[TWIAR] Summary 468

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  *** Begining our ninth year of service to the amateur radio community
***

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 06 April 2002. This weeks
ninth year anniversary edition is anchored by Mike Knight, KC4Q, from
our bureau in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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

1.  Amateur comments on the SAVI proceeding support the ARRL position.
2.  The FCC proposes to strengthen rules against repetitive
applications.
3.  The FCC hacks away at the vanity callsign backlog and proposes rate
hike.
4.  The all ham crew aboard the ISS receive an extended tour of duty.
5.  NBC will air an ARISS school contact on television.
6.  Amateurs sumon help after a sailboat runs aground.
7.  Hams help transport an injured passenger from a sailboat.
8.  There is another new amateur radio satellite! RS-21.
9.  A new trans-atlantic record on two meters is claimed.
10. The ARRL will attend the NTIA spectrum summit.
11. Commercial broadcast towers collapse in Iowa and North Carolina.
12. Special Event Station Listings with George Bowen, W2XBS.
13. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
14. The weekly propagation forecast report.
15. DX: The DXCC yearbook is set for a late spring publication.
16. DX: The Ducie Island DXpedition is a wrap.
17. TECHNEWS: Bell Labs (Lucent Technoliogy) shatter data delivery
records.
18. "More Musings" with Will Rogers, W4WLR in West Palm Beach, Florida.
19. Amateur Radio History Headlines, with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
20. TWIAR celebrates the begining of our ninth year of service.
21. N'Sync member may hitch a ride to the International Space Station.

!! FUNDING ALERT !!

All of our staff here at our headquarters in ALbany, New York, realize
that all of us are experiencing some tough economic times. However.
This Week in Amateur Radio cannot continue without your support.

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
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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 April, our expenses that we will
incur, our greater than our support fund balance. Our Albany staff
cannot
continue to support the service out of pocket, so please help keep This
Week
in Amateur Radio alive. No one associated with the service derives any
income
from it. All funding received goes for news gathering expenses, and
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,
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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
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
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Further information is available from George Bowen, W2XBS, at
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