In-Newsletter
Vol. 25, No. 12
March 25, 2002
Upcoming Meetings
April 20th in Ft. Worth, TX at 8:00am
A&F Committee
Sales/Marketing
Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, joins the staff as Sales and Marketing Manager
on April 1. His extension is 412 (860-594-0412 direct line).
Dennis will oversee ARRL's publication sales, advertising sales and
membership recruitment activities. He brings 30 years of sales, marketing
and business experience, primarily in the fire protection and safety
business. Most recently he was president and co-owner of ESG, Inc. of Reno,
Nevada, a firm specializing in fire protection systems for the
telecommunications industry with national and international accounts.
In addition to his professional background, Dennis has been an Amateur Radio
operator since 1962. For the past four years, he has been editor of the
National Contest Journal and he is active in fundraising and promotion for
the 2002 World Radiosport Team Championship. In connection with his
international business travel, Dennis is an avid DXpeditioner, and he has
written several stories on his travels for QST.
Publications
A new printing of Wire Antenna Classics is available for sale. The
2002-2003 Repeater Directory and the Proceedings for SETICon 02, the SETI
League Technical Symposium, have been released to the printer.
Field & Educational Services
ARISS sported two more successful school QSOs. The first was with Zeehan
Primary School, where 130 people listened, with 3 TV and 3 newspaper
reporters on hand. The second was with St. Thomas Episcopal School. Thanks
goes to Rick Lindquist, who as usual, wrote fine stories for our Web site.
WA4IUM, a big DXer, called to say congrats to ARISS; he said his assistance
with a SAREX school QSO a few years back has been the best thing he has ever
done during his ham radio days. ARISS may see some scheduling constraints
for April because of problems with the ISS robot arm. Rosalie began initial
prep on talks she will give at the upcoming ARISS International Meeting in
Montreal.
Field Organization/Public Service Team
Leona Adams will finalize the Oregon Section Manager election preparations
(ballots and statements) shortly, for the printer. Ballots are to be mailed
by April 1. She continued working on behalf of the new (April) class of
SMs, ordering badges for all the newly-elected ones and sending supplies to
W6DPD in San Joaquin Valley. 40 packages of supplies were sent to other
Field Appointees, and SM expense reports were entered in the computer.
Steve Ewald prepared a report summarizing the results of our ARES garment
questionnaire sent to ARRL SMs, SECs, DECs, and ECs last month. The report
and a recommendation went to the VRC. There was a positive response on the
idea to offer identification vests and/or jackets. Steve also contacted
Section Leaders to help gather Amateur Radio news related to the flooding in
KY, TN, VA and WV. He completed preparations for going to the Nebraska
State Convention.
Regulatory Team
Brennan Price sent materials in two cases to the FCC. In monitoring
matters, the long-standing 17-meter problem resulting from the third
harmonic of a Cuban jammer of Radio Marti, has abated due to a switch in
Marti's frequency to 6060 kHz. Brennan consulted with the editorium
regarding the legality of the SWR mapping feature on the Icom 746 Pro; it
can be legally used, but requires post-test manual identification on all
frequencies.
John Hennessee assisted amateurs with zoning problems in Cape Coral, FL
(K1KHP), Jefferson County, TN (KG4GVX), West Palm Beach, FL, Monterrey, CA
(WB2EQX) and Kingsbury, NJ (WA2EAK) and San Jose, CA (N6KJ). John is
hearing more from amateurs who want to make modifications, electronically,
to their licenses -- they are appreciative that John helps with their
questions. He also updated the reciprocal licensing information for
Armenia.
The Big Project
Jerry Hill finished a Power Point presentation to display on a revolving
loop for the National Science Teachers Association national convention.
Jerry and volunteer Ken Chaffee, WA1QXR, will staff an exhibit there next
week. Packets of applications were sent to the Executive Committee for
their selection of a second round of Pilot Schools. Jerry is working with
teachers who are designing units for the Radio Lab Handbook for
schoolteachers.
Field & Educational Support Team
Linda Mullally updated 48 affiliated club records, and registered 8
volunteer instructors and 1 schoolteacher. She compiled this month's Field
Organization (statistics) report for the Public Service column in QST. She
performed duties related to 29 students who graduated from C-CE on-line
courses. Linda also assisted Leona with data entry and materials
fulfillment for Field appointees.
Gail Iannone sent 18 hamfest approval letters to the sponsoring committees,
processed 16 door prize orders and 6 label requests, and sent 8 hamfest
handout packages for upcoming events.
Jean Wolfgang received questions from 3 people who will be teaching Boy
Scouts in earning their Radio Merit Badges. She noted an increase in
correspondence about F&ES annual awards, and responded to these members.
She assisted Margie and Leona in troubleshooting computer and
document-formatting problems.
Margie Bourgoin helped several volunteer instructors in deciding which ARRL
publications to order for teaching Spring classes. She reports an upturn in
instructor inquiries once again this week.
Mary Lau added new files to the QST binaries library available via the
ARRLWeb. She assisted Margie with reactivation paperwork for a
Massachusetts club that had been unaffiliated for three decades. Mary began
weekly informational sessions with her team's members.
C-CE Team
Steve Blair processed results from successful C-CE classroom and exam
sessions in Massachusetts and Oregon. He gathered results from beta-testers
on the HF Digital Course, and worked with our Web host to get the next
course formatted so beta-testing can begin.
Dan Miller drafted a survey for the ARRL Web to determine interest in topics
for future on-line courses, and methods for development of courses.
For the following recent classes, registrants totaled:
Level I emergency communications = 148
Level II emergency communications = 29
Level III emergency communications = 16
Antenna Modeling = 41
Membership Services
Awards Branch
WAS QSLs 700
WAS Endorsements 7
WAC QSLs 162
Extra Class Certificates 24
OTC Awards 8
RCC Awards 8
Friendship Awards 7
A-1 Operator Nominations 4
Long Term Member Inquiries 3
VUCC Initial Awards 2
VUCC Grids (Data Entry) 153
VUCC Endorsements 8
VUCC Grids (Data Entry) 1106
VUCC Awards Mailed 39
For the coming week-WAS Specialty and U.S. WAC awards, research for long
term member award eligibility, and VUCC data entry.
DXCC Branch
Weekly Report March 24, 2002
Beginning Cards 38,894
Cards Received 11,898
Cards Processed 10,313
Ending Cards 40,479
Applications Pending 277
Backlog Time 1 Week
Year-to-date
Cards Received 118,344
Cards Returned 197,350
QRP Issued this week 6
QRP YTD 176
Card Return: DXCC is currently mailing applications received on March 14,
2002. Card Processing: We are entering cards received on March 19, 2002.
One new DXCC card checker was appointed in Brazil bringing the total number
of foreign societies with card checkers to 11. Three Millennium awards were
issued this week bringing the total issued to 2981.
QSL Branch
QSL service status: Current. Cards mailed year to date as of 03/24/2002 -
530,475. Cards mailed on 03/22/2002 - 102,725. Janet Rocco spent 4 hours
conducting tours around HQ.
W1AW
Joe Carcia worked on regular W1AW QSL card requests and W1AW Qualifying Run
texts for the month of April. He also worked the Friday night shift for a
vacationing Scott Gee. Scott Gee worked on fast and slow code practice runs
for the latter part of the month of March and early April. He handled
evening phone sales calls in the 5 PM to 8 PM time slot. W1AW telephone
sales year to date: $2,704.
73,
Sincerely,
Mark Wilson, K1RO
Chief Operating Officer
MW:lk
Staff Absentee List
Name Date(s) Reason
All Staff 3/29 Holiday
Dave Sumner 3/21-3/27 Vacation
Dave Patton 4/5-4/11 Vacation
Carol Patton 4/5-4/11 Vacation
Mary Hobart 4/6-4/7 MD State Convention, Timonium
Mark Wilson 4/1-4/3 Vacation
Rick Lindquist 4/1 Vacation
Dan Miller 3/28-4/1 Vacation
Jerry Hill 3/26-3/31 National Science Teacher
Assoc. Conference, San Diego
Scott Gee 3/25-3/26 Vacation
Judy Miller 3/28-4/1 Vacation
Ann Figat 3/28 Vacation
Mahjabeen Kabir 3/28 Vacation
Rosalie White 4/4-4/7 ARISS International Meeting,
Montreal
Steve Ewald 4/1-4/4 National Hurricane Conference,
Orlando
John Bee 4/3-4/5 AES SuperFest, Milwaukee, WI
Bob Inderbitzen 4/4-4/5 AES SuperFest, Milwaukee, WI
Dennis Motschenbacher 4/3-4/5 AES SuperFest, Milwaukee, WI
Al Alvareztorres 4/22-4/26 Vacation
