[TWIAR] Summary 464

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Here is a summary of news items covered in this weeks edition #464 of
"This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered
on-the-air
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 09 March 2002. Anchoring
this
weeks edition is our Technical Director, George Bowen, W2XBS from our
studio
facility in Albany, New York.

Total running time this week is approximately 45 minutes.

1.  The ARRL is taking a "wait and see" attitude on FCC ultra wideband
order.
2.  The FCC completes its Georgia ARRL/VEC exam session audit.
3.  Big changes at New York City repeater coordination council
"MetroCor".
4.  West Virginia amateur antenna bill zips through the legislature.
5.  One lone missing paper application is log jamming vanity processing
at FCC
6.  ISS crew commander talks with Russian students via ARISS ham radio.
7.  Exdepition 4 crew on the ISS installs new packet TNC. No more
"NOCALL".
8.  The FCC proposes World Radioconference (WRC) Part 97 rules changes.
9.  Public Service Honor Roll (PSHR) changes take effect May first.
10. Special event station listings.
11. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
12. The weekly propagation forecast report.
13. DX NEWS: Ducie Island DXpedition launch is in final countdown.
14. DX NEWS: Congo, North Cook/South Cook approved for DXCC credit.
15. New DX record is set on the 241 GHz band.
16. TECH: IBM develops new 210 GHz transistor for use on computer
systems.
17. The FCC dismisses former ham and pirate broadcaster application for
review
18. "More Musings" with Will Rogers, W4WLR. This time: Handi-Hams.
19. Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
20. Lights on cellphone antennas to tell when unit is transmitting.
21: Another calander/time alignment will be taking place.

!! FUNDING ALERT !!

This Week in Amateur Radio may become just a memory. Without your
support,
we cannot continue production. Expenses for This Week in Amateur Radio
run
about one-hundred dollars a month. That's pretty cheap, considering all
the
content and up-to-the-minute news we present each week, compared to
other
amateur news services that cost thousands of dollars a month to keep
afloat.

Right now, as we approach the month of March, our expenses that we will
incur, our greater than our support fund balance. Our Albany staff can
only help for a week or two out of pocket, so please help keep This Week
in
Amateur Radio alive. No one associated with the service derives any
money
from it. All funding received goes for news gathering expenses,
equipment
maintenence.  All of us at TWIAR hope to hear from you soon.  Our
mailing
address is listed below. Thank You! and 73.

WE NOW RETURN YOU TO OUR REGULAR PROGRAM RELEASE.

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.