In-Newsletter
Vol. 25, No. 10
March 11, 2002
Upcoming Meetings
April 20th in Ft. Worth, TX at 8:00am
A&F Committee
Development
Development met with the leaders of the United Technologies' (UTC)
contribution team last week. The meeting was a positive and laid solid
groundwork for the meeting with the full committee on March 19. The
situation looks good to receive funding for the ARECC expansion in CT. The
national rollout will be submitted for UTC's 2003 contributions budget, and
may depend on how well we do in CT.
The first 16,000 letters and brochures promoting estate planning have been
mailed.
The Education and Technology Program campaign letter is under revision. The
campaign will mail on March 25 to active members and about 20,000 lapsed
members. Follow up letters will be mailed in April to prior donors, Life
Members and the special research files that were compared to a national
non-profit giving database. Look for the first campaign ad in the April
QST.
A follow up memorandum to the 9900 donors to the 2002 Defense Fund is being
revised and will mail before the Education campaign. Look for the Thank You
ad in April's QST.
Thanks to Tom Hogerty and Jon Bloom, there is now a permanent contribution
form on the website. Look for the link "Make a contribution to ARRL". This
link will remain active even as we establish special links for individual
campaigns.
Circulation Department
A big "Thank You!" goes to Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, for giving such a great
tour of League Headquarters to the Den 9 Cub Scout Troop from Newington.
Thanks also to Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, for his time and patience when showing the
group around W1AW.
Membership Services
Awards Branch
WAS QSL Cards Checked 400
WAS Endorsements 7
WAC QSLs 144
A-1 Operator Nominations 3
A-1 Operator Awards 17
Long Term Member Inquiries 3
VUCC Initial Awards 10
VUCC Grids (Data Entry) 1394
VUCC Endorsements 5
VUCC Grids (Data Entry) 710
Processed and mailed 30 WAS Specialty awards and nine 5-Band WAS awards. For
the coming week-Basic WAS awards for February, U.S. WAC and Code
Proficiency awards, VUCC data entry, processing, and mailing out awards.
DXCC Branch
Weekly Report March 10, 2002
Beginning Cards 34,330
Cards Received 15,307
Cards Processed 7,325
Ending Cards 42,213
Applications Pending 301
Backlog Time 1Week
Year-to-date
Cards Received 90,049
Cards Returned 167,508
QRP Issued this week 1
QRP YTD 148
Card Return: DXCC is currently mailing applications received on February 28,
2002. There are approximately 100 applications containing about 12,000
cards waiting to be mailed in the mailroom.
Card Processing: We are entering cards received on March 7, 2002.
Renewal notices went out to 65 card checkers to renew their appointments.
This is the first group since the new program started. Renewals will be
done quarterly and will involve anyone in the 3 month period. Since we
started, the card checkers have checked just over 3,000 applications. A job
well done considering in the old program, a total of only about 800
applications were checked over the approximately 10 years it existed. There
are currently 147 card checkers in the program.
QSL Branch
QSL Service Status: Current. Cards mailed as of 03/10/2002: 427,750.
Cards mailed on 03/08/2002: 77,525. Janet spent 6 hours conducting tours
around HQ.
W1AW
Joe worked the late afternoon/evening shift Wednesday through Friday for a
vacationing Scott Gee. Joe also answered regular W1AW QSL card requests,
and began tracking down a problem with the 2-meter amplifier. Thanks to Al,
AA1DO, for his assistance in clearing up a problem with the Harris 10-meter
exciter. W1AW Telephone Sales year to date (2002): $2,261
Field & Educational Services
Field Organization/Public Service Team
Steve Ewald reports over 280 responses received on the ARES garment
questionnaire. Several ECs responded with additional comments; all
responses will be compiled. More correspondence has been arriving about the
new Public Service Honor Roll criteria; Steve is collecting all comments.
Leona Adams reports that March 8 was the deadline for SM nomination
petitions for terms beginning July 1, 2002. Elections will be held in
Illinois and Oregon. Illinois candidates are: Bruce Boston, KF9UL, and
Sharon Harlan, N9SH. For Oregon: Marshall Johnson, KK7CW, and Lewis N.
Williams, WB7NML. Sections that sent nominations only from incumbents are:
Santa Clara Valley, Northern Florida, Wisconsin and Maine. One nomination
each arrived for Indiana: James S. Sellers, K9ZBM, and for Vermont: Paul N.
Gayet, AA1SU.
Regulatory Team
John Hennessee assisted amateurs with covenant problems in Lyndon, KY
(KG4LRU) and Panama City, FL (WA4EWV). An application for new Volunteer
Counsel Jenks Garrett, K5YNZ, of Weatherford, TX was processed, and John
updated the letter for new VCs. He also submitted updates to the regulatory
Web page updating the reciprocal operating requirements for Jamaica.
Brennan Price continued work on the Repeater Directory, checking integrity
of submitted listings and coordinator contact data, and negotiating the
remaining license agreements. The repeater database was locked and sent to
the programmers of TravelPlus for Repeaters. At Paul Rinaldo's request,
Brennan collected data from coordination bodies regarding use of 433-435 MHz
to support ARRL's reply comments in the SAVI matter.
Field & Educational Support Team
As a result of recent e-mail messages Jean Wolfgang sent to Section Managers
and others, she has received four new nominations for the ARRL Hiram Percy
Maxim Memorial Award. This is our annual award for outstanding young
people. The deadline is March 31.
Margie Bourgoin added eight new ARRL-affiliated clubs to TASS. She sent a
message to all the Affiliated Club Coordinators (ACCs) asking them to remind
their Section's clubs about the Vanity Email service available to all
ARRL-affiliated clubs. She updated TASS with all e-mail addresses or
changes she got for ACCs. She also posted a URL to the e-mailed Teacher
Newsletter showing teachers where they can find an archive of ARISS school
contacts.
Linda Mullally updated the records for 62 ARRL-affiliated clubs and for 8
ARRL-registered instructors and 1 ARRL-registered schoolteacher. She
upgraded 24 students from the C-CE courses to a status of "passed," and sent
out graduation letters. Linda completed the F&ES Monthly revenue and
inventory reports, noting monthly revenue to be $3,989.36 for such things as
shipping reimbursement, videolibrary tapes, publications and memberships.
Gail Iannone sent 13 hamfest and 5 convention approval letters to sponsoring
committees, and notified 8 committees of the EC's approval of conventions.
She coordinated travel for Jean Wolfgang, WB3IOS, to be HQ rep at the
Delaware State Convention, April 28 in New Castle, and Wayne Mills, N7NG, to
be HQ rep at the Missouri State Convention, May 3-4 in Lebanon. March 15th
is the deadline for your Dayton Marriott room reservation forms!
Mary Lau prepared and distributed to the ARRL Foundation a new grant
proposal from a natural science museum and wildlife sanctuary located
outside of Dallas, Texas. The facility has a special Tech Camp that uses
Amateur Radio to help young women explore the natural sciences.
The Big Project
Jerry Hill worked with Mary Hobart on an information package to be used for
lobbying. He also prepared a response for President Haynie to an on-line
newspaper article from Senator Kay Hutchinson about how to get kids involved
in science. He continues to spend time developing curriculum. Jerry gave a
talk at the Candlelight Amateur Radio Association meeting.
C-CE Team
Steven Blair has completed preparing the next on-line course for
beta-testing and will send it to our Web host, CTDLC, on Monday. He is also
preparing the HF Digital Course material for a printed version.
Dan Miller and Mark Wilson met with CTDLC, our Web host, about several
issues for improvement of how our on-line courses run. CTDLC, a
state-sponsored consortium, is pleased with ARRL because we are their third
largest customer. Registration for the second running of the Antenna
Modeling course opens on Monday. This month's registration for Level 1
Emergency Communications course totaled 122, and registration stays open
through the weekend.
Rosalie is working with NASA on a talk for the upcoming World Space Congress
2002 (expected 10,000 attendance). Two ARISS school QSOs were successful
this week, one with students in Deep Creek, Oregon, and one in England. For
Deep Creek, the NBC Nightly News Show was to air footage; the Oregonian
newspaper ran a story. The first PR event for the new IMAX film debuting in
April (ARISS schools are included) is scheduled. Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, and a
Franklin Institute astronomer (who's a ham) will be interviewed on a WXPN
radio program.
73,
Sincerely,
Mark Wilson, K1RO
Chief Operating Officer
Staff Absentee List
Name Date(s) Reason
All Staff 3/29 Holiday
Dave Sumner 3/13-3/20 Geneva
`` 3/21-3/27 Vacation
Mary Hobart 4/6-4/7 MD State Convention, Timonium
Mark Wilson 4/1-4/3 Vacation
Dan Miller 3/11 Vacation
`` 3/28-4/1 Vacation
Joel Kleinman 3/7-3/12 Vacation
Rosalie White 3/15-3/18 Natn'l Vol. Active in Disasters
conference, Oklahoma City
Brennan Price 3/13-3/18 Vacation
Steve Ewald 3/22-3/23 Nebraska State Convention, Norfolk
Jerry Hill 3/26-3/31 National Science Teacher Association
conference, San Diego
