PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1397 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: December 6, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by ordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:36:51

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1397LPFM

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Registration Is Open For The 2025–2026 European Astro Pi Challenge
2. AMSAT: Optical Communications Systems Test the Limits of FCC Authority
3. AMSAT: REALOP CubeSat To Test Hard Drives For ADC System
4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
5. WIA: What Has 5000 Batteries and Floats?
6. WIA: NASA Deep Space Antenna Suffers Rotation Damage
7. FCC: FCC Extends Dates For Comments On Transitioning Voice Telephone Services To All IP
8. FCC: FCC Closes More Than 2,000 Inactive Proceedings
9. FCC: FCC Urges Action After Obscene Material Airs In Hack
10. TvT: China To Host International Telecommunications Union World Radiocommunication Conference '27
11. ARRL: Space Sailors Seeking Download Help From Ham Radio Operators
12. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Annual Report: Promote, Protect, Inspire, Educate
13. ARRL: Orlando HamCation Award Winners Announced
14. ARRL: Teachers Institute Telethon Raises Over $23,000
15. ARRL: Send A Holiday Radiogram
16. ARRL: Radio Amateur Society of Norfolk, Virginia Awarded $12,000 Grant
17. ARRL: Joe Walsh, WB6ACU, Is Getting Ready For A Very Personal Auction
18. ARRL: HamSci Is Seeking Monitors For Upcoming Meteor Scatter Experiments
19. Short Range UHF Radios In Germany Face New Restrictions
20. Two Silent Keys: John Walker, ZL3IB and Ganesh Subramaniam, VU2TS
21. Radio Transmissions And Aurora's Are Linked
22. Students Face The European Space Agency Challenge Of Computing In Space
23. Woman Lost In Bangladesh Is Assisted By Indian Amateurs
24. ARRL: Pacificon 2025 picture album is now available on line
25: Upcoming RadioSport Contest Listings and Regional Convention Listings
26: Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report.
27. RSGB: The Radio Society of Great Britain is looking for a Volunteer Accessibility Champion
28. AMSAT: SO-124 is nearing the end of orbital life
29. FCC: FCC deletes 21 obsolete rules and regulations
30. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Board of Directors election results are announced
31. ARRL: ARRL VEC has now completed processing most of the backlog 0f 2500+ license applications
32. ARRL: December is Youth On The Air Month (YOTA)
33. ARRL: Santa Net 2025 Is Now On The Air
34. RSGB: UK Regulator takes steps to ensure disabled amateurs are not excluded
35. FCC: FCC says hackers have hijacked US radio STL using Barix IP to send fake alerts

Plus these Special Features This Week:

Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will propose a few solutions when you are Having Problems With Logging.
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 here with another brand new edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the mid 1920's as amateurs were rapidly coming to appreciate that there was something strange and unexpected about the shorter wavelengths. Clearly, it was time to press on downward, but their hands were somewhat tied by the lack of an allocation in this unused, unexplored territory. This is Part One of a two part episode titled, "Onward, Downward".

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