This Week in Amateur Radio (LPFM)

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1429 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: October 17, 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, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:34:08

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARLPFM1429

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board of Directors Re-Elects Senior Officers for 2027
2. AMSAT: KENSAT Showcases Individual-Built Amateur Radio CubeSat
3. AMSAT: Google’s Project Suncatcher Begins Testing AI Computing in Orbit
4. AMSAT: Blue Origin Unveils 65-Foot Solar Power Tower for Lunar Operations
5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
6. IR/VOA/WIA: Voice Of America Radio Still Costs $1.6 Million Weekly After Trump Administration Cuts
7. COV: FCC Proposes to Auction Spectrum for Terrestrial and Space-Based Broadband Services
8. SPACE-X: SpaceX Gets FCC Green Light For 15,000 Direct-To-Device Satellites
9. ARRL: Florida Hams Provide Communications Support During Hurricane Isaias
10. ARRL: eBay Restricts Listings Of Radio Equipment, But Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
11. ARRL: Radio Club of America Announces Awards And Fellows For 2026
12. ARRL: PoPping Into 44Net Connect
13. ARRL: ARRL Announces Change in Rocky Mountain Division Leadership
14. ARRL: The Dog Day Radio Amateur Radio Club, KØDOG, Is Back On The Air
15. ARRL: ARRL Online Auction Up and Running
16. ARRL: Nominations Are Open For The 2027 CWOps Award
17. ARRL: Brian Daly, WB7OML, reappointed FCC's Communications Security, and Interoperability Council
18. Apollo Mission Programmer Margaret Hamilton, Passes Away
19. Agreement For Disaster Training Is Signed By West Bengal Amateurs and Officials
20. QCWA Scholarship Applications Period Opens Soon
21. ISS Crew-12 Returns Home From The Space Station / NASA ARISS Sign New Four Year Agreement
22. Pico Balloons Launched By Students In West Virginia

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will discuss how to point and antenna without moving it
* 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, presents a tribute and retrospective look back at the late Hap Holly, KC9RP who produced "The Rain Report" heard around the world for decades before its final transmission

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Website: https://www.twiar.net
Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss
Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss
Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss
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 NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3
Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3
Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1428 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: October 10, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:34:32

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARLPFM1428

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. ARDC: Volunteer with ARDC in 2027!
2. FCC/ARRL: FCC and HHS Initiate New Proceedings on RF Exposure
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over
4. WIA: US AM Radio For Very Vehicle Act News
5. WIA: Hubble Completes Its 200,000th Orbit Around Earth
6. NASA: NASA's SpaceX Crew‑13 Arrives at Space Station
7. ARD: APRS Connect is Now on iPhone
8. AG: The Sun Is Killing Off StarLink Satellites
9. FCC: The FCC Proposes New Mid-Band Spectrum Auction and Unlocking 800 MegaHertz For Drones
10. ARRL: Gulf Coast Prepares for Isaias
11. ARRL: World Radiosport Team Championship 2022 Results Re-Scored; New Winner Announced
12. ARRL: Radio Scouting Beyond Jamboree On The Air
13. ARRL: Discovering Ham Radio Via Moonbounce
14. ARRL: 2026 ARRL Online Auction
15. Ham Radio Operator Honored As Friend Of Broadcast
16. Early Proponent Of GMRS Becomes A Silent Key
17. Chasing Cornwallis Challenge Final Events
18. Amateurs In Argentina Organize Special Tribute To A Silent Key
19. ARISS Contact Milestone For A Chile High School
20. QSO'S With Readership
21. Zero Retries Conference General Admission Extended
22. Message Of Peace To Be Sent By Historic Transmitter SAQ
23. ARRL: National Fire Prevention Week special event stations on the air
24. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests
25. ARRL: Upcoming regional conventions and hamfest listing
26. AMSAT: OrbitDeck for iOS brings full featured satellite tracking to iPhone platform
27. SAQ: SAQ Grimeton to air United Nations Day Message worldwide
28. Google puts experimental AI data center satellite in orbit
29. FCC: FCC unleashes "Spectrum Abundance" for new uses
30. ARRL: ARRL alerts amateurs to e-mail "Phishing Scams"

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will present anoter update on his Bald Yak Project, and in amateur radio you will be surprised at the things you hear if you listen
* 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 edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This edition's stiff is Lee DeForest

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Website: https://www.twiar.net
Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss
Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss
Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss
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 NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3
Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3
Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1427 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: October 3, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chria Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:34:20

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARLPFM1427

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT-DL’s ERMINAZ-2 PocketQube Trio Set for October 1st Launch on Transporter-18
2. AMSAT: OrbitDeck for iOS Brings Full-Featured Satellite Tracking to iPhone and iPad
3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
4. IARU: IARU Region 1 General Conference Concludes in Vienna; New Executive Committee Elected
5. OFCOM: United Kingdom News
6. WIA: FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities
7. WIA: 2032 - FADE TO BLACK - UK TV QRT.
8. FCC: FCC Tells Arizona FM to Get Off Its Old Frequency
9. SAQ: SAQ Grimeton to Air United Nations Day Message
10. California County Makes NOAA Weather Radios A Priority
11. Google Puts Experimental AI Data Center Satellite In Orbit
12. Agencies In The United Nations Plea For RFI Safeguards - Two US Agencies Seek Comments On RF Exposure
13. Radio Signals Are Detected From Another World By Researchers
14. SK: Edward Engleman, KG8CX Co-Founder Of YACHT
15. New Azores Network Unites School Radio Clubs
16. ARRL: Year of the Club … Special Delivery to 7Q (Malawi)
17. ARRL: Year of the Club … Keep on Truckin’
18. ARRL: Ukrainian/Polish Radio Club Celebrates Centennial
19. ARRL: 2026 Collegiate QSO Party is October 3rd and 4th
20. ARRL: Peter Nowinski, W3LIX, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, Honored
21. FCC: FCC Unleashes Spectrum Abundance for New Uses
22. ARRL: ARRL Warns Amateurs About E-Mail Phising
23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and On The Events
24. ARRL: Upcoming Regional Conventions and HamFests

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, will discuss How To Get Kitted Up with Amateur Radio, and will explain Radio, For The Love Of It
* 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
* Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report
* Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with a brand new edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This edition's stiff is Samuel Morse

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Website: https://www.twiar.net
Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss
Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss
Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss
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 NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3
Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3
Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1425 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: September 19, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:31:53

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARLPFM1425

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. ARRL: Candidates Named for ARRL Director and Vice Director Elections
2. ARRL: Hamvention Names First Woman as General Chair
3. ARRL: Former ARRL COO Harold Kramer, WJ1B, Silent Key
4. ARRL: Rich Moseson, W2VU, Named ARRL News Editor
5. ARRL: Entrepreneur and Amateur Radio Operator Invests in the Next Generation of Problem Solvers
6. ARRL: 10-Year-Old Receives Ham License and More
7. ARRL: ARISS Receives Challenger-7 Recognition
8. ARRL: FCC Cites GMRS Licensee for Illegal Linked Repeater Network
9. ARRL: New ARRL Maine Section Manager
10. ARRL: ARRL Board Reviews and Approves Potential Alabama Section Move to the Delta Division and More
11. ARRL: New ARRL 10-Band DXCC Award
12. ARRL: Upcoming: 2026 ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET)
13. ARRL: Florida’s Space Coast Expands Digital Communications Infrastructures
14. ARRL: WRTC 2026 Organizers Honored by FOC
15. ARRL: Get Ready for Jamboree on the Air
16. ARRL: AMSAT Youth Initiative Course, ARISS Announces Schedule Deadline
17. Gibralter Amateurs Mark Milestones With New Stamps and Coins
18. 12,000 Year Old Archaeological Site Gets HF Radio
19. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Seeks Volunteers
20. FCC Vote Will Give High Speed Satellite More Spectrum
21. Indonesian Volcano Eruption Activates Emergency Net
22. A Tribute Transmission From Alaska To NYC On September 11th
23. Solar Power From Space To Be Delivered By LASER
24. AMSAT: World Amateur Radio Broadcasting and Send Your Name into Space Campaign
25. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts from All Over
26. ARRL: Upcoming Contest Listing and Regional Conventions

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, will cover Coronal Mass Ejections, Wind Flares, Solar Flux, and Geomagnetic Storms
* 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 Part One of a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio"

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Website: https://www.twiar.net
Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss
Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss
Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss
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 NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3
Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3
Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.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.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1426 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks)

Release Date: September 26, 2026

Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:11:09

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIARLPFM1426

Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT Space Symposium
2. AMSAT: AO-7 - OSCAR-7 - Again Captures Attention
3. AMSAT: Satellite Headlines From All Over
4. WIA: Fuel Savings Double Potential Lifetime for NASAs Roman Mission
5. ARRL: FCC and HHS Initiate New Proceedings on RF Exposure
6. ARRL: Morse Code Detectives
7. ARRL: Remembering Four Silent Keys
8. ARRL: Will RADE Be the Next SSB?
9. ARRL: ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, Guest On Episode 103 of The DX Mentor Podcast
10. ARRL: Radio Shorts From All Over
11. Croatia Will Host World Radiosport Team Championships
12. Nationwide Emergency Alert System Test Date Set By The US Government
13. A Summit Activator Assists In Hiker Rescue In Hawaii
14. Disaster Response Veteran Tom Delaney, W8WTD - SK
15. Etiquette Is Not Trivial On This Net
16. Hindu Festival Concludes In Mumbai As Hams Ensure Safety
17. ARRL: W1AW/250 Upcoming Operations/Activations
18. ARRL: Upcoming Section Conventions
19. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests

Plus these Special Features This Week:

* Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News
* Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will take us through an Emergency Response Reality Check
* 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 a brand new edition of "A Century Of Amateur Radio"

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Website: https://www.twiar.net
Full Podcast (ID breaks every 10 mins for use on ham frequencies): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast.rss
Full Podcast (No ID Breaks for LPFM or personal listening): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcastlpfm.rss
Truncated Podcast (Approximately 1 hour in length): https://www.twiar.net/static/twiarpodcast60.rss
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 NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARHAM.mp3
Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly NEW LOCATION): https://www.twiar.net/static/TWIAR1HR.mp3
Automated (Full Static File with no breaks NEW LOCATION): https://twiar.net/static/TWIARLPFM.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.