PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1367

**George Bowen** (0:03)
Now, in our 26th year, a quarter century of service to the worldwide amateur radio community, we are This Week in Amateur Radio, your all amateur radio and technology news magazine and bulletin service of the air. This is edition number 1367 with a release and air date of Saturday, May 10th, 2025 Please take the program to your air following the Q-tone.
Heard every week on the amateur radio bands all around the world, broadcast on low power AM and FM stations all across the US, and podcast on the internet since 1993, we are This Week in Amateur Radio, the worldwide premier amateur radio and technology news magazine and bulletin service of the air. Here are the stories for release around the earth as we come to air with edition number 1367 of This Week in Amateur Radio. You can now plan ahead your trip to the Dayton Hamvention as the new ARRL Hamvention App goes live. The FCC wants imported electronics testing to be based here in the US. The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications received a grant from the ARDC to continue into the future.
In the on-again-off-again saga of the Voice of America, a US appeals court has halted an order allowing VOA employees to go back to work. The Johns Hopkins Institute aligns with the League to present an ARRL Teachers Institute program. The Radio Society of Great Britain participated in the recent International Amateur Radio Union, Region 1 conference. Meanwhile, amateurs in Italy gain access to 40 MHz, while amateurs in Brazil gain access to 11 meters. Amazon kicks off its satellite constellation with a launch of its first group of satellites for the Kuiper network. Changes are announced in the ARRL Atlantic Division. The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame announces its latest inductees. Spacex is thinking about entering a spectrum battle with another satellite operator. We will have this month's report from the Volunteer Monitoring System, and one part of the Australian coast is facing a waste problem from a unique source. We will tell you all about it in this week's report. These headline stories will come to you in a moment along with this week's special features. We will visit with Bruce Paige, Kk5Do and get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all of those amateur satellites in orbit. Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB and Foundations of Amateur Radio will answer the question, can we figure out how much the sun really affects propagation? Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another brand new edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard the Wayback Machine to 1922, where we find despite several attempts, no successor to the outdated 1912 radio law had yet emerged. Now it could wait no longer since things had changed so radically with the rise of broadcasting. In early March 1922, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened the first national radio conference in Washington. Will will bring us there in this week's edition. And we will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the ever popular DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX in general, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more. That's all straight ahead as North America's premier amateur radio and technology news magazine and bulletin service, This Week in Amateur Radio takes to the air right now. Coming to you from our rain-drenched studio facility just outside of Albany, New York and keeping dry in our main studio A, I'm George W2Xbs.

**Chris Perrine** (4:25)
And reporting this week from my home shack in Cortlandville, New York, where this morning was the first time I've seen the sun in over a week after drenching rains. It makes me happy. I'm Chris Perrine, Kb2Faf.

**Joshua Marler** (4:42)
And reporting from our news bureau in Knoxville, Tennessee, where we are getting ready for Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio next week. I'm Josh Marler, AA4Wx.

**Ed Johnson** (4:52)
And from the sunny space coast in Florida, I'm Ed Johnson, W2PH.

**Marvin Turner** (4:58)
And reporting from our news bureau in Western Mass, where the countdown to Dayton is shorter than a two meter rag two during a contest weekend. Yes, folks, Hamvention is just a week away and in a shocking twist that surprises absolutely no one. It's expected to rain, because what's Hamvention with a little mud on your boots? I'm Marvin Turner, W0Met.

**Eric Zittel** (5:18)
And reporting from our True New York News Bureau, where the rain just doesn't seem to want to stop, I'm Eric, Kd2, Romeo Juliet X-ray.

**Al Shepard** (5:26)
And reporting from our news bureau in Lebanon, Tennessee, where country music is always shining bright, I'm Al Shepard, WK8W.