March 1999 South Texas PIO Report

                             Media Hits

Martha Underwood (N2VRF) reports that Williamson County had a newspaper article
in January on QSL party for our county's 150th anniversary special event.

Also during March, Williamson County resident John Warren, NT5C, was on channel
36 regarding talking with Kosovo hams about what is going on. He did a great
job of making the hobby interesting and enticing for the public.

                             Media Traffic

Roger Wines (W5WIA) created a press release to describe the Amateur Radio
community's participation in the Starflight Medical Evac Helicopter landing
zone training on February 27 in the Austin area.  Roger created the press
release and spread the word to the TV media while I forwarded the information
to several newspapers in the area.  No word yet if any media coverage resulted.

                                Misc.

You've gotten information from me concerning the ongoing effort to pass the
Texas Tower Bill.  Please consider showing up for the April 7 testimony on
the bill and as always keep on the lookout for any press reporting on the
bill, negarive or positive.

Thanks to Martha Underwood (N2VRF), Ken Neal (K5KEN) and Morgan Palmer (KC5GPG)
for checking in this month.

Don't forget about the STX PIO web page:
http://www.qsl.net/ka5wss/stxpio/

                            Upcoming Events

Apr 7     Texas Tower Bill committe testimony
Apr 11    Capital 10K (Austin)
Jul 26-27 Field Day
Oct ??    Simulated Emergency Test (More on this next month)

Please send me your comments and suggestions!

73,

Robert Barron, KA5WSS