This Week in Amateur Radio #717 - Week of January 6, 2007

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DATE : Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:28:26 -0500
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Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:01. The Day The Snow Came. Colorado/WA ARES teams stay bust over the holidays.02. Broadcasters in the mid-west knocked off the air due to ice storm.03. ARRL "Hello" finale at W1AW includes historic first digtal HF broadcast.04. Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference in Huntsville.05. The FCC cites a Pennsylvania amateur for failure to identify.06. The FCC fines yet another retailer for selling un-certified CB gear.07. The FCC fines a pirate FM broadcaster in San Diego, California.08. Update: Ham dies in service at the Antarctica station.09. Art Bell, W6OBB, back in the United State, Broadcasting from Pahrump NV.10. Government report says that cities still late inter-operable radio gear.11. Repairs to undersea communications cables, serving Asia, now underway.12. New Tasmanian amateurs assist in several wildfires across Australia.13. Scientists say this week, that Cycle 23 could bottom out this summer.14. FCC Chairman appoints new chief to the Wireless Telecommunicaations Bureau15. Miami Hamboree looking for new dates due to conflict with the Super Bowl.16. SPECIAL REPORT: A look behind the scenes at the GB3SSS Beacon Project.17. Public Service Announcement writing for you radio club promotion. Lesson 4.18. Special event station listings.19. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.20. Weekly propagation forecast.21. New two meter Earth-Moon-Earth distance record is claimed.22. The Random Access File with Bill Baran, N2FNH - "Over & Out" with W2XOY.23. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.24. Courage Handi-Ham System Update with Pat Tice WA0TDA.25. Free money for college, ARRL Scholarships Application Deadline is coming.26. AMSAT-NA signs agreement to build "Eagle"satellite at new Maryland lab.27. New European Space Agency satellite launched to seek out new worlds.28. ISS crew goes back to work after a break for the holidays.29. TECH: New Total HD DVD format proposed to replace competing formats.30. Students in Japan chat with ISS astronauts via amateur radio.31. Samsung Corporation proposes a world-wide ionospheric antenna.

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