[TWIAR] TWIAR EDITION #600 - GENERAL RELEASE

[w2xbs]

This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 599
Air dates: 10.09.04 > 10.16.04

  _/_/_/_/_/   _/     _/     _/_/_/    _/_/_/         _/_/_/
     _/       _/     _/       _/     _/    _/        _/    _/
    _/ his   _/ _/  _/ eek   _/ n   _/_/_/_/ mateur _/_/_/_/ adio
   _/       _/_/ _/_/       _/     _/    _/        _/   _/
  _/       _/     _/     _/_/_/   _/    _/        _/     _/

-- North America's Premier On-The-Air Amateur Magazine Service --

            *** SPECIAL 90 MINUTES EXPANDED EDITION ***

Here is a summary of news items covered in edition # 600 of "This Week in
Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-delivered, on-the-air audio
magazine service, for the week ending October 16, 2004.

This weeks edition, overflowing with all the late-breaking amateur radio news
and special features, is anchored by Joe Ezell, KC5CLJ, from our southeast
news bureau in Little Rock, Arkansas, and by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, from
our northeast news bureau in Syracuse, New York, and by George Bowen, W2XBS,
reporting from our news headquarters in Albany, New York.

** This Week in Amateur Radio is proud, and privileged to welcome
    Leo Laporte to our air as our technology news and commentary reporter.

Approximate total program running time for this weeks edition is 92 minutes.
Closed circuit promo advisory and pre-program materials are separate files.

Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:

01. The NTIA's position on Broadband Over Powerlines still is a moving target.
02. Australian amateurs (VK) seek to stake a claim at a 500KHz allocation.
03. The FCC is poised to act on the BPL Report and Order next week.
04. The IARU committee adopts a three year plan of action.
05. The FCC appears to be giving K1MAN one final chance.
06. Sputnik One celebrates its 47th anniversary.
07. ISS Expedition 9 crew congratulates Space Ship 1 success on Ansari X prize
08. AMSAT symposium will feature ISS astronaut as its special guest speaker.
09. Eastern Massachusetts gets a new Section Manager, incumbents appointed.
10. New Jersey radio club donates $400,000 dollars to a New Jersey park.
11. Australian amateurs (VK) loose the bottom half of the 70cm band.
12. Leo Laportes technology news and commentary.
13. Special event station listings for week of October 10th.
14. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report on up-coming contests and conventions.
15. Weekly propagation forecast report.
16. Courage Handi-Ham System Update with Pat Tice, WA0TDA.
17. Random Access Thought listener tape request.
18. The President and first Vice-President of the Radio Amateurs Canada resign
19. The Random Access Thought with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR on Gateway History.
20. The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
21. The Space Report with Chris Petersen, KG0BP.
22. Clear Channel radio reduces the audio bandwidth of its AM radio stations.
23. A new world distance record has been set on 47 Gigahertz.
24. Hurricane Ivan drops an Alabama television stations tower.

Transmission and production expenses have been underwritten by
our Richard Helzer, WB6GVO, of Atascadero, California.

Welcome to fall! Conditions across the bands change, the harmonics go back
to school, and radio club meetings resume after the long summer hiatus.
Remember to let all your club member know when This Week in Amateur Radio is
aired on the repeater so everyone can be up to date on the latest ham news.

Also, remember that This Week in Amateur Radio is listener/club supported.
The bulletin service does not receive any corporate funding. So, please,
pass the hat to help support This Week in Amateur Radio.

When you help "This Week in Amateur Radio" through our support fund, by
tradition, we mention during the course of the bulletin service each week,
the individual, club, or organization that has made This Week in Amateur Radio
possible that week, through their financial support.

Mention is also made on the air, on a rotating basis, each of our affiliates
that carry the service. Please check our web site to be sure that your station
is on our affiliate list. Click on "affiliates" on the left navigation
panel on TWIAR.org.

"This Week in Amateur Radio" is proud to be your source for all the late-
breaking, up-to-the-minute amateur radio news each week.  Our magazine
"special features" each week, add to the value of the service to the amateur
community, and are exclusively available on TWIAR.

"This Week in Amateur Radio" is a weekly amateur radio audio, on the air,
bulletin service, produced by Community Video Associates, Inc., a New York
State not-for-profit corporation.

The mailing address for our support fund is:

This Week in Amateur Radio Support Fund
P.O. Box 30
Sand Lake, New York  12153

This Week in Amateur Radio is distributed each Saturday evening
on the internet (www.twiar.org) and also on commercial C-Band satellite via
the "W0KIE Satellite Network" Saturdays at 9:00 PM (EST) on SES/GE Americom
AMC-7 communications satellite, transponder 5 (H), 7.5 Mhz wide band
analog audio sub carrier, located at 137 degrees west longitude in
equatorial geosynchronous orbit.  The service is re-run on the satellite
network, Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm eastern time.

On the World Wide Web, program audio can now be found in several formats
and bit rates (including streaming Real Audio and MP3) at our primary web
site, http://www.twiar.org with thanks to our web guru Greg Williams, K4HSM,
and Dale Sargent, N0WKF, our audio file guy.  Our mirror site (when needed)
is also available at http://www.qsl.net/twiar with thanks to Al Waller, K3TKJ
of QSL.Net.

This Week in Amateur Radio is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license. Visit our web site to view
a copy of this license.

Contact your local amateur radio club or repeater operator if "This Week in
Amateur Radio" is not being heard in your area.

Production and transmission expenses are underwritten by donations from
repeater operators, amateur radio clubs, and individuals.  Further
information is available by calling W2XBS at 518.283.3665, or e-mail to
w2xbs at twiar.org.

We look forward to hearing from you or your organization soon!

                                 -30-