[TWIAR] TWIAR Edition 821 General Release

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This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 821
Air dates: 01.03.09 > 01.10.09

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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
combined Editions #821 of "This Week in Amateur Radio, and "This Week in
Amateur Radio Headline News". North Americas premier on-the-air audio
magazines, for the week beginning January 03, 2009.

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

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

THIS WEEKS PROGRAM RUNNING TIME:
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* FULL VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs     minutes.
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* HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs    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. Hams provide emergency communications as the City of Oahu looses power.
02. Hams in Oregon and the northwest stay on duty as major winter storms
     hit the area.
03. Amateur radio gets ready to celebrate the legacy of radio hero Jack Binns.
04. Al Waller K3TKJ, retires from QSL.Net and passes the web baton.
05. A leap second is added to end the year 2008.
06. China/Hong Kong cracks down on illegal citizens radio service operators.
07. North Korea cracks down on illegal radio receivers and bootleg DVD's.
08. Repair of a major undersea communications cable is hampered by the cable
     breaking in a second, deeper location.
09. A NASA satellite confirms that the earths magnetic field is "cracked".
10. A new flash nano memory system is developed.
11. CNN retires the seven year old lower third news ticker.
12. News from the Radio Amateurs of Canada.
13. Flex Radio donates a brand new software defined radio to W1AW.
14. Ham radio gets ready to support the Eagle Cap Sled Dog Race.
15. And now...the story of the $51,000 fax.
16. 3 dimensional imaging of the surface of the moon has begun.
17. WiMax + TV station satellite downlink = trouble.
18. 2009 brings a brand new shuttle mission to the space station.
19. 73's dot org goes live on the internet.
20. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.
21. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
22. The New York City Hall of Science amateur radio station may go QRT.
23. A new D-STAR repeater is now on the air in London.
24. Mt.Athos wants help from the amateur community to keep its suffix. (SY)
25. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH. (Amateur Blogs)
26. TWIAR QSL Cards are now available - write in for yours today!
27. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
28. Hams provide communications for Venture Escape 2009.
29. An Ode To Goddess Isis - A Story from our colleagues at NewsLine.
30. Cablevision systems awaits a court decision about remote DVR systems.
31. A new FREE amateur radio magazine - "Ham-Mag" is now on-line!
32. The Radio Shack catalog of the past.
33. Shh! The nations only radio quiet zone employs its own RDF person.

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