[TWIAR] summary 535

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     ** SPECIAL LOTS OF NEWS THIS WEEK EXPANDED EDITION **
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Here is a summary of news items covered in edition # 535 of "This Week
in
Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-delivered, on-the-air
audio
bulletin service, for the week ending July 19, 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 strudio facility in Albany, New York.

Approximate running time for this weeks edition is sixty-six minutes.

1.  The ARRL tells FCC BPL is a "Pandoras Box" of unprecedented
proporations.
2.  Radio history is made at World Radio Communication Conference 2003.
3.  Five new channels on the five megahertz band open for use! See You
On 60!
4.  The FCC warns amateurs regarding unlicensed operation/Enforcement
action.
5.  The FCC is now accepting comments on "Occupied Bandwidth" petition.
6.  Opps! The FCC attempts to rectify a vanity callsign error.
7.  The California amateur radio antenna bill is on Governor Davis'
desk.
8.  ISS ham/astronaut Ed Lu, makes over 100 contacts during field day.
9.  Special event station listings.
10. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report, with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
11. Weekly propagation forecast.
12. RAC Canada issues special prefixes for amateurs during month of
August.
13. Iraqi callsigns are being issued as new telecommunications bureau
opens.
14. UK amateurs loose 73 Khz, and gain 136 Khz.
15. ISS astronauts still drink Tang, they think, well, something like
it.
16. ARRL Board of Directors to meet in Windsor, Connecticut.
17. Hurricane Watch Net keeping an eye on Claudette approaching the
Gulf.
18. Towers being modified for digital TV fall, water tank bugs WCVG
radio.
19. Personal locator beacons now legal for sale in the lower 48 states.
20. The Random Access File with N2FNH remembers good 'ol Ma Bell.
21. Amateurs may share with the feds at 2 GHz in proposed relocation
plan.
22. Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
23. Radio consolidation may hit WWV. New format change proposed for
station.

Transmission and production expenses for todays edition of This Week in
Amateur Radio, have been underwritten by a grant from Jim Wishner of
St.Paul, Minnesota, where This Week in Amateur Radio is heard each week
on the WB0BWL repeater serving Minneapolis and St.Paul.

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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