[TWIAR] TWIAR Edition 731 General Release
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This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 731
Air dates: 04.14.07 > 04.21.07
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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
Edition #731 of "This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-
delivered, on-the-air audio news magazine service, for the week ending
April 21, 2007.
This week's edition of This Week in Amateur Radio comes to you anchored by
Mike Gorniak, NM7X, reporting from our mid-west news bureau in South Central
Minnesota, by Andrew Slaugh, KB2LUV, from our northeast news bureau in
Syracuse, New York, by Dave Lufkin, KB3JRJ, from our mid-atlantic news bureau
near Washington D.C., by Wayne Nelms, N4DCL, reporting from our mid-atlantic
news bureau in Asheville, Pennsylvania, and by Mark Phillips, G7LTT reporting
from our Big Apple news bureau in Manhattan.
Mixing and editing was performed by George Bowen, W2XBS, at our news
headquarters facility in Albany, New York.
THIS WEEKS PROGRAM RUNNING TIMES:
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* FULL VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 59 minutes.
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* HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 110 minutes.
SPECIAL PROGRAM NOTES:
* Closed circuit advisory and weekly program promos are available as
a separate audio file download.
CONTENT:
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Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:
01. FCC invites "Oppositions" on two "Morse Proceeding" reconsideration
petitions.
02. Swains Island DxPedition logs are now available on-line.
03. The British Iranian hostages used morse code to keep in touch in prison.
04. Civilian space traveller already is making ham radio contacts from space.
05. A political maneuver dims chances for Arizona amateur radio antenna bill.
06. Hams For Action files for reconsideration on amateur antenna rights.
07. Ohio firms is fined a massive $150,000 for allegedly marketing illegal
11 meter transceivers as ham gear.
08. The FCC accepts hams radio license for cancellation.
09. A radio HT saves a pair of climbers stranded on a New Mexico mountain.
10. Presidents volunteer service award presented to Victorville, California
amateur operator.
11. Special event stations listings.
12. Gateway 160 Meter Net Report on up-coming contests and conventions (edit)
13. Weekly propagation forecast.
14. New Hampshire NEARfest update.
15. TWIAR bright and cheery QSL cards are now available. Write in today!
16. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
17. A windows zero-day virus almost takes a West Virgina television station
off the air.
18. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP.
19. Two Israel amateurs create "Global QSO".
20. TTI Inc, and Mouser Electronics are acquired by Berkshire Hathaway.
21. Can you detect the Mars Comm satellite?
22. BBC Radio 4 will be repeating its program on the history of Radio Jamming.
23. Technology news and commentary with Leo Laporte.
24. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH. "Dead Media Floppies"
25. World Amateur Radio Day 2007 is scheduled for April 18, 2007.
26. The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY "Hallicrafters"
27. Courage Handi-Ham System Update with Pat Tice, WA0TDA.
28. Ham Radio Week is declared in the State of Connecticut.
29. Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML, to speak at the QCWA banquet at Dayton HamVention
30. FCC Chairman Martin proposes dual analog/digital carriage of television
stations on cable and satellite. The NCTA responds "You kidding?"
31. NASA targets June for the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the ISS.
32. NASA extends its contract with Russia's Federal Space Agency for space
station taxi missions.
33. Television engineers in Australia prove that necessity is the mother of
invention.
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