[TWIAR] TWIAR Edition 809 General Release

Sat Oct 11 16:38:33 EDT 2008

This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 809
Air dates: 10.11.08 > 10.18.08

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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
Edition #809 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 October 11, 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, by Steve Batton, W4XQ, reporting from our southern
news bureau in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and by Larry Guererra, W2LAG,
reporting from our northeast news bureau in Jericho, New York, and by
Will Rogers, W4WLR, reporting from our southern command in West Palm Beach,
Florida, and by Mark Phillips, G7LTT, reporting from our metro news bureau in
Morristown, New Jersey.

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 108 minutes.
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* HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 59 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. Pennsylvania becomes the 27th state to enact PRB-1 type legislation.
02. A Pennsylvania amateurs tower permit is appealed for the second time.
03. A hot air balloon accident in Albuquerque leaves an amateur seriously
     injured, and another non-ham dead.
04. Richard Garriot, W5KWQ, prepares to head to the Space Station.
05. The trial of accused ham radio couple murderer Sklar Deleon takes a
     strange twist as the trial gets underway in California.
06. The ARRL says it has more work to do on amateur radio spectrum defense.
07. The league prepares for World Radio Communications Conference 2011.
08. American amateurs plan to lead a DXpedition in 2009 to Desecheo Island.
09. Cape Town tow truck operators are accused of running cellphone jammers.
10. The 2008 Orionids meteor shower should be better than expected.
11. Singapore announces it will issue temporary ham radio licenses for visting
     amateurs.
12. CERN builds a new computer grid to help support Collider data crunching.
13. World Radio and Technology News
         AFGHANISTAN.......DXPEDITION ON HOLD
         CALIFORNIA........FOUR CALIFORNIA CITIES TO GO INTEROPERABLE
         SOUTH AFRICA......SARL CANCELS TAKE AMATEUR RADIO TO SCHOOL PROGRAM
15. Members of the ARMY amateur radio club in Iraq is rotating home, and is
     looking for new amateur personnel to take over.
16. More people are on-line than listen to the radio, but more watch their new
     high definition television.
17. The RSGB is not happy with Ofcom. South Africa looks at BPL again.
18. The first ARRL textbook is published and released in China.
19. China prepares to launch its first ham radio satellite.
20. There is a new morse code trainer on the net from New Zealand.
21. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
22. Scientists put forth a new theory on Noctilucent Clouds.
23. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP.
24. Weekly Propagation Forecast with Geramy Boot, G4NJH.
25. Google pitches the use of white spaces to the FCC.
26. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.
27. TWIAR Staff Blogs are now on-line. E-Mail W2XBS with topics for his.
28. Courage Handi-Ham System Update with Pat Tice WA0TDA "Remote Base Update"
29. TWIAR QSL Cards are now available. Send and e-mail, get yours today!
30. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
31. Special event station listings.
32. The FCC will host its first of a series of speaker forums later this month
33. Peha is named Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission
34. Popular french communications magazine "Megahertz" ceases publication.
36. Icom donates top of the line digital transceiver to UK school.
37. Ham radio makes a cameo appearance in the new "Get Smart" movie.

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