January 2008 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

WINLINK PMBOs -- On the air or not?
by w3kd＠aol.com 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Please keep this confidential, as it deals with my Board Report, which is confidential. It is necessary to clarify item 18, page 23, paragraph 3, dealing with WINLINK 2000 PMBOs. I had stated that: "(a)ccording to Dan Henderson, most of these HF PMBOs have been taken off the air due to the regulatory compliance issues." Director Norton took it upon himself to contact Steve Waterman, the most vocal advocate of WINLINK 2000, and Steve took issue with the assertion. And for good reason. Dan had actually said something quite different, and I mistook his statement to me. What Dan had actually said was that, of the PMBOs operated by the original?WINLINK Design Team, all but one has taken his or her HF PMBO off the air due to regulatory compliance concerns. Dan stands behind that statement, though he?is not a WINLINK operator and does not have first hand knowledge of the fact,?his information is believed reliable. I apologize for the misunderstanding, which?was mine and not Dan's. Thanks also to Director Norton for?researching and correcting?the error. However, it is noteworthy that the control issues inherent in WINLINK 2000 that the Board was briefed about in July have apparently not been addressed (except by Mr. Waterman, who has consistently denied that there is an issue), and the Board's offer, last July,?to assist in addressing the control and other compliance issues has not been accepted by anyone,?to my knowledge or that of Hollingsworth or Cross. The point of Item 18 of my report was that the control issues that are at least perceived to exist by Hollingsworth (and?Cross)?have not been addressed, and apparently are of sufficient concern to the WINLINK Design team that they have taken steps to protect their own licenses by taking their own PMBOs off the air. 73, Chris W3KD ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com

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A Little Humor
by Joel Harrison 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Don't show this to your non-ham spouse, but this was kinda funny!! ZN On 19 Jan 2008 at 5:58, FireBrick wrote: > Last night my Wife and I were sitting in the den and I said to her, > > "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and > fluids from a bottle to keep me alive. That would be no quality of life at > all, If that ever happens, just pull the plug." > > So she got up, closed DXLabs, unplugged the computer & radio, and threw out my > beer.

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FW: CQ December Editorial
by Joel Harrison 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

My follow-up response to Rich's letter. _____ From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5zn@arrl.org] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 11:11 AM To: 'w2vu(a)cq-amateur-radio.com' Subject: RE: CQ December Editorial Dear Rich: I am disappointed that my December 4 letter apparently was not sufficiently clear. Let me try again. The first and most important point is that the new Region 2 band plan is not the result of an ARRL initiative and is not based on RM-11306. It is clearly and incontrovertibly based on the Region 1 plan that was adopted in 2005, building on an agreement in principle that was reached by the Region 1 member-societies in 2002. Your cited source of news about the Region 2 conference, Radio Amateurs of Canada, included this fact in its news release announcing the results of the conference, yet you somehow managed to avoid including it either in your editorial or in your news brief on page 4. The ARRL is the largest and indeed, the most influential amateur radio organization in the world. I have not suggested otherwise. However, that is not the issue. The issue is whether the ARRL has used its influence to promote regulation by bandwidth via the IARU, as (in your words) an "end-run." There is ample evidence that this is not the case, if you choose to look at it. I do indeed understand the main point of your editorial and have no quarrel with your desire for transparency in the ARRL's decision making. I appreciate your recognition that the ARRL conducted an open process in developing its original RM-11306 petition. We conducted a similar open process in revising the ARRL 160-meter band plan in 2001; see the committee report at: http://www.arrl.org/announce/reports-0107/160-meter.html and the Board action that followed, at Minute 57 of the July 2001 Board Meeting: http://www.arrl.org/announce/board-0107/ By the way, nothing that was done in Brasilia alters that Board-adopted band plan in any way. Your observation that "wideband digital modes would be permitted for the first time in the traditional phone bands" is simply incorrect. At present there is no bandwidth limitation on digital voice and image transmissions in those parts of the band. Similarly, your observation in the same paragraph regarding AM and "other wider-than-SSB analog modes" (what exactly are they?) is incorrect; these modes are already subject to Section 97.307(a) and would not be further restricted for the reasons explained in my sixth paragraph. Finally, nowhere did I suggest that participants in ARRL contests are any more observant of band plans than those in CQ contests. There is no question but that the Region 2 band planning process can be improved and that the band plan itself can be further improved. I hope that you will give our efforts in those directions a fair evaluation as we move forward. 73 Joel W5ZN ________________________________________ From: Richard Moseson [mailto:w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:53 PM To: w5zn(a)arrl.org Subject: Re: CQ December Editorial Hi Joel -- Please see the attached for my reply to your letter. 73, Rich W2VU

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FW: CQ December Editorial
by Joel Harrison 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Tonight during our informal session, some of you indicated you had not seen Rich Moseson's response to my letter regarding the December CQ editorial. It is attached. I a few moments I'll forward my follow-up. Joel _____ From: Richard Moseson [mailto:w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:53 PM To: w5zn(a)arrl.org Subject: Re: CQ December Editorial Hi Joel -- Please see the attached for my reply to your letter. 73, Rich W2VU

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[arrl-odv:16353] N5ZGT staying behind...
by Brian Mileshosky 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi Everyone -- Regrettably, I'm not going to make Houston this weekend; I had a project that I'm running at work take a dump in such a way that it would be detrimental if I were not in the lab on Thursday and Friday (probably the weekend, too). Believe me, I'd much rather be in the Board room than at work. I've been in touch with President Harrison and Vice-Director Allen to explain the situation. I have full confidence in Dwayne sitting at the front table in my absence, and ask that everyone assist him as needed since this is his first board meeting in any fashion and will be on a learning curve like Director Sarratt. As for my Scouting report I've asked (via email) Bill N3LLR and/or Jim K9JF to speak to it on my behalf. My apologies to each of you, but unfortunately first-thing's-first. I wish you all a very productive meeting, and look forward to hearing about it afterwards. I'll make it up in July, y'all! 73, Brian N5ZGT ARRL Director, Rocky Mountain Division

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[arrl-odv:16352] Doc #18 - Ethics and Elections
by Tom Frenaye 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Better late than never. I just didn't want to go back a revisit all of the interesting correspondence the committee had since the July meeting... -- 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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ad hoc Committee on Scouting report (#27)
by Brian Mileshosky 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

All - Sorry for the delay.please find attached the report for the ARRL ad hoc Committee on Scouting. See y'all in Houston! 73 and Yours in Scouting, Brian Mileshosky, N5ZGT ARRL Director, Rocky Mountain Division

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RE: Thursday Night
by Joel Harrison 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Just one bit of clarification to my hastily sent message below...this will NOT be a session where we will work on, revise or update the plan so it is not going to be an "all-nighter" in any stretch of the imagination. This will be a brief status of where we are with the plan and how we should get back on track and refocused. There may be couple of resulting items the board may want to address Friday or Saturday so that is the purpose for utilizing Thursday evening with this as the primary topic. Joel _____ From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5zn@arrl.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:41 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: Thursday Night On January 3, the Vice President's and I got together via a teleconference to discuss a few issue for the board meeting. One item was the primary topic for Thursday evening. One of the VP's suggested, and we all unanimously agreed, that we should discuss our strategic plan in an effort to get back on track and refocus. This will also be good for our new members that will be attending to be briefed as well. So, that will be our primary topic for the evening. If a director has something else on his mind there should be time for that as well. C U Thursday. 73 Joel W5ZN

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Board Reports
by Joel Harrison 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

There are still six outstanding board reports, two of which have advised me would be a day late. You know who you are so please submit those as ASAP. I want to take this opportunity to thank each of you that cooperated and submitted your reports on time. This not only allows us to have an opportunity to review them ahead of time but it gives Lisa and our support staff amble time to prepare our board meeting books in a complete manner. 73 Joel W5ZN

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Thursday Night
by Joel Harrison 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

On January 3, the Vice President's and I got together via a teleconference to discuss a few issue for the board meeting. One item was the primary topic for Thursday evening. One of the VP's suggested, and we all unanimously agreed, that we should discuss our strategic plan in an effort to get back on track and refocus. This will also be good for our new members that will be attending to be briefed as well. So, that will be our primary topic for the evening. If a director has something else on his mind there should be time for that as well. C U Thursday. 73 Joel W5ZN

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