[TWIAR] TIARA EDITION #595 -- General Release

Sat Sep 4 15:06:34 EDT 2004

This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 595
Air dates: 09.04.04 > 09.11.04

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

Here is a summary of news items covered in edition # 595 of "This Week in
Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-delivered, on-the-air audio
magazine service, for the week ending September 11, 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.  We also welcome our newest anchor, Jim
Wishner, N0EXX, from St.Paul, Minnesota, and also anchoring this week is our
producer and technical director, George Bowen, W2XBS, from our headquarters
studio facility in Albany, New York. Also on the air this week, is
Bill Barans (N2FNH) son Zachary, making is news reading debut. By the way,
he's nine.

Also included this week, at the head of the program, is a amateur radio
promo cut by the late Jean Shepard.

Approximate total program running time for this weeks edition is 83 minutes.
Closed circuit promo advisory and pre-program materials are separate files.

Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:

01. Hurricane Net, and WX4NHC continue helping forecasters track Francis.
02. NASA takes precautions as Hurricane Francis comes ashore in Florida.
03. FEMA seeks help in Hurricane Recovery efforts.
04. Amateurs nationwide, react to the ARRL Regulation by Bandwidth proposal.
05. The FCC still enforcing Part 15 rules in some amateur inference cases.
06. The RAC seeks amateurs input on HF morse restructuring plan in Canada.
07. Life in space is fun and challenging, astronaut tells students.
08. ARISS puts ISS Phase 2 equipment to use as an FM "Easy Sat".
09. The ISS crew takes a space walk to install new antennas.
10. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
11. Special event station listings for week ending September 11th.
12. DXCC dropping annual list deadline, adding real time standings.
13. Weekly propagation forecast report.
14. BBC Radio 4 to air special program o amateur radio and September 11th.
15. "More Musings" with Wil Rogers, W4WLR of West Palm Beach, Florida.
16. IBM recalls 553,000 laptop power supplies worldwide.
17. A Wyoming broadcast engineer, working alone, is electrocuted.
18. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH.
19. Canada says Ibiquity's HD radio system is harmful to reception.
20. The City of Philadelphia may become worlds largest Wi-Fi hot-spot.
21. Scientists set a new data transfer speed record on Internet2.
22. The FCC warns a 10 meter intruder.
23. The Space Report with Chris Petersen, KG0BP.
24. New Big Project activity board is a treasure trove of teaching possibility

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

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