[TWIAR] TWIAR Edition 849 General Release

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This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition #849
Air dates: 07.18.09 > 07.25.09

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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in edition
849 of "This Week in Amateur Radio, and "This Week in Amateur Radio Headline
News". North Americas premier on-the-air audio bulletin services, for the week
beginning July 18, 2009.

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 Holly Hills, Florida, by Andre Wald, KC0MMY, reporting from our
northeast news bureau in Whitehall, New York, and by Will Rogers, W4WLR,
reporting from our southern news bureau in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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

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THIS WEEKS PROGRAM RUNNING TIME:
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* FULL VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 100 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. Iconic news anchorman, Walter Cronkite, KB2GSD, SK
02. New Vice Directors visit ARRL HQ in advance of Board of Directors meeting.
03. HR 2160 gains support in Congress.
04. World Radio Conference 2011 becomes World Radio Conference 2012.
05. A companion bill to Senate Spectrum Inventory Act is introduced in Congress
06. Shuttle Endeavour arrives at the International Space Station.
07. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
08. TWIAR Staff Blogs are now on line - Visit our blogs.
09. FCC Chairman Genechowski announces Wireless Bureau Senior Staff.
10. College students design and build new amateur radio digital satellite.
11. Amateur radio helps save lifes during shooting at fireworks display.
12. Amateur radio helps avoid a railroad disaster.
13. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH. "Process Results"
14. QSL Cards? Yup TWIAR has them, and you can get yours today!
15. HamVention 2010 announces leadership team.
16. Amateur radio news clips.
17. SuitSat 2 engineering meeting results.
18. Pig hunters in New Zealand, causing radio interference.
19. Slow progress on 40 meter expansion worldwide.
20. Some digital television stations find the move to VHF troublesome.
21. A morse code typo is flashing its way over a major U.S. city.

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