PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1400

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition - 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: 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 entitled "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 entitled "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): Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): Website: X: Bluesky: Facebook: YouTube: RSS News: Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): 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.

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