_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ his _/ _/ _/ eek _/ n _/_/_/_/ mateur _/_/_/_/ adio _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ -- North America's Premier On-The-Air Amateur Magazine Service -- TWIAR is available on the web via download, streaming, or podcast at www.twiar.org. Audio is offered in MP3, MP4 (aac) Windows Media (WMA) and for those on dial up, low bit rate Real Audio TWIAR and TWIARi are now both available via Apple I-Tunes and via Podcasts.Yahoo.com podcast distribution networks, among others. Weekly on the W0KIE Satellite Radio Network and WBCQ 7.415 Megahertz Shortwave * * * CELEBRATING 15.12 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE HAM RADIO COMMUNITY * * * Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in Edition #786 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 ending May 11, 2008. This week's edition of This Week in Amateur Radio comes to you anchored by Peter Summers, KL2GY, reporting from our northwest news bureau in Anchorage, Alaska, by Wayne Nelms, N4DCL, reporting from our mid-atlantic news bureau in Pennsylvania, by Mark Phillips, G7LTT, reporting from our metro news bureau in Morristown, New Jersey, and by Jeff Lehman, KC8QCH, reporting from our mid-west news bureau in Cincinati, Ohio, and by Cory Sickles, WA3UVV, reporting from our northeast news bureau in Glasboro, New Jersey. Mixing, editing, and additional anchoring by George Bowen, W2XBS at our headquarters facility in Albany, New York. THIS WEEKS PROGRAM RUNNING TIMES: -------------------------------- * FULL VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 112 minutes. ------------------------------------------- * HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 60 minutes. SPECIAL PROGRAM NOTES: *** SPECIAL EXPANDED EDTION *** * Closed circuit advisory and weekly program promos are available as a separate audio file download. CONTENT: ------- Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. The FCC denies Utah Motorsport Park the use of Amateur Radio frequencies. 02. A Dallas newspaper is reporting BPL plans in that city are dead. 03. Hams respond as a large series of earhquakes hit the Reno, Nevada, area. 04. Tornados ravage eastern Virginia, and hams provide vital communications. 05. Ten new amateur radio satellites are now in orbit. 06. Japanese amateurs recieve extended privileges on the 75 and 80 meter band. 07. Newsline survey looks at how gas prices will effect hamfest attendance. 08. Ham radio will be represented at the up-coming EAS conference at the FCC. 09. Antique Radio Collector reconsideration petition is denied. 10. The FCC fines a Mississippi AM broadcaster for not dropping power at nite. 11. Congress thinks the FCC is broken and wants to try and fix it. 12. A car killing parking lot mystery is solved by a television crew. 13. www.nh7c.com picks up the amateur radio classifieds from the ARRL. 14. World Radio News Round Up. 15. A court finds that the FCC violated adminstrative procedures in approving broadband over powerlines. 16. Road construction may effect traffic patterns at the Dayton HamVention. 17. Rule changes for the 2008 ARRL Field Day are posted. 18. W5KUB plans to web cast the entire Dayton HamVention. And road trips too. 19. Monthly Propagation Outlook with Steve Nichols, G0KYA. 20. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard KF9MP. 21. The Random Access File with Bill Baran, N2FNH. "6500 Free Band" 22. N5WEB buys Force 12 Antenna company in Texas. 23. DARC (Germany) to be represented at the 2008 Dayton HamVention. 24. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte. 25. TWIAR QSL Cards are now available! Write in for yours today! 26. Courage Handi-Ham System Update with Pat Tice WA0TDA. 27. The FCC wants a independant nationwide EMCOMM system. 28. Special event station listings. 29. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR. 30. Weekly propagation report. 31. The spring 2008 W1AW Frequency Measuring Test is scheduled for May. 32. The VoIP Hurricane Net is actively looking for net control stations. 33. Microsoft USB device helps police pluck evidence from computers. 34. The FCC will now post vote topic agendas. 35. The FCC is looking to test market a DTV/Analog conversion this summer. 36. An amateur radio operator is charged with child pornography. 37. Radio Free Liberty web site taken down by a DoS attack. 38. OLED display technology blows todays LED/Plasma screens out of the water. Amateurs from coast to coast and around the world are demonstrating the unique public service and emergency communications aspects of amateur radio to local government officials and the general public. It is important for amateurs to stay up to date with latest news and events taking place in the amateur service. This Week in Amateur Radio is here to fill that need, with all the latest amateur radio news and special features, from a single, reliable, news source. This Week in Amateur Radio remains on the cutting edge of technology with our own dedicated server on the internet. We use the latest MP3, MP4 (aac), and WMA audio encoding codecs, along with legacy support for low bit rate Real Audio. This Week in Amateur Radio was the first amateur radio news service to support podcasting. You can subscribe to our RSS/XML podcast feeds, download directly from our web site, or find our programs around the web on sites like Apple I-Tunes, and other internet podcast distribution sites including OurMedia. This Week in Amateur Radio is also pround to be archived on The Internet Archive" site. Also, remember that This Week in Amateur Radio is listener and club supported. 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