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Title: TWIAR international # 168

Description: This Week in Amateur Radio International (TWIARi) Edition #168 for the week beginning April 13, 2008, has been released. The program will be available shortly at our web site at www.twiar.org for direct download, or via podcast/RSS subscription. Program highlights include all the latest amateur radio news headlines, and this weeks special features: "The Random Access File" with Bill Baran, N2FNH takes a look at even more Dead Media. Our very own amateur radio historian, Bill Continelli, W2XOY, takes us aboard his Wayback Machine for another adventure during his "Ancient Amateur Archive". TWiTs Leo Laporte will have all the latest technology news effecting you , your shack computers, and the internet, plus a lot more! This Week in Amateur Radio International is distributed in full stereo. The program is available in both a high bandwidth (128/44) mp3 stereo file or a lower bandwidth (82/22) stereo mp3 file, and now also in a high and low bandwidth WMA/Windows Media File at our web site www.twiar.org. Be sure and listen for This Week in Amateur Radio International (TWIARi) on shortwave broadcast station WBCQ on 7.415 megahertz, Saturday afternoon at 4pm eastern time. The TWIARi podcast is now available via at Apple I-Tunes, OurMedia, and several other podcast sites. Links to archived programs are available at our web site www.twiar.org. This Week in Amateur Radio International is proud to be officially archived on "The Internet Archive" www.archive.org. TWIARi is also distributed on geostationary satellite via the W0KIE Satellite Radio Network. Visit www.w0kie.com for current satellite coordinates, and program schedule. Our all volunteer staff and crew hope you enjoy our program. Please let us know if you do! For an official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card, (with asteroids!) Send an email to our QSL manager, n2fnh@capital.net, or better yet, write to us at This Week in Amateur Radio International, P.O. Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153. We would like to tell the world about your product or service too. If you would like to advertise on the next edition of This Week in Amateur Radio International, please send an email to w2xbs@twiar.org for details. If you would like to help support the program financially, visit our web site and click on the "PayPal" logo on the top right. All contributions go to offset program production and transmission expenses, and air time on WBCQ Radio and Access America, our satellite distribution network. Thanks for listening to us! Send us an e-mail, and let us know your out there! We'll see you next week! 73 - W2XBS (for the entire staff and crew) Executive Producer This Week in Amateur Radio International

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Title: This Week in Amateur Radio #171

Description: !! HELP WANTED !! This Week in Amateur Radio has an immediate opening for three news anchors. Have your friends on the air ever told you that you have "a voice for radio"? Well, let TWIAR help set the frustrated broadcaster in you free! Our volunteer news anchor position will put you on the air and in the forefront of North Americas premier ham radio news service. Your voice will be heard on over 150 repeater systems nationwide and worldwide on international shortwave broadcast and podcast networks. All you need is a desire to be on the air, a commitment to a once every two or three week rotation with other anchors on a Friday night/Saturday morning schedule, a up to date PC, or Mac, equipped with a sound card and a quality microphone. You need to be proficient in the use of sound editing software of your choice (ie Cool Edit, Adobe Audition, SoundForge, WaveLab, Audacity, etc) an FTP client (and its use), and an internet connection. TWIAR can supply you with software if needed. (PC Only). So, if you always wanted to be "on the air", you can do it with This Week in Amateur Radio! We're heard via satellite, amateur repeaters, broadcast shortwave, and iPod podcast networks. Send an e-mail of interest to our Producer/Technical Director, George Bowen, W2XBS today. E-mail: w2xbs@twiar.org. Please include your name (call sign if any) location, and most important, a good daytime/evening telephone number so we can contact you directly. Please get in touch soon! Now Even! 73 - W2XBS (for the entire staff and crew) Executive Producer This Week in Amateur Radio International

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amateur radio, AMSAT, AMTOR, antenna, APRS, ARHAB, ARISS, ARRL, callsign, communications, D-STAR, enforcement, FCC, federal communications commission, GPS, ham radio, hamfest, hamvention, JARL, Leo Laporte, LSB, Mhz, packet, PACTOR, RAC, radio, RSGB, RTTY, Scanner, shortwave, sideband, skywarn, technology, TNC, tower, transmit, UHF, USB, VHF, WBCQ, WIA, WWV

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Title: This Week in Amateur Radio # 778

Description: Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. The FCC denies multiple petitions to reinstate the morse code testing requirements. 02. The Maryland Supreme Court refuses to hear amateur radio antenna case. 03. Spratley Islands will be on the air this month. 04. Recent FCC amateur radio and related enforcement actions. 05. FCC Government privacy policies lead to freedom of speech blogs and sites. 06. The ARRL's Antenna Expert plans to retire. 07. Wisconsin amateurs help save the life of a motorist in an accident. 08. Senior citizens in Maryland form a first response team. 09. Germany plans to cease digital broadcasting in Eureka 147 codec. 10. The BBC pulls the plug on shortwave broadcasting to Europe. 11. Digital television transition in the U.S. may get a test drive before going prime time. 12. Sony decides to no longer manufacture cathode ray tube television receivers. 13. The crew on the Space Station prepare to receive the shuttle and a brand new module as east meets west. 14. A physics laboratory in Tennessee breaks a physics record. 15. The ARRL seeks nominations for the Hiram Percy Maxim awards. 16. An ambulance company is fined by the FCC for operating on unauthorized frequencies. 17. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO. 18. AMSAT Symposium 2007 DVD is now available. 19. Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard KF9MP. 20. Special event station listings. 21. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR. 22. Weekly propagation report. 23. The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY. "1970's" 24. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH. "UFO's" 25. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte. 26. TWIAR QSL Cards are now available. Write in for yours today! 27. The ARRL announces the winners for this years Colvin Awards. 28. The 2008 edition of the ARRL Instructor Manual is now available. 29. The South African Radio League takes a tough stance on PLT (BPL). 30. New software update: "WorkedGrids" is now available on the internet. 31. VK2AMD Howard Booth, turns 100 years old. 32. The Czech Republic authorizes experimental 70 megahertz licenses. 33. Nautel to deploy three 300 kilowatt transmitters in Turkey. 34. World Radio and Technology News Round-Up ANTARCTICA...LOGS FINALLY ARRIVE ON LINE AUSTRALIA....A NEW HAM ON-LINE WIKI BELGIUM......NEW CEPT RECIPROCAL LICENSING COLOMBIA:....AIR FORCE DESTROYS REBEL RADIO TRANSMITTERS KOREA........CHOOSES TO END ANALOG BROADCASTING IN 2012 35. Los Angeles County honors its amateur radio operators for community service. 36. Industrial Communication Engineers Company is up for sale on E-Bay.

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amateur radio, AMSAT, AMTOR, antenna, APRS, ARHAB, ARISS, ARRL, callsign, communications, D-STAR, enforcement, FCC, federal communications commission, GPS, ham radio, hamfest, hamvention, JARL, Leo Laporte, LSB, Mhz, packet, PACTOR, RAC, radio, RSGB, RTTY, Scanner, shortwave, sideband, skywarn, technology, TNC, tower, transmit, UHF, USB, VHF, WBCQ, WIA, WWV

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