January 2006 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:13455] Re: COO Report
by dick＠pobox.com 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

4 JAN, 2006 - 1550 CST Hello Harold... Please accept my complements on your lengthy, but well-written COO Report. Reading it is a little bit like trying to drink from a fire hose. However, the format makes it easy to search out specific data of interest. Of particular note, I am pleased with the overall performance of publications sales and VEC services in a period of declining sunspots and membership. These items have been a roller coaster ride this year, but I have an idea that headquarters staff is becoming more nimble in all areas. This will probably dampen out some of the volatility of the numbers in the future. 73 - Dick, W9GIG

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[arrl-odv:13454] Re: Draft Agenda, 2006 Annual Board Meeting
by Hobart, Mary K1MMH 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Thank you, Kay, for your thoughts on Development as a potential topic for Board consideration and discussion. I stand ready to reintroduce and refresh the concepts that were presented in 2003, with a few new wrinkles. I am at the Board's disposal. 73, Mary K1MMH -----Original Message----- From: Kay Craigie [mailto:n3kn@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:32 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13453] Re: Draft Agenda, 2006 Annual Board Meeting Tom's suggestion is good. It's time we took stock of where we are with the present Strategic Plan. Have we mined most of the goodies out of it? Is it time to put things in motion to review and refresh the plan? I think so. Circumstances and the make-up of the Board have changed since the current plan was developed. Another couple of topics for discussions and/or in-service presentations might be ... * a refresher from Mary Hobart as a follow-up to her "Philanthropy 101" talk a few years back. Again, the membership of the Board has changed, and not everyone who's on the Board now heard that presentation. We're not the garden-variety non-profit board of directors in many ways, philanthropic activity being one of them. * a discussion with Chris and Dave Sumner as presenter-moderators about the fiduciary responsiblity of corporate boards in general and in the world of non-profits specifically. Along that line, are all of us on this Board working under a common set of assumptions about such things as confidentiality of documents and discussions, supporting League policies adopted by the Board regardless of our personal opinions, protocol for official travel outside our home Divisions, protocol for answering correspondence from other Directors' constituents, and so on? Food for thought. Your menu may differ 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:13453] Re: Draft Agenda, 2006 Annual Board Meeting
by Kay Craigie 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Tom's suggestion is good. It's time we took stock of where we are with the present Strategic Plan. Have we mined most of the goodies out of it? Is it time to put things in motion to review and refresh the plan? I think so. Circumstances and the make-up of the Board have changed since the current plan was developed. Another couple of topics for discussions and/or in-service presentations might be ... * a refresher from Mary Hobart as a follow-up to her "Philanthropy 101" talk a few years back. Again, the membership of the Board has changed, and not everyone who's on the Board now heard that presentation. We're not the garden-variety non-profit board of directors in many ways, philanthropic activity being one of them. * a discussion with Chris and Dave Sumner as presenter-moderators about the fiduciary responsiblity of corporate boards in general and in the world of non-profits specifically. Along that line, are all of us on this Board working under a common set of assumptions about such things as confidentiality of documents and discussions, supporting League policies adopted by the Board regardless of our personal opinions, protocol for official travel outside our home Divisions, protocol for answering correspondence from other Directors' constituents, and so on? Food for thought. Your menu may differ 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:13452] Re: COO Report
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

OOPs, Too quick on the button! Tom and group, I agree. These newsletters are highly useful and effective. This is definitely an area that provides a valuable service to our members. The next one will be a club newsletter scheduled to debut in the first quarter. We do pay the authors for their work on these newsletters but it not a large amount of money. Besides the authors, we always have an internal editor review the newsletter before it goes out. This always takes a certain amount of time. Jon Bloom also has to add some programming to make them work. With some additional resources, we could expand to some additional topics. In the future, we do plan to start running related advertising in some of them, for example a new product introduction specific to the newsletter audience. We have also discussed using HTML newsletters as well as text, but that would require more time on the author's part to gather the graphics, photos and other design elements. An improved launch and signup page is also a future project. So, additional resources would be additional writers (usually free-lance), some additional monthly editing time, and some we programming. Any particular topics or ideas, please let me know.. Hope this was useful. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio 860 594 0220 -----Original Message----- From: Tom Frenaye [mailto:frenaye@pcnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:08 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13450] Re: COO Report At 02:15 PM 1/4/2006, WJ1B wrote: > >You will find attached a copy of the COO report for the January Board Meeting. Good stuff! One thing I noted was: >* Launched the The ARES E- Letter - now at 14,000 subscribers. Between that newsletter edited by Rick Palm/K1CE, and the one on contesting edited by Ward Silver/N0AX, I think we should be getting a clear message that there is great interest in timely focused news. Both of these newsletters have been filled with things that would normally not make it into QST - but they are of great interest to subgroups of ARRL members. I'd sure like to see another half-dozen or more of them in place by the end of the year. What resources are really needed to do them? Obviously the author is the key. I hope we're paying each of them something reasonable for their effort. Other than that, I can't think of any significant resources needed. -- Tom ===== 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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[arrl-odv:13451] Re: COO Report
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Tom, I ag Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio 860 594 0220 -----Original Message----- From: Tom Frenaye [mailto:frenaye@pcnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:08 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13450] Re: COO Report At 02:15 PM 1/4/2006, WJ1B wrote: > >You will find attached a copy of the COO report for the January Board Meeting. Good stuff! One thing I noted was: >* Launched the The ARES E- Letter - now at 14,000 subscribers. Between that newsletter edited by Rick Palm/K1CE, and the one on contesting edited by Ward Silver/N0AX, I think we should be getting a clear message that there is great interest in timely focused news. Both of these newsletters have been filled with things that would normally not make it into QST - but they are of great interest to subgroups of ARRL members. I'd sure like to see another half-dozen or more of them in place by the end of the year. What resources are really needed to do them? Obviously the author is the key. I hope we're paying each of them something reasonable for their effort. Other than that, I can't think of any significant resources needed. -- Tom ===== 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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[arrl-odv:13450] Re: COO Report
by Tom Frenaye 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

At 02:15 PM 1/4/2006, WJ1B wrote: > >You will find attached a copy of the COO report for the January Board Meeting. Good stuff! One thing I noted was: >* Launched the The ARES E- Letter now at 14,000 subscribers. Between that newsletter edited by Rick Palm/K1CE, and the one on contesting edited by Ward Silver/N0AX, I think we should be getting a clear message that there is great interest in timely focused news. Both of these newsletters have been filled with things that would normally not make it into QST - but they are of great interest to subgroups of ARRL members. I'd sure like to see another half-dozen or more of them in place by the end of the year. What resources are really needed to do them? Obviously the author is the key. I hope we're paying each of them something reasonable for their effort. Other than that, I can't think of any significant resources needed. -- Tom ===== 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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[arrl-odv:13449] Re: Draft Agenda, 2006 Annual Board Meeting
by Tom Frenaye 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

At 09:33 AM 12/23/2005, K1ZZ wrote: >Attached is the draft agenda for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors At some point a year or two ago we managed to insert some "discussion of important things" into the Executive Committee and Board meeting agendas. One reason for the consent agenda was to free up time for expected discussions. I don't see anything in the draft Board meeting agenda that looks like anything but business as usual. :^ ( Perhaps between now and the Board meeting the officers could work to insert some specific items that we ought to take some extra time to review - either to educate us all on a particular topic or to work out some difficult issues without the pressure of a Board motion staring us in the face. From my point of view, one area where we might have a useful discussion is strategic planning. * Review of items we selected last year and assess how we did in completing them [and previous years if still incomplete] * Examine the five (!!) strategies we selected for implementation in 2006 1. What are the goals? [what does it look like when each one is complete and successful?] 2. Do we have the right resources and funding in place? 3. Who "owns" each project? [staff and Board] 4. What are the key milestones for each one? * How are we going to update the current strategic plan? [who? when? how] I'm also looking forward to the informal (?) presentation about the IARU on Thursday night by Larry Price. Really. That is the kind of thing that we need to do more of. [That presentation is still planned, right?] -- Tom ===== 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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[arrl-odv:13448] COO Report
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi, You will find attached a copy of the COO report for the January Board Meeting. 73, 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:13447] Death in Greenheck family
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

I am sorry to report that Dakota Division Vice Director Twila Greenheck, N0JPH and her husband Don, N0JPG suffered the loss of their only child, their 47-year-old daughter, last month. She is survived by her two children, Twila and Don's grandchildren. I know you all join me in expressing the condolences of the ARRL extended family. David Sumner, K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:13446] Re: Secret Worlds: The Universe Within
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

This is especially recommended for those who are not already feeling utterly insignificant. Dave -----Original Message----- From: dick(a)pobox.com [mailto:dick@pobox.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:04 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13445] Secret Worlds: The Universe Within 4 JAN, 2006 - 1200 CST Want to take a mind-blowing trip without using drugs? Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very interesting page on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms in towards Earth in powers of ten. If ever there was a witness to creation, these folks have captured it for our viewing pleasure! Once you click on the site, the software does all the work. At the end it says "AUTO"... click on that and review the process in reverse! 73 - Dick, W9GIG ========================================================================= Secret Worlds: The Universe Within View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

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