PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1408 - Repeater Version

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition - 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: 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): 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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