[TWIAR] TWiAR Edition 772 General Release
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This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 772
Air dates: 01.26.08 > 02.02.08
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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
Edition #772 of "This Week in Amateur Radio", and "This Week in Amateur Radio
Headline News". North Americas premier on-the-air audio news magazines, for
the week ending February 02, 2008.
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 northeastern news
bureau in Syracuse, New York, and by Will Rogers, W4WLR, reporting from our
southern news bureau in West Palm Beach, Florida, by Larry Guerrera, W2LAG,
reporting from our metro news bureau covering all of New York City from
Jehrico, New York, and by Jim Wishner, N0EXX, reporting from our mid-west news
bureau in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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 120 minutes.
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* HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 57 minutes.
SPECIAL PROGRAM NOTES: FULL VERSION ** SPECIAL EXPANDED EDITION **
* 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. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney disses ham radio operators.
02. ARISS support team recruting amateur radio ground stations worldwide.
03. US Air Force adds more repeaters to California PavePaws radar problem list
04. Amateur radio operator saves a stranded family in the Swiss Alps.
05. New members appointed to ARRL Election Ethics and Election Committees.
06. Harrison re-elected second term as ARRL President at January board meeting
07. Two US amateurs WA1ZMS & W4WWQ hold new distance record on 241 gigahertz.
08. Accident takes the 3Y0E DxPedition temporarily off the air.
09. Unlicensed college station warned to stop operating by the FCC.
10. Florida pirate broadcaster shut down using Florida state laws.
11. New York City pirate broadcaster shut down by the FCC.
12. The FCC fines a Boston resident $10,000 for unlicensed operations.
13. KREX-TV-5 studio is totally destroyed by fire in Grand Junction, Colorado.
14. World Amateur Radio and Technology News Round-Up
NETHERLANDS:....YOU CANT MAKE RADIOS WITHOUT POWER
PORTUGAL:.......CT JOINS THE D-STAR REVOLUTUION
FRANCE:.........DRM AND T-DMB SELECTED
UNITED STATES:..NEW CYBER SOUTHCARS NET
15. Arizona Army MARS drills in preparation of security at Super Bowl 2008.
16. AO-16 satellite finds new life as a voice repeater FM to DSB.
17. An elderly Malta ham dies in fall from his tower.
18. Belgium amateur operators are given the 500 kilohertz band.
19. Amateur use of military radio standard STANAG 5066 is going open source.
20. ARRL Foundation Scholarship applications are due on February 1st.
21. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP.
22. A new D-STAR chat client is released.
23. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
24. NIST eyes the east coast for a new time signal transmitter at 40kHz.
24. 2000 foot television tower collapses in Arkansas.
25. New FDMDV digital voice software version is released.
26. TWIAR QSL Cards are now available. Write in for yours today! Asteroids!
27. The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY.
28. The Random Access File with Bill Baran, N2FNH. "The Internet Tubes"
29. Internet providers in the UK laying fiber in the city sewer system.
30. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.
31. Courage Handi-Ham System Up-date with Pat Tice, WA0TDA.
32. AMSAT is looking for volunteers to help develop "EaglePedia"
33. Dedicated six meter Caribbean DXpedition is coming up in April.
34. Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR
35. Special Event Station Listings for the coming week.
36. Former editor of World Radio Lou Ann Keogh KB6HP is a silent key.
37. Weekly propagation forecast report.
38. New wireless transmitter developed for home distribution of HDTV signals.
39. Classic "Gil" cartoon book from the pages of QST is issued.
40. MIT engineers develop wireless electricity system dubbed "Wi-Tricity"
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