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[Dale Sargent]

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Here is a summary of news items covered in edition # 497 of "This Week
in
Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-delivered, on-the-air
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 26 October, 2002.

Anchoring this weeks edition, from our headquarters studio facility in
Albany, New York, is our Technical Director, George Bowen, W2XBS.

Approximate running time for this weeks edition is fifty minutes.

1.  The FCC opts to keep status quo at 2300 - 2305 Megahertz.
2.  The FCC rejects an amateurs Petition for Reconsideration on CC&R's.
3.  A Texas youngster makes a career choic during latest ISS/Amateur
chat.
4.  An FCC law judge favors Herb Schoenbaums return to the amateur
ranks.
5.  Ham radio package aboard doomed rocket, keeps on ticking.
6.  ARRL asks FCC to deny US use of European PMR446 radios on 70cm band.

7.  The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
8.  Weekly propagation forecast report.
9.  Special Event Station listings.
10. Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continielli, W2XOY.
11. United Kingdom puts freeze on new 5 megahertz experimental licenses.

12. Maryland/Washington DC/Virginia hams asked to keep an eye out.
13. The Netherlands proposes to drop CW requirements at WRC-2003.

Transmission and production expenses for todays edition of This Week
in Amateur Radio, have been underwritten by a grant from The DeKalb
County
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
megahertz, serving Fort Payne, Alabama from LookOut Mountain.

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