PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1405 - LPFM Version (no commercial breaks) Release Date: January 31, 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, Mike Nikolich, K9DXM, George Lama, KC2OXJ, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Denny Haight, NZ8D, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:39:24 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1405LPFM Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Help Wanted: Feature Story Editors & Video Editor 2. AMSAT: Using Neural Networks to Recover Satellite Signals 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Iran Continues Blocking Internet Traffic 5. WIA: UK Regulator Ofcom Proposes Device Spectrum Sharing / FCC To Vote On 6 GigaHertz Use 6. ARD: ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communcations Priority Areas Of Funding Offer Opportunities 7. ARD: IP400 Project Chooses Modulation Method For Supernode 8. FCC: FCC Chairman Carr Announces Vote To Expand 900 MegaHertz Band To 10 MegaHertz 9. SPM: Kenya To Represent Africa In International Space Station ARISS Program 2026 10. NASA: NASA Selects Participants To Track Artemis II Mission 11. FR: World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee Schedules Its 4th Meeting on Feb.19 12. ARRL: Director Famiglio’s Recertification Decision 13. ARRL: North Carolina Students Scheduled to Make Contact with the International Space Station 14. ARRL: Student Coding Competition Is Underway With $25,000 Award 15. ARRL: Register Now for HamSCI 2026, Hosted By ARRL 16. ARRL: The Northern Arizona DX Association Announces Dates For Sixth Annual Pluto Discovery 17. ARRL: ARRL To Announce The Winner Of The ARRL Sweepstakes Icom Dream Station at Orlando Fest 18. ARRL: IARU Has Issued A Clarification On The Prosecution Amateur Radio Operators In Belarus 19. Dayton HamVention Announces The Theme For 2026 - Radio Adventure! 20. Plane Crash In Australia Takes The Life Of An Amateur Radio Business Owner 21. Go back in time and turn back the clock with The Annual AM Rally 22. Elwood Downey, WB0OEW, Creator Of HamClock - SK / David Assaf W5XU DXpeditioner - SK 23. Statewide Parks On The Air Activators Debut New Club Callsign 24. Space Station Astronaut Captures Artemis 2 Launch Pad Image 25. AMSAT: AMSAT sends a message to US Educators concerning upcoming ARISS contact opportunities 26. WIA: Communications News Shorts 27. WIA: The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing the end of its useful life 28. ARD: Spottedham.com launches a custom POTA and keyboard email alerts 29. ARRL: ARRL Board of Directors approves funding, advocacy, and creates a new DXCC Award 30. ARRL: Vandals strike an amateur radio manufacturers facility 31. ARRL: Nominations are sought for the 2026 Dayton Hamvention Awards 32. US Congress agrees to restore funding for the Voice of America and other government broadcasting 33. Damage to Taiwanese undersea cables spurs a national interest in amateur radio 34. A hosting site for the World Radio Telecommunications Conference for 2030 is being sought Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News, get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio, continues with Part Seven of his series entitled "Building A Shack". In this edition Onno looks a different methods of powering your shack * 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 A Century Of Amateur Radio. In this edition, Will takes a look at the early history of WWV. On the air since 1920, WWV began as a source of news from the Department of Agriculture, broadcast on CW. 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