[TWIAR] TWIAR Edition 789 General Relase
w2xbs
w2xbs at verizon.net
Sat May 24 19:03:43 EDT 2008
This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 789
Air dates: 05.24.08 > 05.31.08
_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
_/ his _/ _/ _/ eek _/ n _/_/_/_/ mateur _/_/_/_/ adio
_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/
-- North America's Premier On-The-Air Amateur Magazine Service --
TWIAR is available on the web via download,
streaming, or podcast at www.twiar.org.
Audio is offered in MP3, MP4 (aac) Windows Media (WMA)
and for those on dial up, low bit rate Real Audio
TWIAR and TWIARi are now both available via Apple I-Tunes and via
Podcasts.Yahoo.com podcast distribution networks, among others.
Weekly on the W0KIE Satellite Radio Network
and WBCQ 7.415 Megahertz Shortwave
* * * CELEBRATING 15.17 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE HAM RADIO COMMUNITY * * *
Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
Edition #789 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 May 31, 2008.
This week's edition of This Week in Amateur Radio comes to you anchored by
Scott Westerman, W9WSW, reporting from our southwest news bureau in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, and by Peter Summers, KL2GY, reporting from our
northwest news bureau in Anchorage, Alaska, by Paul Kolacki, K2FX, reporting
from our northeast news bureau in Rochester, New York, by Andrew Slaugh,
KB2LUV, reporting from our northeast news bureau in Syracuse, New York, and by
Will Rogers, W4WLR, reporting from our southern news bureau in West Palm
Beach, Florida, and Rowe Hudson, KO4PK, reporting from Naples, Florida.
Mixing, editing, and additional anchoring by George Bowen, W2XBS at our
headquarters facility in Albany, New York.
THIS WEEKS PROGRAM RUNNING TIMES: ** SPECIAL DAYTON HAMVENTION REPORT **
--------------------------------
* FULL VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 134 minutes.
-------------------------------------------
* HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 62 minutes.
SPECIAL PROGRAM NOTES:
* Closed circuit advisory and weekly program promos are available as
a separate audio file download.
CONTENT:
-------
Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:
01. FCC's William Cross W3TN says amateur radio is currently flying "Below
The Radar" during the FCC Forum at Dayton Hamvention. (Part 1)
02. Riley Hollingsworth addresses FCC Forum at Dayton.
03. Dayton 2008 closes its doors for the 2008 Hamvention. An overview.
04. The American Red Cross responds to ARRL concerns regarding amateur radio
volunteer background checks.
05. FCC Cheif Rules Enforcer Riley Hollingsworth plans to retire...again.
06. The FCC dismisses a petition to change HF digital operations.
07. The FCC warns amateurs about rule violations.
08. California CB operators are fined for out of band operations.
09. There is a possible robotic threat to the 70 centimeter amateur band.
10. JVC and Kenwood merge to form a single company.
11. Frequencies on 40 and 20 meters are still being used for earthquake
recovery efforts in China.
12. The Space Shuttle Discovery receives a firm launch date.
13. New Section Managers are elected to office, begin new term in July.
14. The first SSTV signals are received from CubeSat Seeds.
15. World Radio and Technology News Round Up
NEW ZEALAND.......ENGINEERS DEVELOP INSTANT VIDEO ON DEMAND ON LINE
UNITED KINGDOM....FILMING BEGINS FOR OFFSHORE RADIO MOVIE
VENEZUELA.........NEW SHORTWAVE STATION TO DEBUT IN 18 MONTHS
MEXICO........... AUTHORIZES HD-R BROADCASTING IN BORDER AREA
16. More Musings with Will Rogers, W4WLR "Wine Linux Interface"
17. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
18. TWIAR QSL cards are now available. We have a lot. Send for one. Now!
19. NASA takes its Ionospheric live satellite data live on the internet.
20. The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY. F2 Hallicrafters
21. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH. "Easy Listening"
22. CQ Magazine announces its 2008 Hall Of Fame inductees.
23. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.
24. The FCC and Best Buy are at odds over FCC NAL fine for not labeling
analog television receivers.
25. Courage Handi-Ham System Update with Pat Tice WA0TDA.
26. WY1U says do not visit cloned D-STAR information web page on the net.
27. Special event station listings.
28. Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson WA0RCR.
29. Weekly propagation forecast.
30. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP.
31. K5ZD named director of CQ WPX contest.
32. Worldwide audience for US shortwave broadcasting tops 175 million.
33. Alaska, Hawaii, and US territories want Sirius/XM satellite radio.
34. New version of DX Summit goes live on the internet.
35. What's it like to go straight to extra at the Dayton HamVention?
Amateurs from coast to coast and around the world are demonstrating the
unique public service and emergency communications aspects of amateur radio
to local government officials and the general public. It is important for
amateurs to stay up to date with latest news and events taking place in the
amateur service.
This Week in Amateur Radio is here to fill that need, with all the latest
amateur radio news and special features, from a single, reliable, news source.
This Week in Amateur Radio remains on the cutting edge of technology with our
own dedicated server on the internet. We use the latest MP3, MP4 (aac), and
WMA audio encoding codecs, along with legacy support for low bit rate Real
Audio.
This Week in Amateur Radio was the first amateur radio news service to support
podcasting. You can subscribe to our RSS/XML podcast feeds, download directly
from our web site, or find our programs around the web on sites like
Apple I-Tunes, and other internet podcast distribution sites including
OurMedia.
This Week in Amateur Radio is also proud to be archived on The Internet
Archive" site.
Also, remember that This Week in Amateur Radio is listener and club supported.
When you help "This Week in Amateur Radio" through our support fund, by
tradition, we mention during the course of the bulletin service each week,
the individual, club, or organization that has made This Week in Amateur Radio
possible that week, through their financial support.
Mention is also made on the air, on a rotating basis, each of our affiliates
that carry the service. Please check our web site to be sure that your local
repeater in on our affiliate list. Click on "affiliates" on the left hand
navigation panel on www.twiar.org.
"This Week in Amateur Radio" is proud to be your reliable source for all the
late-breaking, up-to-the-minute amateur news each week, as we have been for
the past twelve years. Our special segments each week, adds to the value of
the service to the amateur community, and are exclusively available on "This
Week in Amateur Radio"
"This Week in Amateur Radio" is a weekly amateur radio audio, on the air, news
magazine/bulletin service, produced by a lot of dedicated volunteers, by
Community Video Associates, Inc., a New York State not-for-profit corporation.
The mailing address for our support fund is:
This Week in Amateur Radio Support Fund
P.O. Box 30
Sand Lake, New York 12153
This Week in Amateur Radio is distributed each Saturday evening
on the internet (www.twiar.org) and also on commercial satellite via the
"Access America Satellite Radio Network" www.access-america.net.
On the World Wide Web, program audio can now be found in two different
program lengths. Our full version which runs around 100 minutes. A new
telescoped one hour version, This Week in Amateur Radio Headline News is also
available.
This Week in Amateur Radio is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 License. Visit our web site to view
a copy of this license.
Contact your local amateur radio club or repeater operator if "This Week in
Amateur Radio" is not being heard in your area.
Further information is available by calling W2XBS at 518.283.3665, or e-mail
to w2xbs at twiar.org.
We look forward to hearing from you or your organization soon!
-30-
More information about the TWIAR
mailing list