PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1399 - Truncated 1 hour version

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1399 - 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: December 20, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 0:59:09 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1399HR Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Satellites Experience "Orbital Summer" And "Orbital Winter" 2. ARD: DXLook Introduces Real-Time D-RAP Visualization For HF Absorption Events 3. EHAM - High Levels Of CO2 In The Atmosphere Can Affect Radio Propagation 4. WIA: World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station In Sweden To Be On Air Christmas Eve 5. RW: American Public Media Settles With FCC Over False Emergency Alert Service Tones 6. ARRL: Get Your Keys and Bugs Ready for ARRL Straight Key Night 7. ARRL: Obsolete Part 97 Rules To Be Deleted February 10th, 2026 8. ARRL: New Technician Class Question Pool Released -- Effective July 1st, 2026 9. ARRL: Up To $25,000 At Stake In New ARRL Student Coding Competition 10. ARRL: Happy Belated Birthday To Entertainer and Comedian Dick Van Dyke 11. Still Time To Participate In The 12 Days Of Christmas Special Event 12. Former Vermont RACES Amateurs Welcomed By The Medical Reserve Corps 13. ARRL: FCC allocates 60 Meter World-wide Amateur Radio Band - Makes minor changes to 70cm band 14. ARRL: Deadline is fast approaching for 2026 ARRL Foundation Grant applications 15. ARRL: Registration is now open for the 2026 sessions of the ARRL Teachers Institute 16. ARRL: Pre-Registration is open for the ARRL Student Coding Competition 17. Christmas Eve 2025 is a great opportunity for radio transmission from vintage gear 18. The first HamTV transmission from the ISS has taken place since 2018 19. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings Plus these Special Features This Week: * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will present Part One of a new series on Building A Shack. This weeks episode is entitled "Setting The Scene" * 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, begins a brand new series that will be on air a couple of times a month, entitled, "Dead Electrical Dudes". And Will's first stiff is James Clerk Maxwell, the father of all that we hams hold sacred. --- 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 [email protected]. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.