March 2007 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:15281] FW: ARRL EXPO - Dayton and Huntsville
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi, Jackie asked me to pass this information along to the ODV list. Harold _____________________________________________ From: Jackie Cornell, Marketing Coordinator, jcornell(a)arrl.org tel 860-594-0292 RE: ARRL EXPO - Dayton and Huntsville We're excited to report that planning is well-underway for ARRL EXPO at Dayton Hamvention and the ARRL National Convention! For your convenience, I've included some planning information, below. Also, please return the information requested at the bottom of this message as soon as possible. Thank you! 1) ARRL has contracted with the Dayton Marriott for Hamvention, and with the Embassy Suites Huntsville for the National Convention. Gail Iannone will be managing the ARRL rooming list (block of rooms) for both hotels. She will distribute hotel reservation forms to ARRL officials and staff in the coming weeks. 2) If you have friends traveling to the ARRL National Convention, they can also take advantage of ARRL's group reservation rate with the following instructions: Group/Convention code: HAM. Rate: $119. Reservations: 1-800-EMBASSY or http://www.embassysuiteshuntsville.com <http://www.embassysuiteshuntsville.com/> 3) The IARU-organized Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC-2007 <http://www.iaru.org/emergency/garec2007.html> ) will be held August 16-17 at the Embassy Suites Huntsville, the two days just preceding the ARRL National Convention. 4) ARRL staff will wear distinctive polo shirts (yellow/butter colored). These shirts are NOT personalized (we will wear our 'red' badges). If you are interested in wearing the same style shirt, please let me know (QUANTITY and SIZE). The ladies style has a V-neck. I will include your order with the bulk order we are placing (about $12-15/shirt). The cost will be expensed to your Division budget. Additional information for both events will posted to www.arrl.org/expo as more details are finalized. Please contact me if you have any questions. Jackie Traveler's Name and Call Sign: EVENT #1, May 18-20, Dayton Hamvention(r) <http://www.arrl.org/announce/nc/2007/dayton.html> , Dayton, Ohio - [YES / NO / undecided] EVENT #2, August 18-19, ARRL National Convention <http://www.arrl.org/announce/nc/2007/huntsville.html> , Huntsville, Alabama - [YES / NO / undecided] Polo* shirts (OPTIONAL and expensed to your Division budget): SIZE: QUANTITY: *Ladies style Polo has V-Neck Please include the name(s) and call sign(s) of any other traveler(s) that will accompany you (spouse, companion or other family member) for exhibit badges: Return this information to Jackie Cornell, jcornell(a)arrl.org tel 860-594-0292 --end--

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Re: [arrl-odv:15274] Now: an alternative to BPL telemetry
by Bruce Frahm K0BJ 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

MessageThe Technology Director for our burg of 5000 is K0FJ. A few years ago they put in elec. meters with spread spec. transceivers. Each month they drive a pattern transmitting a beacon. When the meter hears the beacon it sends its telemetry until it gets an ack or times out. Over the course of a year or so they changed to all elec. meters with xcvrs, then started in on water meters (most of which are underground...). They now know their 'problem areas' where they have to drive within a half block of certain propagationally-challenged meters; many of the others get recorded from a half mile or more. The job is done in under 3 hours, but they have a few meters that require a person reading. It amazes me that the unit cost of these spread-packet meters is such that a couple years' not having to pay meter readers buys the changeover. Bruce K0BJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Cliff Ahrens To: arrl-odv Cc: 'Pitts, Allen W1AGP' Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:36 AM Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:15274] Re: ComputerWorld article on BPL with comments from ARRL I agree. On a more positive note, the director of the Hannibal Board of Public Works, who is in charge of our electric utility system, gave a program the other evening at our Kiwanis club. Afterwards, I had a long talk with him about the problems with BPL, since they are starting to use the electric lines to read meters with short transmissions at 2:00 a.m. some mornings. He said they are not interested in BPL. Cliff, K0CA

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[arrl-odv:15277] Congratulations
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Congratulations to: John Proctor K1JMP and Pete Warner K1HJW. John and Pete both successfully upgraded to General Class today. 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/ hkramer(a)arrl.org

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[arrl-odv:15276] IN-News
by Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

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Regulatory Information A very exciting and busy week With the effective date of 05-235 looming on Thursday there were numerous calls and emails asking for a wide range of information handled during the week (over 200 emails and over 100 phone calls.) The updated Part 97 Rules and the new frequency allocation charts were added to the website at 12:01 AM Friday morning (thanks Jon Bloom and Dave Pingree). It appears that the cell phone legislation in Oregon state is being be tabled in favor of a distracted driving bill. A bill in the Arizona House of Representatives which adopted PRB-1 provisions state wide and also extended them to cover HOAs was voted out of committee by a 15-1 vote and is moving towards the full AZ House. We also worked with ARRL Counsel on an antenna case in Oregon. During the week of February 26 we will be working on an article for QST soliciting new applicants for the Volunteer Counsel and Volunteer Consulting Engineer programs as well as preparing an up-to-date in synch copy of Part 97 for the new booklet being prepared for sale. Media & Public Relations The 30 Day Blitz had the goal of passing the word of the code change to as many non-hams as possible in 30 days. It has gone well with many articles and radio spots and even some TV spots. Ive done over a dozen interviews with reporters and comments from ARRL HQ have shown up in newspapers around the country. Comments from HQ also showed up in many radio stories and there are more radio interviews still scheduled for the coming week one Wednesday on WDRC. At 8:30 Chronicle, a TV piece done by Channel 5 in Boston, used our comments as the climax of their œ hour show on radio. While many PIOs were active around the country, Bill Morine, N2COP, was outstanding in NC region. Except for the PSAs, the materials posted on the HYPERLINK "http://www.arrl.org/pio" \o "http://www.arrl.org/pio" www.arrl.org/pio page for this drive will soon be removed and the page returned to promotion of the emergency communications theme. The audio PSAs will remain as they are still being requested. Department reports to be included in the 2006 Annual Report are requested by the end of this month. I will hold an EmComm Level 1 class for staff on March 23. Production/Editorial Rick Lindquist reports The ARRL Letter, Vol. 26, No. 08, distributed to 64,345 members on Feb 23. Rick prepared/edited news stories on the W1AW HF Open House and the elimination of the Morse requirement; the Conference Preparatory Meeting (CPM-07) under way in Geneva in advance of WRC-07 this fall; FCC rulings in three vanity call sign cases; ARRL seeks input on new HF digi protocol, SM elections, Debra Johnson named ARRL Education Services Manager, advertising sales opening at ARRL HQ, ARRL decision re Spanish language question pools petition, plus several news briefs and announcements. With voiceover assistance from Khrystyne Keane, Rick voiced, edited and produced ARRL Audio News for Feb 23. The list of repeaters, stations and other outlets airing all or part of ARRL Audio News now stands at 231. Sales and Marketing There were peak levels of membership renewals and product ordering this weekgood indicators of a generally positive climate following the Feb 23 rule changes. The mailing data for the April issue of QST has been pulled. Recent membership increases have resulted in our increasing the print quantity of QST. The warehouse crew processed over 1,400 packages during these last two weeks. Planning for Dayton Hamvention and the ARRL National Convention (Huntsville) is in full-swing. Were finalizing ARRL forums for the Hamvention forum slate. Registrations for the March online Technician License Course closed with 51 students--another month of exceptional enrollment. These 51 students are all prospective hams and new ARRL members. The W1AW HF Open House showcased "real-time" Blog and Videos managed by Katie, W1KRB. The feedback from amateurs around the country has been extremely positive. To date, the videos have been viewed 2,300 times. While on-site during the weekend activities, quite a few folks renewed or created new memberships with ARRL. Membership & Volunteer Programs Awards Branch CategoryProcessedWAS Certificates (Manual)3WAS Certificates (LoTW)10A-1 Op Nominations5WAC Certificates7A-1 Op Certificates1VUCC New / Grids3/351VUCC Endorsement/Grids1/100Awards Charges 15Awards Mailed 35DXCC Plaques Shipped18Processing Time2 Weeks Contest Branch During the week staff: reviewed and prepared data for the 2006 November Sweepstakes Phone Contest Results QST column author and received 283 pieces of correspondence requiring 152 responses. DXCC Branch CategoryProcessedBeginning Credits54,479Credits Received8,157Credits Processed9,096Ending Credits53,540YTD Credits Received42,240YTD Applications Received697YTD Credits Returned85,813Applications Pending623Processing Time8.5 Weeks DXCC is currently entering credits received on December 29, 2006. DXCC is currently mailing applications received on December 27, 2006. We received 27 DXCC applications with 1,214 Qs, from the Orlando, FL convention. Card checkers Don Search, W3AZD and Ron Blake, N4KE also checked one Worked All States Application containing 50 credits. Logbook of the World QSO records entered into the system121,859,141QSL records have resulted 7,805,805Logs Processed332,219Active Certificates22,755Users registered in the system15,009Hybrids Pending Mail156 QSL Branch There is no delay in opening mail and a 3 day delay in slotting of cards. This week, 137 pounds of cards were received from members. W1AW Many thanks to ARRL staffers Zoe Belliveau, KB1MPK, Katie Breen, W1KRB, Hugh Brower, KB1NFI, Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, Steve Ewald, WV1X, Steve Ford, WB8IMY, Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, Penny Harts, N1NAG, Dan Henderson, N1ND, Mary Hobart, K1MMH, Amy Hurtado, KB1NXO, Harold Kramer, WJ1B, Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA, Jodi Morin, KA1JPA, Dave Pingree, N1NAS, Allen Pitts, W1AGP, Dave Sumner, K1ZZ and Maty Weinberg, KB1EIB for their operating in the Welcome To HF operating event at W1AW, which took place early Friday morning and over the weekend. 806 contacts were made on 160 to 2 meters using CW and SSB. In addition to the event, Steve Ford and Hugh Brower also operated in the North American RTTY QSO Party. They made 130 RTTY QSOs on 80, 40 and 20 meters for a claimed score of 7,410. VE test/upgrade sessions took place at W1AW on Saturday and Sunday. A few of the new upgrades also took the opportunity to operate the station. Very early Friday morning (just after 12 AM) a few hams who had either taken exams or did paper upgrades at HQ also operated the station for awhile. Special thanks to Bob Allison, WB1GCM (who volunteers for tour guide and other duties within ARRL) for his helping Joe Carcia with improvements to the audio/visual equipment used for making the videos placed on the web blog for this event. And, thanks also to Katie Breen for her keeping all the staff/visitors at W1AW well-fed and hydrated during the open house (in addition to her making quite a number of contacts)! Joe worked the early afternoon/night shifts on Wednesday through Friday for the vacationing Scott Gee. He finished processing the results for the 2006 FMT and sent them up for placement on the W1AW FMT web site. He created the texts for the March W1AW Qualifying Runs and updated the W1AW and West Coast QR schedules on the web. He also handled evening phone sales calls in the daily 5 PM to 8 PM time slots. Field Organization/Public Service Team Team members Leona Adams, Chuck Skolaut and Steve Ewald headed up the efforts at HQ to count the Section Manager election ballots for Kentucky and North Texas. Jim Brooks, KY4Z, of Coxs Creek, Kentucky, will start his first term as SM on April 1, and North Texas SM Tom Blackwell, N5GAR, was re-elected to his second term of office. Team members were in touch with all candidates after the election and helped prepare the news release. ARRL Observers have noted that an illegal cordless phone on 147.375 MHz has caused interference with a local repeater and the report was forwarded to the FCC. ARRL Volunteer Monitors continued to track the PUN beacon, and the FCC made arrangements to contact the country responsible for that particular transmission. More data has been gathered on a Russian D beacon on 7039 kHz and on 440 MHz operations by unlicensed fisherman off the coast of California. Additional reports about the February 10th Operation Deep Freeze were collected and shared with the MARS/ Amateur Radio exercise coordinator. There are preliminary discussions on hosting another similar region-wide exercise in the Fall. Chuck, Steve and Norm of the Membership and Volunteer Programs Department were among the many Volunteer Examiners that helped with the February 22 - 23 Midnight VE session at HQ. ARISS PR: While Boulder Hill Elementary School (IL) awaits its ARISS QSO in March, the students in the radio club have studied for their ham radio licenses, have made QSOs with hams around the US, built CW transmitters and crystal radio receivers, and gotten media coverage in the Beacon News and Elgin Courier News websites. ARISS News Update: To practice his QSO pile-up skills, Astronaut Clay Anderson got on the air to speak with students at Westbrook School near Houston. For ARRL Members: Sergej sent photos on his training session with Charles Simonyi, and also, the procedures for re-configuring the ISS radios. Rosalie got the photos forwarded to Rick Lindquist. ARISS Effect on Students: Rosalie forwarded a new permission slip form to the ARISS Mentors to distribute to students whose images are captured for use in the media. International Aspects: Lou is trying to get Pavel in Europe in touch with the Kennedy Space Center hams to coordinate before he gets here. The procedures should be studied beforehand in order that everyone is prepared. Amateur Radio Education & Technology ProgramMark Spencer I have 32 applications received to date for the teachers institute. The grant equipment is arriving at the schools, a few antenna items are on back order. The latest roster of ETP schools has been submitted to the web master for posting. I spent a day working with a 6th grader who was on school vacation. I tried out some curriculum materials on the young man. Morse code is the content area that seemed to capture his interest the most (the old mode maintains its relevance). I accomplished a telephone interview with a Monitoring Times columnist on the ETP. Two of my education related articles were published in the Jan/Feb AMSAT Journal, some requests for additional information have come in. I spent some time this week doing some research using the amateur satellites. Technical Relations Office Paul Rinaldo coordinated the text of the request for information concerning the new HF digital protocol with Dave Sumner, Steve Ford and Rick Lindquist. It was posted on the ARRL website at close of business on Thursday, February 22. Eleven responses were received Thursday evening and Friday. Acknowledgements are being sent to each responder. Walt Ireland and Jon Siverling are in Geneva at the CPM along with Larry Price and Ken Pulfer. Reports are trickling in. We drafted an email to NPSTC requesting their support of HR 462 and sent it to John Chwat and Chris Imlay. Chris said he would draft a letter for Marilyn Wards consideration. Paul Rinaldo is starting drafting of documents for the IARU Administrative Council meeting. Web/Software Development Hugh Brower has been making fixes and modifications to the ARES database based on feedback from users. He also made some changes to the license-class registration and listing database. Micah Murray continues to work on the development of a new membership application/renewal process for the Web site. He is on the second pass of a skeletal system, based on feedback and issues raised by the Marketing and Development groups. Jon Bloom spent much of the short week working on Web changes in preparation for the 2/23 rules change, including development of an on-line application and fulfillment mechanism for the First Contact Award certificate. Sincerely Compiled by, Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Assistant to the CEO Staff Absentee List Ed Hare 2/28-3/2 IEEE P1775 BPL Committee, Las Vegas, NV `` 3/13-3/15 IEEE Standards Dev. 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RE: [arrl-odv:15274] Re: ComputerWorld article on BPL with comments from ARRL
by Cliff Ahrens 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

I agree. On a more positive note, the director of the Hannibal Board of Public Works, who is in charge of our electric utility system, gave a program the other evening at our Kiwanis club. Afterwards, I had a long talk with him about the problems with BPL, since they are starting to use the electric lines to read meters with short transmissions at 2:00 a.m. some mornings. He said they are not interested in BPL. Cliff, K0CA -----Original Message----- From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:59 AM To: arrl-odv Cc: Pitts, Allen W1AGP Subject: [arrl-odv:15274] Re: ComputerWorld article on BPL with comments from ARRL "no more than 150,000 BPL users in the U.S." Right, Try "no more than 5,000." It drives me crazy to see BPL cited as a viable method of delivering broadband to rural areas. It isn't so, and anyone who passed high school physics should be able to understand why. Oh, well. We're past the point where poorly researched consumer articles will have any effect on BPL's future. Most utilities have looked at it and decided to pass. Dave _____ From: Cliff Ahrens [mailto:cahrens@mywdo.com] Sent: Fri 3/2/2007 12:30 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ; Pitts, Allen W1AGP Subject: [arrl-odv:15273] Re: ComputerWorld article on BPL with comments from ARRL A friend of mine in the IT/computer industry sent me a link to a ComputerWorld article entitled "Broadband over powerLine is ready to explode." The following is a quote from a portion of the article, which contains information from ARRL's Allen Pitts: "Actually, regulation has been an issue since the first experimental BPL modems were turned on, due to complaints of interference by ham radio operators. Allen Pitts, spokesman for the ham radio parent organization, the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in Newington, Conn., said that the utilities installing the latest technology (including the ones in Cincinnati and Texas) are not a problem since the frequencies they use are "notched" to avoid ham frequencies. But there are a number of older BPL experiments that continue generating interference, he complained, causing problems not only with ham operators but with emergency services that use older equipment in the FM ranges. In fact, he said that the ARRL has filed suit against the Federal Communications Commission to force the government to act against them. Indeed, the ARRL follows the BPL situation closely [http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/] and counts 34 trial BPL systems that have been shut down, often because of interference complaints or because they were judged uneconomical. Another 54 systems are currently operational and 19 more are pending." Here's the link to the full ComputerWorld article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art i> &arti cleId=9011985&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8. If that link doesn't work, here's a TinyURL link: http://tinyurl.com/2y7eb5 Cliff, K0CA

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[arrl-odv:15274] Re: ComputerWorld article on BPL with comments from ARRL
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

"no more than 150,000 BPL users in the U.S." Right, Try "no more than 5,000." It drives me crazy to see BPL cited as a viable method of delivering broadband to rural areas. It isn't so, and anyone who passed high school physics should be able to understand why. Oh, well. We're past the point where poorly researched consumer articles will have any effect on BPL's future. Most utilities have looked at it and decided to pass. Dave ________________________________ From: Cliff Ahrens [mailto:cahrens@mywdo.com] Sent: Fri 3/2/2007 12:30 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ; Pitts, Allen W1AGP Subject: [arrl-odv:15273] Re: ComputerWorld article on BPL with comments from ARRL A friend of mine in the IT/computer industry sent me a link to a ComputerWorld article entitled "Broadband over powerLine is ready to explode." The following is a quote from a portion of the article, which contains information from ARRL's Allen Pitts: "Actually, regulation has been an issue since the first experimental BPL modems were turned on, due to complaints of interference by ham radio operators. Allen Pitts, spokesman for the ham radio parent organization, the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in Newington, Conn., said that the utilities installing the latest technology (including the ones in Cincinnati and Texas) are not a problem since the frequencies they use are "notched" to avoid ham frequencies. But there are a number of older BPL experiments that continue generating interference, he complained, causing problems not only with ham operators but with emergency services that use older equipment in the FM ranges. In fact, he said that the ARRL has filed suit against the Federal Communications Commission to force the government to act against them. Indeed, the ARRL follows the BPL situation closely [http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/] and counts 34 trial BPL systems that have been shut down, often because of interference complaints or because they were judged uneconomical. Another 54 systems are currently operational and 19 more are pending." Here's the link to the full ComputerWorld article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti cleId=9011985&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8. If that link doesn't work, here's a TinyURL link: http://tinyurl.com/2y7eb5 Cliff, K0CA

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[arrl-odv:15273] Re: ComputerWorld article on BPL with comments from ARRL
by Cliff Ahrens 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

X-Barracuda-Spam-Sco0.50 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.50 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL00.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL00.0 KILL_LEVEL=4.0 tests=BSF_RULE7568M X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.1, rules version 3.1.10114 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.50 BSF_RULE7568M BODY: Custom Rule 7568M X-callisto-MailScanner-Information: E-mail support(a)arrl.net for any assistance X-callisto-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-callisto-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.464, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14) X-callisto-MailScanner-From: cahrens(a)mywdo.com A friend of mine in the IT/computer industry sent me a link to a ComputerWorld article entitled "Broadband over powerLine is ready to explode." The following is a quote from a portion of the article, which contains information from ARRL's Allen Pitts: "Actually, regulation has been an issue since the first experimental BPL modems were turned on, due to complaints of interference by ham radio operators. Allen Pitts, spokesman for the ham radio parent organization, the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in Newington, Conn., said that the utilities installing the latest technology (including the ones in Cincinnati and Texas) are not a problem since the frequencies they use are "notched" to avoid ham frequencies. But there are a number of older BPL experiments that continue generating interference, he complained, causing problems not only with ham operators but with emergency services that use older equipment in the FM ranges. In fact, he said that the ARRL has filed suit against the Federal Communications Commission to force the government to act against them. Indeed, the ARRL follows the BPL situation closely [http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/] and counts 34 trial BPL systems that have been shut down, often because of interference complaints or because they were judged uneconomical. Another 54 systems are currently operational and 19 more are pending." Here's the link to the full ComputerWorld article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti cleId=9011985&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8. If that link doesn't work, here's a TinyURL link: http://tinyurl.com/2y7eb5 Cliff, K0CA

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Report of the President - 2007 Spring EC Meeting
by Joel Harrison 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Attached is my report to the EC in advance of this weekends meeting. I'll be happy to address any questions. 73 Joel W5ZN

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[arrl-odv:15271] FCC denies petition
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

The FCC denied a petition from "Hams for Action" that had sought federal preemption of CC&Rs prohibiting antennas when the amateur was an "emergency communications operator." See attached. The denial is hardly surprising -- it's difficult to imagine how such a narrow exception could be justified as good public policy -- but at least Scot Stone took the trouble to write the letter. Dave K1ZZ <<DA-07-898A1.pdf>>

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