[TWIAR] summary 485

[Dale Sargent]

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Here is a summary of news items covered in edition #485 of
"This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 03 August 2002.  Anchoring
this weeks edition is our technical director, George Bowen, W2XBS from
our headquarters studio in Albany, New York.

Total running time for this weeks edition is forty-five minutes.

1.  The FCC looks to get tough on RFI from offending power companies.
2.  The ARRL moves Section News and Contest Line Scores from QST, to the
web.
3.  The FCC looks to future allocations above 300 gigahertz.
4.  W2XOY Special Feature: "VolksRadio" Part One.
5.  RAC: VE5ND Re-elected to Saskatchewan Section Manager position.
6.  The ARRL Great Lakes division director resigns unexpectedly.
7.  The United Kingdom authorizes experimental operation at 5Mhz.
8.  AMSAT-NA and the ARRL review unlicensed 2.4 Ghz unlicensed devices.
9.  The ARRL Board announces winners of Maxim and McGan awards.
10. Special Event Station Listings.
11. The Contesting and Convention Report.
12. Weekly Propagation Forecast.
13. The FCC goes after illegal equipment sales on the web.

The up-coming fall season promises to be busy for amateur radio
regulation.
And, along with amateur radios increased high profile in recent public
service
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This Week in Amateur Radio is distributed each Saturday evening
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"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
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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
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