[TWIAR] TWIAR Edtion 815 General Release

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This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 815
Air dates: 11.22.08 > 11.29.08

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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
Edition #815 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 beginning November 22, 2008.

This week's edition of This Week in Amateur Radio comes to you anchored by
Scott Westerman, W9WSW, reporting from our southwestern news bureau in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, by Steve Batton, W4XQ, reporting from our southern
news bureau in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and by Andrew Slaugh, KB2LUV,
reporting from our northeast news bureau in Lafayette, New York, and by Larry
Guerrera, W2LAG, reporting from our metro news bureau in northeast Long Island
New York, and by Will Rogers, W4WLR, reporting from our southern command in
West Palm Beach, Florida.

Mixing, editing, and additional anchoring by George Bowen, W2XBS at our
headquarters facility in Albany, New York.

THIS WEEKS PROGRAM RUNNING TIMES:   ** SPECIAL EXPANDED FULL EDITION **
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* FULL VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 134 minutes.
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* HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 60 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. CQ Magazine editorial calls on the FCC to resume amateur radio enforcement
02. Canadian amateurs receive limited privileges at 500 kilohertz.
03. ARRL Delta Division gets new leadership-Great Lakes division remains
     unchanged.
04. Amateurs respond to the California fire storms. SPECIAL PACKAGE
05. Hawaii switches to digital television in January to save wild bird.
06. California amateurs participate in world largest emergency exercise
     entitled "The Big Shakeout".
07. ARRL announces recent Section Manager election results.
08. Expect Obama to move fast on FCC transformation.
09. New appeal in the on-going Pennsylvania tower case.
10. San Diego city council ups PRB-1 to try and limit tower heights and use.
11. The FCC votes unanimously to open DTV white spaces to unlicensed devices.
12. Weather spotters receive award as sever weather comes to town.
13. SPECIAL: Part 1: W9CHI authors book on the history of WLS-AM radio Chicago
14. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH "The Tape Library"
15. The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY (AAA04)
16. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte
17. TWIAR Staff Blogs are now on line - are you reading them?
18. Courage Handi-Ham System Update with Pat Tice, WA0TDA.
19. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige KK5DO.
20. Space walking astronaut loses tool bag in orbit.
21. World Radio and Technology News wrap-up.
        HOLLAND..........RADIO NETHERLANDS GLOBAL PANEL WANTS YOU
        UNITED KINGDOM...CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF LOUIS BRAILLE
        PUERTO RICO......COMMEMORATING THE ARECIBO OBSERVATORY
        UNITED STATES....N2YO WEB SITE FOR SATELLITE TRACKING
22. NASA unveils new Luner Image Recovery unit in an abandon McDonalds.
23. Global Automatic Established High Frequency Net hits 500 days 24/7 ops.
24. Dayton HamVention 2009 is looking for award nominations.
25. TWIAR QSL Cards are now available. Write in for one today.
26. San Francisco KGO-AM goes green off the grid on solar energy.
27. Amateurs declare the Leonid Meteor shower a big success.
28. NASA tests a new deep space data network modeled on the internet.
29. Special event station listings.
30. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson WA0RCR.
31. Weekly propagation forecast.
32. You Tube video shows repeater jamming device booby-trapped rig to explode.

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