PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1403 - 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: January 17, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordan Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Josh Marler, AA4WX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Mike Nickolich, K9DXM, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 0:59:46 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1403HR Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA Ends Crew 11 Mission Due To 'Medical Concern' With An Astronaut 2. FCC: FCC Approves Starlink Expansion To 19,000+ Satellites With Direct To Device Capability 3. RW: Financial Traders Seek Permanency For Shortwave Data Transmissions 4. ARRL: New 60-Meter Frequencies Available As Of February 13th, 2026 5. ARRL: FCC Poised To Exempt Amateurs From Foreign Adversary Reporting Requirements 6. ARD: DXLook Introduces VOACAP View Professional HF Propagation Prediction 7. FutureGEO Is The Most Important Amateur Radio Initiative Of This Decade 8. Device Frequency Sharing Is Eyed By Ofcom In The UK 9. AMSAT: AMSAT membership now includes 'Getting Started With Amateur Satellites' book. 10. AMSAT: HDMI Converter is installed on the ISS Ham TV System that expands video capabilities 11. WIA: Radio station played a pivotal role in the history of wireless celebrates its 125th anniversary 12. WIA: No time like the present - Maybe - KLOE-AM in Kansas packs it up after tower collapse 13. WIA: Moody Bible Institutes WMBI-FM instructed to lower power due to airport interference 14. FCC: FCC plans to expand unlicensed operations in the six gigahertz band 15. FCC: FCC reminds experimental digital shortwave stations to identify themselves in analog voice or CW Plus these Special Features This Week: * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio continues with Part Five of his series entitled "Building A Shack", this weeks episode is called "Antenna Shenanigans" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more.. * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of Dead Electrical Dudes. This episodes stiff is Major Edwin Howard Armstrong --- 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.
