[TWIAR] TWIAR EDITION #582 - GENERAL RELEASE

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This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 582
Air dates: 06.05.04 > 06.12.04

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Here is a summary of news items covered in edition # 582 of "This Week in
Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-delivered, on-the-air audio
magazine service, for the week ending June 12, 2004.

This weeks edition, overflowing with all the late-breaking amateur radio news
and special features, is anchored by Duane Whittingham, N9SSN, from our bureau
at WTND-LP in Macomb, Illinois, Gary Clements, KC0JDT, from our news bureau in
Lima, Ohio, and by our Technical Director, George Bowen, W2XBS, from our
headquarters studio facility in Albany, New York.

Approximate total program running time for this weeks edition is 80 minutes.
Closed circuit promo advisory and pre-program materials are separate files.

Stories and features covered in This Weeks edition:

01. Virginia City, BPL provider, part ways, PEPCO opts out of BPL investments.
02. Ham radio supports flood relief in Appalachian communities.
03. Wisconsin police jammer receives and eight year sentence in federal prison
04. FCC says a New York amateur has held too many call signs.
05. Georgia ARES drill morphs into a real emergency.
06. The land that played host to The Shire and Middle Earth drops the code.
07. New Jersey Chinese restaurant is fined $10,000 for using two meters.
08. No phone, no pool, no pets, no voting, aboard the ISS.
09. Oldest amateur in the US Bryl "Tex" Burdick, W5BQU, SK.
10. The FCC seeks assistance in locating illegal equipment sales.
11. Special Event Station listings for week of June 6, 2004.
12. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report on Conventions and Contesting w/WA0RCR.
13. The weekly propagation forecast.
14. SPECIAL FEATURE: 1000 Marbles found on 75 meters.
15. The Courage Handi-Ham System Report with Pat Tice, WA0TDA
16. The Space Report with Chris Peterson, KG0BP.
17. Successful public service announcement writing, Part #4 with KF9MP.
18. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH.
19. The FCC issues NPRM to allow unlicensed operation in the TV bands.
20. AMSAT-NA issues second call for papers for 2004 symposium.
21. FCC says analog television broadcasting in the US could end in 2006.
22. TECH: Microsoft patents "Double Clicking" to launch applications.

Transmission and production expenses have been underwritten this week by a
grant from Sam Varela, KB9KUO, of Montello, Wisconsin, and Brian Smith,
KG9OG, of Portage, Wisconsin. Where "This Week in Amateur Radio" is heard
Wednesdays as part of the Marquette Amateur Radio Coalition Net at 7:15pm,
and heard in the Montello/Portage area on 146.430 megahertz simplex.

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