[TWIAR] summary 540

[Dale Sargent]

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Here is a summary of news items covered in edition # 540 of "This Week
in
Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-delivered, on-the-air
audio
bulletin service, for the week ending August 23, 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 50 minutes.

1.  Hams assist in states effected by wide-spread power failure.
2.  Roy Neal, K6DUE, SK.
3.  W5JBP urges more letters to potential co-sponsors of spectrum bill.
4.  ARRL calls Broadband Over Power Lines "Spectrum Pollution" Sample
Audio.
5.  UK primary schoolers, Science Campers, chat with ISS via amateur
radio.
6.  The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report on Contesting and Conventions
w/WA0RCR.
7.  Special Event Station listings for week of August 16th.
8.  Weekly propagation forecast report.
9.  DX: Macedonia stations authorized commemorative prefixes.
10. DX: New prefixs issued in the Netherlands.
11. Alaska amateur debuts experimental 136 KHz beacon.
12. RK3DUP aboard the ISS, takes a bride, 240 miles up in space.
13. Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY - 1966
14. "More Musings" with Wil Rogers, W4WLR from West Palm Beach.
15. The RAC is polling amateurs regarding morse requirements for HF
access.
16. New RFID chip technology headed for the dry cleaners.
17. Soundcard demodulator now available through AMSAT for AO-40.

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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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