May 2008 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:16734] Re:Web Updates
by dick＠pobox.com 08 May '08

08 May '08

8 MAR 2008 - 1348 CDT I'm in total agreement with Jay Bellows' message about Yaesu's sponsorship of LoTW. I would also like to know what Yaesu is paying us. I'll bet it is not even close to half of what we have spent on LoTW. In fact, I wonder if there was any consideration of payment for our development cost? I don't like it, and I'm glad the contract is only for one year. I still believe the original business model is sound (payment for DXCC credits) even though it has taken us a long time to get to this point with LoTW. It will pay off faster if and when we start expanding LoTW's use to include other ARRL and non-ARRL operating award programs. Do we really need to sell banner advertising on LoTW? - Dick, W9GIG

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FW: [arrl-odv:16731] Web Updates
by John Bellows 08 May '08

08 May '08

Has Yaesu agreed to consideration equal to more than one-half the cost of development and operation of Logbook of the World? If not characterization of that fine company as Principal Sponsor of Logbook of the World is a flat-out falsehood and totally dismisses the fact the members of ARRL have paid the cost of creating and maintaining this fine service. Are we so strapped for cash that we are willing to sell one of the more significant new ARRL services of the last decade for a few pieces of silver? At least the Board was told of the decision prior to the general announcement at Dayton. Whats next The Hiram Percy Maxim Award sponsored by Kenwood? If ARRL is reduced to auctioning off its soul a piece at a time I sure hope the sale price was worth it.. 73, Jay, KØQB -----Original Message----- From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:37 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Jahnke, Deb, K1DAJ Subject: [arrl-odv:16731] Web Updates Hi, 1. We have added a link to www.QTH.com <http://www.qth.com/> at the URL where the Radios On-Line was previously located on our Web site. In exchange for linking to them, we have made an informal business arrangement to receive some banner ads on their site. This is a non-exclusive arrangement. We are willing to work out a similar arrangement with any other on-line amateur radio sales site. Heres what is on our page now : http://www.arrl.org/classifieds/ 2. Yaesu has become the Principal Sponsor of Logbook of the World. This essentially means that they get a banner ad at the top of the LOTW Web pages and some bragging rights. The term of the agreement is for one year. I did want everyone to know that Yaesu will be posting in a banner with Yaesu -Principal Sponsor of Logbook of the World in their booth at Dayton. They would like to keep this information confidential until Dayton. This is the first time that we have been able to seriously pursue advertising for the LOTW site. The turning point was when we exceeded 20,000 registered Logbook users. Thanks to Deb Jahnke for working out these arrangements. 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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RE: [arrl-odv:16731] Web Updates
by Joel Harrison 08 May '08

08 May '08

And how much revenue do we receive from Yaesu for their "Principal Sponsorship" of LoTW?? _____ From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:37 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Jahnke, Deb, K1DAJ Subject: [arrl-odv:16731] Web Updates Hi, 1. We have added a link to www.QTH.com <http://www.qth.com/> at the URL where the Radios On-Line was previously located on our Web site. In exchange for linking to them, we have made an informal business arrangement to receive some banner ads on their site. This is a non-exclusive arrangement. We are willing to work out a similar arrangement with any other on-line amateur radio sales site. Here's what is on our page now : http://www.arrl.org/classifieds/ 2. Yaesu has become the "Principal Sponsor of Logbook of the World." This essentially means that they get a banner ad at the top of the LOTW Web pages and some bragging rights. The term of the agreement is for one year. I did want everyone to know that Yaesu will be posting in a banner with "Yaesu -Principal Sponsor of Logbook of the World" in their booth at Dayton. They would like to keep this information confidential until Dayton. This is the first time that we have been able to seriously pursue advertising for the LOTW site. The turning point was when we exceeded 20,000 registered Logbook users. Thanks to Deb Jahnke for working out these arrangements. 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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[arrl-odv:16731] Web Updates
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, 1. We have added a link to www.QTH.com <http://www.qth.com/> at the URL where the Radios On-Line was previously located on our Web site. In exchange for linking to them, we have made an informal business arrangement to receive some banner ads on their site. This is a non-exclusive arrangement. We are willing to work out a similar arrangement with any other on-line amateur radio sales site. Here's what is on our page now : http://www.arrl.org/classifieds/ 2. Yaesu has become the "Principal Sponsor of Logbook of the World." This essentially means that they get a banner ad at the top of the LOTW Web pages and some bragging rights. The term of the agreement is for one year. I did want everyone to know that Yaesu will be posting in a banner with "Yaesu -Principal Sponsor of Logbook of the World" in their booth at Dayton. They would like to keep this information confidential until Dayton. This is the first time that we have been able to seriously pursue advertising for the LOTW site. The turning point was when we exceeded 20,000 registered Logbook users. Thanks to Deb Jahnke for working out these arrangements. 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:16730] Associated Press Epitaph for BPL
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 08 May '08

08 May '08

The writer got one thing slightly wrong: the FCC has published figures for mid-2007 that show the number of "BPL and Other" subscribers had skyrocketed from 4,776 to 5,420 in just six months. And yes, I am being somewhat sarcastic. Dave Broadband service over power lines in Texas to shut down By PETER SVENSSON The Associated Press Wednesday, May 7, 2008; 4:47 PM NEW YORK -- Goodbye, broadband over power lines. We hardly knew you. Once touted as a possible third option for home broadband that could compete with phone and cable companies, the idea of providing Internet service over power lines now looks like it has died in infancy. A Texas utility company said last week that it is taking control of the equipment that was to be used in the largest planned U.S. deployment of broadband over power lines, or BPL _ and won't be using it to provide Internet service. Oncor <http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=b usiness&mwpage=qcn&symb=ONCR&nav=el> Electric Delivery Co., the Dallas-based distribution arm of former TXU Corp., said it will buy the network from BPL technology provider Current Group LLC of Germantown, Md. The network was to offer Internet service to 2 million electricity customers through their wall outlets. Instead, Oncor will use the data capabilities of the network to monitor the electric grid. "Our business is delivering electricity, not being an Internet provider or a television provider," said Oncor spokesman Chris Schein. Other BPL trials have met with similar fates, though a few are still in operation. Compared to coaxial cables and copper phone lines, power lines are poor conduits for data. Some deployments also met fierce legal resistance from ham radio operators, who found that BPL created radio interference. The Federal Communications Commission was a booster of BPL. FCC commissioner _ now chairman _ Kevin Martin said in 2004 that the technology had the potential to become an Internet solution "throughout the United States." Yet the FCC found only 4,776 BPL subscribers in the country at the end of 2006, the latest figures it has published. (c) 2008 The Associated Press

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[arrl-odv:16729] FCC Denial of Two Rulemaking Petitions
by w3kd＠aol.com 07 May '08

07 May '08

Greetings. In today's FCC releases, if you haven't seen these yet, are the two attached orders dismissing two petitions for rule making of interest to Amateur Radio. The first is RM-11392, filed by one?Mark Miller. This was a "Regulation by Bandwidth" type of petition, which was heavily opposed in comments, because it was intended to, and would have, prohibited Pactor III, a platform for Winlink due to the bandwidth limitations proposed. Miller's petition was reasonably well-stated, though it was inconsistent with ARRL's position to date on regulation by bandwidth. We filed no comments on this, largely because (a) ARRL's longstanding policy is not to file comments on bare petitions for rule making (unless they deal with or constitute a threat to?Amateur allocations); and (b) the Executive Committee had instructed us not to file?anything dealing with regulation by bandwidth at the time that comments could be filed.? The second petition never got an RM number. It was? filed by Ken Chafin of La Crescenta,?CA and Leon J. Brown of Los Angeles. They urged expansion of the repeater subband at 2 meters to permit repeaters to transmit in the 145.5-145.8 MHz band, as well as in the remainder of the band. This petition was premised on?the argument that digital?emissions (read "D-Star" here)?were incompatible with analog repeater operations?and that the current 2?meter repeater subband was overcrowded, not permitting any implementation of digital voice operation. FCC, in a letter authored by Scot Stone at WTB?Mobility Division, said that the proposal would?create interference?potential to?other?Amateur Service?operating activities, and the FCC was not inclined to propose separate operating segments for digital communications. No sign of an order on the?ARRL proposal to relax limitations on Spread Spectrum power, though we understand that there is an order drafted on that now (probably a denial, we will see). Finally, the FCC issued on Tuesday a notice seeking comment on a waiver request?by a company called Reconrobotics, to allow certification and use by law enforcement agencies of a remote controlled surveillance robot that could be thrown into hazardous areas such as terrorist hideouts, and which provides video and audio. It?would operate in the 430-448 MHz?range. This is similar to other devices that we have opposed earlier,?though the limited and itinerant deployment would suggest that it is not a significant interference?source. 73, Chris W3KD???

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[arrl-odv:16728] FW: Hamfest & Convention Update
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 07 May '08

07 May '08

A change is organizational structure. All of you will still deal with Gail on routine requests. And, congrats to Katie. Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio 860 594 0220 hkramer(a)arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org/> ________________________________ From: Breen,Katie, W1KRB Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:01 PM To: HQ Staff Subject: Hamfest & Convention Update Dear HQ Staff, Over the past two years as the new Membership Manager, I've spent a lot of time traveling on behalf of the ARRL to hamfests, conventions and other ham-related activities. I have also been a member of the team that managed our National Convention in Huntsville and, this year I am responsible for the planning for Dayton as well. This year, I have also been developing a local, field based, membership recruitment program that will launch nationally this summer. In my experiences, I've seen many instances of what works and doesn't work both in the field and at the Hamfests and Conventions that I have attended and organized. Because of this, I am very pleased to announce that effective immediately, the responsibilities for organizing and supporting ham fests and conventions will be moved in to the Sales & Marketing Department under my direction. Our team is very pleased to welcome Gail Iannone who currently performs these functions in the MVP Department, as a new member of the Sales & Marketing Department. Gail will continue to provide the same outstanding support and services for hamfests and conventions as she has done in the past. If you need to reach her, she will still be reachable at her current phone extension and email address. We look forward to moving ahead with this change. 73, Katie Katie Breen, W1KRB Membership Manager ARRL - the national association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington CT 06111 860-594-0297 direct Join Today! www.arrl.org/join

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[arrl-odv:16727] Radio Amateurs of Canada Board meeting trip
by Kay Craigie 07 May '08

07 May '08

The attached document is the report on my attendance at the annual board meeting of RAC, Radio Amateurs of/du Canada. 73 - Kay N3KN

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Last night's WX
by Karl Bullock 03 May '08

03 May '08

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RE: [arrl-odv:16724] RE: [arrl-odv:16719] Headline: Broadband over power lines plan is dead in Dallas
by K8JE 03 May '08

03 May '08

Tnx, Dave. 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! _____ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:43 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:16724] RE: [arrl-odv:16719] Headline: Broadband over power lines plan is dead in Dallas Jim, The BPL database lists Duke Energy in several Zip codes in the Charlotte area. These have been small trials to evaluate different vendors. According to Ambient, they have a contract to supply hardware to Duke Energy but the news releases about it have talked about Smart Grid network management, not consumer broadband. Dave K1ZZ _____ From: K8JE [mailto:K8JE@arrl.org] Sent: Sat 5/3/2008 1:23 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:16719] Headline: Broadband over power lines plan is dead in Dallas Dave, Dave, With no apparent publicity about BPL by Duke Energy (they bought Cinergy) in Cincinnati, I keep waiting for the we're-shutting-down shoe to drop here as well. Am I correct that Duke does have consumer-oriented BPL elsewhere in the corporation? 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! _____ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:25 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:16719] Headline: Broadband over power lines plan is dead in Dallas We're trying to get more information. Dave <http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-current_02bus.AR T.State.Edition1.460d413.html> http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-current_02bus.ART .State.Edition1.460d413.html

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