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Here is a summary of news items covered in this weeks edition #468 of
"This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered
on-the-air
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 20 April 2002. This weeks
edition is anchored by our technical director, George Bowen, W2XBS, from

our headquarters studio in Albany, New York.

Total running time this week is approximately fifty minutes.

1.  New draft element 2 (technician)question pool released for comment.
2.  Amateur radio is praised during National Hurricane Conference in
Florida.
3.  Texas students chat with the ISS crew during the latest ARISS
contact.
4.  Amateur radio hits the really big screen in new I-MAX film.
5.  Two HF maritime nets handle emergency calls on both coasts.
6.  Vanity callsign processing at the FCC finally returns to normal.
7.  The Dayton HamVention announces its 2002 banquet speakers.
8.  I-Link may becoming illegal to use in Austrialia.
9.  PC-SAT gets a full battery charge and is returned to limited
service.
10. World Amateur Radio Day is this week.
11. Special Event Station listings.
12. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
13. Weekly Propagation Forecast report.
14. The cost of sending those QSL cards is going to go up again.
15. SaudiSat (SO-41) is officially ready for amateur use.
16. UPDATE: Rich people that want to visit the International Space
Station.
17. Packet Radios Best kept Secrets with Bill Baran, N2FNH.
18. Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
19. Digital standards for AM/FM broadcasting in the United States is
proposed.
20. Amateur radio is represented at the World Telecommunications
Conference.
21. Canada may loose the magnetic North Pole to Russia in 2004.

Transmission and production expenses have been underwritten this week by

a grant from Ed Jacobson, WB0VHF of Bloomington, Minnesota, where This
Week
in Amateur Radio is heard on the W0YC (University of Minnesota ARC)
repeater on 145.15 megahertz serving the twin cities.

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.