PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1411 - Truncated 1 hour version

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1411 - 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: March 14, 2026 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Mike Nicolich, N9OVQ, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Josh Marler, AA4WX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:00:06 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA Reveals Astronaut Who Required Evacuation From ISS 2. WIA: Amazon Reports Drones Damaged Three Facilities In The UAE and Bahrain 3. ARRL: Climbing High and Never Looking Back (Or Down!) 4. ARRL: Start Planning For ARRL Field Day 2026 5. ARRL: Dayton Hamvention 2026 Award Winners Announced 6. ARRL: Spring Section Manager Nomination Results Announced 7. National Flags and Symbols Not Permitted At This Years World RadioSport Team Championship 8. Higher Fees On State Owned Lands Challenged By Australian Amateurs 9. Indiana Amateurs Living Under Homeowners Associations Gain Protection For Antennas and Towers 10. Voice Of America Leadership Gets Ruled Against In Federal Court 11. Hurdy Gurdy Museum Amateur Radio Is Back On The Air 12. FCC: FCC Issues Draft NPRM To Open Up Spectrum For “Weird Space Stuff” 13. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada responds to the closure of the Weather Radio Service in Canada 14. ARRL: ClubLog adds to its roster of volunteers 15. ARRL: Tennessee aproves credentials for amateur radio technician licensees 16. The FCC issues its report to Congress on the sixth year of the PIRATE Act and its effectiveness. 17. Australia issues adjestments to their amateur radio band plans 18. A Hot Air Balloon with passengers on board crashes into a cell tower Plus these Special Features This Week: * Australia's own Onno Benshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, experiences a little set back on one project in an episode he calls "One Step Forward, Three Steps Back" * 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 new edition of "Dead Electrical Dudes". This week, Will looks back at the life and times of Volta. --- 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.