[TWIAR] TWIAR Edition 736 General Release
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Sat May 19 17:53:54 EDT 2007
This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 736
Air dates: 05.19.07 > 05.26.07
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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
Edition #736 of "This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's only satellite-
delivered, on-the-air audio news magazine service, for the week ending
May 26, 2007.
This week's edition of This Week in Amateur Radio comes to you anchored by
Scott Westerman, N9WSW, reporting from our brand new southwestern news bureau
in Alberquerque, New Mexico, by Mike Gorniak, NM7X, reporting from our
mid-west news bureau in South Central Minnesota, by Andrew Slaugh, KB2LUV,
reporting from our northeast news bureau in Syracuse, New York, by Jay Silvio,
N9WMU, reporting from our brand new southeast news bureau in Richmond,
Virginia, and by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, reporting from our northeast news
bureau in Syracuse, New York.
Mixing, editing, and additional anchoring by George Bowen, W2XBS at our
headquarters facility in Albany, New York.
THIS WEEKS PROGRAM RUNNING TIMES:
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* FULL VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 105 minutes.
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* HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 58 minutes.
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CONTENT:
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Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:
01. Breaking News: New Jersey proposes new anti-mobile texting law that could
make mobile operations, both listening and transmitting, illegal.
02. The 2007 Dayton HamVention opens its doors.
03. An accident at the KBRT-AM transmitter site is responsible for the wild
fires on Catalina Island.
04. Loss of his amateur radio license is part of a settlement with the FCC for
and Indiana radio amateur.
05. Emergency communications leads the International Amateur Radio Union
Administrative conference in Boston.
06. Amateur radio operators provide vital communications for the Indiana
Mini-Marathon race
07. CNN's Larry King celebrates fifty years of broadcasting.
08. BS7H Scarborough Reef DXpedition logs are now available on line.
09. The ARRL submits its plan to mitigate 70 cm repeater interference to
military PAVE PAWS radar systems.
10. Direct TV may try to roll out Broadband Over Powerlines in some major US
cities in the near future.
11. A Mississippi broadcast station fined $15,000 for airing a telephone
conversation without notifying the person on the phone.
12. Texas tallest tower brings emergency communications and ham radio.
13. FCC's termination of proceedings is a mixed blessing for amateur radio.
14. Special event station listings for week of May 20th.
15. Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR. Contest/Convention
16. Weekly propagation forecast report.
17. TWIAR QSL Cards are now available. Write in for yours today!
18. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
19. AMSAT issues first call for papers for AMSAT Symposium.
20. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.
21. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH "Electronics Illustrated"
22. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP.
23. The next generation of wi-fi (N) is scheduled for a debut this summer.
24. FCC says KWRD radio must pay fine for violation of EAS regulations.
25. Americas Emergency Network is introduced.
26. The German 500 kilohertz experiment is expanded to Europe and Sweden.
27. New Delaware Emergency Communications Corp is headed up by a teen ham.
28. City of San Rafael California receives $23,000 emergency communications
grant.
29. General Motors OnStar announces new features and capabilities.
30. DX and domestic callbooks are now available on the worldwide APRS system.
31. Base jumper jumps off CBS television tower and gets tangled in guy wires.
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