In-Newsletter
Vol. 25, No. 28
July 18, 2002
Media Relations
Jennifer was interviewed further by the Connecticut Post reporter who is
doing a story on the UTC grant for emergency communications preparedness in
the state. The reporter also talked to our UTC grant contact Jacqueline
Strayer and Mary Hobart.
Jennifer prepared the media relations department report for the Board
meeting and coordinated efforts with our PRC chairman on her report. The
McGan Award recommendation has been prepared for the VRC and the complete
nomination package was sent out to VRC members for their review prior to the
meeting.
The Field Day media hits continue to roll in!
Sales and Marketing
Marketing
Bob Inderbitzen's e-mail 4th of July Holiday solicitation, offering
individuals who purchased $50 or more in products a free Repeater Directory
was extremely successful. There were 230 orders eligible to receive the
Directory and the gross revenue from these orders was $21,009.80.
Sales
Deb Jahnke produced monthly and year-to-date analysis reports on membership
mailings, renewal return percentages and publication source returns. Also
provided were monthly continuity break listings sent to Directors, royalty
title breakdown analysis reports to authors, and a status report of
publication quantities.
Documents summarizing our business terms for publication dealers and
advertisers were completed and circulated to Comptroller and Sales staff for
comments/additions. The Advertising document has also been checked with the
lab, since our product review policy is incorporated into that particular
document. All parties feel that the documents meet our needs and will make
our policies much clearer to our customers, lessening the chances of
confusion or misunderstanding. In addition, a new insertion order sheet has
been completed.
We have begun making changes to our advertising rate card, giving more
explicit information about what files types and formats are acceptable. We
will also be reinforcing the fact that we can provide production services to
those customers who want to place advertisements but do not have the
capabilities.
Meetings were held with Comptrollers to discuss outstanding accounts and
with Sales staff to discuss strategies to meet our advertising target for
the September issue.
Advertising
Advance copies of August QST have been delivered to HQ. Invoices and tear
sheets have been mailed.
We are pleased to announce that several new advertisers have been recruited
for the September issue of QST: New Communications Solutions, Palstar and
RBD Consulting. Additionally, West Mountain Engineering doubled their ad
size in QST and DX Engineering has switched over from NCJ to QST. ZRG has
become a new advertiser in QEX.
The latest edition of Advertising Matters is nearing completion. This issue
defines the role of the new Marketing and Sales team, and focuses on the
importance of advertising in the upcoming Fall and Holiday issues of QST.
Lab
The Lab continues preparation to test the interference potential of 5.8 GHz
wireless LAN devices. We have received a built, 2-watt 5760 GHz transverter
from Down East Microwave, plus a kit that can be used to build up
local-oscillator chains, mixers, etc. At this time, we could not locate any
5.8 GHz LAN equipment in our price class, so we have obtained widely
available 5.2 GHz wireless LAN cards, which will be measured on 5.2 GHz and
heterodyned to 5.8 GHz for testing purposes.
John Phillips reports 6 new power line cases last week. He wrote 3 letters
to the CEOs of utility cases and sent two older cases to Riley
Hollingsworth. Seven other miscellaneous RFI cases and ongoing support for
RFI Services for the upcoming power-line seminar at ARRL HQ rounded out the
week.
Al Alvareztorres updated the emergency-power technical information web page.
The Laird Campbell Memorial Headquarters Operators Club has applied for the
call W1HQ. Bart Jahnke expects that this will be issued near the end of the
month. We will retain W1INF (the ARRL HQ Operators Club call sign) but will
encourage use of the W1HQ call sign by headquarters staff.
Field & Educational Services
Rosalie finished the ARISS Board report, and drafted the minutes for the
last ARISS International school group meeting. The July APCO (Association
of Public-Safety Communications Officials) magazine carried an article by
N3MFT and KB3FIH about ham radio response to a four-alarm fire to help
evacuate over 500 residents of a housing unit.
Field Organization/Public Service Team
Leona received three SM nominating petitions this week for terms beginning
January 1, 2003. From West Central Florida, Gerald Dee Turner, N2MNC; from
New York City-Long Island, incumbent George Tranos, N2GA; and from Missouri,
incumbent Dale Bagley, K0KY. Leona handled questions from SMs about their
quarterly budget reports, and remained busy with many Field Appointment
changes or cancellations.
ARRL Hq kept in touch with STX SM Ray Taylor regarding the Amateur Radio
response to floods in Texas. At the request of the VRC, Steve sent a VRC
questionnaire to the SMs (via the SM Reflector) about their opinion on the
Section News in QST vs the Web. The VRC has been receiving and compiling
results. This week, Steve followed-up with 10 SMs who had not been active
or too active on their ARRL-sponsored Web pages. Encouraging comments were
received from six SMs, and Web page usage should pick up soon from those
sections, such as IL, IN, NTX, VT. Steve is working on September QST, the
Public Service column, 2002 SET promotional article, and Section News.
Field & Educational Support Team
Mary Lau is working with Jane Bieberman De Nuzzo, W3OVV, to help in
revisions to the Terms of Reference for the Jesse Bieberman Meritorious
Membership Program. Mary also reports that ARRL Sections with relay
e-messages this week included: KY = 3; ID=2, and WV, EBA, MS, MN, AR, SFL,
CO, SCV, NE, ND = 1.
Since Jean Wolfgang is already receiving emails and calls about JOTA 2002,
she reviewed the ARRL Scout Web pages and email address. She submitted
both the SCR article and results and the JOTA article for QST. She also
reviewed several youth web sites that may give us ideas.
Gail Iannone wrote 34 hamfest and 5 convention announcements for the
September issue of QST; co-ordinated travel for Brennan Price, N4QX, to be
the HQ rep at the WNY Section Convention to be held on August 4th in
Williamsville. She also sent 2 hamfest and 2 convention approval letters to
the sponsoring committees confirming the Division Director's approval of the
events as ARRL-sanctioned, processed 2 label requests and sent 7 handout
packages for upcoming events.
Margie Bourgoin reports that all ARRL affiliated clubs delinquent in
updating their records or renewing their SSC status have now been notified,
per our twice yearly reminder process. ARRL officials were notified of the
clubs' status by email. She sent 3 new affiliated club applications to the
appropriate Directors/SMs.
Jo-Ann Arel conducted the monthly departmental inventory and revenue report;
F&ES brought in $1320 of revenue during June. Jo-Ann gave a hand to
Controller's, updated records for 18 affiliated club, 2 teachers, and I
instructor, plus shipped 4 exhibit kits, 325 Archies, 1 video, and 25
graduation kits.
Regulatory Information
John Hennessee assisted amateurs with local government zoning problems in
Loveland, OH (N8RHY); Lake County, IN (W8IFN) and Allendale, MN (KA0PQW).
In the zoning matter in Ohio, the town refuses to comply with PRB-1 and
there is talk of local court action -- interestingly, it is only 35 miles
form Lakeside Park, KY, where Chris Imlay successfully argued the landmark
PRB-1 case in Thernes v. Lakeside Park, KY. John also reviewed and made
corrections to the partially completed new Marsh Equipment and Club
Liability Insurance Plan Web page which will make it much easier for ARRL
members to report problems to Marsh. He is also coordinating a visit by
Gail Farrett from Marsh, to Hq; she oversees the ARRL member insurance
plans.
CCE
Jerry Ellis did an excellent job answering CCE email and phone calls during
Dan's vacation last week. Jerry continues to learn and assume more duties
related to course management, recruitment of mentors, registration openings
and closings, and answering CCE-related questions.
According to Dan Miller, all 50 seats in the first-ever Satellite course
were filled and students are moving ahead. For the Level l Emcomm course,
61 students enrolled this month; for Level II, 12 students enrolled this
month, and registration remains open through the weekend. HF Digital course
registration opens next week.
The Big Project
Jerry set up his remote e-mail system in Hawaii, and continues to get e-mail
from teachers offering help with curriculum work. Jerry sent Unit 1,
containing text, lesson plans and activity sheets to the curriculum team for
review, and began work on the text for Unit 2.
Membership Services
Awards Branch
WAS QSL Cards Checked 350
WAS Endorsements 1
WAC Certificates 30
WAC Endorsements 16
5BWAC Certificates 2
Long Term Member Inquiries 10
A-1 Operator Nominations 7
A-1 Operator Certificates 5
Extra Class Certificates 9
OTC Awards 7
VUCC Backfill Applications 1
Grids (Data Entry) 140
VUCC Initial Applications 3
Grids (Data Entry) 135
VUCC Endorsement Applications 3
Grids (Data Entry) 144
VUCC Awards Mailed 4
WAS Awards Mailed 30
VHF awards manager appt.: Carl Steckler, W2SJX, Dryden, NY. Processing
Status: Current or within two weeks. For the coming week-Long term member,
Friendship, and VUCC awards processing and mailing.
DXCC Branch
Weekly Report July 14, 2002
Beginning Cards 73,080
Cards Received 11,332
Cards Processed 5,468
Ending Cards 78,944
Applications Pending 585
Processing Time 2 Weeks
Year-to-date
Cards Received 344,914
Cards Returned 375,027
QRP Issued this week 2
QRP YTD 215
DXCC is currently mailing applications received on June 28, 2002. DXCC is
currently entering cards received on June 29, 2002. DXCC is currently
auditing 2 applications. 3 new DXCC card checkers were appointed this week.
Contest Branch
Work continued on the 10 Meter contest results, with the final checked
scores being merged into the master database. The article for the Web and
QST was prepared.. The boxes and line scores for QST were prepared and sent
to production. Associated materials for the Web (sidebars, photos and
captions, web database) were sent to Web Services for preparation. Several
photos for possible use for the new June VHF plaques were discussed with
Graphics and follow-up was done with the submitters. June VHF paper entries
and Field Day entries are coming in and being sorted for later data entry.
Plaque plates for the 2001 November SS were received and preparations were
made to ship early the week of July 15.
QSL Branch
QSL service status: Current. Cards mailed year to date as of 07/14/2002 -
1,178,875. Cards mailed on 07/12/2002 - 83,475. Janet Rocco spent 5 hours
conducting tours around HQ.
W1AW
Joe Carcia processed regular QSL card requests. He also worked the late
afternoon/evening night shift on Friday for a vacationing Scott Gee. Scott
Gee worked on fast and slow code practice runs for the latter part of the
month of July. He also handled some evening phone sales in the 5 PM to 8 PM
time slot. W1AW telephone sales year to date : $5,762.
73,
Sincerely,
Mark Wilson, K1RO
Chief Operating Officer
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Staff Absentee List
Name Date(s) Reason
Dave Sumner 7/25-8/1 RAC National Convention &
vacation
Mark Wilson 7/29-8/2 Vacation
Ed Hare 7/25-7/28 Arizona Section Convention
7/24, 7/29-8/2 Vacation
Janet Rocco 7/22-7/26 Vacation
Joe Carcia 7/26 Vacation
Rosalie White 7/22-7/24 Vacation
LouAnn Campanello 7/22-7/26 Vacation
