[TWIAR] summary 471

[Dale Sargent]

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Here is a summary of news items covered in this weeks edition #471 of
"This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered
on-the-air
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 27 April 2002. This weeks
edition is anchored by our Technical Director, W2XBS, from our
headquarters
studio in Albany, New York.

Total running time this week is approximately forty-three minutes.

1.  A Montana Senator plans to overhaul entire electromagnetic spectrum.

2.  FCC invites comments on Novice refarming, and field repairable gear.

3.  Wisconsin governor signs amateur radio antenna bill into law.
4.  ARISS logs two more successful school contacts in New York and
Puerto Rico
5.  Special Event Station Listings.
6.  The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
7.  Weekly propagation forecast report.
8.  AARE/The American Association of Radio Enthusiasts formed in
Milwaukee.
9.  Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP.
10. Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
11. Long Island New York club offers "One Day Extra" course.
12. International Marconi Day is coming next weekend.
13. The ARRL offers members expanded contest coverage on the internet.
14. Radio Amateurs of Canada will be present at this years Dayton
HamVention.
15. ARISS board of directors resolves greater cooperation with Canada.
16. The FCC okays geographic area AMTS licensing in the 220 band.
17. SAT: Two new amateur PicoSats will be placed in orbit soon.
18. TECH: Broadband via satellite takes another step forward at the FCC.

19. TECH: Bootless PC's are coming in a few years.

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.