[TWIAR] Summary 469

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Here is a summary of news items covered in this weeks edition #469 of
"This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered
on-the-air
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 13 April 2002. This weeks
edition is anchored by Steven Robertson from our bureau in Chesapeak
Bay,
Maryland.

Total running time this week is approximately fifty-two minutes.

1.  FCC proceeding puts new pressure on an amateur microwave band.
2.  Wisconsin governor signs amateur radio antenna protection act into
law.
3.  Tennessee PRB-1 legislation fails to pass state legislature.
4.  Boeing Stratoliner used for ham radio special event operations
crashes.
5.  New Mexico ARES/RACES teams support response to wild fires.
6.  The Hurricane Watch Net has seen a "changing of the guard".
7.  The FCC could conquer the vanity callsign backlog within a week.
8.  FCC levies a $1000 fine for unlicensed operation on 11 meters.
9.  Special event station listings with George Bowen, W2XBS.
10. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
11. Weekly Propagation Forecast Report.
12. DX: A new meteor scatter rally is in the works.
13. DX: Logs for Ducie Island DXpedition will be delayed.
14. Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
15. DX: DXCC to accept P5/4L4FN contacts for DXCC credit.
16. The ARRL will be represented at this years NAB convention in Las
Vegas.
17. First call for papers for the upcoming AMSAT-NA symposium.
18. TECH: There is a new comet heading for earth this month.
19. Not to be out-done by N'Sync, Aerosmith now wants to go to the ISS.

Transmission and production expenses have been underwritten this
week by a grant from John Creel, WB3GXW of Silver Springs, Maryland,
which carries "This Week in Amateur Radio" via internet digital audio
each
Sunday evening at 8:00pm on the WB3GXW repeater on 147.225Mhz serving
Silver Springs, Maryland, and the greater Washington D.C. area.

This Week in Amateur Radio is distributed each Saturday evening
on the internet and also on commercial C-Band satellite via the
"W0KIE Satellite Network" Saturdays at 9:00 PM (EST) on SES Americom
AMC-7 communications satellite, transponder 5 (H), 7.5 Mhz wideband
analog audio subcarrier, located at 137 degrees west longitude in
equatorial geosynchronous orbit.

"This Week in Amateur Radio" is a weekly amateur radio voice
bulletin service, produced by Community Video Associates, Inc.,
a New York State not-for-profit corporation.  Our mailing address
for questions, comments, or support is -- P.O. Box 30 -- Sand Lake,
New York 12153.

On the World Wide Web, program audio can now be found in several formats

(including streaming RealAudio and MP3) at our primary web site
http://www.twiar.org with thanks to our web guru Greg Williams, K4HSM,
and Dale Sargent our audio file guy.  Our mirror site is also available
at http://www.qsl.net/twiar with thanks to Al Waller, K3TKJ of QSL.Net.
The service also is carried on repeaters throughout North America and
by WA0RCR on 160 meters at 1860 kHz.  Contact your local amateur
radio club or repeater operator if "This Week in Amateur Radio"
is not being heard in your area.

Production and transmission expenses are underwritten by donations from
repeater operators, amateur radio clubs, and individual amateurs.
Further information is available from George Bowen, W2XBS, at
518.283.3665,
packet @ N2TY, or e-mail to w2xbs@twiar.org.