[TWIAR] TWIAR Edition 765 General Release
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Sat Dec 8 18:20:58 EST 2007
This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 765
Air dates: 12.15.07 > 12.22.07
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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
Edition #765 of "This Week in Amateur Radio", and "This Week in Amateur Radio
Headline News". North Americas premier on-the-air audio news magazine, for the
week beginning December 08, 2007.
This week's edition of This Week in Amateur Radio comes to you anchored by
Jay Silvio, N9WMU, reporting from our southern news bureau in Richmond,
Virginia, and by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, reporting from our northeast news
bureau in Syracuse, New York, by Mark Phillips, G7LTT, reporting from our
metro news bureau in Morristown, New Jersey, and by Wayne Nelms, N4DCL,
reporting from our mid-atlantic news bureau in Asheville, Pennsylvania.
Mixing, editing, and additional anchoring by George Bowen, W2XBS at our
headquarters facility in Albany, New York.
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CONTENT:
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Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:
01. The Northwestern United States is pounded by storms and high winds,
Amateurs activate to provide critical communications.
02. Misleading and incorrect rumors surround the IARU Region 2 Bandplan, as
ARRL President reacts to CQ Editorial.
03. FCC Commissioner Adelstein to be re-nominated by President Bush for
a third term in office.
04. German amateurs lose multiple repeater site on Munich's Olympic Tower.
05. Peter Dahl Company, manufacturers of custom transformers, to go out of
business at the end of the year.
06. A U-K amateur wins an antenna libel case.
07. Aurora Energy pulls the plug on its BPL system trial in Tasmania.
08. Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) is approved for H-F use on the tropical bands
09. The Doctor from QST Magazine is in to answer a question.
10. DSL disconnects caused by REIN interference.
11. KXOX gets to keep several licenses, but is fined by the FCC.
12. ARRL Frequency Measuring Test results are now available.
13. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
14. Straight Key Night on OSCAR is coming up soon.
15. Radio Club of America honors several amateurs including Walter Cronkite.
16. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard KF9MP.
17. New NASA system will divert lightning from launch pads and buildings.
18. Sunair electronics and Flex-Radio are working together on new project.
19. The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
20. Joe Gellings, WB9WOL, SK, Oversaw the first transatlantic cable.
21. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH "The Record Always Skips"
22. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.
23. TWIAR QSL cards are now available. Write in for yours today.
24. Special event station listings.
25. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report on upcoming Contests and Conventions.
26. Weekly propagation forecast.
27. FCC Commissioners are taken to the Congressional woodshed.
28. FDMDV is new digital voice mode for the low bands.
29. YV0 Ames Island is wiped off the face of the Earth by a Hurricane.
30. First amateur 500kHz trans-atlantic contact is made via normal CW.
31. Spanish operators go maritime mobile heading for Antarctica.
32. Japanese Network NHK develops invisible video coding to prevent piracy.
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