[AReU] Some News from the AMSAT-BB

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-019.06
News In Brief For This Week

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 019.06 From AMSAT HQ
Silver Spring, MD. January 19, 2002
To All Radio Amateurs
BID: $ANS-019.06

**  Federal Communications Commission has launched a simplified version of
its Electronic Comment Filing System  or ECFS.  To access ECFS Express,
users need only click on the "File Comments" logo found on the front page of
the FCC's Web site at www.fcc.gov   --Newsline

**  A broadcast tower almost a half mile high to replace the structure lost
when terrorists felled New York's World Trade Center could rise across the
Hudson river in New Jersey.  If constructed the new tower would not only
become the world's tallest free-standing structure. It would also be the
worlds tallest broadcast tower built at near sea level.  --Newsline

**   Another would-be tallest man-made structure could soon be towering over
the Australian outback.  By 2006, the Australian power company EnviroMission
Ltd hopes to build a 3,300 foot high solar tower in southwest New South
Wales state. The 200 megawatt solar generating station will cost nearly $563
million dollars to build and will be the width to a football
field.  --Newsline

**  Currently, the world's tallest free-standing structure is the Canadian
National Tower in Toronto. Its about 1650 feet high.  -- Newsline



Thanks and 73,
This weeks ANS Editor:
Lee McLamb, ku4os@amsat.org

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