International
Radio
Report Program summary Sunday, October 17, 2004
- Federal Communications
Commission approves delivery of broadband internet over power lines
> Amateur radio operaters, shortwave listeners fear interference
> Attenutation of notch filters not very good
> Failed miserably in Scandanavia, Britain, Taiwan
> BPL is as susceptible to making interference as it is to receiving
it
- BBC article says government predicts digital radio sales will soar by
2008
> No switchoff date for analogue radio
- Sirius Radio offers free, brief online sampling of satellite
programming
- Scott Fybush 2005 tower site calendar now available
> www.fybush.com
- Last hot dog sold at Expos game put up for auction on EBay
> Stunt by radio station to raise funds for charity
> Bidding reaches $745.25 Sunday morning
- Hot air baloon gets entangled in radio tower at Albuquerque, N.M.
> KKOB-AM shuts down transmitter until occupants were rescued
> FAA and NTSB investigating incident
- Travel World Radio profiled in Radio World Magazine
> Now has different satellite radio feed with broader reach
- Len Dobbin puts on show #500, immediately after International Radio
Report
