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Vol. 30, No. 24
June 13, 2007 -- Covers the period June 3-9.
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Programs & Services Committee
July 19 in Newington, CT
Administration & Finance Committee
July 19 in Newington, CT
Second Board Meeting
July 20-21, 2007 in Windsor, CT
Regulatory Information
Reported by Dan Henderson, N1ND
Monday and Tuesday of a very busy week were spent preparing the
certified letters going to the 105 repeater owners/trustees involved
with the PAVE PAWS radar situation. The DoD has requested an exchange
of data between the DoD and ARRL regarding the Longley-Rice studies and
DoD identified mitigation levels by June 15. The first installment
involving the New England repeaters was sent to the DoD on Friday June
8, with the information for the California repeaters scheduled to be
delivered on the due date. The DoD has agreed to a September 1 date for
final implementation of individual plans. Thanks to the ARRL Mailroom
for expediting the certified mailing and to the Lab for its continued
hard work in processing the Longley-Rice calculations.
The mitigation letters to the individual repeater owners was shared as a
courtesy with the two repeater coordinating groups. One group
circulated it broadly which has generated numerous emails and phone
calls not only from affected users but those curious about what is going
on and wanting to offer their insights. Needless to say a significant
amount of time is being spent on the telephone as well as a large
increase in the volume of email. Thanks to Paul Rinaldo for his concise
document regarding further mitigation techniques. And many thanks to
Chris Imlay for helping make sure I am funneling out the right
information to the right channels, as well as advising the best approach
for dealing with those who have decided to be less than cooperative.
With Field Day rapidly approaching there is a large gear-up of email and
phone calls requesting information and clarification. As part of
FD2007, we are continuing to work with the in-house group of Harold
Kramer, Allen Pitts, Mary Hobart, Joe Carcia, Katie Breen and Lisa
Kustosik to plan the "Field Day Friday" activity for HQ staff, as well
as the plans for W1AW for the weekend. Also, the 2007 Field Day message
for transmission by W1AW and K6KPH was written and sent to W1AW to be
processed.
Media & Public Relations
Reported by Allen Pitts, W1AGP
60,000 new Emcomm have arrived and are already being distributed.
Annual Report has arrived and is being distributed. Plans are being
made for Field Day.
Production/Editorial
Reported by Joel Kleinman, N1BKE
The July/August issue of QEX has been released to the printer.
The ARRL Letter, Vol. 26, No. 23, distributed to members on June 8.
Thanks to Jon Bloom and Allen Pitts for their assistance with the
distribution process. Allen voiced, edited and produced ARRL Audio News
for June 8. Jon Bloom repaired a glitch in the audio files Monday
morning.
Khrystyne Keane gave a presentation at this past weekend's West Gulf
Division Convention/HamCom 2007 in Plano, Texas.
Sales and Marketing
Reported by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R
A large membership solicitation was completed and mailed this week. The
mailing includes 100,000 membership prospects, half of which have never
been ARRL members. This mailing crosses the spectrum of license
classes, and includes thousands of new hams and upgrades earned during
these past six months.
The team collaborated on work that will support the revised membership
solicitation package sent to newly license hams. Among this planning is
a goal to develop an online "Ham Radio Profile" to help collect
demographic and interest data from new hams.
A membership mailing is being readied to send to participants of the
Dayton Passport activity.
We'll soon begin testing (internally) the new online membership
application form, scheduled for June 15.
The warehouse crew processed 854 packages of fulfillment orders during
the week. In addition, there were 410 free book membership premiums
fulfilled, and mailing supplements for May and June QST.
Membership & Volunteer Programs
Reported by Dave Patton, NN1N
Contest Branch
As noted in last week's In-News, Dan Henderson continues to play a vital
role in the branch (whether he wants to or not!). After working out a
few database glitches, Dan also stepped in to author this year's ARRL DX
CW Contest Results column. The scheduled column author Stott Robbins,
W4PA, is in the process of moving and unable to complete the column by
the QST deadline. Scott says he will be back next year.
Ken Wolff, K1EA delivered the data for the International DX SSB portion
of the DX contest. Copies of the database and the results reports were
sent to column author, Ward Silver, N0AX, on Saturday.
Contest announcements for the 2007 September VHF, 10 GHz and EME
contests were sent to Production for inclusion in August QST. The rules
are in the process of being posted to the web.
QSL Branch
There is no delay in opening mail and a 1 day delay in slotting of
cards. This week, 92 pounds of cards were received from members.
W1AW
Joe updated the web code practice files and their archives. He
processed one W1AW Qualifying Run certificate request. Joe created the
texts for the June W1AW Qualifying Runs. He also processed regular QSL
card requests. He and Katie Breen, W1KRB also filmed a "Field Day"
video clip to place on YouTube (in preparation for Field Day).
Scott worked on slow and fast code practice files for the middle part of
the month of June. He also assisted the DXCC department with checking
187 database-inputted cards against DXCC applications.
Field Organization/Public Service Team
West Virginia Section Manager Ann Rinehart, KA8ZGY, has been nominated
for a new term of office beginning October 1. Warren "TR" Reese,
WB6TMY, has been nominated in San Francisco. As mentioned last week,
Incumbent SM Bill Hillendahl, KH6GJV, has been nominated, too, so there
will be an election there this summer. In preparation for Field Day and
other upcoming activities, Leona Adams received, coordinated, and
shipped orders for 31 exhibit kits, 4 ARES kits and 2 scouting kits.
Steve Ewald worked on the Public Service column for August QST and
prepared for the National Citizen Corps Conference in Alexandria,
Virginia. Section Managers are helping to promote Field Day activities
throughout their respective sections by way of announcements and news.
Chuck Skolaut received and handled two more applications from radio
amateurs wanting to become members of the ARRL Monitoring
System/Intruder Watch. This was a result of the article in June QST. A
long-standing power line noise problem was resolved in California with
the aid of Mike Gruber of the ARRL Laboratory staff. Official Observers
in Florida continue to work on the problem where the National Weather
Service weather information has been heard on a repeater intermittently.
An investigation is underway on an unidentified beacon-type operation
that has been heard on 10106.4 kHz. The signal repeats a message every
five minutes.
Education Services
Reported by Debra Johnson, K1DMJ
We were able to identify a content writer for our new Technician video
project and held a productive discussion with CT Distance Learning, our
on-line course provider, about future developments of on-line courses
and platform needs.
Some statistics on YTD on-line course participation
Course Title Enrollments YTD Passed Incomplete or in process
Failed, Inactive or Withdrawn
Level 1 EmComm 500 223 217 60
Level 2 EmComm 223 158 43 22
Level 3 EmComm 20 18 2
Level 3 EmComm-Rev 2 74 42 27 5
Technician License course 322 68 241 13
All other enrichment courses 125 20 68 23
Education & Technology Program
The Executive Committee approved 7 new ETP grants, and notification
letters to the recipients have been mailed. Mark is continuing to
coordinate logistics for the up-coming Teachers Institutes. He was
approved as a presenter at the Washington Association of Educators of
Talented and Gifted Conference to be held in Washington state in
October. Mark and Doris spent a good part of the week in EmComm support
for a local wild fire emergency in Coleville, CA, including offering
their home as shelter. Thank you Mark and Doris!
ARISS
Toyon Elementary School's 470 students (San Jose, CA) took part in an
ARISS QSO; 87% of the students are minorities, and their teachers
reported that the students have expressed a greater interest in the
sciences and technology. Rosalie reports that this fall ARISS won't be
supporting as many school QSOs or general QSOs as in the past year. The
crews are going to have long work days what with two new ISS modules
being launched, 3 Russian rockets making deliveries, 2 shuttles bringing
things, and all of these require a lot of space walks.
Web/Software Development
Reported by Jon Bloom, KE3Z
Micah Murray is on track for putting the new Membership Application
system into operation for internal use and testing on Monday, June 18.
He also handled a number of site updates, including several
contest-results Web articles.
Hugh Brower set up a testbed system to examine how best to massage
addresses input by members on the Web through the "Mailers+4"
application we use to correct and maintain postal addresses. This
activity is needed in order to allow us to push member-entered addresses
directly into the Siebel system rather than re-keying them in-house.
Hugh is also working on getting the new ExamWin software release ready
for VEC.
I finished testing the new Logbook server and updated some of the
utility scripts for the new environment. Server switch-over is now
scheduled for 6/12.
Sincerely Compiled by,
Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ
Assistant to the CEO
Staff Absentee List
All Staff 7/4 Holiday
Jon Bloom 6/15 Vacation
`` 7/9-7/27 Vacation
Katie Breen 6/14-6/26 Vacation
`` 6/29-7/1 Iowa State
Convention
`` 7/30-8/3 Vacation
Hugh Brower 9/7-9/14 Vacation
Joe Carcia 6/28-7/6 Vacation
`` 7/13 Vacation
`` 7/20 Vacation
`` 7/27 Vacation
`` 8/3-8/10 Vacation
Jackie Cornell 7/2-6 Vacation
`` 7/30-8/3 Vacation
Jennie Davis 6/18-6/22 Vacation
Steve Ewald 6/21 Vacation
Steve Ford 6/13-6/15 SNAP Publishing Conference,
Washington, DC
Perry Green 7/25-7/28 NCVEC Conference, Gettysburg, PA
Joel Hallas 6/22 Vacation
Ed Hare 7/8-7/13 EMC Society Symposium
Committee Meeting, Honolulu, HI
Dan Henderson 7/25-7/28 NCVEC Conference, Gettysburg, PA
`` 8/16-8/28 ARRL National
Convention, Huntsville, AL/Vacation
Mary Hobart 6/15 Vacation
`` 8/17-8/19 ARRL National
Convention, Huntsville, AL
`` 9/7-9/9 MFJ
Anniversary/Starkville MS
`` 9/14-9/16 W9DX Convention,
Chicago, IL
`` 9/28-9/29 TenTac, Pigeon Forge, TN
Amy Hurtado 6/20 Vacation
`` 7/2-7/4 Vacation
`` 8/13-8/15 Vacation
Bob Inderbitzen 6/21-6/26 Vacation
`` 7/16-7/20 Vacation
Debra Johnson 6/21 Vacation
Joel Kleinman 6/13-6/15 SNAP Publishing Conference,
Washington, DC
Zak Lau 6/21-6/22 Vacation
Dave Patton 6/19-6/25 Friedrichshafen Germany
Convention
Barry Shelley 7/5-7/9 Vacation
`` 8/10-8/24 Vacation
Allen Pitts 6/13-6/15 Vacation
Maria Somma 6/19-6/27 Friedrichshafen Germany
Convention
`` 7/13-7/22 Vacation
`` 7/25-7/28 NCVEC Conference,
Gettysburg, PA
`` 8/16-8/19 ARRL National
Convention, Huntsville, AL
Dave Sumner 6/10-6/25 ITU-R WP8A Geneva, and
Friedrichshafen Germany
`` 6/29-7/3 Vacation
`` 8/1-8/6 Vacation
`` 8/15-8/19 GAREC/ARRL National
Convention, Huntsville, AL
`` 9/8-9/15 IARU Reg. 2
Conference, Brasilia
Larry Wolfgang 6/21-6/22 Vacation
