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Here is a summary of news items covered in this weeks edition #459 of
"This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 02 February 2002. Anchoring
this week edition is our Technical Director, George Bowen, W2XBS, from
our main studios in Albany, New York.

Total running time this week is approximately 45 minutes.

1.  The ARRL Board of Directors adopts modified novice band refarming
plan.
2.  Broadcasters will be borrowing amateur spectrum for Olympic
coverage.
3.  The FCC modifies sanctions in a California repeater case.
4.  A new "flexible tape" antenna is installed on the ISS during
spacewalk.
5.  Special Event Station listings.
6.  The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
7.  Weekly Propagation Forecast Report.
8.  Vanity Callsign processing at the FCC is ramping up..slowly.
9.  Bruce Paige, KK5DO, joins AMSAT-NA Board of Directors.
10. The Packet Radio Junkbox with Bill Baran, N2FNH.
11. Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
12. Wisconsin amateur antenna bill is headed for the governors desk.
13. AMSAT-NA plans new "HT access" satellite in the future.
14. Technolgy News: Superluminal speeds achieved by Canadian scientists.

15. A Bargain Basement satellite now orbits the earth every 100 minutes!

16. New Jersey callsign license plates to bear "amateur radio" legend.
17. Shiro Nomura, JA1CB, former Kenwood engineer, SK.
18. A lingering illness bedevils FCC Chairman Powell.

Transmission and production expenses have been underwritten this
week by Gene Wicklund, W0ZOK of Hoarce North Dakota, where
"This Week in Amateur Radio" can be heard each Saturday via satellite
at 8:00Pm on 443.750 MHz serving Fargo, Moorehead, Minnesota and
the Red River Valley.

Please help support North America's most up-to-the-minute on-the-air
bulletin service. We will give you or your repeater/club on-air credit
in
up-coming programs. Thanks!

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.