_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ 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 15.15 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE HAM RADIO COMMUNITY * * * Here is a summary of the news items and special features covered in Edition #788 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 24, 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 Jeff Lehman, KC8QCH, reporting from our mid-west news bureau in Cincinati, Ohio, and by Will Rogers, W4WLR, reporting from our southern news bureau 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: -------------------------------- * FULL VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 65 minutes. ------------------------------------------- * HEADLINE NEWS VERSION of This Week in Amateur Radio runs 102 minutes. SPECIAL PROGRAM NOTES: * 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. Hams around the world are called to action to assist in the wake of the devastating earth quake in China. 02. The ARRL introduces "The Fifth Pillar" at the 2008 Dayton HamVention. 03. The 2008 Dayton Hamvention opens its doors. 04. A court overturns the FCC's rule on cellular tower backup power. 05. Tornados sweep across the central and eastern United States. 06. The Doctor Is In - Answering a question regarding feed lines. 07. The first SSTV/telemetry signals received from SEEDS CubeSat. 08. A Canadian amateur continues voyage circumnavigating the globe at sea. 09. World Radio News Round Up ITALY..........APPEALS COURT REVERSES ACQUITTAL OF VATICAN RADIO OFFICIALS CANADA.........EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING CONFERENCE IN TORONTO IN JUNE ITALY..........AMATEURS GAIN 40 METER FREQUENCIES NIGERIA........RADIO NIGERIA GETS NEW TRANSMITTERS 10. The Federal Communications Commission is poised to raise Vanity Callsign Fees for the next year. 11. Start-Up company in Alaska gets construction permit for Digital Shortwave station in that state. 12. The FCC denies two amateur radio petitions for rulemaking. 13. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO. 14. HamSphere - the new virtual transceiver on the internet. 15. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP "Coax Support" 16. Special event station listings for the next ten days. 17. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR. 18. Weekly propagaton forecast. 19. The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY. 20. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH "The Record Always Skips" 21. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte. 22. TWIAR QSL Cards are now available. Write in for yours today! 23. Courage Handi-Ham System Update with Pat Tice WA0TDA. 24. W1HQ station mascot gets a new name and a new call sign. 25. Researchers develop organic based carbon molecules. 26. Report on HD Radio rollout in the United States. 27. Hong Kong Amateur Radio Club gets Olympic Special Event station call sign. 28. The DX Entity That Never Was. 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. When you help "This Week in Amateur Radio" through our support fund, by tradition, we mention during the course of the bulletin service each week, the individual, club, or organization that has made This Week in Amateur Radio possible that week, through their financial support. Mention is also made on the air, on a rotating basis, each of our affiliates that carry the service. Please check our web site to be sure that your local repeater in on our afilliate list. Click on "affilliates" on the left hand navigation panel on www.twiar.org. "This Week in Amateur Radio" is proud to be your reliable source for all the late-breaking, up-to-the-minute amateur news each week, as we have been for the past twelve years. Our special segments each week, adds to the value of the service to the amateur community, and are exclusivly available on "This Week in Amateur Radio" "This Week in Amateur Radio" is a weekly amateur radio audio, on the air, news magazine/bulletin service, produced by a lot of dedicated volunteers, by Community Video Associates, Inc., a New York State not-for-profit corporation. The mailing address for our support fund is: This Week in Amateur Radio Support Fund P.O. Box 30 Sand Lake, New York 12153 This Week in Amateur Radio is distributed each Saturday evening on the internet (www.twiar.org) and also on commercial satellite via the "Access America Satellite Radio Network" www.access-america.net. On the World Wide Web, program audio can now be found in two different program lengths. 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