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Here is a summary of news items covered in this weeks edition #475 of
"This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered
on-the-air
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 18 May 2000.  This weeks
edition is anchored by our Technical Director, George Bowen, W2XBS, from

our headquarters in Albany, New York. (He didn't get to go to Dayton.)

Total running time this week is approximately

1.  The FCC releases details on 5 Mhz, 136 Khz, and 2400-2402 Mhz
proposals.
2.  A new landmark bill could provide amateurs relief from CC&R's.
3.  Special Event Station Listings.
4.  The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report, with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
5.  Weekly propagation forecast report.
6.  The Expedition 4 crew wraps up successful string of ARISS school
contacts.
7.  Public Service Announcement Development Series with Greg Stoddard,
KF9MP.
8.  The ARRL asks the FCC to pull 2390-2402 Mhz from replacement
spectrum.
9.  Log checking reports for ARRL contests now available on-line.
10. RV - TV antenna amplifiers migrate northward with interference
hitchhiking
11. Shortwave Listening Above and Beyond with John Burkehart, KA9ZQK.
12. Six workers die as roof collaspses at Russias Baikonur Kosmodrome.
13. NASA is looking for space space shuttle parts on e-Bay.

Funding for This Week in Amateur Radio has been made possible this week
by
contributions from our listeners and affiliates.

In order for This Week in Amateur Radio to continue to provide the
amateur
radio community with news and information, it costs an average of $25
per
week to operate.  Thats considerably less than other amateur radio
bulletin
services, but we cannot continue to operate without contributions from
you.
Remember, YOU keep us on the air.

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.