IN-Newsletter
Vol. 25, No. 26
July 2, 2002
Upcoming Meetings
July 18th in Newington, CT at 9:00am
Volunteer Resources Committee
July 18th in Newington, CT at 8:30am
Membership Services Committee
July 18th in Windsor, CT at 8:30am
A & F Committee
July 19-20 in Windsor, CT: Board Meeting
Development
The Education & Technology fund reached $193,600 with contributions from
3300 donors.
The W1AW campaign is in production and scheduled to mail the week of July 8.
Letters will go to two groups of members....7700 contributors to the 1988
W1AW campaign and 2500 members randomly selected from our member files. The
campaign goal is $150,000.
Proposals for education have been mailed to UPS Foundation and Eli Lilly.
An additional planned giving commitment has been received, bringing the
total to 11 since the beginning of 2002. Additional information on wills
and other planned giving instruments had been mailed to 102 prospects.
These prospects came from the two informational mailings sent our to 30,000
members since January 2002. Two more mailings totaling 30,000 letters will
go out in August and October.
The search for a Development Associate continues.
Sales & Marketing
Marketing
Sales of ARRL Field Day pins and T-shirts were brisk this year, yielding
gross sales of $55,669 (approximately $49K in 2001). Dan Henderson met with
Dennis Motschenbacher and Bob Inderbitzen to discuss his ideas for
additional Field Day supply items as we begin to prepare for the 2003 event.
The Field Day pins and T-shirts are among our most successful supply items,
thanks to Dan's ongoing collaboration with the Sales and Marketing Team.
The meeting also generated some ideas to help prospect for future NCJ
magazine subscribers.
Hanan Rayyashi has been meeting with Bob to discuss ideas for her next
edition of Advertising Matters--our newsletter to ARRL advertisers.
Deb Jahnke, Dennis, and Bob teleconferenced with an ARRL instructor who is
drafting some letters for future membership solicitations. We hope the
effort to give the mailings a fresh, new voice will increase their return.
Bob edited and formatted a letter, drafted by QEX editor Doug Smith, KF6DX.
The letter appeals to prospective QEX advertisers, and will be included in
future mailings that promote ad insertions for the journal.
A "4th of July" holiday email solicitation for publication sales was sent to
41,000 members on Friday. The mailing touts new titles, a discounted
publication, and a special offer for qualifying orders. The campaign runs
through Monday, July 8.
Sales
We have continued our step-up of Publication Dealer telemarketing calls as
that area of sales is extremely sluggish this month as opposed to the same
time last year. Part of the reason is that dealers purchased more heavily
than usual in April and May and are still fairly well stocked.
Deb participated in a meeting with the Siebel programmers to finish up work
on the Publication Sales module and continue work on the Advertising
Department module. There's interest in using the advertising module as
contact management software.
A training assessment meeting was held with members of the Advertising Sales
team. Progress has been made and staffers are becoming more comfortable in
proactive sales rolls. Hanan is proving to be an excellent tutor.
With assistance from TIS, Joe Bottiglieri is compiling a list of likely
prospects that have not previously advertised in QST. Joe also followed
through on a request for advertising rate information which resulted in a
brand new ad in August QST.
Carol Patton is progressing with her task of changing computer ad insertion
procedures to provide us with daily progress information of how close we are
to our monthly goals both in dollars and page counts.
August QST has been shipped to the printer. Shelly Bloom did a great job
getting our upfront ad pages to the printer in a file format that will allow
the pages to print directly to plate. Shelly also handled changes and new
ad copy requests. Maty Weinberg assisted Carol in preparing the film pages
for the printer.
Production/Editorial
The Proceedings of the 2002 Central States Conference and The ARRL Image
Communications Handbook, a new title by Ralph Taggart, WB8DQT, have been
released to the printer.
Membership Services
Awards Branch
WAS QSL Cards Checked 150
WAS Certificates 9
5BWAS Certificates 3
Code Proficiency Certificates 4
Code Proficiency Endorsements 2
Long Term Member Inquiries 3
A-1 Operator Nominations 1
A-1 Operator Certificates 2
Friendship Awards 1
VUCC Initial Applications 4
Grids (Data Entry) 244
VUCC Endorsement Applications 4
Grids (Data Entry) 162
VUCC Backfills 1
Grids (Data Entry) 128
VUCC Awards Mailed 11
HF Awards Manager Appts: Michael P. Knox, WAØKKE, Stillwater, MN and Al La
Peter, W2IL, Winter Park, FL
Processing Status:
Basic WAS 4 weeks
WAC QSL Card Checking 2 Weeks
For the coming week-Basic WAS awards for June, WAC QSL card checking, and
mailing VUCC and WAS awards.
DXCC Branch
Weekly Report June 30, 2002
Beginning Cards 42,251
Cards Received 12,697
Cards Processed 21,067
Ending Cards 33,881
Applications Pending 275
Processing Time 1 Week
Year-to-date
Cards Received 293,650
Cards Returned 367,364
QRP Issued this week 2
QRP YTD 213
DXCC is currently mailing applications received on June 21, 2002. DXCC is
currently entering cards received on June 26, 2002. 1 Millennium award was
issued, bringing the total to 2,985. For a few hours on Wednesday, June 26,
DXCC data entry was at Ø. (Staff was editing applications already entered).
However, that was short-lived.
Contest Branch
Plates for back-ordered DX Contest plaques arrived and the plaques were
shipped. Plates for the 2001 November Sweepstakes plaques were ordered.
Work on the 160 Meter and January VHF SS web presentation databases was
reviewed to get the features ready and were opened to the membership online.
Work began transferring electronically submitted Field Day entries to the
server for data entry. Rules for the 2002 EME Contest were prepared and
sent to Production. The 2002 RTTY Roundup results articles for the Web and
QST were compiled and sent to the WSDD and Production Departments.
Preliminary DX CW results were received from the log checking team and
reviewed. A copy of the checked DX CW scores was forwarded to W4PA, who is
writing the QST and Web results articles.
QSL Branch
QSL Service Status: Current. Cards mailed as of 06/30/2002: 1,095,400.
This is an increase of 54,084 more cards than for the same time last year.
Cards mailed on 06/28/2002: 79,300. Janet Rocco spent 3 hours conducting
tours around HQ.
Field & Educational Services
Rosalie gave a presentation and took notes at the NPSTC meeting hosted here
all day Tuesday. She networked with the FCC Comm Center, and got new
contact information from them. She took part in two NASA telecons and a VRC
telecon.
Field Organization/ Public Service Team
Steve Ewald kept in touch with Arizona SM Hauser who has been providing news
and updates. Monday, the FCC issued a General Communications Emergency
Declaration to protect Arizona emergency net frequencies that are handling
traffic for fire-fighting efforts. Steve also followed up with three SMs
who had specific information on designating helpers for their Section Web
sites. Comments on the SM Reflector revealed that Field Day Get on the Air
Stations were very popular.
Leona worked with the printer preparing Puerto Rico Section election
material. These ballots and statements will be sent to Puerto Rico members
by July 1st. Of the 17 Field appointee initial supplies that were sent this
week, 15 were related to emergency communications (EC, DEC, OES
appointments). An SM nomination petition was received from Northern New
York Section for incumbent Thomas Dick, for a term beginning January 1,
2003. Reminders were sent for SM Nomination petitions to Steve Barreres,
K2CX, and Dave Armbrust, AE4MR, (who earlier sent messages saying they plan
to run) for NYC/LI and WCF
Sections.
The Big Project
One of Jerry Hill's Progress Grant schools (Franklin Elementary School,
Kirkland WA) is boasting 18 new Tech Class students; Jerry sent
congratulations letters to the students. One of Jerry's Pilot School
teachers, Robert Lah, KD5HAW, completed more activity sheets for use with
units of the curriculum.
Regulatory Information
John Hennessee is seeing correspondence from amateurs responding to the
information on the ARRL antenna restriction Web page asking for people to
contact their US representatives regarding HR 4720. He assisted amateurs
with covenant difficulties in Frenso, CA (W7KPQ) and Racine, WI (N9BF).
Amateurs are responding to the information on the ARRL regulatory Web page
at the section on covenants. John is working out details for a meeting in
July with Barry and Marsh Account Executive Gail Farrett. Marsh Affinity
Group Services is the administrator of the ARRL member insurance plans.
Gail will be in the region at the end of July.
C-CE
Jerry Ellis continues to learn more of the processes involved in the C-CE
Program and will take over much of the e-mail starting next week. He is
taking registrations for the Boxboro ARECC Level I Review class/exam.
Dan Miller reports a brand new course -- Satellite Communications (EC-007)
-- has opened. The course author is Steve Ford, 35 students have already
enrolled, and registration stays open through this weekend. An exam session
was received this week from Knoxville, TN with six Level I and one Level II
certificates earned. Connecticut registrants inched near 100 for the UTC
grant-supported emcomm courses. A nice quote came from Connecticut
registrant N1YVV: "I'm in the middle of the Level I emcomm course. I've run
NTS traffic and nets, and Skywarn nets for over 4 years. As it turns out,
I've learned a lot of things about NTS that didn't occur to me before."
Field & Educational Support Team
Mary Lau represented ARRL at the San Francisco Section Convention, giving
the banquet speech.
Gail Iannone sent 10 convention applications to the Executive Committee and
notified the sponsoring committees that they were approved. She
co-ordinated travel for Martin Cook to be the HQ rep at the Alaska State
Convention on September 14; sent 4 hamfest approval letters to the
sponsoring committees confirming the Division Director's approval of the
events as ARRL-sanctioned, processed 10 door prize orders and sent 8 handout
packages for upcoming events.
Margie reports 3 new applications were received for Special Service Clubs,
plus paperwork for one affiliated club. She viewed two videos for possible
addition to the library; one may be a good addition. She sent a notice by
e-mail to the Instructors and Teachers, about availability of the new "Ham
Radio....Planning for the Future". She sent a notice to the Club e-mail
list about President Bush's letter to ham radio ops.
Jean is preparing the 2002 QST article about Jamboree on the Air. This
year's edition of Ham Radio...Planning for the Future is now in from the
printer and in stock. Jean will be mailing complimentary issues to all
authors. She wrote an item nudging teachers and volunteer instructors to
consider purchasing the book.
Jo-Ann Arel handled some tours and assisted in Accounting for vacationing
staff this week, besides handling materials fulfillment and database
registrations in F&ES.
Many F&ESers had fun taking part in Field Day, but Mary Lau, N1VH, may have
made a first. At 11:33 am EST June 23, she had a 10GHz recumbent-trike
mobile QSO from W1AW's parking lot with W1VT. He had a portable station set
up in Hq's lobby. Mary's station was a lap-mounted iCOM 202 coupled to a
hot-pink 10GHz transverter, both powered by a Gates monoblock battery pack
located atop her trike's commuter bag.
73,
Sincerely,
David Sumner, K1ZZ
Chief Executive Officer
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Staff Absentee List
Name Date(s) Reason
All Staff 7/4-7/5 Holiday
Dave Sumner 7/8-7/16 Finland
Mark Wilson 7/1-7/3 Vacation
Dave Patton 6/25-7/1 Friedrichshafen
`` 7/8-7/16 Vacation
Wayne Mills 6/25-7/1 Friedrichshafen
`` 7/2-7/16 Vacation
Jennifer Hagy 7/1-7/8 Vacation
Monique Levesque 6/27pm-7/8 Vacation
Rosalie White 6/28 Vacation
Dan Miller 7/1-7/8 Vacation
Margie Bourgoin 7/8 Vacation
Joe Carcia 6/28pm-7/3 Vacation
Judy Miller 7/1-7/8 Vacation
Joel Kleinman 7/2 Vacation
`` 7/8-7/12 Vacation
Rick Lindquist 7/1-7/8 Vacation
Jan Carman 7/1-7/3 Vacation
Helen Dalton 7/11-7/19 Vacation
Brennan Price 7/12-7/14 Georgia State Convention,
Gainesville
Mary Lau 6/25-7/8 San Francisco Section
Convention/Vacation
Zack Lau 6/25-7/8 San Francisco Section
Convention/Vacation
Zoe Belliveau 6/24-7/3 Vacation
Lisa Tardette 7/8-7/19 Vacation
Bob Inderbitzen 7/8-7/12 Vacation
Debbie Jahnke 7/1-7/3 Vacation
Dennis Motschenbacher 7/2-7/16 Vacation
Dan Henderson 7/3 Vacation
