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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1398 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)
Release Date: December 13, 2025
Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:40:54
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1398
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: KSLV-II Mission Deploys 13 Satellites, Including New Amateur Radio Payloads
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. ARRL: FCC Allocates 60-Meter World-Wide Amateur Band Approved at WRC-15; Continues Amateur Use of Four Additional 60-Meter Channels, and Updates 420 MHz Coordination Info
4. ARRL: ARRL To Host 2026 HamSCI Workshop At Central Connecticut State University
5. ARRL: ARRL 10-Meter Contest This Weekend
6. ARRL: Help Someone Get Their First Ham Radio License By The End of 2025
7. ARRL: Deadline Approaching: Apply Now For The 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarships
8. ARRL: The Greater Cincinnati Amateur Radio Association 1936 Net Will Host Its Annual AM Night
9. ARRL: Registration Is Open For The 2026 Sessions Of The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Tech
10. ARRL: Pre-Registration Is Open For The ARRL Student Coding Competition
11. ARRL: Christmas Eve 2025 Is A Great Opportunity For Radio Transmissions From Vintage Equipment
12. First HamTV Transmission From ISS Since 2018
13. New Club Station And Callsign Approved By Jordanian Amateurs
14. RACES Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service Ends In Vermont
15. Battle Of The Bulge Anniversary To Be Marked By Special Event
16. Youth On The Air Camp Application Period Opens
17. Six Santa Christmas Station Are On The Air From Dutch Amateurs
18. Smartphones In The UK To Receive Direct To Device Satellite Service
19. QSL Dot Net Founder Alan L. Waller, K3TKJ, SK
20. ARRL: Spokane County Amateurs Hold Weather Ground Truth Event
21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
22. AMSAT: Registration is open the the 25-26 European Astro-Pi Challenge
23. AMSAT: Optical communication systems test the limits of FCC authority
24. FCC: FCC Closes more than 2000 inactive proceedings
25. TvT: China will host International Telecommunications Union World Radio Conference 2027
26. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Annual Report promotes, protects, inspires, and educates amateurs
27. ARRL Orlando HamCation Award winners are announced
28. ARRL: The league encourages amateurs to send a holiday RadioGram
29. Short range UHF radios in Germany face new restrictions
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 have yet another update on his Bald Yak Project. This time he presents a segment he calls, "Choices and Software Flexibility".
* 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 Two of an episode titled, "Onward, Downward"
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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
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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.
Release Date: December 13, 2025
Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:40:54
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1398
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. AMSAT: KSLV-II Mission Deploys 13 Satellites, Including New Amateur Radio Payloads
2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
3. ARRL: FCC Allocates 60-Meter World-Wide Amateur Band Approved at WRC-15; Continues Amateur Use of Four Additional 60-Meter Channels, and Updates 420 MHz Coordination Info
4. ARRL: ARRL To Host 2026 HamSCI Workshop At Central Connecticut State University
5. ARRL: ARRL 10-Meter Contest This Weekend
6. ARRL: Help Someone Get Their First Ham Radio License By The End of 2025
7. ARRL: Deadline Approaching: Apply Now For The 2026 ARRL Foundation Scholarships
8. ARRL: The Greater Cincinnati Amateur Radio Association 1936 Net Will Host Its Annual AM Night
9. ARRL: Registration Is Open For The 2026 Sessions Of The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Tech
10. ARRL: Pre-Registration Is Open For The ARRL Student Coding Competition
11. ARRL: Christmas Eve 2025 Is A Great Opportunity For Radio Transmissions From Vintage Equipment
12. First HamTV Transmission From ISS Since 2018
13. New Club Station And Callsign Approved By Jordanian Amateurs
14. RACES Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service Ends In Vermont
15. Battle Of The Bulge Anniversary To Be Marked By Special Event
16. Youth On The Air Camp Application Period Opens
17. Six Santa Christmas Station Are On The Air From Dutch Amateurs
18. Smartphones In The UK To Receive Direct To Device Satellite Service
19. QSL Dot Net Founder Alan L. Waller, K3TKJ, SK
20. ARRL: Spokane County Amateurs Hold Weather Ground Truth Event
21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings
22. AMSAT: Registration is open the the 25-26 European Astro-Pi Challenge
23. AMSAT: Optical communication systems test the limits of FCC authority
24. FCC: FCC Closes more than 2000 inactive proceedings
25. TvT: China will host International Telecommunications Union World Radio Conference 2027
26. ARRL: The 2024 ARRL Annual Report promotes, protects, inspires, and educates amateurs
27. ARRL Orlando HamCation Award winners are announced
28. ARRL: The league encourages amateurs to send a holiday RadioGram
29. Short range UHF radios in Germany face new restrictions
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 have yet another update on his Bald Yak Project. This time he presents a segment he calls, "Choices and Software Flexibility".
* 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 Two of an episode titled, "Onward, Downward"
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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.