[TWIAR] summary 538

[Dale Sargent]

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Here is a summary of news items covered in edition # 538 of "This Week
in
Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-delivered, on-the-air
audio
bulletin service, for the week ending August 09, 2003.

This weeks edition, filled with all the latest amateur radio news and
special
features, is anchored by our Technical Director, George Bowen, W2XBS,
from
our headquarters studio facility in Albany, New York.

Approximate running time for this weeks edition is fifty-eight minutes.

1.  NCVEC files petition with the FCC to end morse testing in the US.
2.  The amateur radio community responds to potential threat from BPL.
3.  The FCC upholds higher vanity callsign fee, and sets start date.
4.  First US->UK amateur QSO's are logged on the new sixty meter band.
5.  Michigan amateurs in ARES & RACES help police in manhunt.
6.  The FCC turns away ARRL challenge over Part 15 authority.
7.  Special event station listings.
8.  The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
9.  The weekly propagation forecast.
10. Iraq provisional authority ham licensing information now available
on web.
11. The FCC's hidden master serach engine on the FCC site revealed.
12. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP.
13. The FCC warns trucking firms about alledged unlicensed operation on
10.
14. Technician class license application dismissed by the FCC.
15. The FCC fines an unlicensed broadcaster in Florida.
16. The FCC proposes resolution to three year old licensing error.
17. Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
18. Teen astronomers speak via ham radio with the International Space
Station.
19. A new all ham, two man crew named to ISS Expedition 8.
20. A big question mark looms over propsed wedding in space on the ISS.
21. A Virginia PBS station proposes to broadcast digital only.
22. WD2XEA receives an experimental license grant for child location
device.
23. A new web page devoted to the works of Nickola Tesla opens.
24. Jane Barbe "The AT&T Lady", the queen of telephone recordings, SK.
25. Mexico proposes to "RFID Chip" its citizens.
26. Turkmanistan outlaws any distraction while driving.

Transmission and production expenses for todays edition of This Week
in Amateur Radio, were provided by a grant from the C3I radio group of
Florida.

Summer is here. Club picnics and barbecues, new antenna installations,
and of course a new roster of public service events. Plus, WRC-2003 just

wrapped up in Geneva with a host of changes for the amateur service.
Will
the new changes be adopted in the United States?  How is the development

of the new sixty meter band coming along? This is just a few reasons why

you need This Week in Amateur Radio.

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