PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1359 - Truncated 1-hour version This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net Release Date: March 15, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:00:35 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1359HR Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HCK: The Long Goodbye: More Instruments Shut Down On The Voyagers As End Nears 2. ARD: 2025 Hamvention Award Winners Announced 3. FCC Grants SpaceX A Key Waiver To Boost Cellular Starlink Network 4. AMSAT: ISS Astronauts Reject Call For Early Retirement Of The Station 5. ARRL: Radio Connects Is 2025 ARRL Field Day Theme — Merchandise Available for Preorder 6. ARRL: ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Site Locator Live, PR Workshop Registration 7. ARRL: Perfect Storm Exercise in California Gets Results 8. ARRL: Results Of ARRL Section Manager Elections 9. ARRL: Two Local Clubs Join Together To Sponsor Their Annual Spring Thaw Event 10. ARRL: Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Honors WWII Heros 11. Shortwave Station In Austria Adds Deutsche Amateur Radio Club Radio Program 12. Personnel Cuts At The US Weather Service Raises Questions 13. Fishermen and Farmer In India Find Amateur Radio An Important Tool 14. Amateurs To Celebrate 200th Anniversary Of The Erie Canal 15. FCC: FCC opens comment period on deregulating everything on a NPRM entitled Delete Delete Delete 16. ARRL: Upcoming Radio Sport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 17. ARD: Brandmeister DMR Network to stop supporting certain DMR identifiers 18. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters urge the FCC to accelerate transition to NextGen Television Plus these Special Features This Week: * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, we travel back to January of 1921, where we find the league running another round of transcontinental messaging, setting new records for the coast-to-coast relay. This episode is entitled "Transcons at Record Speed" ----- 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://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube 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 ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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 [email protected]. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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