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[arrl-odv:15670] Annual Report available
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

The 2006 ARRL Annual Report is now available online at http://www.arrl.org/announce/annualreport/. The printed version will be delivered and distributed shortly. 73, David Sumner, K1ZZ Secretary

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[arrl-odv:15669] RE: [arrl-odv:15668] Working? 8:33
by Shelley, Barry, N1VXY 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Bill: Your message was received here. There hasn't been an odv message posted in three days so its not the server, its just no one is writing. 73, Barry, N1VXY -----Original Message----- From: n3llr(a)earthlink.net [mailto:n3llr@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:35 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:15668] Working? 8:33 Are the listserves down?

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[arrl-odv:15668] Working? 8:33
by n3llr＠earthlink.net 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Are the listserves down?

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RE: [arrl-odv:15666] Who?
by Joel Harrison 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

I haven't looked it up, but I assumed it was the callsign in the email address - PJ2I. Joel _____ From: Jim Weaver [mailto:k8je@arrl.org] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 7:37 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:15666] Who? Any of you know who this guy is: Roberto Duval [pj2l_robert(a)yahoo.com] I don't find a Roberto Duval through ODV or the FCC databank. Must be a really brave guy to leave off his call (assuming he as one in some country) or address. Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je(a)arrl.org; Tel.: 513-459-0142 ARRL - The Reason Amateur Radio Is! Members - The Reason ARRL Is!

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[arrl-odv:15666] Who?
by Jim Weaver 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Any of you know who this guy is: Roberto Duval [pj2l_robert(a)yahoo.com] I don't find a Roberto Duval through ODV or the FCC databank. Must be a really brave guy to leave off his call (assuming he as one in some country) or address. Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je(a)arrl.org; Tel.: 513-459-0142 ARRL - The Reason Amateur Radio Is! Members - The Reason ARRL Is!

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BPL Court Appeal, Intervenor's statement in lieu of brief
by w3kd＠aol.com 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Greetings. I have received, as did WilmerHale, our lawyers in the BPL case, the attached statement of the National Association of Broadcasters and the Association of Maximum Service Television. This was filed in lieu of an intervenor's brief. This is a bit of a surprise. We expected at the time that NAB and MSTV intervened that they would either adopt our brief wholesale, or file their own. As you can see from the statement, they did neither. Jon Frankel at WlimerHale reports that it took a good deal of persuasion on WilmerHale's part to get them to even file this statement. At one point, apparently, they were going to file nothing at all. All that said, and surely enough, the lack of enthusiasm of the only intervenors on our side of the fence is manifest as the result of this statement instead of a stand-alone brief, what they DID say is exactly what we would want them to say. They say that they intervened in our support because they were concerned that the FCC failed to give adequate consideration to the impact that the liberal BPL rules would have on the digital TV transition, and that they had done a study that determined that BPL had a "signficant threat of interference" to DTV reception if adjacent to or within a TV channel of a local VHF DTV station. They say that they agree with ARRL that the case should be remanded (the relief we asked for) and that, as we argued, FCC had a solution (limit BPL to the band 30-50 MHz) that would have protected licensed services. So, while NAB and MSTV didn't say what they had to say very strongly, they said all the right things and none of the wrong things. They called the 30-50 MHz solution "MSTV's reasonable solution" when in fact it was ours first, but who really cares? The point is, their filing is completely consistent with our argument and the requested remedy (remand for adequate consideration of reasonable alternatives that protect licensed services). Not too bad. The next applicable procedural date, and the really important one, is that FCC's brief is due July 2. We will have an analysis of it for you, and perhaps e-copies, long before the Board meeting. Call or e-mail with any questions. Good weekend to all. 73, Chris W3KD ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

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[arrl-odv:15664] K1ZZ heading to Europe
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

I am leaving for Geneva on Sunday and will represent the IARU at a meeting of ITU-R Working Party 1A next week. I am filling in for Peter Chadwick, G3RZP, an IARU volunteer who has been hospitalized recently and therefore is unavailable. WP1A is responsible for spectrum engineering techniques within Study Group 1 (spectrum management) and will be working on a document that may eventually become what's called a "preliminary draft new report" on the impact of power line telecommunications (PLT, what we call BPL on this side of the Atlantic) on radiocommunication systems operating below 80 MHz. Of course, our interest is in ensuring that the report accurately reflects the sensitivity of the amateur services to interference from this source. Jon Siverling, WB3ERA of the ARRL Technical Relations Office is on the US delegation. Also meeting at about the same time (June 12-20) is ITU-R Working Party 8A, which is responsible for most of the land mobile services plus the amateur and amateur-satellite services. IARU President Larry Price, W4RA is the principal IARU representative to WP 8A. WP 8A hopes to complete work on a "draft new handbook for the amateur and amateur-satellite services" to be published by the ITU that has been in process for some months. This isn't competition for the ARRL Handbook -- it is simply an overview of the activities of the amateur services along with existing ITU texts that relate to the two services, and is intended to be a helpful guide for administrations that may not be familiar with amateur radio. I had planned to attend WP 8A to assist with the final drafting of the handbook and will do so to the extent that the WP 1A obligation permits. ARRL Chief Technology Officer Paul Rinaldo, W4RI is on the US delegation and is chairman of the working group that will deal with the amateur handbook. It appears that Paul's working group also will have some HF broadcasting (4-10 MHz) issues to deal with that are coupled to WRC-07. While in Geneva I should have good access to email and will stay current to the extent that time permits. Since we will be in Europe anyway and just a train ride away, Larry, Paul and I will attend the Friedrichshafen convention the following weekend. I expect to be back in the office Tuesday, June 26. I plan to be on vacation June 29-July 4. 73, Dave Sumner, K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:15663] IN-News
by Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

<<060607.doc>> IN-Newsletter <<Microsoft Word Picture>> Vol. 30, No. 23 June 6, 2007 -- Covers the period May 27-June 2. Upcoming Meetings and Events Administration & Finance Committee July 19 in Newington, CT Second Board Meeting July 20-21, 2007 in Windsor, CT CEO Office Reported by Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Congratulations to the ARRL Team that participated in the American Cancer Relay for Life this past weekend. They raised over $3,000 and also had chance to make a few contacts with the ham radio that they set up. Regulatory Information Reported by Dan Henderson, N1ND The Pave Paws radar problem continues to be on the front burner. In preparation for contacting the affected repeater owners with the details of the mitigation plan and timetables, the first draft of our letter was written and circulated for additions / changes / corrections to Chris Imlay, Paul Rinaldo, Ed Hare, Dave Sumner, Joel Harrison, Allen Pitts and Directors Frenaye and Vallio. On Friday afternoon the official response from the Department of Defense officials was received and will be included in the certified mailing going out the week of June 4. Also during the weeks some data problems were discovered in the ARRL Contest results for an upcoming event. As the Contest Manager was on vacation during the week, I stepped in and assisted in correcting the problems and prepared new tables to be used by the author for the results. We also continue to handle lots of queries related to the upcoming ARRL Field Day. On Friday I traveled to Atlanta to attend the Georgia State Convention in conjunction with the Atlanta Hamfest. I was pleasantly surprised when almost 60 people attended my ARRL Forum - more than double those attending forum last year. Media & Public Relations Reported by Allen Pitts, W1AGP The Annual Report is done and expected from the printer about June 14. Reinforcing announcements of the materials available promoting EmComm this year have been sent out and also submitted to QST. We are still awaiting Governor Rell's decision and reply to our Field Day invitation, and options are being created for her to speak with other state Governors via radio if she comes. There are less than 12k of the EmComm brochures left and, at the current request rate, these will go by Field Day. 60k more being ordered with the expectation that fulfillment will soon be able to be transferred to the new web based systems. Development Reported by Mary Hobart, K1MMH I traveled to the NW Division for the 25th Anniversary convention at Seaside. A crowd of 2500 spent the weekend strolling the aisles of the many vendors who were there, attending wonderful forums and operating the special event station, W1AW/7. Director Fenstermaker and five of the six Section Mangers from the Division were there and helped work the ARRL table. The ARRL Forum included an opportunity to honor Rick Campbell, KK7B, who was the winner of the 2007 Bill Orr Award in Technical Writing. Nearly 300 attended the Saturday evening banquet and hear remarks from me on the Development Program and joined in honoring the 2007 Chuck Mickley Memorial Scholarship winner, Steve Johnson, N7VIC. The Education & Technology Fund campaign is nearing its goal! Receipts to date total $75,957 from 812 donors for a very generous average contribution of more than $93. Delivery of more than 100 lucite replicas of bricks for the Diamond Terrace are expected this week. The preparation of the Terrace site will begin as soon as the concrete work is complete. Production/Editorial Reported by Joel Kleinman, N1BKE Rick Lindquist reports The ARRL Letter, Vol. 26, No. 22, distributed to 66,677 members on June 1. Rick prepared/edited news items on the ARRL's latest demand that the FCC shut down the Ambient Briarcliff Manor, NY, BPL pilot project; Dayton Hamvention FCC forum; FCC hearings on three ham radio applications, and various announcements and news briefs. He also has transferred various news bureau-related files to Khrystyne Keane, including info for new stories and news briefs. Rick assisted Khrystyne in voicing, editing and producing ARRL Audio News for June 1. Rick has begun submitting material for the July-August issue of NCJ. He adds: 73 to everyone, and thanks very much for the gift certificate! News items for the Web site and/or QST should be directed to Khrystyne Keane (news(a)arrl.org is the easiest way to reach her, but please note that newsmedia(a)arrl.org goes to Allen Pitts). Maty Weinberg served as co-chair of this past weekend's American Cancer Society Relay for Life event in Newington, and Jodi Morin was captain of Team ARRL. Well done! Sales and Marketing Reported by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R May product sales were $303,687; exceeding plan by $34,724. This overcame a $32k shortfall experienced last month, largely due to some flip/flopping between the months. We don't often break 300k in a single month, except during the fall/Handbook season. Membership for May demonstrated yet another increase, ending the month at 151,306. This is up 411 from April, and is 2,560 over our YTD projection. Katie attended the Rochester Hamfest/New York Convention over the weekend, and returned with 42 memberships, 23 of which were new/previous members. She held a forum on Saturday afternoon which was well attended, in spite of the lack of air conditioning! She was excited to see a large number of people waiting to participate in the VE sessions, at which ultimately over 70 people passed their tests. The local ABC affiliate Channel 13 WHAM (how ironic!) sent a reporter to the hamfest on Friday who spent 4 hours at the event and provided a nice and entertaining piece: http://www.13wham.com/mediacenter/local.aspx Planning for ARRL's exhibit at "Ham Radio" in Friedrichshafen (June 22 - 24) has been finalized. Exhibit materials supporting the ARRL and IARU have been shipped. Email addresses from membership applications and "ARRL Passport" entries collected at Dayton Hamvention are being keyboarded to support (1) our communication with members and (2) our direct marketing to membership prospects. Hundreds of new email addresses have been entered into the system thus far. A successful overview of the new Membership Renewal Web site was completed with the help of Web Services. The site is going thru some final revisions and should be up for internal use the week of June 15. The entire planning team hopes to "go live" on June 30. The new site will offer more online membership options, an easier renewal process, and an automated, secure method for charging credit cards. Long term integration into Siebel is right behind the redesign. The summer publication catalog has mailed, and has already increased the e-store traffic. July QST will be mailing 6/5 thru 6/12. The warehouse crew processed 693 packages of fulfillment orders during the shortened, holiday week. In addition, there were 355 free book membership premiums fulfilled, and three June QST mailing supplements. Steve Capodicasa, Amy Hurtado and Ann Marie Pinto all helped manage returns from Dayton-all inventoried, restocked and reconciled. Business Services Reported by Deb Jahnke Sales of advertising space in Ham Express 411 is proceeding very well. Our initial promotion was sent via email last Thursday and we have only a few pages available and are already very close to our revenue goal on this project. Our addition of a limited amount of editorial material (primarily the terrific material from March 2007 QST) has definitely increased the value to advertisers. We have more retailers on board and two of the three major manufacturers increased their presence dramatically. We are also working on the August issue of QST, including the Antenna Time Tear-Out section. I am following up with several new potential advertisers that I had meetings with at Hamvention. Covers 2, 3 and 4 of the DXCC Yearbook have been sold to ICOM America (2 covers) and Ham Radio Outlet (cover 4). Dealer Publication Sales Dealers report that sales of training materials are still very strong and initial reports indicate that sales of the new Antenna Book are following suit. A new Dealer Newsline is in the works (email version) recapping all the new titles since the beginning of the year and focusing on recently released new titles and editions. Membership & Volunteer Programs Reported by Dave Patton, NN1N Awards Branch Category April 2007 May 2007 Year-to-Date Year End Goal WAS Certificates (Manual) 30 31 126 282 WAS Certificates (LoTW) 15 21 116 295 A-1 Op Nominations 47 55 212 601 A-1 Op Certificates 26 32 105 288 Extra Class Certificates 9 4 136 194 WAC Certificates 44 9 136 313 VUCC New/Grids 6 / 711 4 / 380 27 / 4035 144 / 13,581 VUCC Endorsement/Grids 4 / 337 15 / 633 45 / 2447 109 / 6,533 Processing Time 2 Weeks 2 Weeks 2 Weeks DXCC Branch Category April 2007 May 2007 Year-to-Date Year End Goal Credits Processed 56,502 53,786 234,254 622,155 Credits Received 66,671 48,203 216,407 622,284 Applications Returned 526 491 2,413 5,642 Applications Received 914 416 3,042 5,644 Applications Pending 1,088 1,015 987 599 Processing Time 10 Weeks 9 Weeks 3 Weeks Logbook of the World Category April 2007 May 2007 2006 Year End QSO Records Entered Into System 128,066,270 131,022,872 116,730,953 QSL Record Matches 8,448,955 8,757,500 7,193,911 Logs Processed 363,807 379,984 305,569 Active Certificates 24,145 24,668 21.889 Registered Users in System 15,918 16,262 14,474 COO Note: We are adding this new report on the types of inquires that we receive for Logbook of the World support. This report will appear monthly and was compiled by Kathy Allison with assistance from Sharon Taratula. Logbook of the World Logbook (Email Only) Inquiries May 2007 Lost Certificate 107 User Email Problems 42 DXCC Status Inquiries 38 Cannot Log on to LoTW User Page 27 Lost Personal Password 26 Cannot Activate/Load TQ6 Certificate 23 WAS Status Inquiries 22 No TQ5 File Received by LoTW 21 Logbook Suggestions 20 Cannot Upload Log to LoTW User Page 18 Additional Certificate Requests 13 No TQ6 File Received from LoTW 12 Logbook Startup Inquiries 11 New Callsign Changes 9 Cannot Understand Error Messages 8 Other Inquiries 114 Total Inquiries 511 QSL Branch There is no delay in opening mail and a 2 day delay in slotting of cards. This week, 97 pounds of cards were received from members. W1AW Scott worked on fast and slow code practice files for the first half of the month of June. He also assisted the DXCC department with checking 278 database-inputted cards against DXCC applications. Field Organization/Public Service Team Chuck Skolaut compiled and forwarded the monthly ARRL Monitoring System/Intruder Watch report to the IARU Region 2 Coordinator. As a result of the article in June QST, two additional members were added to the monitoring team with several more in the process. Word was received that the Chinese jammer that had been heard on 18160 kHz has moved out of the band and is now on 18180 kHz. With occasional band openings on 10 meters, we have begun receiving reports of unlicensed operation there. The FCC monitoring station returned several reports to us concerning requests we had sent earlier. One such report involved checking for the second harmonic of a shortwave station, and another dealt with a New York taxi company operating just above 10 meters. Three more incumbent Section Managers have been nominated for new term of office beginning October 1. They are Bill Hillendahl, KH6GJV, San Francisco; Phineas Icenbice, W6BF, Los Angeles; and Ray Taylor, N5NAV, South Texas. Leona Adams handled correspondence with the first signers of the nominating petitions. She also took orders for and arranged for shipment of over a dozen exhibit kits that feature promotional handouts to the general public. With the advent of the Atlantic Hurricane season, WX4NHC at the National Hurricane Center scheduled its annual on-the-air test for June 2. U.S. Virgin Islands Section Manager John Ellis, NP2B, has agreed to serve as the main liaison for the Hurricane Watch Net group to ARRL HQ staff during this upcoming season. Steve Ewald is making plans to attend the National Citizen Corps Conference in Alexandria, Virginia from June 10 to 13. Education Services Reported by Debra Johnson, K1DMJ We completed follow-ups requested from contacts at Dayton. The convention generated many requests for education related materials and other items. A May newsletter to instructors and teachers sent May 31 included information about the new General Class licensing materials being released in June. Mark Spencer and I both took part in an on-line Technician course session being run as a trial on the WebEx platform. This is a new platform for licensing instruction being tested by an instructor in California. ARISS NASA's Public Affairs Office in Houston recorded this week's ARISS QSO, the 300th of the ARISS program. The first contact occurred December 21, 2000 from Burbank, IL. Last week's contact was an interview with Astronaut Sunita Williams. It was conducted during a teachers workshop and made an impression with the teachers. The Houston ARISS Team overheard six different teachers making cell phone calls to friends/family saying, "You won't believe it; I just heard an astronaut talking live to us at our conference." Education & Technology Program Mark is making the final preparations for two sessions of the Teachers Institute to be held in June. One will be at the Parallax facility in Rocklin, CA and the other at Spokane Community College in Spokane, WA. A presentation proposal that Mark submitted last year for the NSTA conference in Denver this November has been accepted. The topic will be bringing space technology into the classroom. Volunteer Examiner Coordinator Reported by Maria Somma, AB1FM VEC had another busy and prosperous month! 565 exam sessions were received and processed in May (usually we process about 450 sessions a month). May exam fee revenue is approximately $49,500 and the year to date total through May is over $301,000. We are just shy of the 2006 year end total of $324,000. With 580 sessions already registered for June, and over 350 sessions registered for July, it doesn't look like business will be slowing down anytime soon. At the Dayton Hamvention, traffic was brisk at the VEC booth with visitors conveying positive feedback and comments about the VEC program. I handed out approximately 400 individual license forms information packets, 65 Club license forms information packets and 120 Prospective VE packages. I sold 136 VE patches, took in 17 applications for renewals or license changes and re-enlisted 23 VEs with expired accreditations. I have completed the work on designing five new versions of the General Element 3 written exam booklets and answer keys and the new template key (for use with the plastic overlay grading templates). These new items must be in use starting July 1, 2007 in conjunction with the new General class question pool effective that day. The job has been submitted to the printers and our new exams are due back on June 13. We will be packing, shipping and supplying all our Field Stocked VE teams (near 1,000) with these new test booklets and keys about the 3rd week in June. Our ExamWin Software will get updated too. Teams that use our exam generating software will be able to download the new version from our web site about mid-June. The below stats show our accomplishments so far this year. I included information from the same period last year for a comparison. In most sections of our program, we have seen a considerable increase in activity! ARRL VEC Stats January 1 through May 31, 2007. 3,048 Test Sessions Held -- Jan 1 to May 31, 2006 = 2,359 25,786 Candidates Served -- Jan 1 to May 31, 2006 = 12,983 30,192 Exam Elements Taken -- Jan 1 to May 31, 2006 = 15,719 1,034 New VEs Accredited -- Jan 1 to May 31, 2006 = 536 21,937 New and Upgrade License application forms transmitted to FCC -- Jan 1 to May 31, 2006 = 8,671 3,523 License Renewals and Changes transmitted to FCC -- 366 were Vanity license renewals 639 Club License apps. transmitted to FCC -- 102 were Club Vanity license renewals & 254 new clubs 5,440 VE Newsletter Subscribers 15 Donations collected by VEC ARRL - Web Statistics Reported by Hugh Brower May 2007 Page views: 7.9 million Avg. per day: 258.000 Unique visitors (month): 402,000 Most popular: Home page, News, F&ES, Contests, TIS, W1AW, FCC, Members Only, VEC, Catalog, Classifieds Visitors from: USA 84%, China 2%, Canada, France, Japan, UK (all 1% each) Top referring sites: Google, Yahoo, AC6V.com, SingingFish (AOL), MSN, DXZone.com, RFZone.org, QSL.net Number of visitors referred from Google (top site): 115,000 No. referred from Lycos (#10 search engine): 27 Top search phrases: ARRL, ARES, Field Day, LOTW, DXCC, QST, Ham Radio, Band Plan, Morse Code, AARL, Hamfest, certificate wording, Amateur Radio Sincerely Compiled by, Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Assistant to the CEO Staff Absentee List All Staff 7/4 Holiday Jon Bloom 6/15 Vacation Katie Breen 6/14-6/26 Vacation `` 6/28-7/1 Iowa State Convention `` 7/30-8/3 Vacation Joe Carcia 6/28-7/6 Vacation `` 7/13 Vacation `` 7/20 Vacation `` 7/27 Vacation `` 8/3-8/10 Vacation Steve Ewald 6/10-6/13 Citizen Corps Conference; Alexandria, VA Steve Ford 6/13-6/15 SNAP Publishing Conference, Washington, DC Perry Green 7/25-7/28 NCVEC Conference, Gettysburg, PA Mike Gruber 6/4-6/8 Vacation Joel Hallas 6/22 Vacation Ed Hare 7/8-7/13 EMC Society Symposium Committee Meeting, Honolulu, HI Dan Henderson 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 Bob Inderbitzen 6/8 Vacation `` 6/21-6/26 Vacation `` 7/16-7/20 Vacation Khrystyne Keane 6/7-6/10 West Gulf Division Convention, Plano, TX `` 6/11 Vacation Joel Kleinman 6/13-6/15 SNAP Publishing Conference, Washington, DC Zak Lau 6/21-6/22 Vacation Bill Moore 6/8-6/10 West Gulf Division Convention, Plano, TX Dave Patton 6/19-6/25 Friedrichshafen Germany Convention 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

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[arrl-odv:15662] Fwd: Field Day Officially Renamed to "National Emergency Communications Drill" in SDG Section
by Richard J. Norton 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

FYI - Thought you should at least be aware of this. I am not about to introduce any motions to rename Field Day, although there is some truth to the claim that it is ham radio jargon. KY6LA is an interesting and controversial character. He put up a big tower in La Jolla, an upscale neighborhood of San Diego. The tower raised ire in some of his politically powerful neighbors who attempted to get the city council to change ordinances to get it removed. Being a contentious pit bull with adequate financial resources, KY6LA appears to have beaten back such attempts. I notice his activities on the San Diego DX Club E-mail reflector, where he is always trying to get the members to participate in some sort of emergency communications. His messages are answered with, "We're a DX Club, not an emergency communications club," but that won't stop next week's message. 73, Dick Norton, N6AA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Howard S. White <DrPaper(a)kleega.com> Date: Jun 8, 2007 1:00 AM Subject: Field Day Officially Renamed to "National Emergency Communications Drill" in SDG Section To: SDGARES(a)yahoogroups.com Terry Runyon K3PXX has recently been appointed ARRL Assistant Section Manager for Communications and Public Information. Terry is charged with the responsibility of ARRL Section PR for Field Day for SD and Imperial Counties. Terry is already working with the media to generate as much PR as possible… Since Field Day is a meaningless name to everyone except died in the wool hams and continually fails to garner any traction with the media .. As ARRL ASM, Terry has Officially renamed Field Day in San Diego and Imperial Counties as "Nationwide Emergency Communications Drill - June 23, 2007" All Organizations in San Diego and Imperial Counties are encouraged to use the New Name. We hope the new name will spread through grass roots use to all ARRL Sections… so that the media will be able to understand that the even has some meaning. ________________________________________________________ Howard S. White Ph.D. P. Eng., VE3GFW/K6 ex-AE6SM KY6LA 6885 Paseo Laredo La Jolla, CA 92037 USA Cell: +1 (858) 229-9360 Fax: +1 (858) 551-1068 Email: drpaper(a)kleega.com ky6la(a)ky6la.com URL: www.ky6la.com www.sdgares.org Member ARES(r) National Task Force Digital Network Management Team Secretary: San Diego Amateur Radio Emergency Services Group Emergency Coordinator – Official Emergency Stations Trustee – Medical Operations Center W6MOC "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" "Ham Antennas Save Lives - Katrina, 2003 San Diego Fires, 911"

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[arrl-odv:15661] Re:: Re the Secret Society
by Jim Weaver 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

The vast majority of the following message was initially sent at 3:36 PM, but apparently disappeared in the hinter net. Joel, I certainly remember 73 and Wayne Green. As a naïve new licensee, I even joined his national organization, whatever it was called, as well as ARRL. Initially, I viewed him as being a member of the loyal opposition. It took me just a very short time to reach a different conclusion and dropped my subscription to 73 and membership. With all respect I dont feel it is legitimate to lump Moseson with Green. Wayne was on a vendetta against ARRL. I now may be a naïve old ausfart, but certainly do not see Rich as being on an anti-League crusade, nor do I anticipate he will begin such a crusade -- even if we were to provide a succinct, logical statement of position that would address his editorial. If we were to write to address his editorial, we would need to be forthright and admit where we might have done better, place perspective on what we did and, yes, defend and explain where we believe we did right. In my possibly-naïve view, I do not consider addressing the CQ editorial at all as illogical as though we were trying to answer a Wayne Green editorial. Speaking of picking up the telephone, how about picking up the phone and calling Rich to discuss the question of writing such an article? Please do not conclude that my position of difference with your decision represents displeasure with you, personally, or with the very excellent job you have been doing as ARRL President. I continue to support you and anticipate no change in this position. On the other hand, I do not believe my duty as Director and friend can be fulfilled by being a sycophant or maintaining silence. FWIW. Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: <mailto:k8je@arrl.org> k8je(a)arrl.org; Tel.: 513-459-0142 ARRL - The Reason Amateur Radio Is! Members - The Reason ARRL Is! -----Original Message----- From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5zn@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:37 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: Re the Secret Society I mentioned I disagreed with Jays position regarding the CQ editorial, and heres why. Does anyone remember Wayne Green? If you do you apparently have forgotten that he slashed ARRL every month in his editorial. If we had spent the time responding to his accusations and considerable lack of facts we would never have been able to accomplish anything other than monthly responses to Wayne Green and that would have help him achieve his goal of exactly what he was trying to do; draw attention to himself. Fast forward to today when there is no 73 Magazine and only CQ. This is not the first time Rich has taken a slap at ARRL, there have been several. The most recent one prior to this was when he took us to task and slammed us for printing a book for new hams that was oriented toward HF operating. He obviously thought that was the popular thing for him to do at the time but look at CQ now.trying to catch up because they totally missed the mark! If you look at CQs subscription numbers, theyre nothing to brag about. Last year their average subscriptions were 20,750, however recent numbers suggest their subscriptions have declined to around 20,600 our so. Im sure they will receive a boost with the recent interest in HF operating, but the magazine and articles are aimed mostly toward the seasoned operator and really have nothing of substance (my opinion). They do publish another 11,000 copies of the magazine that are distributed to dealers and news stands, some of which are returned in accordance with the no-sale return clause with many news stand distributors. I imagine it is pretty touch for Rich being CQ Editor and having to stare at a blank editorial page every month with the task of filling it up. If you dont think it is, just ask Dave who has the same task on our side. Dave, of course, chooses to take the high road and address pertinent topics to hams rather than take cheep shots at other amateur radio organizations and thats a hard job..its very easy to fill up a page with rants, attacks and personal opinions. Rich has generally been supportive of our efforts, however Im convinced he (and CQ) is feeling the sting of no growth and stagnation in the current market while we are not only growing in just about all areas but the atmosphere and environment at HQ of how much fun amateur radio and operating on the air are is being funneled out into the amateur community and stirring up interest and excitement there as well. Our staff has been doing things with blogs and UTube videos that have generated over 40,000 viewings (more than CQs subscriber base!) with exciting, positive things about amateur radio that hams are excited about. This current situation reminds me of the Alltel commercials on TV (some of you may not see them) where things are really great at Alltel, lots of great services that people are excited about that the others (AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile) cant stand so all they can come up with are bad things to say about and do to Alltel. So, why not respond to Rich most recent editorial? First, most of his facts are correct but his conclusions are totally wrong and a matter of opinion based on his incorrect conclusions. Formally responding to him does nothing but fuel the fire he is trying to start and give him the fight he is looking for to promote his own cause to generate support for his opinion. A formal response from ARRL to CQ would give his opinion considerable support. The Red Cross issue is the more unfortunate of the two issues. As you know, there was good reason why we did not publish an update concerning background checks for almost four weeks after the March 20 meeting. The reason is we were waiting for a response to an action item from the Red Cross. Sadly, Rich as no day-to-day experience with meetings of this nature in todays times. He works mostly from home and just doesnt understand that today you very seldom walk out of meetings with agreements. You walk out of most meetings today with action items that are resolved and then final agreement comes at that time. If we formally confront Rich on these points we either say bad things publicly about the Red Cross (not a good idea at all) or we say Rich is a moron for not understanding how meetings are handled today. Either way, we make matters worse. Quite frankly, the matter of RM-11306 and the ex-parte filing is old news now. We have addressed our actions via ARRLWeb and literally thousands of personal emails to individual members and non-members alike who asked us, not CQ, and we gave them straight answers. We have been timely and upfront about Red Cross background checks and we have received nothing but praise for keeping our members informed on the issue. Of course, the issue Rich is trying to raise with these two specific topics is secrecy. Aside from what we publish on the web and in our periodicals if you communicate well with the ARRL members in your division, and most of you do very well, then they know this is utter nonsense. This specific matter is one that is best dealt with offline. Dave sees Rich occasionally and usually meets with the CQ folks once a year or so and this matter is a topic to discuss at that time if it so warrants. In fact, CQ had a booth this past weekend at the Rochester Convention and I had hoped Rich would be there so I could chat with him. Unfortunately, he wasnt there (nor were very many others at their booth either). I want each of you to know that I hear you and fully understand your concern about perception, especially negative perception among the amateur community toward ARRL. If you dont believe it bothers me and causes me to lose some sleep at nights you just dont know me very well. But I have to step back and look at things as a whole right now. Sure, we get a few specific complaints that are immediately addressed and resolved but overall the League is held in high regard and things are going very well for us. I have not had one person.not one come up to me at a hamfest (including our very large ARRL Expo at Dayton) this year to tell me how bad we are. Quite the contrary.they come up to tell me how pleased they are with ARRL and the direction we are taking, how great our publications are, how responsive the staff is and most important, how many are getting back on the air after a long period of inactivity. Dave can tell you I am very, very sensitive toward any action on our part that might disrupt this current trend. Did I like Richs editorial? Nopeto be blunt, it pissed me off to no end. Given the above, though, I dont believe a formal response to fuel a fire he is trying to start is a good idea in this case and I prefer to save our fights for ones that are really important to amateur radio and ARRL. This one is not and can be adequately dealt with off-line at an appropriate time...sooner if future action on their part warrants. 73 Joe W5ZN p.s. I am a member of a secret society.The Royal Order of the Wouff Hong and I do know the secret hand shake and the secret password!

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