[TWIAR] TWIAR Edition 833 General Release

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This Week in Amateur Radio - Edition # 833
Air dates: 03.28.09 > 04.04.09

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Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in
edition number 833 of "This Week in Amateur Radio, and "This Week in Amateur
Radio Headline News". North Americas permier on-the-air audio bulletin
services, for the week beginning March 28, 2009.

This week's edition of This Week in Amateur Radio comes to you anchored by
Steve Batton, W4XQ, reporting from our southwest news bureau in Virginia Beach
Virginia, by Mark Phillips, G7LTT, reporting from our metro news bureau in
Morristown, New Jersey, by Will Rogers, W4WLR, reporting from our southern
news bureau in West Palm Beach, Florida, and by Larry Guerrera, W2LAG,
reporting from our news bureau on Long Islands North Shore.

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 97 minutes.
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* 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:
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Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:

01. The FCC clarifies what constitutes an amateur radio repeater.
02. The FCC proposes to permit medical devices on the 70cm amateur band.
03. Congressional leaders order a "Spectrum Inventory" from the FCC.
04. FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein announces he is leaving the agency.
05. Comedy Central comedian Steven Colbert wins NASA ISS naming contest.
06. Indianapolis Police Department members take amateur radio exams.
07. The FCC denies a petition to increase the size of the question pool.
08. The FCC rules that amateurs do not have to display licenses in shack.
09. Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, announces his resignation from AMSAT.
10. World amateur radio and technology news round-up
    AUSTRALIA.........ATV GOING DIGITAL DOWN UNDER
    CANADA............AMATEUR RADIO DIRECTION FINDING COORDINATOR SOUGHT
    UNITED KINGDOM....DELIBERATE INTERFERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
11. Hams provide emergency communications for North Dakota Red River floods.
12. The ARRL 2009 Field Day web page is up and running.
13. Shortwave broadcasters are leaving the amateur 7 megahertz band.
14. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.
15. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH. "CQ Mars by W2XOY"
16. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
17. Weekly propagation forecast report with Geremy Boot, G4NJH.
18. Burghardt announces it is leaving the amateur radio business.
19. TWiAR QSL Cards are now available! Write in for yours today.
20. The FCC issues a vanity call sign two years after the original holder dies.
     except he's not dead, he was just resting.

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