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Here is a summary of news items covered in edition #493 of
"This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered
audio bulletin service, for the week ending 28 September 2002.

Anchoring this weeks edition is Larry Shilkoff, KJ6NV, reporting from
our bureau in Simi Valley, California.

Approximate running time for this weeks expanded edition is 60 minutes.

1.  Hurricane Watch Net and W4EHW is activated for tropical storm
Isidore.
2.  Amateurs in Knoxville, Tennessee respond to "military grade" spill.
3.  ARRL officials up-beat about reaching a 5 MHz band compromise soon.
4.  Vern Jackson, WA0RCR's Gateway 160 Meter Net Report Returning To
TWIAR.
5.  The Contesting and Convention Report with Wil Rogers, W4WLR.
6.  ARRL contest branch announces new redesigned certificates.
7.  Weekly propagation forecast report.
8.  Is it a repeater? Is it a remote base? FCC says "Shut it down!"
9.  Special event station listings with George Bowen, W2XBS
10. Ancient Amateur Archives Special: History of Amateur Repeaters -
Part 1
11. Digital officianados turn out in force for ARRL/TAPR digital
conference.
12. A Vintage "1AW" QSL card sells for more than $2000 on E-Bay.
13. NASA names Peggy Whitson, KC5ZTD, ISS Science Officer.
14. Your chance to fly to the ISS may becoming in 2004, courtesy of
Pepsi.
15. Inventor of "Blue Light" LED, sues for patent rights, looses.
16. Congress drafts a bill to obsolete analog TV by 2007. No TiVo's
allowed.

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