[TWIAR] summary 539

[Dale Sargent]

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Here is a summary of news items covered in edition # 539 of "This Week
in
Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-delivered, on-the-air
audio
bulletin service, for the week ending August 16, 2003.

This weeks edition, filled with all the latest amateur radio news and
special
features, is co-anchored by John Laughhunn, W9JFL, from our news bureau
in
Chicago, Illinois, and by our technical director, George Bowen, W2XBS,
from
our headquarters studio facility in Albany, New York.

Approximate running time for this weeks expanded edition is 63 minutes.

1.  ARRL President says Broadband Over Powerlines is "Spectrum
Pollution".
2.  New HF power limits for RFID tags should not affect amateur radio
ops.
3.  NCVEC committee studying new entry-level license proposals for ham
radio.
4.  International Space School students talk to the "other" ISS via
radio.
5.  Hams still active as cooler weather and rain help tame Montana
wildfires.
6.  The FCC grants extension of time for to file BPL reply comments.
7.  Special Event Station listings for week of August 9th.
8.  The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report on Conventions and Contesting
w/WA0RCR.
9.  Amateur Radio Perspectives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
10. Weekly propagation forecast report. Don't miss MARS and the meteor
shower!
11. ARRL has a new web site documenting the specifications of digital
modes.
12. Belgium is added to the list of countries dropping code for HF
access.
13. ARRL section manager election results announced at league
headquarters.
14. Incident leads to the cancellation of ham radio exams.
15. Ham radio distress call yields help from the next state.
16. The FCC goes wi-fi, providing free wireless internet access to
visitors.
17. Echostar IX/Telstar 13 successfully launched by SeaLaunch.
18. IEEE approves new wireless streaming 802.15.3 standard. Just whats
needed.
19. The National Weather Services gets yet another new voice on the air.
Tom.
20. Future cellphones to carry bio-senors for detecting bio-terrorism,
21. The UO-14 satellite scares control ops as it goes silent for a few
hours.
22. Ham proposes two new paths to the General License.

Transmission and production expenses for todays edition of This Week in
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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

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