February 2008 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:16504] FW: [QRP-L] Interference on the bands
by K8JE 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

I believe the following "complaint" is one we can ignore. Hi! Some of you may have seen the post on the QRP reflector. Forwarded to me by a member for a chuckle. "The worst thing I encounter on the QRP frequencies is QRN. Now why hasn't the ARRL done anything about that? "We pay our dues year after year and get no relief. "QRPers should have a clear channel free of QRM, QRN, and QSB just like the telephone. "Hey....." 73, 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! ______________________________________________________________ QRP-L mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/qrp-l Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:QRP-L@mailman.qth.net

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Re: Pave Paws Radars -- QST Article
by w3kd＠aol.com 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Brian, thanks. I didn't know of your status, but thanks. We will mention this to Fred Moorefield as well. I do realize that the decision is the Air Force's whether to extend their confidences in this area, and it may go nowhere, but Dan and I thought it worth a mention to Fred anyway. He seemed receptive. 73, Chris W3KD -----Original Message----- From: Brian Mileshosky <n5zgt(a)swcp.com> To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Cc: dhenderson(a)arrl.org Sent: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:15 am Subject: RE: Pave Paws Radars -- QST Article Chris (et al) – Board confidential. I have an active high-level clearance and a secure telephone on my desk at work. If appropriate with folks on my end, and if the Air Force is willing to extend need-to-know (the biggest challenge since a clearance, no matter what kind, means nothing without NTK), I would be happy to engage in communications with them. 73, Brian N5ZGT ARRL Director, Rocky Mountain Division From: w3kd(a)aol.com [mailto:w3kd@aol.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 7:20 AM To: arrl-odv Cc: dhenderson(a)arrl.org Subject: Pave Paws Radars -- QST Article Greetings. Dan Henderson asked me to edit his article on Pave Paws Radars for QST. I did so and he has now completed the piece and sent it to production. I think Dan has done a bang-up job of candidly telling people what is going on, what ARRL's role is in this process, the difficulties we have had in addressing it, and our ultimate reliance on FCC to protect the low level of entitlements of Amateur licensees here. I thought you should have a copy of it right away, and Dan sent the final version along so you could be alerted in advance. Please keep this article to yourselves until it is published in QST, but you must of course be able to respond to inquries about the issue, and this should help you do so. There are ongoing negotiations with the Air Force, of course, not all of which are discussed in this piece. We are scheduled to have our next conference call with them next week. We have candidly told them of our concern with their processes, and Fred Moorefield at the Air Force Spectrum Management Agency has pledged to calm the waters for us somewhat. We will see. The only other aspect of this that is not in the article (and please keep this entirely confidential) is that we have asked Moorefield to consider whether or not the fact that two of our incumbent Board members have high-level security clearances might allow the Air Force to provide to them some of the details of the radar's interference susceptibility. While they could not disclose that information, we would of course accept their assurance that the interference mitigation called for by the Air Force is actually necessary in the case of each repeater. We are in no position to accept that assurance ! from the Air Force directly. 73, Chris W3KD More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail! ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com

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[arrl-odv:16502] RE: [arrl-odv:16500] FW: ARRL Conference Proceedings - back up on the web
by Hobart, Mary K1MMH 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Good morning all, I had some inquiries here in Orlando about purcfhasing the repeater directory as a download purchase. Sounds likea good idea to me. Mary ________________________________ From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Fri 2/8/2008 2:30 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Inderbitzen, Bob, NQ1R; Cornell,Jacqueline, KB1PWB; Ford, Steve, WB8IMY Subject: [arrl-odv:16500] FW: ARRL Conference Proceedings - back up on the web Hi, I have had some inquiries regarding the status of the 2007 Conference Proceedings. These are now all digitally printed and available on lulu.com. As explained below, Bob and Jackie have added them to the catalog and the Web site. Harold ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Inderbitzen, Bob, NQ1R Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:35 PM Subject: ARRL Conference Proceedings - back up on the web Jackie has populated the e-store with all of the 2007 conference proceedings, and with links to lulu for ordering. There's also a secondary page with a summary of all of the 2007 proceedings: http://www.arrl.org/catalog/proc07.html. This is the marketing model we'll follow as new proceedings are published (before the conference occurs). These books can all be located within the e-store, www.arrl.org/catalog. Or, type "2007 conference" in the full ARRL site search, and you'll get a list of publication matches in the results located along the right-side. 73, Bob, NQ1R

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RE: Pave Paws Radars -- QST Article
by Brian Mileshosky 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Chris (et al) - Board confidential. I have an active high-level clearance and a secure telephone on my desk at work. If appropriate with folks on my end, and if the Air Force is willing to extend need-to-know (the biggest challenge since a clearance, no matter what kind, means nothing without NTK), I would be happy to engage in communications with them. 73, Brian N5ZGT ARRL Director, Rocky Mountain Division _____ From: w3kd(a)aol.com [mailto:w3kd@aol.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 7:20 AM To: arrl-odv Cc: dhenderson(a)arrl.org Subject: Pave Paws Radars -- QST Article Greetings. Dan Henderson asked me to edit his article on Pave Paws Radars for QST. I did so and he has now completed the piece and sent it to production. I think Dan has done a bang-up job of candidly telling people what is going on, what ARRL's role is in this process, the difficulties we have had in addressing it, and our ultimate reliance on FCC to protect the low level of entitlements of Amateur licensees here. I thought you should have a copy of it right away, and Dan sent the final version along so you could be alerted in advance. Please keep this article to yourselves until it is published in QST, but you must of course be able to respond to inquries about the issue, and this should help you do so. There are ongoing negotiations with the Air Force, of course, not all of which are discussed in this piece. We are scheduled to have our next conference call with them next week. We have candidly told them of our concern with their processes, and Fred Moorefield at the Air Force Spectrum Management Agency has pledged to calm the waters for us somewhat. We will see. The only other aspect of this that is not in the article (and please keep this entirely confidential) is that we have asked Moorefield to consider whether or not the fact that two of our incumbent Board members have high-level security clearances might allow the Air Force to provide to them some of the details of the radar's interference susceptibility. While they could not disclose that information, we would of course accept their assurance that the interference mitigation called for by the Air Force is actually necessary in the case of each repeater. We are in no position to accept that assurance ! from the Air Force directly. 73, Chris W3KD _____ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail <http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=ao lcmp00050000000003> !

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[arrl-odv:16500] FW: ARRL Conference Proceedings - back up on the web
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I have had some inquiries regarding the status of the 2007 Conference Proceedings. These are now all digitally printed and available on lulu.com. As explained below, Bob and Jackie have added them to the catalog and the Web site. Harold ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Inderbitzen, Bob, NQ1R Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:35 PM Subject: ARRL Conference Proceedings - back up on the web Jackie has populated the e-store with all of the 2007 conference proceedings, and with links to lulu for ordering. There's also a secondary page with a summary of all of the 2007 proceedings: http://www.arrl.org/catalog/proc07.html. This is the marketing model we'll follow as new proceedings are published (before the conference occurs). These books can all be located within the e-store, www.arrl.org/catalog. Or, type "2007 conference" in the full ARRL site search, and you'll get a list of publication matches in the results located along the right-side. 73, Bob, NQ1R

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[arrl-odv:16499] Re:Pave Paws Radars -- QST Article
by Andy Oppel 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Dan and Chris, Very nice work on this! It reads well and I think it covers the issue as well as we can do given the level of information that we are allowed to share with our membership. -- Andy Oppel, N6AJO At 06:20 AM 2/8/2008, w3kd(a)aol.com wrote: >Greetings. Dan Henderson asked me to edit his article on Pave Paws >Radars for QST. I did so and he has now completed the piece and sent >it to production. > ><snip> 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) 912-0985

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Pave Paws Radars -- QST Article
by w3kd＠aol.com 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Greetings. Dan Henderson asked me to edit his article on Pave Paws Radars for QST. I did so and he has now completed the piece and sent it to production. I think Dan has done a bang-up job of candidly telling people what is going on, what ARRL's role is in this?process, the difficulties we have had in addressing it, and our ultimate reliance on FCC to protect the low level of entitlements of?Amateur licensees?here. I thought you should have a copy of it right away, and Dan sent the final version along so you could be alerted in advance. Please keep this article to yourselves until it is published in QST, but you must of course be able to respond to inquries about the issue, and this should help you do so. There are ongoing negotiations with the Air Force, of course, not all of?which are discussed in this piece.?We are scheduled to have our next conference call with them next week. We have candidly told them of our concern with their processes, and Fred Moorefield at the Air Force Spectrum Management Agency has pledged to calm the waters for us somewhat. We will see. The only other aspect of this that is not in the article (and please keep this entirely confidential)?is that we have asked Moorefield to consider whether or not the fact that two of our incumbent Board members have high-level security clearances might allow the Air Force to provide to them some of the details of the radar's interference susceptibility. While they could not disclose that information, we would of course accept their assurance that the interference mitigation called for by the Air Force is actually necessary in the case of each repeater. We are in no position to accept that assurance from the Air Force directly. 73, Chris W3KD ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com

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[arrl-odv:16497] K1ZZ/6
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Friday morning I am flying to Sacramento to visit Linda for a few days. I will back in the office next Thursday, the 14th. I will be checking email fairly regularly. Dave K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:16496] Re: Comments Please - division website hosting
by andy＠andyoppel.com 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

However, hosting a few pages where SMs have limited editing capability for some fields on pages is far different from hosting entire sites. To host sites, the webmaster needs a home directory that they own with the ability to create subdirectories, upload files (usually via ftp), change file permissions, install software (e.g. MySQL database for wiki content), create new users (e.g. Section webmasters) and give them limited access to content. Hosting sites provide applications to do all this, and the league would have to either build or buy this capability. On top of all that, do you really want non-employees uploading files to a corporate web server? There are a lot of things that could go wrong. -- Andy Oppel, N6AJO > Bob, ours is pretty low-cost and donated by the meister. Uniformity of > URLs > might be a good reason to look at your idea. > http://www.arrlmidwest.org/ > > Bruce K0BJ > > -- > BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 52776592) is spam: > Spam: > http://spam.st-tel.net/canit/b.php?i=52776592&m=6fe9e75d4d36&c=s > Not spam: > http://spam.st-tel.net/canit/b.php?i=52776592&m=6fe9e75d4d36&c=n > Forget vote: > http://spam.st-tel.net/canit/b.php?i=52776592&m=6fe9e75d4d36&c=f > ------------------------------------------------------ > END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS > >

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RE: [arrl-odv:16492] Operational Enhancements
by Bill Edgar 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Harold, Excellent! - Bill N3LLR From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:24 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Bloom, Jon, KE3Z; Hurtado, Amy KB1NXO Subject: [arrl-odv:16492] Operational Enhancements Hi, We have just activated some additional operational enhancements based on the work of the Web-Seibel team: 1. The member data change pages on our Web site have now gone "live." Members can now change their information, such as their address, on the Web site, and we do not have to re-key it manually. 2. All membership information either entered on the Web or in Siebel here at HQ, is now entered into our system within 15 minutes. (Note: an entry may take longer if there are potential problems with the information that need to be resolved by manual review.) Previously the internal manual process could back up membership orders for days. Thanks to Jon Bloom, John Proctor and Amy Hurtado 3. We can now enter credit cards much faster in DxCC. Typical processing time has gone from 15 minutes to 30 seconds. This enhancement will help us to speed up processing of DxCC applications. If you have not seen the Web story about the DxCC backlog, it is located at: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/02/07/100/?nc=1 . 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: <http://www.arrl.org/> www.arrl.org/

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