan A Special Tribute 7. Australian Licenses Get A New Website 8. Amateur Pursues The Mystery Of Sporadic E-Skip 9. Cyclone That Hit New Zealand Revs Up Recruitment Drive 10. New Modem Called A Vara Replacement Goes Open Source 11. Wireless Institute of Australia Asks For Changes In Sub-Antartic Call Prefixes 12. SK: Ross Merline WA2WDT Emergency Communications Professional 13. ARRL: Hamvention 2026 Thursday -- Setup Day and Much More 14. ARRL: Hamvention 2026 Friday - Let The Fun Begin 16. AMSAT: NASA completes The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 17. AMSAT: The Artemis II moon astronauts visit The White House and President Trump 18. ARRL: The Boston SDR User Group invites you to come learn more about Software Defined Radio 19. ARRL: Salty Walt goes next level with a brand new antenna book 20. Singer and composer Alan Osmond KN0IZE, SK. (Yes those Osmonds) 21. CW operators are needed to copy CW from a new Japanese CubeSat 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", will tell us how to keep track of your adventures * 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 special edition of Philip Neidlinger, KA4KOE's "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Dr. Edwin Howard Armstrong ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1420 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 16, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:23:25 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1420 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARRL: Nominations For 2026 ARRL Media And PR Awards Accepted Through May 31st 2. ARRL: United States Coast Guard Adopted By The Barnstable Amateur Radio Club 3. ARRL: Youth On The Air At Hamvention 2026 4. ARRL: SteppIR Communications Is Serving The Ham Radio Market Once Again 5. ARRL: National WWI Museum and Memorial To Host Special Event Station WW1USA for Memorial Day 6. As BBC Transmitters Marked For Shutdown, UK Hams Plan A Special Tribute 7. Australian Licenses Get A New Website 8. Amateur Pursues The Mystery Of Sporadic E-Skip 9. Cyclone That Hit New Zealand Revs Up Recruitment Drive 10. New Modem Called A Vara Replacement Goes Open Source 11. Wireless Institute of Australia Asks For Changes In Sub-Antartic Call Prefixes 12. SK: Ross Merline WA2WDT Emergency Communications Professional 13. ARRL: Hamvention 2026 Thursday -- Setup Day and Much More 14. ARRL: Hamvention 2026 Friday - Let The Fun Begin 16. AMSAT: NASA completes The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 17. AMSAT: The Artemis II moon astronauts visit The White House and President Trump 18. ARRL: The Boston SDR User Group invites you to come learn more about Software Defined Radio 19. ARRL: Salty Walt goes next level with a brand new antenna book 20. Singer and composer Alan Osmond KN0IZE, SK. (Yes those Osmonds) 21. CW operators are needed to copy CW from a new Japanese CubeSat 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", will tell us how to keep track of your adventures * 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 special edition of Philip Neidlinger, KA4KOE's "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Dr. Edwin Howard Armstrong ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 9 May 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1419 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1419 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1419 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 9, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:24:11 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1419 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: FCC Approves Limited Emergency Use of 70cm Band AST SpaceMobile Satellites Outside US 2. AMSAT: Saudi Amateur Radio Society Sponsors Satthon_2 3. AMSAT: NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 4. AMSAT: SpaceX Rocket Debris to Impact The Moon 5. AMSAT: Artemis 2 Moon Astronauts Visit the White House 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 7. WIA: Thousands Of Tiny Dots Could Save First Responders Lives 8. ARRL: The Ham Radio World Heads to Ohio 9. ARRL: Learn More About SDR From The Boston Software Defined Radio User Group 10. ARRL: STEM On and Off the Air 11. ARRL: Salty Walt Goes Next Level With New Portable Antenna Sketchbook 12. SK: Composer And Singer Alan Osmond, KN0IZE 13. CW Operators Needed To Copy Data From Cubesat Built In Tokyo 14. SK: Alaxander Teimurazov, 4L5A, DX News Editor and Top Contester 15. Special Event To Celebrate North American Soccer Tournament 16. The National Council on Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) elects new officers 17. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listings 18. NASA: Want to help NASA with Space Science? Here is how to volunteer 19. ARRL: The Texas Emergency Management Conference is coming up in a few weeks 20. ARRL: New book release: Satellite Operating For Amateur Radio is now shipping 21. FCC: The FCC modernizes its satellite spectrum sharing rules for high speed broadband from space 22. The Radio Amateurs of Canada are looking for an editor for its magazine The Canadian Amateur 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, will tell us "How To Deal With Complexity" * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first transatlantic QSOs This is the final part of a series titled, "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections" * We will take at look at this months Volunteer Monitoring Enforcement Report * We will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1419 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 9, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:24:11 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1419 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: FCC Approves Limited Emergency Use of 70cm Band AST SpaceMobile Satellites Outside US 2. AMSAT: Saudi Amateur Radio Society Sponsors Satthon_2 3. AMSAT: NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 4. AMSAT: SpaceX Rocket Debris to Impact The Moon 5. AMSAT: Artemis 2 Moon Astronauts Visit the White House 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 7. WIA: Thousands Of Tiny Dots Could Save First Responders Lives 8. ARRL: The Ham Radio World Heads to Ohio 9. ARRL: Learn More About SDR From The Boston Software Defined Radio User Group 10. ARRL: STEM On and Off the Air 11. ARRL: Salty Walt Goes Next Level With New Portable Antenna Sketchbook 12. SK: Composer And Singer Alan Osmond, KN0IZE 13. CW Operators Needed To Copy Data From Cubesat Built In Tokyo 14. SK: Alaxander Teimurazov, 4L5A, DX News Editor and Top Contester 15. Special Event To Celebrate North American Soccer Tournament 16. The National Council on Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) elects new officers 17. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listings 18. NASA: Want to help NASA with Space Science? Here is how to volunteer 19. ARRL: The Texas Emergency Management Conference is coming up in a few weeks 20. ARRL: New book release: Satellite Operating For Amateur Radio is now shipping 21. FCC: The FCC modernizes its satellite spectrum sharing rules for high speed broadband from space 22. The Radio Amateurs of Canada are looking for an editor for its magazine The Canadian Amateur 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, will tell us "How To Deal With Complexity" * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first transatlantic QSOs This is the final part of a series titled, "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections" * We will take at look at this months Volunteer Monitoring Enforcement Report * We will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3 Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 2 May 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1418 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1418 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1418 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 2, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:30:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1418 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. NASA: Want To Help NASA With Space Science? Here Is How To Volunteer 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Update Presented At 2026 CubeSat Developers Workshop Available Online 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Traces Of Ballpoint Pen Ink Found In Martian Rocks 5. WIA: The International Telecommunications Union Releases New Handbook On Amateur Satellite Services 6. ARRL: FCC Approves Limited Emergency Use Of 70cm Band by AST SpaceMobile Satellites Outside US 7. ARRL: Texas Emergency Management Conference Coming Up In May 8. ARRL: 2025 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Winners Awarded 9. ARRL: Free ARRL Events App Now Live For 2026 Dayton Hamvention 10. ARRL: New Book Release: Satellite Operating for Amateur Radio 11. ARRL: Naval Academy Amateur Radio Club, W3ADO, Will Participate In The DoD's Armed Forces Day 12. FCC: FCC Modernizes Its Satellite Spectrum Sharing Rules to Boost Real-Fast, Space-Based Broadband 13. Canadian Special Events To Highlight Public Safety 14. Amateur Radio Software Award Goes To HamLib For 2026 15. DXpeditions Featureing Remote Activations Are Honored 16. Amateur Radio Instruction Helps Prepare Students For A Adventure 17. Radio Amateurs Of Canada Seek An Editor For Its Canadian Amateur Magazine 18. Recognition For Youth On DxPeditions 19. Japanese Amateurs Give A Warm Reception To Antartic Research 20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 21. AMSAT: AMSAT/TAPR Banquet To Feature Ray Roberge, WA1CYB, Update On AMSAT’s SDR Gen 2 22. FCC: FCC Seeking Recent College Grads for Honors Engineer Program 23. FCC: FCC Asked To Adopt Plan Taking Nine UHF Channels From Broadcasters For Reassignment to 6G 24. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2026 Offers Forums For Every Ham 25. ARRL: Indiana Company To Manufacture Hy‑Gain And Cushcraft Antennas 26. Frequencies Identified For Expanding 6G On The 2.7 GigaHertz Band 27. SteppIR Antennas Is Returning To The Amateur Radio Market Place 28. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeking A Software Developer and Technical Writer 29. RSGB Headquarters Station Welcomes Guest Operators During July 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 will answer the question "What does amateur radio bring to your life?" * 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 edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first transatlantic QSOs. This is Part Two of a series titled, "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1418 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: May 2, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:30:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1418 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. NASA: Want To Help NASA With Space Science? Here Is How To Volunteer 2. AMSAT: AMSAT Update Presented At 2026 CubeSat Developers Workshop Available Online 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Traces Of Ballpoint Pen Ink Found In Martian Rocks 5. WIA: The International Telecommunications Union Releases New Handbook On Amateur Satellite Services 6. ARRL: FCC Approves Limited Emergency Use Of 70cm Band by AST SpaceMobile Satellites Outside US 7. ARRL: Texas Emergency Management Conference Coming Up In May 8. ARRL: 2025 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Winners Awarded 9. ARRL: Free ARRL Events App Now Live For 2026 Dayton Hamvention 10. ARRL: New Book Release: Satellite Operating for Amateur Radio 11. ARRL: Naval Academy Amateur Radio Club, W3ADO, Will Participate In The DoD's Armed Forces Day 12. FCC: FCC Modernizes Its Satellite Spectrum Sharing Rules to Boost Real-Fast, Space-Based Broadband 13. Canadian Special Events To Highlight Public Safety 14. Amateur Radio Software Award Goes To HamLib For 2026 15. DXpeditions Featureing Remote Activations Are Honored 16. Amateur Radio Instruction Helps Prepare Students For A Adventure 17. Radio Amateurs Of Canada Seek An Editor For Its Canadian Amateur Magazine 18. Recognition For Youth On DxPeditions 19. Japanese Amateurs Give A Warm Reception To Antartic Research 20. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 21. AMSAT: AMSAT/TAPR Banquet To Feature Ray Roberge, WA1CYB, Update On AMSAT’s SDR Gen 2 22. FCC: FCC Seeking Recent College Grads for Honors Engineer Program 23. FCC: FCC Asked To Adopt Plan Taking Nine UHF Channels From Broadcasters For Reassignment to 6G 24. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2026 Offers Forums For Every Ham 25. ARRL: Indiana Company To Manufacture Hy‑Gain And Cushcraft Antennas 26. Frequencies Identified For Expanding 6G On The 2.7 GigaHertz Band 27. SteppIR Antennas Is Returning To The Amateur Radio Market Place 28. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeking A Software Developer and Technical Writer 29. RSGB Headquarters Station Welcomes Guest Operators During July 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 will answer the question "What does amateur radio bring to your life?" * 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 edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first transatlantic QSOs. This is Part Two of a series titled, "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1417 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1417 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1417 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 25, 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 Nicolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnsen, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Josh Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:27:31 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1417 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT/TAPR Banquet To Feature Ray Roberge, WA1CYB, Update On AMSAT’s SDR Gen 2 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. FCC: FCC Seeking Recent College Grads for Honors Engineer Program 4. FCC: FCC Asked To Adopt Plan Taking Nine UHF TV Channels From Broadcasters Reassignment to 6G 5. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2026 Offers Forums For Every Ham 6. ARRL: Indiana Company To Manufacture Hy‑Gain And Cushcraft Antennas 7. ARRL: Football / Futbol on the Air Amateur Special Event 8. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day 2026 In Puerto Rico 9. ARRL: Northern California DX Foundation Adds Two Young DXpeditioners To Board 10. FCC: FCC Grants New Satellite Service Frequencies For Use 11. Frequencies Identified For Expanding 6G On The 2.7 GigaHertz Band 12. SteppIR Antennas Is Returning To The Amateur Radio Market Place 13. Historic Mills In The UK To Be Lit Up By Modern Radios 14. One Hundred Reasons To Attend The New Zealand Amateur Radio Convention 15. Former ARI President Graziano Sartori, I0SSH, SK 16. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeking A Software Developer and Technical Writer 17. RSGB Headquarters Station Welcomes Guest Operators During July 18. AMSAT: AMSAT's Satellite Status Page - The story behind the new colours 19. AMSAT: FO-29 Update 20. The deadline to purchase repaired Econco tubes is approaching 21. ARRL: A below average Hurricane Season predicted for 2026 22. ARRL: League announces changes in the Central Division Leadership 23. New York man arrested after interfering with emergency communications 24. New requirements for radio amateurs are introduced in Moldeva 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 will tell us that "You Don't Need An Excuse To Get On The Air and Make 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, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first transatlantic QSOs. This is Part One a series titled, "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1417 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 25, 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 Nicolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnsen, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Josh Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:27:31 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1417 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT/TAPR Banquet To Feature Ray Roberge, WA1CYB, Update On AMSAT’s SDR Gen 2 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. FCC: FCC Seeking Recent College Grads for Honors Engineer Program 4. FCC: FCC Asked To Adopt Plan Taking Nine UHF TV Channels From Broadcasters Reassignment to 6G 5. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2026 Offers Forums For Every Ham 6. ARRL: Indiana Company To Manufacture Hy‑Gain And Cushcraft Antennas 7. ARRL: Football / Futbol on the Air Amateur Special Event 8. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day 2026 In Puerto Rico 9. ARRL: Northern California DX Foundation Adds Two Young DXpeditioners To Board 10. FCC: FCC Grants New Satellite Service Frequencies For Use 11. Frequencies Identified For Expanding 6G On The 2.7 GigaHertz Band 12. SteppIR Antennas Is Returning To The Amateur Radio Market Place 13. Historic Mills In The UK To Be Lit Up By Modern Radios 14. One Hundred Reasons To Attend The New Zealand Amateur Radio Convention 15. Former ARI President Graziano Sartori, I0SSH, SK 16. ARDC: Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeking A Software Developer and Technical Writer 17. RSGB Headquarters Station Welcomes Guest Operators During July 18. AMSAT: AMSAT's Satellite Status Page - The story behind the new colours 19. AMSAT: FO-29 Update 20. The deadline to purchase repaired Econco tubes is approaching 21. ARRL: A below average Hurricane Season predicted for 2026 22. ARRL: League announces changes in the Central Division Leadership 23. New York man arrested after interfering with emergency communications 24. New requirements for radio amateurs are introduced in Moldeva 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 will tell us that "You Don't Need An Excuse To Get On The Air and Make 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, returns with another edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first transatlantic QSOs. This is Part One a series titled, "DX Records and Shortwave Reflections" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1416 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1416 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1416 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 16, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:17:48 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1416 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Status Page: The Story Behind the New Colors and Satellite Naming Convention. 2. AMSAT: FO-29 Update 3. RW: The Deadline To Purchase Repaired Econco Tubes Is Approaching 4. ARRL: National Hurricane Conference Amateur Radio Workshop, WD4R, Gets Volunteer Service Award 5. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Ready For Activity 6. ARRL: Below-Average Hurricane Season Predicted For 2026 7. ARRL: Helping NASA Track Artemis II’s Orion Spacecraft 8. ARRL: Webinar: Promoting ARRL Field Day, To Be Held On Thursday, Apr 23rd 9. ARRL: More Hams Are On The Air In California 10. ARRL: ARRL Announces Change in Central Division Leadership 11. RACES Hams In Hawaii Activate For Kona Low Storm 12. After The Sale Of MFJ, Hy-Gain and Cushcraft Return To The Ham Radio Marketplace 13. New York Man Arrested After Interfering With Emergency Communications 14. Amateur Satellite Operator In Oman Develops New Satellite Tracking App 15. Register Now For The Upcoming International Marconi Day 16. DXtra.com Announces New Features 17. New requirements for radio amateurs are introduced Moldova 18. ARRL: Upcoming contest listing and regional convention listings 19. FCC: FCC to vote on proposal to ban Chinese labs from tests electronics for use in the United States 20. FCC: The FCC is poised to empower super fast space based broadband 21. FCC: FCC sends Notice Of Unlicensed Operation to a ISP in California 22. ARRL: Elecraft donates a new amateur radio station to W1AW at ARRL HQ 23. ARRL: Register now for the 2026 ARRL Youth Rally at the Dayton Hamvention 24. ARRL: ARRL announces changes in the Central Division leadership 25. AMSAT: ARISS solicits school contacts for 2027 26. An amateur in Florida is experimenting and exploring the use of the 4 and 8 meter bands 27. ATT to upgrade the national Emergency Response Network 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 will answer the question, "What Is An S-Unit?" * 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 edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer of 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first Trans-Atlantic QSOs ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1416 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 16, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:17:48 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1416 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Status Page: The Story Behind the New Colors and Satellite Naming Convention. 2. AMSAT: FO-29 Update 3. RW: The Deadline To Purchase Repaired Econco Tubes Is Approaching 4. ARRL: National Hurricane Conference Amateur Radio Workshop, WD4R, Gets Volunteer Service Award 5. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day Ready For Activity 6. ARRL: Below-Average Hurricane Season Predicted For 2026 7. ARRL: Helping NASA Track Artemis II’s Orion Spacecraft 8. ARRL: Webinar: Promoting ARRL Field Day, To Be Held On Thursday, Apr 23rd 9. ARRL: More Hams Are On The Air In California 10. ARRL: ARRL Announces Change in Central Division Leadership 11. RACES Hams In Hawaii Activate For Kona Low Storm 12. After The Sale Of MFJ, Hy-Gain and Cushcraft Return To The Ham Radio Marketplace 13. New York Man Arrested After Interfering With Emergency Communications 14. Amateur Satellite Operator In Oman Develops New Satellite Tracking App 15. Register Now For The Upcoming International Marconi Day 16. DXtra.com Announces New Features 17. New requirements for radio amateurs are introduced Moldova 18. ARRL: Upcoming contest listing and regional convention listings 19. FCC: FCC to vote on proposal to ban Chinese labs from tests electronics for use in the United States 20. FCC: The FCC is poised to empower super fast space based broadband 21. FCC: FCC sends Notice Of Unlicensed Operation to a ISP in California 22. ARRL: Elecraft donates a new amateur radio station to W1AW at ARRL HQ 23. ARRL: Register now for the 2026 ARRL Youth Rally at the Dayton Hamvention 24. ARRL: ARRL announces changes in the Central Division leadership 25. AMSAT: ARISS solicits school contacts for 2027 26. An amateur in Florida is experimenting and exploring the use of the 4 and 8 meter bands 27. ATT to upgrade the national Emergency Response Network 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 will answer the question, "What Is An S-Unit?" * 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 edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio". This week, Will takes us back to 1924. The summer of 1924 brought the first explorers to the four new, shorter wavelength bands that were opened up to amateur use in July. Amateurs anticipated interesting times ahead based on their earlier experimental work that produced the first Trans-Atlantic QSOs ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1415 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1415 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1415 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 11, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:30:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1415 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC To Vote On Proposal To Ban Chinese Labs From Testing US Electronics 2. FCC: FCC Poised to Empower Super-Fast, Space-Based Broadband 3. FCC: FCC Sends Notice Of Unlicensed Operation To California ISP/Internet Service Provider 4. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Field Day Merch Now Shipping -- Celebrate America250 With A Commemorative Design 5. ARRL: Elecraft Donates Amateur Radio Station To W1AW 6. ARRL: 2026 Year Of The Club: Amateur Radio on Display! 7. ARRL: Radio Clubs Activate In April For 2026 World Amateur Radio Day 8. ARRL: Register Now For The 2026 ARRL Youth Rally At Dayton Hamvention 9. ARRL: ARRL Announces Change In Central Division Leadership 10. ARRL: Department of Defense Will Host This Year's Armed Forces Day Crossband Test 11. ARRL: National Train Day On Saturday, May 9, 2026 12. AMSAT: ARISS Solicits School Contacts For 2027 13. AMSAT: ​ARISS and AMSAT: On Track to Track Artemis 2 14. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 15. Florida Amateur Is Experimenting and Exploring The Use Of The 4 Meter and 8 Meter Bands 16. Silent Key: Rita Wright, KC9CDL, Led The First School ISS Contact/Journalist Carlos Almiron LU7DSY 17. Growing Space Sectors Need For Spectrum Is Eyed By The FCC 18. AT and T To Upgrade Emergency Respose Network - FirstNet 19. NVIS Red Cross Net Draws Regional Response 20. Tribute To Yuri Gagarin As Cosmonauts Call CQ 21. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and Up Coming RadioSport Contest Listing 22. AMSAT: AMSAT announces a full line up of events and activities for the 2026 Dayton HamVention 23. WIA: New Regulations for amateur radio in Norway 24. WIA: The Russian Doomsday shortwave signal has changed from a hum to voice messages 25. FCC: FCC fimes a Florida resident for pirate radio broadcasting on FM 26. ARRL: ARRL Dakota Division has a new Vice-Director 27. An amateur is charged with Emergency Service Interference by the FCC 28. The Voice of America Museum will extend hours during the Dayton HamVention 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 will attempt to answer the question "Where is the spark gap?" * 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, Bill Continelli, W2XOY - Silent Key, presents an encore presentation of one of his "Best of The Ancient Amateur Archives", answers the question, "What Was CONELRAD?" * We will have a look at this months Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1415 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 11, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:30:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1415 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. FCC: FCC To Vote On Proposal To Ban Chinese Labs From Testing US Electronics 2. FCC: FCC Poised to Empower Super-Fast, Space-Based Broadband 3. FCC: FCC Sends Notice Of Unlicensed Operation To California ISP/Internet Service Provider 4. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Field Day Merch Now Shipping -- Celebrate America250 With A Commemorative Design 5. ARRL: Elecraft Donates Amateur Radio Station To W1AW 6. ARRL: 2026 Year Of The Club: Amateur Radio on Display! 7. ARRL: Radio Clubs Activate In April For 2026 World Amateur Radio Day 8. ARRL: Register Now For The 2026 ARRL Youth Rally At Dayton Hamvention 9. ARRL: ARRL Announces Change In Central Division Leadership 10. ARRL: Department of Defense Will Host This Year's Armed Forces Day Crossband Test 11. ARRL: National Train Day On Saturday, May 9, 2026 12. AMSAT: ARISS Solicits School Contacts For 2027 13. AMSAT: ​ARISS and AMSAT: On Track to Track Artemis 2 14. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 15. Florida Amateur Is Experimenting and Exploring The Use Of The 4 Meter and 8 Meter Bands 16. Silent Key: Rita Wright, KC9CDL, Led The First School ISS Contact/Journalist Carlos Almiron LU7DSY 17. Growing Space Sectors Need For Spectrum Is Eyed By The FCC 18. AT and T To Upgrade Emergency Respose Network - FirstNet 19. NVIS Red Cross Net Draws Regional Response 20. Tribute To Yuri Gagarin As Cosmonauts Call CQ 21. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and Up Coming RadioSport Contest Listing 22. AMSAT: AMSAT announces a full line up of events and activities for the 2026 Dayton HamVention 23. WIA: New Regulations for amateur radio in Norway 24. WIA: The Russian Doomsday shortwave signal has changed from a hum to voice messages 25. FCC: FCC fimes a Florida resident for pirate radio broadcasting on FM 26. ARRL: ARRL Dakota Division has a new Vice-Director 27. An amateur is charged with Emergency Service Interference by the FCC 28. The Voice of America Museum will extend hours during the Dayton HamVention 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 will attempt to answer the question "Where is the spark gap?" * 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, Bill Continelli, W2XOY - Silent Key, presents an encore presentation of one of his "Best of The Ancient Amateur Archives", answers the question, "What Was CONELRAD?" * We will have a look at this months Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 4 Apr 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1414 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1414 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1414 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 4, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnsen, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:24:18 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1414 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Announces Full Lineup of Events and Activities for Hamvention 2026 2. AMSAT: New Ground Station Software Streamlines Satellite Tracking and Decoding 3. AMSAT: Artemis II To Deploy International CubeSats Into High Earth Orbit 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: New Regulations For Hams In Norway 6. WIA: Russian Dooms Day Radio 7. WIA: FCC Fines Florida Resident For Pirate Radio 8. ARRL: Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club Celebrates 65 Years 9. ARRL: ARISS Outlines Opportunities for Space Station Contacts In 2027 10. ARRL: ARRL Dakota Division Has A New Vice Director 11. International Space Station Is Marking Major Moments In Space On Slow Scan TV 12. Amateur Charged With Emergency Service Interference By The FCC 13. Ireland 10 Meter Repeater Is Back On The Air 14. Voice of America Museum Will Extend Hours During HamVention 15. Amateurs In The Azores Have Their First 10 Meter Repeater 16. AMSAT: Digital modes on FO-29 not permitted per licensing restrictions 17. AMSAT: SpaceX's plan for one million satellite data centers in space poses risks for astronomy 18. WIA: Icom UK equips the Radio Society of Great Britians National Radio Center 19. The Dayton HamVention announes the 2026 theme and logo 20. The FCC bans foreign made routers from being sold in the US citing national security concerns 21. The TAT-8 - The first trans-atlantic undersea cable - rises again 22. ARRL: The Intercontinental Amateur Traffic Net is seeking net control operator 23. Get ready for Ham Radio 2026 the 49th International Amateur Radio exhibition in Friedrichshafen Germany 24. Congress gives NOAA funds to expand and upgrade the national Weather Radio Network 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, will present the eighteenth chapter in his series on his Bald Yak Project. This edition is titled "Everything, Everywhere, All At Once" * 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 and Solar Weather 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 a year or so after QST first began its International Amateur Radio department, amateurs were discussing linking amateur radio organizations around the world. In a speech at the second ARRL National Convention in late 1923, Hiram Maxim said he believed it was time for an international meeting to organize something he called a World Amateur Radio League. This is where the International Amateur Radio Union was born. * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1414 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 4, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnsen, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:24:18 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1414 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Announces Full Lineup of Events and Activities for Hamvention 2026 2. AMSAT: New Ground Station Software Streamlines Satellite Tracking and Decoding 3. AMSAT: Artemis II To Deploy International CubeSats Into High Earth Orbit 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: New Regulations For Hams In Norway 6. WIA: Russian Dooms Day Radio 7. WIA: FCC Fines Florida Resident For Pirate Radio 8. ARRL: Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club Celebrates 65 Years 9. ARRL: ARISS Outlines Opportunities for Space Station Contacts In 2027 10. ARRL: ARRL Dakota Division Has A New Vice Director 11. International Space Station Is Marking Major Moments In Space On Slow Scan TV 12. Amateur Charged With Emergency Service Interference By The FCC 13. Ireland 10 Meter Repeater Is Back On The Air 14. Voice of America Museum Will Extend Hours During HamVention 15. Amateurs In The Azores Have Their First 10 Meter Repeater 16. AMSAT: Digital modes on FO-29 not permitted per licensing restrictions 17. AMSAT: SpaceX's plan for one million satellite data centers in space poses risks for astronomy 18. WIA: Icom UK equips the Radio Society of Great Britians National Radio Center 19. The Dayton HamVention announes the 2026 theme and logo 20. The FCC bans foreign made routers from being sold in the US citing national security concerns 21. The TAT-8 - The first trans-atlantic undersea cable - rises again 22. ARRL: The Intercontinental Amateur Traffic Net is seeking net control operator 23. Get ready for Ham Radio 2026 the 49th International Amateur Radio exhibition in Friedrichshafen Germany 24. Congress gives NOAA funds to expand and upgrade the national Weather Radio Network 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, will present the eighteenth chapter in his series on his Bald Yak Project. This edition is titled "Everything, Everywhere, All At Once" * 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 and Solar Weather 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 a year or so after QST first began its International Amateur Radio department, amateurs were discussing linking amateur radio organizations around the world. In a speech at the second ARRL National Convention in late 1923, Hiram Maxim said he believed it was time for an international meeting to organize something he called a World Amateur Radio League. This is where the International Amateur Radio Union was born. * Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1413 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1413 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1413 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: March 28, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:43:40 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1413 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RAC: Geoff, G4FKA Receives First Worked All United Kingdom Prefixes Supreme Award 2. AMSAT: Digital Modes On FO-29 Not Permitted Per Licensing Restrictions 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Plan For 1 Million Centers Poses Dangerous Risk 4. AMSAT: Astronauts Complete Prep For New ISS Solar Array 5. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Advanced Navigation Demonstates New Navigation System 7. WIA: Icom UK Equips Radio Society of Great Britains National Radio Center 8. WIA: Symbols Of National Pride Not Permitted At 2026 World RadioSport Team Championships 9. ARD: Hamvention 2026 Theme And Logo Announced 10. BBC/CR90: FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers, Citing National Security Concerns 11. HDY: TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again 12. ARRL: Solar Eclipses: What The Bands Revealed... 13. ARRL: A Unique Learning Experience For Amateur Radio 14. ARRL: Sci-Tech ARS Girl Scouts First Contact Event 15. ARRL/FCC: FCC Warns Licensee On Out-of-Band Transmissions 16. ARRL: The Intercontinental Amateur Traffic Net Is Seeking Additional Net Control Stations 17. HRF: 49th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Ham Radio Friedrichshafen 18. NOAA Receives Funds To Expand And Upgrade Its Weather Radio Network 19. CQ For Autism Awareness Is Called By An International Partnership 20. A New Network Bridge For Historical Black Campuses 21. An International Team Has Charted A Flight To The Space Station 22. Young Professionals Honored By The Radio Club of America 23. Titanic Remembered During Upcoming Special Event Station 24. ARRL: ARRL Student Coding Competition Deadline Nears 25. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing 26. AMSAT: International Amateur Radio Union coordinates two new amateur radio satellites 27. ARRL: ARRL hosts a successful HamSci 2026 workshop 28. ARRL: The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2026 inductees 29. ARRL: Growing an army of young new licensees in New York City 30. ARRL: The league has many job openings, come work for the ARRL! 31. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net is seeking net control operators 32. High Frequency communications testing in Alaska by the US Military 33. Voice of America is ordered back on the air by a Federal Judge 34. Upgrading electronics is required on certain airliners due to interference from CW signals 35: New film documentary about MFJ and its founder is now in production 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, will present Part 17 of his ongoing Bald Yak Radio Project. This week, he brings us "Adventures In Radio Data Systems" * 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 a year or so after QST first began its International Amateur Radio department, amateurs were discussing linking amateur radio organizations around the world. In a speech at the second ARRL National Convention in late 1923, Maxim said he believed it was time for an international meeting to organize something he called a World Amateur Radio League, and asked members to submit their ideas for the ARRL board to consider. This is where the International Amateur Radio Union was born ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1413 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: March 28, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:43:40 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1413 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. RAC: Geoff, G4FKA Receives First Worked All United Kingdom Prefixes Supreme Award 2. AMSAT: Digital Modes On FO-29 Not Permitted Per Licensing Restrictions 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Plan For 1 Million Centers Poses Dangerous Risk 4. AMSAT: Astronauts Complete Prep For New ISS Solar Array 5. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: Advanced Navigation Demonstates New Navigation System 7. WIA: Icom UK Equips Radio Society of Great Britains National Radio Center 8. WIA: Symbols Of National Pride Not Permitted At 2026 World RadioSport Team Championships 9. ARD: Hamvention 2026 Theme And Logo Announced 10. BBC/CR90: FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers, Citing National Security Concerns 11. HDY: TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again 12. ARRL: Solar Eclipses: What The Bands Revealed... 13. ARRL: A Unique Learning Experience For Amateur Radio 14. ARRL: Sci-Tech ARS Girl Scouts First Contact Event 15. ARRL/FCC: FCC Warns Licensee On Out-of-Band Transmissions 16. ARRL: The Intercontinental Amateur Traffic Net Is Seeking Additional Net Control Stations 17. HRF: 49th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Ham Radio Friedrichshafen 18. NOAA Receives Funds To Expand And Upgrade Its Weather Radio Network 19. CQ For Autism Awareness Is Called By An International Partnership 20. A New Network Bridge For Historical Black Campuses 21. An International Team Has Charted A Flight To The Space Station 22. Young Professionals Honored By The Radio Club of America 23. Titanic Remembered During Upcoming Special Event Station 24. ARRL: ARRL Student Coding Competition Deadline Nears 25. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing 26. AMSAT: International Amateur Radio Union coordinates two new amateur radio satellites 27. ARRL: ARRL hosts a successful HamSci 2026 workshop 28. ARRL: The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2026 inductees 29. ARRL: Growing an army of young new licensees in New York City 30. ARRL: The league has many job openings, come work for the ARRL! 31. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net is seeking net control operators 32. High Frequency communications testing in Alaska by the US Military 33. Voice of America is ordered back on the air by a Federal Judge 34. Upgrading electronics is required on certain airliners due to interference from CW signals 35: New film documentary about MFJ and its founder is now in production 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, will present Part 17 of his ongoing Bald Yak Radio Project. This week, he brings us "Adventures In Radio Data Systems" * 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 a year or so after QST first began its International Amateur Radio department, amateurs were discussing linking amateur radio organizations around the world. In a speech at the second ARRL National Convention in late 1923, Maxim said he believed it was time for an international meeting to organize something he called a World Amateur Radio League, and asked members to submit their ideas for the ARRL board to consider. This is where the International Amateur Radio Union was born ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1412 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1412 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1412 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: March 21, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:41:13 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1412 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: International Amateur Radio Union Coordinates Two New Amateur Satellites 2. AMSAT: FO-29 Enters Full Sunlight: Veteran Satellite Sees Renewed Activity In 2026 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL: ARRL Hosts Successful HamSCI 2026 Workshop 5. ARRL: The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inductees 6. ARRL: George Jacobs, W3ASK, Silent Key 7. ARRL: Growing An Army Of Young Hams In New York 8. ARRL: Come Work For The ARRL 9. ARRL: The Hurricane Warch Net Is Seeking Net Control Operators 10. High Frequency Communications Testing In Alaska By The US Military 11. Calling CQ For The Second Year Is The SKYWARN Youth Net 12. Voice Of America Ordered Back On The Air By Federal Judge 13. Updating Electronics Is Required On Certain Airliners Due To CW Interference 14. Young Ladies Event World Wide Is Overwhelming 15. Push Is On To Get Sardinia On The Air 16. New Film Documentary About MFJ and Martin F Jue Is In Process 17. ARRL: The league launches a new year long HF contest 18. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and Regional Convention Listings 19. AMSAT: NASA reveals which astronaut required medical evacuation from the Space Station 20. WIA: Amazon reports that drones damaged three facilities in Bahrain and the UAE 21. ARRL: The league says it is not too early to begin planning your Field Day 2026 22. ARRL: The Dayton HamVention 2026 Award Winners are announced 23. ARRL: The spring Section Manager election results are announced 24. National flags and symbols will not be displayed at the 2026 World RadioSport Team Championships 2026 25. Proposed higher fees on state owned land is challenged by Australian amateurs 26. Indiana amateurs living under HOA rules have gain protection for antennas and towers 27. FCC: FCC draft NPRM will open up spectrum for "Weird Space Stuff" 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 continues with Part Sixteen of his Bald Yak Project, this time out he answers the question "How do you decode FM?" * 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 edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This editions stiff is none other than Heinrich Hertz ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1412 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: March 21, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Lamas, KC2OXJ, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:41:13 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1412 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: International Amateur Radio Union Coordinates Two New Amateur Satellites 2. AMSAT: FO-29 Enters Full Sunlight: Veteran Satellite Sees Renewed Activity In 2026 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. ARRL: ARRL Hosts Successful HamSCI 2026 Workshop 5. ARRL: The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inductees 6. ARRL: George Jacobs, W3ASK, Silent Key 7. ARRL: Growing An Army Of Young Hams In New York 8. ARRL: Come Work For The ARRL 9. ARRL: The Hurricane Warch Net Is Seeking Net Control Operators 10. High Frequency Communications Testing In Alaska By The US Military 11. Calling CQ For The Second Year Is The SKYWARN Youth Net 12. Voice Of America Ordered Back On The Air By Federal Judge 13. Updating Electronics Is Required On Certain Airliners Due To CW Interference 14. Young Ladies Event World Wide Is Overwhelming 15. Push Is On To Get Sardinia On The Air 16. New Film Documentary About MFJ and Martin F Jue Is In Process 17. ARRL: The league launches a new year long HF contest 18. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and Regional Convention Listings 19. AMSAT: NASA reveals which astronaut required medical evacuation from the Space Station 20. WIA: Amazon reports that drones damaged three facilities in Bahrain and the UAE 21. ARRL: The league says it is not too early to begin planning your Field Day 2026 22. ARRL: The Dayton HamVention 2026 Award Winners are announced 23. ARRL: The spring Section Manager election results are announced 24. National flags and symbols will not be displayed at the 2026 World RadioSport Team Championships 2026 25. Proposed higher fees on state owned land is challenged by Australian amateurs 26. Indiana amateurs living under HOA rules have gain protection for antennas and towers 27. FCC: FCC draft NPRM will open up spectrum for "Weird Space Stuff" 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 continues with Part Sixteen of his Bald Yak Project, this time out he answers the question "How do you decode FM?" * 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 edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This editions stiff is none other than Heinrich Hertz ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1411 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1411 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1411 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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 ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1411 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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 ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 7 Mar 2026 22:31:14 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1410 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1410 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1410 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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, Josh 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 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1410 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" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1410 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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, Josh 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 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1410 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" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1409 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1409 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1409 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1409 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1408 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1408 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1408 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 21, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:40:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1408 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT At Orlando HamCation 2. AMSAT: New Full-Duplex Satellite Capable HT: The Anytone AT-D890UV 3. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA Submits IARU Coordination Request For UNNE-1B, HADES-E2 4. WIA: Artemis II Mission Delayed 5. ARRL: FCC Requires That FRN Contact Information Be Updated Within Ten Days Of A Change 6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station Winner Announced At Orlando HamCation 7. ARRL: Ham Radio Helped During Hawaii Severe Weather 8. ARRL: POTA SOTA BOTA 9. ARRL: New Book Release: Digital Networking For Ham Radio 10. ARRL: 3YØK DXpedition Back On Track 11. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Issues Revision To 2026 Thru 2030 Technician Pool 12. ARRL: The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation Has Assumed Responsibility For WRTC.Info 13. VHF Society Is Seeking Presenters For Upcoming VHF Conference 14. ISS Crew 12 Arrives At The International Space Station 15. Amateurs In Chile Respond To A Tragedy In The Andes Mountains 16. Satellite Direct To Device Service Begins In The United Kingdom 17. Amateur Radio Software Award Deadline Approaches 18. ARRL: FCC Recruiting 7 Field Agents – Electronics Engineers 19. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 20. AMSAT: Fuji Oscar 29 is approaching full sunlight 21. AMSAT: Declassifying JumpSat, an American pioneer in space 22. WIA: New comedy podcast tackles amateur radios "Gatekeeping Problem". 23. WIA: Radio Society Of Great Britain publishes new band plans 24. FCC: Amazon gets approval to launch 4500 LEO Satellites for its internet from space network 25. ARRL: Start planning now for the Ham Radio Open House in April, and World Amateur Radio Day 26. ARRL: Digital or Paper? 27. BBC: The BBC launches shortwave program in its crisis service beamed to Iran 28. Texas military base issues GPS interference warnings 29. Amateur Radio License Plates are poised for approval in the state of New Hampshire 30. FCC: Obsolete Part 97 Rules are officially deleted 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 why he has a radio transmitting into a dummy load continuously for the last year, on purpose * 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 Two of a Four Part episode titled, "Six Segments, Sans Spark" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1408 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 21, 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 Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:40:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1408 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT At Orlando HamCation 2. AMSAT: New Full-Duplex Satellite Capable HT: The Anytone AT-D890UV 3. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA Submits IARU Coordination Request For UNNE-1B, HADES-E2 4. WIA: Artemis II Mission Delayed 5. ARRL: FCC Requires That FRN Contact Information Be Updated Within Ten Days Of A Change 6. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station Winner Announced At Orlando HamCation 7. ARRL: Ham Radio Helped During Hawaii Severe Weather 8. ARRL: POTA SOTA BOTA 9. ARRL: New Book Release: Digital Networking For Ham Radio 10. ARRL: 3YØK DXpedition Back On Track 11. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Issues Revision To 2026 Thru 2030 Technician Pool 12. ARRL: The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation Has Assumed Responsibility For WRTC.Info 13. VHF Society Is Seeking Presenters For Upcoming VHF Conference 14. ISS Crew 12 Arrives At The International Space Station 15. Amateurs In Chile Respond To A Tragedy In The Andes Mountains 16. Satellite Direct To Device Service Begins In The United Kingdom 17. Amateur Radio Software Award Deadline Approaches 18. ARRL: FCC Recruiting 7 Field Agents – Electronics Engineers 19. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 20. AMSAT: Fuji Oscar 29 is approaching full sunlight 21. AMSAT: Declassifying JumpSat, an American pioneer in space 22. WIA: New comedy podcast tackles amateur radios "Gatekeeping Problem". 23. WIA: Radio Society Of Great Britain publishes new band plans 24. FCC: Amazon gets approval to launch 4500 LEO Satellites for its internet from space network 25. ARRL: Start planning now for the Ham Radio Open House in April, and World Amateur Radio Day 26. ARRL: Digital or Paper? 27. BBC: The BBC launches shortwave program in its crisis service beamed to Iran 28. Texas military base issues GPS interference warnings 29. Amateur Radio License Plates are poised for approval in the state of New Hampshire 30. FCC: Obsolete Part 97 Rules are officially deleted 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 why he has a radio transmitting into a dummy load continuously for the last year, on purpose * 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 Two of a Four Part episode titled, "Six Segments, Sans Spark" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1407 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1407 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1407 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 14, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:45:50 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1407 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: FUJI OSCAR 29 Approaches Full Sunlight 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Grounds Its Falcon 9 Rocket 3. AMSAT: Declassifying JUMPSEAT: An American Pioneer In Space 4. AMSAT: Kenya To Represent Africa In The ARISS Program During 2026 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: New Comedy Podcast Tackles Ham Radio's "Gatekeeping Problem" With Humour and Education 7. WIA: IARU Region One Issues Clarification On Reports Of Ham Radio Prosecutions In Belarus 8. WIA: Radio Society Of Great Britain Publishes Band Plans 9. WIA: Radio Station Looks To Share WKRP Callsign 10. FCC: Keep Your FRN Information Updated: FCC Fines Could Add Up Quickly 11. FCC: Amazon Gets FCC Approval To Launch 4,500 Leo Internet Satellites 12. ARRL: Start Planning Now For Ham Radio Open House In April - World Amateur Radio Day 13. ARRL: Digital Or Paper? 14. ARRL: Special Event Station Will Be Honoring The Titanic Radio Men 15. ARRL: ARRL Mourns The Loss Of Sharon Taratula, Awards Manager 16. ARRL: William Reed Whitten, AB4W, SK 17. BBC Shortwave Radio Programs Are Received In Iran 18. Amateur In Scotland Gets Approval For Installation Of A Tower 19. Texas Military Base Issues GPS Interference Warning 20. Advanced Class US Operators To Host A Popular Net 21. Amateur Radio License Plates Are Poised For Approval In New Hampshire 22. The Maker Community Eyes A Contruction Competition In The UK 23. The FCC deletes obsolete Part 97 Rules after their publication in the Federal Register on February 10th 24. ARRL: Irvine Disaster Emergency Communications offering a Technician-level licensing course 25. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings 26. AMSAT: NASA selects global tracking volunteers for the upcoming Artemis II mission 27. AMSAT: OpenSpace Phased Array antenna project targets low cost Earth Moon Earth for amateurs 28. FCC: FCC requires disclosure of Foreighn Adversaries interest, exempts amateurs 29. FCC: FCC fast-tracks SpaceX plan for one million satellites, and it wants your thoughts 30. ARRL: ARRL joins America250 as a supporting partner for the nations 250th anniversary 31. ARRL: The National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators removes three questions from use 32. ARRL: The league announces that more funding is available for radio clubs 33. ARD: Open HamClock backend aims to keep HamClock ticking Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, will be here with another edition of Foundations of Amateur Radio, This week's program is titled "How to become an amateur today" * 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 "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. We will hear all about in this episode titled, "Six Segments, Sans Spark" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1407 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 14, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Rich Lawrence, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:45:50 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1407 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: FUJI OSCAR 29 Approaches Full Sunlight 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Grounds Its Falcon 9 Rocket 3. AMSAT: Declassifying JUMPSEAT: An American Pioneer In Space 4. AMSAT: Kenya To Represent Africa In The ARISS Program During 2026 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: New Comedy Podcast Tackles Ham Radio's "Gatekeeping Problem" With Humour and Education 7. WIA: IARU Region One Issues Clarification On Reports Of Ham Radio Prosecutions In Belarus 8. WIA: Radio Society Of Great Britain Publishes Band Plans 9. WIA: Radio Station Looks To Share WKRP Callsign 10. FCC: Keep Your FRN Information Updated: FCC Fines Could Add Up Quickly 11. FCC: Amazon Gets FCC Approval To Launch 4,500 Leo Internet Satellites 12. ARRL: Start Planning Now For Ham Radio Open House In April - World Amateur Radio Day 13. ARRL: Digital Or Paper? 14. ARRL: Special Event Station Will Be Honoring The Titanic Radio Men 15. ARRL: ARRL Mourns The Loss Of Sharon Taratula, Awards Manager 16. ARRL: William Reed Whitten, AB4W, SK 17. BBC Shortwave Radio Programs Are Received In Iran 18. Amateur In Scotland Gets Approval For Installation Of A Tower 19. Texas Military Base Issues GPS Interference Warning 20. Advanced Class US Operators To Host A Popular Net 21. Amateur Radio License Plates Are Poised For Approval In New Hampshire 22. The Maker Community Eyes A Contruction Competition In The UK 23. The FCC deletes obsolete Part 97 Rules after their publication in the Federal Register on February 10th 24. ARRL: Irvine Disaster Emergency Communications offering a Technician-level licensing course 25. ARRL: Upcoming Contests and Regional Convention Listings 26. AMSAT: NASA selects global tracking volunteers for the upcoming Artemis II mission 27. AMSAT: OpenSpace Phased Array antenna project targets low cost Earth Moon Earth for amateurs 28. FCC: FCC requires disclosure of Foreighn Adversaries interest, exempts amateurs 29. FCC: FCC fast-tracks SpaceX plan for one million satellites, and it wants your thoughts 30. ARRL: ARRL joins America250 as a supporting partner for the nations 250th anniversary 31. ARRL: The National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators removes three questions from use 32. ARRL: The league announces that more funding is available for radio clubs 33. ARD: Open HamClock backend aims to keep HamClock ticking Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, will be here with another edition of Foundations of Amateur Radio, This week's program is titled "How to become an amateur today" * 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 "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. We will hear all about in this episode titled, "Six Segments, Sans Spark" ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 7 Feb 2026 22:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1406 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1406 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1406 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 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 Nikolich, N9OVQ, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:44:10 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1406 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA Selects Global Tracking Volunteers for Artemis II Lunar Mission 2. AMSAT: Thailand's KNACKSAT-2 CubeSat Preparing For Deployment From The ISS 3. AMSAT: Open.Space Phased Array Project Targets Low-Cost Earth-Moon-Earth For Hams 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 5. WIA: Belarus Threatens Ham Radio Operators With The Death Penalty 6. WIA: Vandals Strike Ham Factory 7. WIA: Earth Hit by Biggest 'Solar Radiation Storm' in 23 Years 8. WIA: Artemis II Mission Crew Enters Quarantine Before Flying To The Moon 9. FCC: FCC Requires Disclosure Of Foreign Adversaries' Interests In Entities With FCC Licenses 10. FCC: FCC Fast-Tracks SpaceX's Plan For One Million Satellites. And It Wants Your Thoughts 11. ARRL: ARRL Joins America250 As A Supporting Partner For The Nation's 250th Anniversary - Pt. 1 12. ARRL: ARRL Joins America250 As A Supporting Partner For The Nation's 250th Anniversary - Pt. 2 13. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Three Questions from Use 14. ARRL: Chasing Balloons Around the World 15. ARRL: Clubs Across The US Will Run Special Event Stations For Presidents Day and Washington's B'day 16. ARRL: Additional Funding Is Available For Radio Clubs 17. ARD: Open Hamclock Backend Aims To Keep HamClock Ticking 18. Amateurs In Brazil Mark Anniversary With SSTV Special Event Station 19. Four Amateurs Are Among Those Chosen To Track Artemis 2 Flight 20. HamSci March Workshop Opens For Registration 21. Historic Satellite QSO Is Celebrated 22. Young Ladies Radio League Scholarships Are Available 23. 16-day event will held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the city of Gdynia, Poland...1926-2026 24. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional amateur conventions 25. AMSAT: Help wanted: Feature story editors and video editors 26. WIA: Iran continues blocking internet traffic 27. ARD: Amateur Radio Digital Communications priority areas of funding offer opportunites for amateurs 28. ARD: IP400 project chooses modulation method for SuperNode 29. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr announces vote to expand 900 mHz Band to 10 MegaHertz 30. SPM: Kenya will represent Africa in ISS ARISS program during 2026 31. FR: World Radiocommunication Conference advances to schedule 4th meeting February 18th 32. ARRL: ARRL Director Famiglio's Recertification decision 33. ARRL: Student Conding Competition is underway with a 25k award 34. ARRL: Register now for HamSCI 2026 hosted by the ARRL 35. ARRL: ARRL to announce the winner of the ARRL Icom Dream Station at Orlando HamCation 36. ARRL: IARU issued a clarification on reports of the prosecution of Amateur Radio Operators in Belarus 37. Dayton HamVention announces the theme for the 2026 show - Radio Adventure! 38. Plane crash in Australia takes the life of amateur radio business owner 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 will present Part Eight of his series titled "Building A Shack". This episode is sub-titled "Will It Ever End?" * 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 Monitor Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Georg Simon Ohm. A German physicist and mathematician ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1406 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: February 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 Nikolich, N9OVQ, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:44:10 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1406 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA Selects Global Tracking Volunteers for Artemis II Lunar Mission 2. AMSAT: Thailand's KNACKSAT-2 CubeSat Preparing For Deployment From The ISS 3. AMSAT: Open.Space Phased Array Project Targets Low-Cost Earth-Moon-Earth For Hams 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 5. WIA: Belarus Threatens Ham Radio Operators With The Death Penalty 6. WIA: Vandals Strike Ham Factory 7. WIA: Earth Hit by Biggest 'Solar Radiation Storm' in 23 Years 8. WIA: Artemis II Mission Crew Enters Quarantine Before Flying To The Moon 9. FCC: FCC Requires Disclosure Of Foreign Adversaries' Interests In Entities With FCC Licenses 10. FCC: FCC Fast-Tracks SpaceX's Plan For One Million Satellites. And It Wants Your Thoughts 11. ARRL: ARRL Joins America250 As A Supporting Partner For The Nation's 250th Anniversary - Pt. 1 12. ARRL: ARRL Joins America250 As A Supporting Partner For The Nation's 250th Anniversary - Pt. 2 13. ARRL: NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Three Questions from Use 14. ARRL: Chasing Balloons Around the World 15. ARRL: Clubs Across The US Will Run Special Event Stations For Presidents Day and Washington's B'day 16. ARRL: Additional Funding Is Available For Radio Clubs 17. ARD: Open Hamclock Backend Aims To Keep HamClock Ticking 18. Amateurs In Brazil Mark Anniversary With SSTV Special Event Station 19. Four Amateurs Are Among Those Chosen To Track Artemis 2 Flight 20. HamSci March Workshop Opens For Registration 21. Historic Satellite QSO Is Celebrated 22. Young Ladies Radio League Scholarships Are Available 23. 16-day event will held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the city of Gdynia, Poland...1926-2026 24. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional amateur conventions 25. AMSAT: Help wanted: Feature story editors and video editors 26. WIA: Iran continues blocking internet traffic 27. ARD: Amateur Radio Digital Communications priority areas of funding offer opportunites for amateurs 28. ARD: IP400 project chooses modulation method for SuperNode 29. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr announces vote to expand 900 mHz Band to 10 MegaHertz 30. SPM: Kenya will represent Africa in ISS ARISS program during 2026 31. FR: World Radiocommunication Conference advances to schedule 4th meeting February 18th 32. ARRL: ARRL Director Famiglio's Recertification decision 33. ARRL: Student Conding Competition is underway with a 25k award 34. ARRL: Register now for HamSCI 2026 hosted by the ARRL 35. ARRL: ARRL to announce the winner of the ARRL Icom Dream Station at Orlando HamCation 36. ARRL: IARU issued a clarification on reports of the prosecution of Amateur Radio Operators in Belarus 37. Dayton HamVention announces the theme for the 2026 show - Radio Adventure! 38. Plane crash in Australia takes the life of amateur radio business owner 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 will present Part Eight of his series titled "Building A Shack". This episode is sub-titled "Will It Ever End?" * 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 Monitor Report * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Georg Simon Ohm. A German physicist and mathematician ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1405 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1405 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1405 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 31, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:44:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1405 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Help Wanted: Feature Story Editors and Video Editor 2. AMSAT: Using Neural Networks to Recover Satellite Signals 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Iran Continues Blocking Internet Traffic 5. WIA: UK Regulator Ofcom Proposes Device Spectrum Sharing / FCC To Vote On 6 GigaHertz Use 6. ARD: ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communcations Priority Areas Of Funding Offer Opportunities 7. ARD: IP400 Project Chooses Modulation Method For Supernode 8. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Announces Vote To Expand 900 MegaHertz Band To 10 MegaHertz 9. SPM: Kenya To Represent Africa In International Space Station ARISS Program 2026 10. NASA: NASA Selects Participants To Track Artemis II Mission 11. FR: World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee Schedules Its 4th Meeting on Feb.19 12. ARRL: Director Famiglio's Recertification Decision 13. ARRL: North Carolina Students Scheduled to Make Contact with the International Space Station 14. ARRL: Student Coding Competition Is Underway With $25,000 Award 15. ARRL: Register Now for HamSCI 2026, Hosted By ARRL 16. ARRL: The Northern Arizona DX Association Announces Dates For Sixth Annual Pluto Discovery 17. ARRL: ARRL To Announce The Winner Of The ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station at Orlando Fest 18. ARRL: IARU Has Issued A Clarification On The Prosecution Amateur Radio Operators In Belarus 19. Dayton HamVention Announces The Theme For 2026 - Radio Adventure! 20. Plane Crash In Australia Takes The Life Of An Amateur Radio Business Owner 21. Go back in time and turn back the clock with The Annual AM Rally 22. Elwood Downey, WB0OEW, Creator Of HamClock - SK / David Assaf W5XU DXpeditioner - SK 23. Statewide Parks On The Air Activators Debut New Club Callsign 24. Space Station Astronaut Captures Artemis 2 Launch Pad Image 25. AMSAT: AMSAT sends a message to US Educators concerning upcoming ARISS contact opportunities 26. WIA: Communications News Shorts 27. WIA: The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing the end of its useful life 28. ARD: Spottedham.com launches a custom POTA and keyboard email alerts 29. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors approves funding, advocacy, and creates a new DXCC Award 30. ARRL: Vandals strike an amateur radio manufacturers facility 31. ARRL: Nominations are sought for the 2026 Dayton Hamvention Awards 32. US Congress agrees to restore funding for the Voice of America and other government broadcasting 33. Damage to Taiwanese undersea cables spurs a national interest in amateur radio 34. A hosting site for the World Radio Telecommunications Conference for 2030 is being sought Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News, get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, continues with Part Seven of his series titled "Building A Shack". In this edition Onno looks a different methods of powering your shack * 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 edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. In this edition, Will takes a look at the early history of WWV. On the air since 1920, WWV began as a source of news from the Department of Agriculture, broadcast on CW. It also experimented with Friday evening concert broadcasts ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1405 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 31, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:44:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1405 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Help Wanted: Feature Story Editors and Video Editor 2. AMSAT: Using Neural Networks to Recover Satellite Signals 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Iran Continues Blocking Internet Traffic 5. WIA: UK Regulator Ofcom Proposes Device Spectrum Sharing / FCC To Vote On 6 GigaHertz Use 6. ARD: ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communcations Priority Areas Of Funding Offer Opportunities 7. ARD: IP400 Project Chooses Modulation Method For Supernode 8. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Announces Vote To Expand 900 MegaHertz Band To 10 MegaHertz 9. SPM: Kenya To Represent Africa In International Space Station ARISS Program 2026 10. NASA: NASA Selects Participants To Track Artemis II Mission 11. FR: World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee Schedules Its 4th Meeting on Feb.19 12. ARRL: Director Famiglio's Recertification Decision 13. ARRL: North Carolina Students Scheduled to Make Contact with the International Space Station 14. ARRL: Student Coding Competition Is Underway With $25,000 Award 15. ARRL: Register Now for HamSCI 2026, Hosted By ARRL 16. ARRL: The Northern Arizona DX Association Announces Dates For Sixth Annual Pluto Discovery 17. ARRL: ARRL To Announce The Winner Of The ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station at Orlando Fest 18. ARRL: IARU Has Issued A Clarification On The Prosecution Amateur Radio Operators In Belarus 19. Dayton HamVention Announces The Theme For 2026 - Radio Adventure! 20. Plane Crash In Australia Takes The Life Of An Amateur Radio Business Owner 21. Go back in time and turn back the clock with The Annual AM Rally 22. Elwood Downey, WB0OEW, Creator Of HamClock - SK / David Assaf W5XU DXpeditioner - SK 23. Statewide Parks On The Air Activators Debut New Club Callsign 24. Space Station Astronaut Captures Artemis 2 Launch Pad Image 25. AMSAT: AMSAT sends a message to US Educators concerning upcoming ARISS contact opportunities 26. WIA: Communications News Shorts 27. WIA: The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing the end of its useful life 28. ARD: Spottedham.com launches a custom POTA and keyboard email alerts 29. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors approves funding, advocacy, and creates a new DXCC Award 30. ARRL: Vandals strike an amateur radio manufacturers facility 31. ARRL: Nominations are sought for the 2026 Dayton Hamvention Awards 32. US Congress agrees to restore funding for the Voice of America and other government broadcasting 33. Damage to Taiwanese undersea cables spurs a national interest in amateur radio 34. A hosting site for the World Radio Telecommunications Conference for 2030 is being sought Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News, get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, continues with Part Seven of his series titled "Building A Shack". In this edition Onno looks a different methods of powering your shack * 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 edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. In this edition, Will takes a look at the early history of WWV. On the air since 1920, WWV began as a source of news from the Department of Agriculture, broadcast on CW. It also experimented with Friday evening concert broadcasts ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1404 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1404 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1404 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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 and 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 ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1404 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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 and 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 ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1403 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1403 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1403 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 17, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nickolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:46:38 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1403 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA Ends Crew 11 Mission Due To 'Medical Concern' With An Astronaut 2. AMSAT: NASA Marks 50 Years Of GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites 3. AMSAT: Two U.S. Schools and Organizations Moved Forward In ARISS Selection Process 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. FCC: FCC Approves Starlink Expansion To 19,000+ Satellites With Direct To Device Capability 6. ITB: KernWi-Fi Builds Carrier Grade Yaesu Internet-linked Multi-Repeater System Network 7. CWU: Case Amateur Radio Club W8EDU Receives DXCC Trident National Award 8. RW: Financial Traders Seek Permanency For Shortwave Data Transmissions 9. ARRL: New 60-Meter Frequencies Available As Of February 13th, 2026 10. ARRL: FCC Poised To Exempt Amateurs From Foreign Adversary Reporting Requirements 11. ARRL: Bob Jones, VE7RWJ, Silent Key -- Former ITU Official and IARU Expert 12. ARRL: Texas Ham Radio Repeaters Now Solar-Powered 13. ARD: DXLook Introduces VOACAP View Professional HF Propagation Prediction 14. FutureGEO Is The Most Important Amateur Radio Initiative Of This Decade 15. Device Frequency Sharing Is Eyed By Ofcom In The UK 16. Airlines Grounded In Greece -- Cancelled Due To Radio Noise 17. Winter Field Day Is Expanded By California Amateurs 18. HamCation To Feature An APRS Digipeater 19. Silent Key: VU2AF, Adolf Shepherd and Linux In The HamShack Host Russ Woodman K5TUX - SK 20. ARRL: ARISS is seeking contact schools and organization proposals 21. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listings 22. AMSAT: AMSAT membership now includes 'Getting Started With Amateur Satellites' book 23. AMSAT: HDMI Converter is installed on the ISS Ham TV System that expands video capabilities 24. WIA: Radio station played a pivotal role in the history of wireless celebrates its 125th anniversary 25. WIA: No time like the present - Maybe - KLOE-AM in Kansas packs it up after tower collapse 26. WIA: Moody Bible Institutes WMBI-FM instructed to lower power due to airport interference 27. ARD: 52 Week Amateur Radio Challenge returns for 2026 28. FCC: FCC bans sale of all foreign made drones in the US 29. FCC: FCC plans to expand unlicensed operations in the six gigahertz band 30. FCC: FCC reminds experimental digital shortwave stations to identify themselves in analog voice or CW 31. ARRL: Join the ARRL in celebrating Americas 250th anniversary - on the air 32. ARRL: The nomination period is open for the three Heritage CQ Magazine Hall of Fame 33. Amateurs in Germany find their access to 70 megaHertz is in limbo 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 with Part Five of his series titled "Building A Shack", this weeks episode is called "Antenna Shenanigans" * 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 edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This episodes stiff is Major Edwin Howard Armstrong. ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1403 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 17, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nickolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:46:38 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1403 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA Ends Crew 11 Mission Due To 'Medical Concern' With An Astronaut 2. AMSAT: NASA Marks 50 Years Of GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites 3. AMSAT: Two U.S. Schools and Organizations Moved Forward In ARISS Selection Process 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. FCC: FCC Approves Starlink Expansion To 19,000+ Satellites With Direct To Device Capability 6. ITB: KernWi-Fi Builds Carrier Grade Yaesu Internet-linked Multi-Repeater System Network 7. CWU: Case Amateur Radio Club W8EDU Receives DXCC Trident National Award 8. RW: Financial Traders Seek Permanency For Shortwave Data Transmissions 9. ARRL: New 60-Meter Frequencies Available As Of February 13th, 2026 10. ARRL: FCC Poised To Exempt Amateurs From Foreign Adversary Reporting Requirements 11. ARRL: Bob Jones, VE7RWJ, Silent Key -- Former ITU Official and IARU Expert 12. ARRL: Texas Ham Radio Repeaters Now Solar-Powered 13. ARD: DXLook Introduces VOACAP View Professional HF Propagation Prediction 14. FutureGEO Is The Most Important Amateur Radio Initiative Of This Decade 15. Device Frequency Sharing Is Eyed By Ofcom In The UK 16. Airlines Grounded In Greece -- Cancelled Due To Radio Noise 17. Winter Field Day Is Expanded By California Amateurs 18. HamCation To Feature An APRS Digipeater 19. Silent Key: VU2AF, Adolf Shepherd and Linux In The HamShack Host Russ Woodman K5TUX - SK 20. ARRL: ARISS is seeking contact schools and organization proposals 21. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listings 22. AMSAT: AMSAT membership now includes 'Getting Started With Amateur Satellites' book 23. AMSAT: HDMI Converter is installed on the ISS Ham TV System that expands video capabilities 24. WIA: Radio station played a pivotal role in the history of wireless celebrates its 125th anniversary 25. WIA: No time like the present - Maybe - KLOE-AM in Kansas packs it up after tower collapse 26. WIA: Moody Bible Institutes WMBI-FM instructed to lower power due to airport interference 27. ARD: 52 Week Amateur Radio Challenge returns for 2026 28. FCC: FCC bans sale of all foreign made drones in the US 29. FCC: FCC plans to expand unlicensed operations in the six gigahertz band 30. FCC: FCC reminds experimental digital shortwave stations to identify themselves in analog voice or CW 31. ARRL: Join the ARRL in celebrating Americas 250th anniversary - on the air 32. ARRL: The nomination period is open for the three Heritage CQ Magazine Hall of Fame 33. Amateurs in Germany find their access to 70 megaHertz is in limbo 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 with Part Five of his series titled "Building A Shack", this weeks episode is called "Antenna Shenanigans" * 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 edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This episodes stiff is Major Edwin Howard Armstrong. ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1402 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1402 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1402 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 10, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 2:01:38 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1402 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Membership Now Includes “Getting Started with Amateur Satellites” Guide 2. AMSAT: Soyuz Rideshare Launch Deploys Several New Amateur Radio Satellites In Orbit 3. AMSAT: HDMI Converter Installed on ISS HamTV System, Expanding Video Capabilities 4. AMSAT: CubeSat Developers Workshop 2026 Opens Call For Abstract Submissions 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 6. WIA: Radio Station Played A Pivotal Role In The History Of Wireless Is Celebrating Its 125th Anniversary 7. WIA: No Time Like The Present...Maybe - KLOE-AM In Kansas Off The Air Due To Tower Problems 8. WIA: Moody Bible Institute Stand Lowers Power Due To Airport Interference 9. ARD: 52 Week Ham Challenge Returns For 2026 10. FCC: FCC Bans Sale Of All Foreign Drones In The United States 11. FCC: FCC Plans To Expand Unlicensed Operations In 6 GigaHertz Band 12. FCC: FCC Reminds Experimental HF Stations To Identify Themselves 13. ARRL: Join ARRL In Celebrating America's 250th – On the Air! 14. ARRL: Richard Dean Straw, N6BV, ARRL Antenna Expert, Silent Key 15. ARRL: John Bartscherer, N1GNV Owner Of Quicksilver Radio Products, Silent Key 16. ARRL: Peter Schimmelbusch, W7HPS, Wins 2025 Amateur Radio For The Greater Good Competition 17. ARRL: Nominations Open For The Three Heritage CQ Magazine Halls of Fame 18. Regulation Changes Also In Store For Drones In The United Kingdom 19. World War II Military Chaplain Honored By Minnesota Amateurs 20. Amateurs In Germany Find Their Access To 70 MegaHertz Is In Limbo 21. Conway Reef Plans Are Expedited By The DX Rebel Group 22. First Satellite Is Launched For Montenegro 23. Amateur Club Helps Build Newcomers Confidence With CW 24. ARRL Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 25. AMSAT: Youth On The Air Camp 2026 Application Period is now open 26. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr highlights agency accomplishments in 2025 27. FCC: The FCC has been petitioned to expand GMRS and FRS to include low band VHF 28. ARRL: 2026 is ARRL's Year Of The Club - A celebration of amateur radio clubs - PART ONE 29. ARRL: 2026 is ARRL's Year Of The Club - A celebration of amateur radio clubs - PART TWO 30. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications introduces "44 Net Connect" for amateurs 31. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Take Office in January 2026 32. ARRL: ARRL awards the Colvin Grant to the upcoming Bouvet Island DxPedition 33. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation awarded more than $4 million in grants in 2024 34: AST Space Mobile has launched the largest to date commercial satellite 35: Amateurs in New Zealand will use ZM prefix for their Centenary 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, will have Part Four of his series "Building A Shack". This week he takes a look at "Coaxial Cable Alternatives" * 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 a 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 will be Part Two of the edition titled, "Call and Card." * We will have a look at this months Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1402 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: January 10, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nicolich, K9DXM, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 2:01:38 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1402 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Membership Now Includes “Getting Started with Amateur Satellites” Guide 2. AMSAT: Soyuz Rideshare Launch Deploys Several New Amateur Radio Satellites In Orbit 3. AMSAT: HDMI Converter Installed on ISS HamTV System, Expanding Video Capabilities 4. AMSAT: CubeSat Developers Workshop 2026 Opens Call For Abstract Submissions 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over 6. WIA: Radio Station Played A Pivotal Role In The History Of Wireless Is Celebrating Its 125th Anniversary 7. WIA: No Time Like The Present...Maybe - KLOE-AM In Kansas Off The Air Due To Tower Problems 8. WIA: Moody Bible Institute Stand Lowers Power Due To Airport Interference 9. ARD: 52 Week Ham Challenge Returns For 2026 10. FCC: FCC Bans Sale Of All Foreign Drones In The United States 11. FCC: FCC Plans To Expand Unlicensed Operations In 6 GigaHertz Band 12. FCC: FCC Reminds Experimental HF Stations To Identify Themselves 13. ARRL: Join ARRL In Celebrating America's 250th – On the Air! 14. ARRL: Richard Dean Straw, N6BV, ARRL Antenna Expert, Silent Key 15. ARRL: John Bartscherer, N1GNV Owner Of Quicksilver Radio Products, Silent Key 16. ARRL: Peter Schimmelbusch, W7HPS, Wins 2025 Amateur Radio For The Greater Good Competition 17. ARRL: Nominations Open For The Three Heritage CQ Magazine Halls of Fame 18. Regulation Changes Also In Store For Drones In The United Kingdom 19. World War II Military Chaplain Honored By Minnesota Amateurs 20. Amateurs In Germany Find Their Access To 70 MegaHertz Is In Limbo 21. Conway Reef Plans Are Expedited By The DX Rebel Group 22. First Satellite Is Launched For Montenegro 23. Amateur Club Helps Build Newcomers Confidence With CW 24. ARRL Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Conventions 25. AMSAT: Youth On The Air Camp 2026 Application Period is now open 26. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr highlights agency accomplishments in 2025 27. FCC: The FCC has been petitioned to expand GMRS and FRS to include low band VHF 28. ARRL: 2026 is ARRL's Year Of The Club - A celebration of amateur radio clubs - PART ONE 29. ARRL: 2026 is ARRL's Year Of The Club - A celebration of amateur radio clubs - PART TWO 30. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications introduces "44 Net Connect" for amateurs 31. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Take Office in January 2026 32. ARRL: ARRL awards the Colvin Grant to the upcoming Bouvet Island DxPedition 33. ARRL: Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation awarded more than $4 million in grants in 2024 34: AST Space Mobile has launched the largest to date commercial satellite 35: Amateurs in New Zealand will use ZM prefix for their Centenary 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, will have Part Four of his series "Building A Shack". This week he takes a look at "Coaxial Cable Alternatives" * 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 a 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 will be Part Two of the edition titled, "Call and Card." * We will have a look at this months Volunteer Monitoring Report ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 3 Jan 2026 21:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1401 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1401 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1401 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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 titled "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 and Card." ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1401 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) 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 titled "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 and Card." ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:32:33 -0400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1400 https://bit.ly/TWIAR1400 w2xbs77@gmail.com (George Bowen, W2XBS)noPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1400 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: December 27, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:32 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1400 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: W2RS Memorial AMSAT CW Activity Day To Be Held January 1, 2026 2. AMSAT: New Satellite Tracking Application Released 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Australia's ACMA Moves To Stop Illegal Radio Imports 5. WIA: Google To Build Three New Undersea Cables 6. WIA: Russian UVB-76 Radio Still On The Air 7. WIA: Amateurs Worldwide Get Access To IP Addresses 8. AS: Eagles Guitarist Joe Walsh's Auction Works, With Part of the Proceeds Benefitting Veterans Aid 9. Use Of International Reply Coupons (IRC'S) Is Ended By The Universal Postal Congress 10. Ham Radio University Featured Speaker Is Bouvet DxPeditioner 11. DMR Project With School Students In India Is Successful 12. Jim Shaffer, KE5AL, Advocate For Blind Amateurs, SK 13. Jim Heath, W6LG, Noted YouTube Elmer, SK 14. A Large Holiday Gathering Is Kept Safe By Minnesota Amateurs 15. AMSAT: Satellites Experience “Orbital Summer” And “Orbital Winter” 16. AMSAT: A Dying Satellite May Photograph Asteroid Apophis In 2029 17. AMSAT: Boeing's Next Starliner Mission Will Carry Cargo Only 18. ARD: DXLook Introduces Real-Time D-RAP Visualization For HF Absorption Events 19. EHAM: High Levels Of CO2 In The Atmosphere Can Affect Radio Propagation 20. IR: FCC Pushes Toward High-Stakes Upper C-Band Vote 21. ARRL: Get Your Keys and Bugs Ready For ARRL Straight Key Night 22. ARRL: Obsolete Part 97 Rules To Be Deleted February 10th, 2026 23. ARRL: New Technician Class Question Pool Released -- Effective July 1st, 2026 24. ARRL: Up To $25,000 At Stake In New ARRL Student Coding Competition 25. ARRL: 2026 Southeast VHF Society Conference Will Be Held On April 16th thru 19th In Macon, Georgia 26. New Video From NASA Explores The ARISS Experience 27. $25,000 Grant Awarded To Upcoming Sable Island DxPedition 28. Former Vermont RACES Amateurs Welcomed By The Medical Reserve Corps 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 Two of his series titled "Building A Shack" In Part Two Onno covers the topic "How Much Space Do You Need?" * 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, is back this week with another chapter from the new series titled "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Nicola Tesla. * Our annual Christmas Special hosted and narrated by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS as he related what it was like to be a teen obsessed with amateur radio, and trying to also have a girlfriend. This story taken from one of his talk presentations on WOR-AM in New York ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.George Bowen, W2XBSPODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1400 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: December 27, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnsen. W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:37:32 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1400 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: W2RS Memorial AMSAT CW Activity Day To Be Held January 1, 2026 2. AMSAT: New Satellite Tracking Application Released 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Australia's ACMA Moves To Stop Illegal Radio Imports 5. WIA: Google To Build Three New Undersea Cables 6. WIA: Russian UVB-76 Radio Still On The Air 7. WIA: Amateurs Worldwide Get Access To IP Addresses 8. AS: Eagles Guitarist Joe Walsh's Auction Works, With Part of the Proceeds Benefitting Veterans Aid 9. Use Of International Reply Coupons (IRC'S) Is Ended By The Universal Postal Congress 10. Ham Radio University Featured Speaker Is Bouvet DxPeditioner 11. DMR Project With School Students In India Is Successful 12. Jim Shaffer, KE5AL, Advocate For Blind Amateurs, SK 13. Jim Heath, W6LG, Noted YouTube Elmer, SK 14. A Large Holiday Gathering Is Kept Safe By Minnesota Amateurs 15. AMSAT: Satellites Experience “Orbital Summer” And “Orbital Winter” 16. AMSAT: A Dying Satellite May Photograph Asteroid Apophis In 2029 17. AMSAT: Boeing's Next Starliner Mission Will Carry Cargo Only 18. ARD: DXLook Introduces Real-Time D-RAP Visualization For HF Absorption Events 19. EHAM: High Levels Of CO2 In The Atmosphere Can Affect Radio Propagation 20. IR: FCC Pushes Toward High-Stakes Upper C-Band Vote 21. ARRL: Get Your Keys and Bugs Ready For ARRL Straight Key Night 22. ARRL: Obsolete Part 97 Rules To Be Deleted February 10th, 2026 23. ARRL: New Technician Class Question Pool Released -- Effective July 1st, 2026 24. ARRL: Up To $25,000 At Stake In New ARRL Student Coding Competition 25. ARRL: 2026 Southeast VHF Society Conference Will Be Held On April 16th thru 19th In Macon, Georgia 26. New Video From NASA Explores The ARISS Experience 27. $25,000 Grant Awarded To Upcoming Sable Island DxPedition 28. Former Vermont RACES Amateurs Welcomed By The Medical Reserve Corps 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 Two of his series titled "Building A Shack" In Part Two Onno covers the topic "How Much Space Do You Need?" * 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, is back this week with another chapter from the new series titled "Dead Electrical Dudes". This edition's stiff is Nicola Tesla. * Our annual Christmas Special hosted and narrated by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS as he related what it was like to be a teen obsessed with amateur radio, and trying to also have a girlfriend. This story taken from one of his talk presentations on WOR-AM in New York ----- Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast.rss Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/twiarpodcast60.rss Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQdPO6QkZJ1eIvw6-EQWQPgogVNiZim4u RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.TWIAR,news,AMSAT,ARRL,TWiT,FCC,RSGB,RAC,WIA,space,antennas,history