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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1413 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes)
Release Date: March 28, 2026
Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:43:40
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1413
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. RAC: Geoff, G4FKA Receives First Worked All United Kingdom Prefixes Supreme Award
2. AMSAT: Digital Modes On FO-29 Not Permitted Per Licensing Restrictions
3. AMSAT: SpaceX Plan For 1 Million Centers Poses Dangerous Risk
4. AMSAT: Astronauts Complete Prep For New ISS Solar Array
5. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. WIA: Advanced Navigation Demonstates New Navigation System
7. WIA: Icom UK Equips Radio Society of Great Britains National Radio Center
8. WIA: Symbols Of National Pride Not Permitted At 2026 World RadioSport Team Championships
9. ARD: Hamvention 2026 Theme And Logo Announced
10. BBC/CR90: FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers, Citing National Security Concerns
11. HDY: TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again
12. ARRL: Solar Eclipses: What The Bands Revealed...
13. ARRL: A Unique Learning Experience For Amateur Radio
14. ARRL: Sci-Tech ARS Girl Scouts First Contact Event
15. ARRL/FCC: FCC Warns Licensee On Out-of-Band Transmissions
16. ARRL: The Intercontinental Amateur Traffic Net Is Seeking Additional Net Control Stations
17. HRF: 49th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Ham Radio Friedrichshafen
18. NOAA Receives Funds To Expand And Upgrade Its Weather Radio Network
19. CQ For Autism Awareness Is Called By An International Partnership
20. A New Network Bridge For Historical Black Campuses
21. An International Team Has Charted A Flight To The Space Station
22. Young Professionals Honored By The Radio Club of America
23. Titanic Remembered During Upcoming Special Event Station
24. ARRL: ARRL Student Coding Competition Deadline Nears
25. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing
26. AMSAT: International Amateur Radio Union coordinates two new amateur radio satellites
27. ARRL: ARRL hosts a successful HamSci 2026 workshop
28. ARRL: The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2026 inductees
29. ARRL: Growing an army of young new licensees in New York City
30. ARRL: The league has many job openings, come work for the ARRL!
31. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net is seeking net control operators
32. High Frequency communications testing in Alaska by the US Military
33. Voice of America is ordered back on the air by a Federal Judge
34. Upgrading electronics is required on certain airliners due to interference from CW signals
35: New film documentary about MFJ and its founder is now in production
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 Part 17 of his ongoing Bald Yak Radio Project. This week, he brings us "Adventures In Radio Data Systems"
* 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 a year or so after QST first began its International Amateur Radio department, amateurs were discussing linking amateur radio organizations around the world. In a speech at the second ARRL National Convention in late 1923, Maxim said he believed it was time for an international meeting to organize something he called a World Amateur Radio League, and asked members to submit their ideas for the ARRL board to consider. This is where the International Amateur Radio Union was born
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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: March 28, 2026
Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX
Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS
Approximate Running Time: 1:43:40
Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1413
Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service
1. RAC: Geoff, G4FKA Receives First Worked All United Kingdom Prefixes Supreme Award
2. AMSAT: Digital Modes On FO-29 Not Permitted Per Licensing Restrictions
3. AMSAT: SpaceX Plan For 1 Million Centers Poses Dangerous Risk
4. AMSAT: Astronauts Complete Prep For New ISS Solar Array
5. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over
6. WIA: Advanced Navigation Demonstates New Navigation System
7. WIA: Icom UK Equips Radio Society of Great Britains National Radio Center
8. WIA: Symbols Of National Pride Not Permitted At 2026 World RadioSport Team Championships
9. ARD: Hamvention 2026 Theme And Logo Announced
10. BBC/CR90: FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers, Citing National Security Concerns
11. HDY: TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again
12. ARRL: Solar Eclipses: What The Bands Revealed...
13. ARRL: A Unique Learning Experience For Amateur Radio
14. ARRL: Sci-Tech ARS Girl Scouts First Contact Event
15. ARRL/FCC: FCC Warns Licensee On Out-of-Band Transmissions
16. ARRL: The Intercontinental Amateur Traffic Net Is Seeking Additional Net Control Stations
17. HRF: 49th International Amateur Radio Exhibition At Ham Radio Friedrichshafen
18. NOAA Receives Funds To Expand And Upgrade Its Weather Radio Network
19. CQ For Autism Awareness Is Called By An International Partnership
20. A New Network Bridge For Historical Black Campuses
21. An International Team Has Charted A Flight To The Space Station
22. Young Professionals Honored By The Radio Club of America
23. Titanic Remembered During Upcoming Special Event Station
24. ARRL: ARRL Student Coding Competition Deadline Nears
25. ARRL: Upcoming contests and regional convention listing
26. AMSAT: International Amateur Radio Union coordinates two new amateur radio satellites
27. ARRL: ARRL hosts a successful HamSci 2026 workshop
28. ARRL: The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2026 inductees
29. ARRL: Growing an army of young new licensees in New York City
30. ARRL: The league has many job openings, come work for the ARRL!
31. ARRL: The Hurricane Watch Net is seeking net control operators
32. High Frequency communications testing in Alaska by the US Military
33. Voice of America is ordered back on the air by a Federal Judge
34. Upgrading electronics is required on certain airliners due to interference from CW signals
35: New film documentary about MFJ and its founder is now in production
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 Part 17 of his ongoing Bald Yak Radio Project. This week, he brings us "Adventures In Radio Data Systems"
* 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 a year or so after QST first began its International Amateur Radio department, amateurs were discussing linking amateur radio organizations around the world. In a speech at the second ARRL National Convention in late 1923, Maxim said he believed it was time for an international meeting to organize something he called a World Amateur Radio League, and asked members to submit their ideas for the ARRL board to consider. This is where the International Amateur Radio Union was born
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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.