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Here is a summary of news items covered in special expanded edition #496

of "This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's only
satellite-delivered
on the air audio bulletin service, for the week ending 19 October, 2002.

Co-anchoring this weeks edition is Steven Robertson, KB3HGM, from our
bureau in Chesapeak Beach, Maryland, and our Technical Director, George
Bowen, W2XBS from our headquarters facility in Albany, New York.

Approximate running time for this weeks edition is a big sixty minutes.

1.  ARRL, IARU continue push for limits to 70cm spacebound radars.
2.  Sponsor, US House amateurs, pitch CC&R bill to colleagues.
3.  FCC judge's initial decision favors Schoenbaums return to amateur
radio.
4.  Adelstein FCC nomination sidetracked yet again.
5.  Antenna battle pays off for upstate New York amateur.
6.  Special event station listings.
7.  The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
8.  Weekly propagation forecast.
9.  VE3CT named new Quarter Century Wireless Association (QCWA)
president.
10. "More Musings" with Wil Rogers, W4WLR, from West Palm Beach,
Florida.
11. The FCC okays new Personal Locator Beacons (PLB) on 406 megahertz.
12. New west Texas section manager announced by ARRL.
13. FCC Chairman outlies critical elements of future spectrum policy.
14. VE3FCK named as Radio Amateurs of Canada's amateur of the year.
15. FCC approves iBiquity standard of in-band digital AM/FM
broadcasting.
16. FCC Special Counsel endorses "Good Amateur Practice" list.
17. Special camera used to shoot Shuttle Atlantis launch has ham radio
origin.
18. Circuit turns itself into a radio receiver, stunning engineers.
19. TECH: Wireless RF-ID tags will soon be everywhere.
20. TECH: New technology will jam camcorders brought into movie
theaters.

Transmission and production expenses for todays edition of This Week
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Amateur Radio Club of Fort Payne, Alabama, where This Week in Amateur
Radio is heard Saturday evenings at 8pm on the W4GBR repeater on 147.27
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