May 2005 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:12395] ARRL EXPO
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 23 May '05

23 May '05

Before I get too wrapped up in the new week I want to take a moment to thank everyone who pitched in to make the 2005 ARRL National Convention one to remember. When the idea of holding the National in Dayton in 2005 first surfaced, a bit later than usual, I remember thinking that it would be a challenge to pull everything together in time. It was, after all, just ten months ago that the Board approved the convention and the ad hoc committee was appointed to plan the event. The result is a wonderful example of an effective partnership between Board and staff. In just seven weeks, Tom Frenaye's committee of Jay Bellows, Wade Walstrom, Jim Weaver, and Dennis Motschenbacher created the vision for the event. As I reread their September 9, 2004 report this morning it is striking how many of their recommendations were effectively implemented. Once the budget was nailed down in January, detailed planning by staff could be completed. So many staff and volunteers were involved that it would be unfair to try to name everyone right now -- I would be certain to leave people out -- but it also seems unfair not to mention Bob Inderbitzen, who was key to "making it happen." We'll be doing a detailed "post mortem" once the dust settles enough for us to know the key stats. For now, suffice it to say that this was far and away the most successful ARRL National Convention of the modern era. I know there are things that can be improved -- and we'll have to, because we've now "raised the bar" for all time -- but it seems unlikely to me that we will ever be able to exceed members' expectations as startlingly as we did with ARRL EXPO. Thanks again! 73, Dave Sumner, K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:12394] Re: Board Meeting Dates?
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 19 May '05

19 May '05

Brian, the Board meeting begins on the third Friday of July. So you are correct. Dave K1ZZ -----Original Message----- From: Mileshosky, Brian N5ZGT (Vice Dir, RM) Sent: Thu 5/19/2005 5:28 AM To: arrl-odv Cc: Subject: [arrl-odv:12393] Board Meeting Dates? Hi Everyone, What are the dates of the board meeting in July? After attempting some pattern recognition based on previous July meeting minutes, my guess is July 15-17. Can someone confirm/deny? I just started my final semester and need to inform professors of my travel dates before they turn into deadlines. Have fun at Dayton, everyone. I hope to join y'all next year. Thanks and 73, Brian, N5ZGT ARRL Vice-Director, Rocky Mountain Division

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[arrl-odv:12393] Board Meeting Dates?
by Brian Mileshosky 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi Everyone, What are the dates of the board meeting in July? After attempting some pattern recognition based on previous July meeting minutes, my guess is July 15-17. Can someone confirm/deny? I just started my final semester and need to inform professors of my travel dates before they turn into deadlines. Have fun at Dayton, everyone. I hope to join y'all next year. Thanks and 73, Brian, N5ZGT ARRL Vice-Director, Rocky Mountain Division

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[arrl-odv:12392] Bart Jahnke
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 18 May '05

18 May '05

Hi, I hate to spring this on everyone just before Dayton but I thought that you would want to know. It is with great regret that we have accepted the resignation of Bart Jahnke, our VEC Manager. Bart, who has served as VEC Manager for 16 years, and has been with the League for just 5 months short of 20 years, has decided to relocate to his native Wisconsin where his parents and close relatives are located. Bart will be starting a new career in operations which in his words is "a position that will afford me the opportunity to further my career goals while introducing its own new challenges." Even though I have only been here a short time, I, along with every member of the staff, will miss Bart not only for his extensive knowledge of amateur radio and the VEC program, but also for his level-headedness, and his common sense approach to some difficult and complex issues. His will be a hard pair of shoes to fill. Bart will be leaving at the end of the month and we all wish him well in his new endeavors. Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 860 594 0220 www.arrl.org/

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[arrl-odv:12391] Re: Subcommittee Request
by warren morton 18 May '05

18 May '05

Hi Jim: I tend to agree with most of the Directors and would like to see us continue to have two in-person meetings a year. Rev On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:47:37 -0400 "James McCobb" <w1llu(a)verizon.net> wrote: > Hi All, > > Attached is a memo from the Subcommittee assigned to study the viability of >one in-person Board meeting per year instead of two. > > If you would take a look at it and respond if you have any comments we would >appreciated it. > > Likewise, if you have any questions, please let me know. > > The Subcommittee is by the way comprised of Bernie Fuller, Dave Sumner and >yours truly. > > 73 and thanks, Jim W1LLU

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[arrl-odv:12390] IN-News
by Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ 18 May '05

18 May '05

IN-Newsletter Vol. 28, No. 20 May 18, 2005 Media & Public Relations Obviously the biggest hit of the week was the 5/13 CW shootout on the Tonight Show. While Amateur Radio was hardly mentioned at all, I am thankful to Chip for getting a mention in there. They did very well! The Annual Report is in layout and final edits and approvals (except auditors) are due before we leave for Dayton. Interviews have been done for the Family Radio Service in CA, Terry Chea of the Associated Press and (at the invitation of Phil Wait of the WIA) Tektime's web and radio show in Australia (www.tektime.com.au) I have also been working with the CAP's representatives on joint press releases about the coming MOU and have begun work on the releases for our new relationship to the USPS. I have been presenting some initial information about Amateur Radio Week before major media outlets and continue to prepare for many PR activities at Dayton. The concept for a 2006 major campaign based on "Hello" continues to gain support and creative ideas. Production/Editorial Rick Lindquist reports The ARRL Letter, Vol. 24, No. 19, distributed to 64,937 members on May 13. Rick prepared/edited stories on ARRL National Convention features, UK regulator's assessment of Amperion BPL pilot, HAMSAT/VUsat gets OSCAR number, various announcements and news briefs, and--last but not least--a summary of the grand CW vs text messaging competition on The Tonight Show. He also continued work on "Happenings" for July QST. With sound bite assistance from Dave Sumner and Bob Inderbitzen, Rick voiced, edited and produced ARRL Audio News for May 13. Sales and Marketing As of yesterday, we were 30 days out from the mailing date of 45,000 membership solicitations to lapsed General, Advanced and Extra Class licensees. We have already received back 1,023 memberships. A new 4-color solicitation for advertising in the Antenna Time! section of August QST has been completed and printed. These will be distributed to likely candidates at Hamvention. A more extensive campaign will take place once Hamvention is over. Membership Services Awards Branch WAS QSL Cards Checked 150 WAS Endorsement (50 QSLs F/C) 1 WAC Certs. (30 QSLs F/C) 5 Replacement Awards 2 A-1 Op. Nominations 1 A-1 Op. Certificates 1 VUCC Initial Applications 2 Grids 105 VUCC End. Applications 1 Grids 51 Awards Mailed 64 HF/VHF Awards Manager Appt.: Wayne Harrell, WD4LYV, Sycamore, GA., VHF Awards Manager Appt.: Albert Dupont, Jr., W5AFD, Kenner, LA Processing Status: Current or up to three weeks. For the coming week-WAS and WAC QSL card checking, 25-year member awards, Extra Class certificates, and VUCC awards processing/mailing. Contest Branch The web results for RTTY Roundup were finalized and opened to the membership. The checked scores for the 2004 10 Meter Contest were received from the log checker and processed into the database. We then prepared the various boxes and forwarded them to the author, who quickly responded because of the pressing QST deadline. The 10 Meter results article was received back, edited and sent to Production. The web version was also sent to Web Services for layout and preparation. The remaining 2004 November Sweepstakes certificates were mailed. We received the 2005 January VHF SS article from the author and began processing it for August QST. DXCC Branch For the week of: May 15, 2005 Beginning Credits 39,749 Credits Received 10,210 Credits Processed 11,372 Ending Credits 38,587 Applications Pending 340 Processing Time (Conventional) 2.7 Weeks Processing Time (LoTW) 1 Working Day Year-to-date (2005) Credits Received 213,637 Credits Returned 247,412 DXCC is currently entering and mailing applications received on April 26, 2005. Logbook of the World QSO records entered into the system 71,772,468 QSL records have resulted 3,238,701 Logs Processed 120,345 Active Certificates 14,566 Users registered in the system 9,686 Hybrids Pending Mail 46 QSL Bureau Processing time is 11 days from receipt. This week, 77 pounds of cards were received from members. Cards mailed as of 05/15/05: 337,050. No cards were mailed this week. W1AW Joe updated the web code practice files. He began readying a newer PC to replace an old one currently in use in Studio Two. (This newer PC will be used for APRS operations.) Joe also repaired the station's only Bird wattmeter. Scott worked on slow and fast code practice files for the month of May. Scott also handled some evening phone sales calls in the daily 5 PM to 8 PM time slots. Field & Educational Services The F&ES staff wishes to express our sincerest condolences to Gail on the passing of her mother, Vicky Armentano. Vicky had been responsible for support to volunteer instructors and affiliated clubs at ARRL, was hired by Rosalie in 1977, and would visit Hq when she could. Rosalie took part in a PSC telecon, ARISS education telecon, Dayton meeting and grant proposal meeting. The ARISS Team is working closer with NASA Explorer Schools' (NES) teachers, introducing them to ARISS. Doing so enmeshes ARISS deeper in NASA programs, involves more NASA staffs, and gains us inroads into Pres.Bush's NASA Exploration initiative. The NES schools are in disadvantaged areas or have well-funded science programs nudging youth to space careers; one teacher was a Teach in Space finalist. ARISS selects NES ARISS applications for last-minute or summer slots that awaiting schools can't fill. Field Organization/Public Service Team Leona Adams received SM nomination petitions from incumbents Ray Taylor, N5NAV (STX) and Phineas Icenbice, W6BF (LAX). Petitions for new terms beginning October 1 are due at HQ by June 10. SM election ballots from West Texas and New Hampshire are due at HQ by May 20; ballots will be counted May 24. Leona sent 30 initial supply packages to Field appointees. Chuck Skolaut forwarded a monitoring request from the FCC to the appropriate Official Observers asking for assistance for a case on 40-meters. On OOC from California, along with several OOs, were successful in using direction-finding techniques to locate 2-meter operators who were not identifying properly. More information has been received on unlicensed 2-meter operation in West Virginia and interference to several nets in Southern Florida. Steve Ewald turned in the Public Service column articles for July QST. Steve and Tom Hogerty added ARL Numbered Radiogram 47 to the online FSD-3, and field appointees and NTS leaders will be told about the new radiogram, which is a response that traffic (particularly, book traffic) has been delivered. Steve's team continued work on Hamvention preparation. They compiled a contribution for the "ARRL Yellow Pages" project. Steve joins Larry (WR3B) and Jean (WB3IOS) Wolfgang among others demonstrating Amateur Radio at a Scout Jamboree in Ashford, CT. Field Education Team Norm Fusaro finished a CD project for club leaders who visit his booth at Dayton. He sent an e-newsletter to affiliated clubs, and worked on resolving some issues for clubs that wish to become affiliated with ARRL. Norm worked with Bill Barrett and Rosalie to help keep Bill's Oregon CEP meeting on schedule. Margie Bourgoin processed 36 updates for affiliated clubs, handled 2 Special Service Club renewals. Margie registered 3 new Volunteer Instructors and one schoolteacher. She compiled and tabulated statistics for the Public Service Column in July QST. She worked with Norm on some of Gail's duties, including handling one club affiliation application in Gail's absence -- clubs are anxious to finish the affiliation process in time for getting insurance for Field Day. Bill Barrett came to Newington to meet with Harold, Mary, Rosalie and Norm to plan a two-year grant proposal. It would use our Field Organization to emulate the methods Bill now uses in the pilot Community Education Program. Field leaders or their special designees could be trained as trainers, and they would, in turn, train other Field appointees to carry the process (community meetings with served agencies where hams demo their skills). Mary will take these ideas and develop a proposal. Bill reviewed his idea of a new comprehensive handbook describing his process of precipitating and executing a typical community meeting. EmComm Grants Dan Miller prepared for his presentations at Emcomm West in Reno, Nevada. He followed up that work with last minute plans for Dayton. Sincerely, Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer HK: lk Staff Absentee List Dave Sumner 5/19-5/22 Dayton Hamvention Mary Hobart 5/18-5/23 Dayton Hamvention Dave Patton 5/18-5/23 Dayton Hamvention `` 5/23-5/27 Vacation `` 6/21-6/27 Friedrichshafen Germany Convention Joe Carcia 5/27 Vacation Ed Hare 5/18-5/22 Dayton Hamvention `` 5/23-5/27 IEEE BPL Study Group, Long Beach, CA & Vacation Bill Moore 5/19-5/20 Dayton Hamvention Scott Gee 5/19-5/20 Vacation Judy Miller 5/19-5/23 Vacation Joel Hallas 5/19-5/22 Dayton Hamvention Kathy Capodicasa 5/18-5/23 Dayton Hamvention Bob Inderbitzen 5/18-5/23 Dayton Hamvention Mike Tracy 5/18-5/23 Dayton Hamvention Maria Somma 5/18-5/22 Dayton Hamvention Debra Johnson 5/19-5/23 Dayton Hamvention `` 5/24 Vacation Dennis Motschenbacher 5/18-5/23 Dayton Hamvention `` 5/27-531 Vacation `` 6/2-6/3 USPS Meeting Zoe Belliveau 5/19-5/23 Dayton Hamvention `` 6/20-6/24 Vacation Joe Bottiglieri 5/19-5/23 Dayton Hamvention Rick Lindquist 5/19-5/22 Dayton Hamvention `` 5/23 Vacation Fatima Lorusso 6/27-7/1 Vacation Lisa Tardette 6/27-7/8 Vacation `` 7/15 Vacation Zack Lau 6/16-6/17 Vacation Mark Dzamba 6/9-6/13 Vacation Pam Dzamba 6/9-6/13 Vacation Mark Spencer 5/19-5/22 Dayton Hamvention Norm Fusaro 5/19-5/22 Dayton Hamvention Chuck Skolaut 5/19-5/22 Dayton Hamvention Steve Ewald 5/19-5/22 Dayton Hamvention Rosalie White 5/19-5/26 Dayton Hamvention & Vacation Joe Carcia 5/27 Vacation Wayne Mills 5/19-5/20 Dayton Hamvention Dan Miller 5/19-5/22 Dayton Hamvention

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[arrl-odv:12389] Affinity Credit Card
by Shelley, Barry, N1VXY 18 May '05

18 May '05

Owing to travel schedules for Dayton, specifically Rick Lindquist's, the ARRL Letter will be distributed on Wednesday this week. As such, we'll be going with the promotion of the ARRL Affinity credit card in today's edition of the Letter in advance of the Dayton Hamvention rather than wait until the next one is published at the end of next week. Promotion of the card will be added to our web crawl later today as well. This is slightly different than the schedule mentioned in my note yesterday, but we're still calling Dayton the "official" debut. 73, Barry, N1VXY

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[arrl-odv:12388] ARRL/CAP MOA
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 18 May '05

18 May '05

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[arrl-odv:12387] Re: Fwd:[pr:5214] press release: CAP signs MOU with ARRL
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 18 May '05

18 May '05

The MOU was approved by the Executive Committee once the wording was worked out. I will forward a copy to the Board. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Frenaye, Tom (Dir, NE) Sent: Tue 5/17/2005 11:20 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Subject: [arrl-odv:12384] Re: Fwd:[pr:5214] press release: CAP signs MOU with ARRL At 02:44 PM 5/17/2005, K1ZZ wrote: >My fault, Tom. Sorry. If I'd read it in advance I'd have corrected the reference to Hamvention to reflect that it is -- this year -- the ARRL National. Is this just a ceremonial signing? In the past I thought an MOU required the Board's endorsement. I knew that discussions had been going on for the last year (more?). Will that be on the agenda for July? -- Tom >-----Original Message----- >From: Frenaye, Tom (Dir, NE) >Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:32 PM >To: arrl-odv >Subject: [arrl-odv:12381] Fwd: [pr:5214] press release: CAP signs MOU >with ARRL > > > >You didn't read it on ODV first... > >----- Forwarded message from "Pitts, Allen W1AGP" <w1agp(a)arrl.org> ----- > Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:40:45 -0400 > From: "Pitts, Allen W1AGP" <w1agp(a)arrl.org> >Reply-To: pr(a)arrl.org > Subject: [pr:5214] press release: CAP signs MOU with ARRL > To: pr list <pr(a)reflector.arrl.org> > > > >Civil Air Patrol teams up with Amateur Radio > >CAP to sign formal agreement with ARRL during Dayton Hamvention > > > >MAXWELL AFB, Ala. - When thousands of Amateur Radio operators converge >on Dayton May 20 for their annual Hamvention, they'll find Civil Air >Patrol to be a major presence. > >The Hamvention is an annual event sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio >Association, in cooperation with the ARRL, the national association for >Amateur Radio in the USA. > >In conjunction with the Hamvention, CAP's national commander will sign a >formal Memorandum of Agreement with Jim Haynie, W5JBP, President of the >ARRL, to help leaders of both organizations better use and integrate >their resources in exercises and emergencies. > >etc ===== e-mail: k1ki(a)arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444

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Powerline Comunnications (BPL) article
by Bob Vallio 18 May '05

18 May '05

> Here is a very well researched article on the subject and a comprehensive > analysis of what BPL is about, as well as giving some background on the > current state of affairs. > > It is a little longish, but well written and worth a read. > > http://internet.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/2040240&tid=152&tid=1… > As the sender (who lives in Germany) says, it's long, but worth the time to check out. Bob -- W6RGG

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