June 2007 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

RE: [arrl-odv:15648] Travel Information Request
by Joel Harrison 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

2007 June 9-10 ARRL VHF Contest - W5ZN June 22-24 Ham Radio 2007 - Friedrichshafen, Germany July 19-22 ARRL 2007 Second Meeting, Board of Directors - Hartford, CT July 27-29 Central States VHF Society Conference - San Antonio, TX August 11-12 ARRL UHF Contest - W5ZN August 11-16 Vacation August 17-19 ARRL National Convention - Huntsville, AL September 9-15 IARU Region II Conference - Brasilia, Brazil September 22-23 Great Lakes Division Convention - Cleveland, OH November 3-4 ARRL Sweepstakes CW - W5ZN November 9-11 Midwest Division Convention - Lebanon, MO December 1-2 ARRL 160 Meter Contest - W5ZN December 17 - January 12, 2008 No public events will be scheduled. 2008 January 17-20 2008 Annual Meeting - ARRL Board July 17-29 2008 Second Meeting - ARRL Board _____ From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:45 AM To: arrl-odv Cc: Patton, David NN1N; Iannone, Gail Subject: [arrl-odv:15648] Travel Information Request Hi, Gail, Dave Patton and I are pulling together a more comprehensive calendar for Hamfests and Conventions to get a better management handle on our overall hamfest objectives and travel expenses. If you are planning to attend a Hamfest or Convention, if possible, please let Gail know so that she can add it to the calendar. Once we have assembled all of the information, we will share it with you electronically. Thanks for your help, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: hkramer(a)arrl.org web: <http://www.arrl.org/> www.arrl.org/

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[arrl-odv:15648] Travel Information Request
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, Gail, Dave Patton and I are pulling together a more comprehensive calendar for Hamfests and Conventions to get a better management handle on our overall hamfest objectives and travel expenses. If you are planning to attend a Hamfest or Convention, if possible, please let Gail know so that she can add it to the calendar. Once we have assembled all of the information, we will share it with you electronically. Thanks for your help, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: hkramer(a)arrl.org web: www.arrl.org/ <http://www.arrl.org/>

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[arrl-odv:15647] E-newsletter for ARRL Instructors and Teachers
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, I am sending a link to the May edition of our new e-newsletter for ARRL instructors and teachers to everyone on the Board. Debra Johnson now writes this monthly newsletter. Since, we have received many positive comments about our renewed support for our instructors and educational efforts; I thought that you might want to have a look at it. I sent a copy to the Program and Services Committee last week, so sorry to the members of that Committee for the redundancy. http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/InstructorNews0507.pdf 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: hkramer(a)arrl.org web: www.arrl.org/ <http://www.arrl.org/>

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[arrl-odv:15645] ARRL.org e-mail outage
by Shelley, Barry, N1VXY 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

In case you heard from any members, yesterday (Sunday) from about 8 am until 6:30 pm one of the servers that processes arrl.org e-mail was down, the result of a software failure which resulted in the arrl.org aliases being lost temporarily. This particular outage meant that messages sent to arrl.org addresses were returned to the senders with an "addressee unknown" message. The situation was noted and corrected by the ISP. No arrl.net messages were affected. The server has been back up since last evening and is processing messages routinely. A new script (proprietary commands written specifically for our e-mail processing) is being created today by our ISP to facilitate processing. In addition and a related matter, they will add two more servers to process ARRL-related e-mail messages. ARRL.org messages will be processed on their own unique mail servers at the ISP. While not being the cause of yesterday's outage, the volume of arrl.net messages has grown so dramatically to the point where it is affecting the processing and delivery of arrl.org messages. Current volume is generating almost 1 million attempts to connect to arrl.net addresses per day, with about 80% of them being invalid (not valid arrl.net addresses or obvious spam). Dealing with this wave of messages was slowing arrl.org processing. The new servers will be in place by the end of the week. 73, Barry J. Shelley, N1VXY Chief Financial Officer ARRL, Inc.--The national association for Amateur Radio 225 Main St. Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: (860) 594-0212 E-mail: bshelley(a)arrl.org Web: www.arrl.org

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[arrl-odv:15646] Pave Paws Radar Interference from 440 MHz repeaters
by w3kd＠aol.com 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

The following is my third attempt to send this. Chris W3KD Greetings. I am forwarding for your review the final response of the Air Force Frequency Management Agency (dated June 1, 2007) to ARRL's proposal (sent April 23, 2007) for a means of resolving interference to Pave Paws radars at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod, MA and at Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, CA in the 420-450 MHz band. This is a favorable result, so far, on an issue that could otherwise have gone very badly, since the Air Force had, prior to our involvement, asked the FCC to shut down the 100 or so 440 MHz repeaters in northern California and the fifteen near Cape Cod. Doubtless, they would have prevailed except that we provided an alternative plan that should be better outcome. Ed Hare is now engaged in running a huge number of Longley-Rice propagation studies for each subject repeater, and Dan Henderson is doing yeoman service as the point man for the repeater owners. It is critical in this process that the Air Force have a single point of contact in this matter, and we have Riley Hollingsworth's assurance that he, and his associate, George Dillon, at FCC's Enforcement Bureau, will cooperate with us in making sure there are no rogue actions by any of the repeater licensees and trustees. Dan is preparing a letter which will go out imminently to the repeater owners, and it will include a copy of the June 1, Air Force letter and our letter to the Air Force dated April 23. This is a short fuse issue, however, since the Air Force, essentially unilaterally, has imposed three critical deadlines: June 15 for the Longley Rice study results to be provided to the Air Force by ARRL; June 15 for the Air Force to provide its engineering data and recommendations to ARRL for maximum required power for each repeater; Jun 30 for a joint review of the data, calculations and mitigation proposals for each repeater; and August 1 for final interference resolution. This timetable is not exactly as we had proposed, but it is a not unworkable one from the perspective of Henderson, Hare, Rinaldo and me, I believe. We are hoping for a great deal of cooperation from the repeater owners, and the ARRL laboratory will carefully scrutinize the technical data and recommendations from the Air Force to make sure that any proposals are not unnecessarily burdensome on the subject repeaters. The concern, of course, is that some repeaters, located close to the radar antenna, might not be able to continue operation where they are. We will have to consider possible remedies for those displaced repeaters so as to permit rebanding or relocation, and perhaps some means of offsetting the costs of the remedial action. Let me or Dan Henderson know any questions you have on this, and kudos to Paul Rinaldo, Ed Hare and Dan for their good, fast work on this difficult project. 73, Chris W3KD -----Original Message----- From: Moorefield Fred Civ AFFMA To: w3kd(a)aol.com; prinaldo(a)arrl.org; dsumner(a)arrl.org; w5zn(a)arrl.org; k1ki(a)arrl.org; w6rgg(a)arrl.org Cc: Klabunde Gary Col AFFMA ; Sulick Joe Civ AFFMA ; Bloxom Graham Maj AFFMA/DO ; Bruhl Jay Lt Col AFFMA/DO Sent: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 4:31 pm Subject: AF Counter-Proposal To Resolve HAM Radio Interference to PAVE PAWS Radar Chris, Paul, and All, As promised, attached is the AF counter to the ARRL proposal to begin to mmediately address and ultimately resolve the interference from certain mateur Radio repeater stations operating in the 420-450 MHz band to ave Paws radar stations in the areas of Beale and Otis Air Force Bases. e look forward to working this issue with you and appreciate the pportunity to do so in a cooperative, informal manner. f you have any concerns with our counter-proposal please let me know nd we can address those concerns immediately. ave a great weekend, Regards, red ________________________________________________________________________ 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:15642] test
by Bob Vallio 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

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[arrl-odv:15641] ARRL.ORG addresses failing
by Andy Oppel 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Greetings, Bob Vallio and I discovered today that neither of our arrl.org addresses is working. Mail addressed to w6rgg(a)arrl.org and n6ajo(a)arrl.org is being returned with the error "550 unknown user". I don't know if other arrl.org addresses are affected or not. 73, Andy Oppel, N6AJO Vice Director, Pacific Division American Radio Relay League (ARRL) The National Association for Amateur Radio n6ajo(a)arrl.org home: (510) 864-2299 cell: (510) 851-6214

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[arrl-odv:15640] Atlantic Division Convention
by Harrison, Joel 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

I'll be in Rochester, NY this weekend for the Atlantic Division Convention with Director Edgar. This will be my first opportunity to attend this event that I've heard a number of good things about. A report will follow. Here's hoping all of you will have an enjoyable weekend. 73 Joel W5ZN

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