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[arrl-odv:18571] Re:RE: 27 and counting
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Well, our five-year plan to restore sunspots may be lagging a bit but there was plenty of action on 15 meters this weekend! Dave K1ZZ From: G.P. Widin [mailto:gpwidin@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:19 AM To: arrl-odv Cc: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18570] Re: 27 and counting Kay, Congratulations! I've got you beat by a few years, but I still remember passing the General. I could finally use the VFO and not have to crank down the grid drive so I could run the full 250W that the Johnson Valiant could provide. And I definitely wouldn't say "the thrill is gone." Now if we only had more sunspots! Happy, happy day! -- 73, Greg, KØGW Director, Dakota Division ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kay Craigie" <n3kn(a)verizon.net> To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 7:37:22 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [arrl-odv:18567] 27 and counting Twenty-seven years ago today, I made my first ham radio contact while driving home from the FCC office in Langhorne, PA, where I'd passed the General exams. Time flies when you're having fun! 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18570] Re: 27 and counting
by G.P. Widin 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Kay, Congratulations! I've got you beat by a few years, but I still remember passing the General. I could finally use the VFO and not have to crank down the grid drive so I could run the full 250W that the Johnson Valiant could provide. And I definitely wouldn't say "the thrill is gone." Now if we only had more sunspots! Happy, happy day! -- 73, Greg, KØGW Director, Dakota Division ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kay Craigie" <n3kn(a)verizon.net> To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 7:37:22 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [arrl-odv:18567] 27 and counting Twenty-seven years ago today, I made my first ham radio contact while driving home from the FCC office in Langhorne, PA, where I'd passed the General exams. Time flies when you're having fun! 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18569] Re: 27 and counting
by Brian Mileshosky 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Congrats! I vividly remember my first QSO, right after ripping my license out of the envelope from the FCC that seemed to take forever to get mailed to me. Almost 20 years ago! 73, Brian N5ZGT On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kay Craigie wrote: > Twenty-seven years ago today, I made my first ham radio contact while > driving home from the FCC office in Langhorne, PA, where I'd passed the > General exams. Time flies when you're having fun! 73 - Kay N3KN > > > ARRL Director, Rocky Mountain Division On the web at www.RockyMountainDivision.org

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[arrl-odv:18568] Re: 27 and counting
by k5ur＠aol.com 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Super, Kay! I'll bet you can remember that first contact like it was yesterday, too. 73, K5UR -----Original Message----- From: Kay Craigie <n3kn(a)verizon.net> To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Mon, Feb 22, 2010 7:37 am Subject: [arrl-odv:18567] 27 and counting Twenty-seven years ago today, I made my first ham radio contact while riving home from the FCC office in Langhorne, PA, where I'd passed the eneral exams. Time flies when you're having fun! 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18567] 27 and counting
by Kay Craigie 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Twenty-seven years ago today, I made my first ham radio contact while driving home from the FCC office in Langhorne, PA, where I'd passed the General exams. Time flies when you're having fun! 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18566] Re: Update on FCC Meetings, Friday, February 19, 2010 - Confidential, Privileged Communication
by k5ur＠aol.com 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

I just hope those on the FCC side are not saying one thing and doing another as n the past! I agree, Tom. Let's keep our guard up. 73, K5UR -----Original Message----- From: Tom Frenaye <frenaye(a)pcnet.com> To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 9:42 pm Subject: [arrl-odv:18564] Re: Update on FCC Meetings, Friday, February 19, 2010 - Confidential, Privileged Communication At 05:37 PM 2/19/2010, Chris Imlay wrote: Greetings. As an important postscript to yesterday's memo to the Board about ur Section 97.113 lobbying effort and other FCC lobbying activities, this is he last update on this subject. After re-reading the original and going though your update, it sure sounds like e're on track. just hope those on the FCC side are not saying one thing and doing another as n the past! hanks for the detailed updates. -- Tom ==== -mail: k1ki(a)arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ om Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444 =

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[arrl-odv:18564] Re: Update on FCC Meetings, Friday, February 19, 2010 - Confidential, Privileged Communication
by Tom Frenaye 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

At 05:37 PM 2/19/2010, Chris Imlay wrote: >Greetings. As an important postscript to yesterday's memo to the Board about our Section 97.113 lobbying effort and other FCC lobbying activities, this is the last update on this subject. After re-reading the original and going though your update, it sure sounds like we're on track. I just hope those on the FCC side are not saying one thing and doing another as in the past! Thanks for the detailed updates. -- 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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RE: [arrl-odv:18561] FW: DXCC Notice to Board
by K8JE 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Harold, Of course, this is good news. I understand it comes thanks not only due to the dedicated work of Bill and his staff, but thanks to the help of other employees who have been willing to put in overtime. All good. I congratulate those involved for their hard and profitable work. On the other side of the coin, I interpret this situation to mean that we are approaching the 2/3 mark in February and have to this moment not worked meaningfully on 2010 submissions. Provided this is true, it would seem we perennially get behind the proverbial 8-ball in the latter weeks of each year and as a result we remain behind the 8-ball until at least well into March of the following year -- all because of a predictable situation. That a large number of DXCC submissions comes during the latter weeks of the year is understandable and predictable. That processing these submissions annually continues to create extra expense and stress on HQ, and considerable displeasure among many members would seem to suggest sufficient anticipation, planning and execution may not have been focused on the problem. I believe one answer to a major portion of this recurring problem has been proposed and its introduction promised for the past two or more years. This is Direct Field Entry. I certainly hope we take full advantage of the new IT worker the Board authorized so this promise can be fulfilled in time to minimize if not avoid still another recurrence of the backlog problem. 73, Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je(a)arrl.org, Tel.: 513-459-1661 ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(TM) _____ From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 4:38 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Ford, Steve, WB8IMY; Glass, Katie; Hare, Ed W1RFI; Inderbitzen, Bob, NQ1R; Jahnke, Deb, K1DAJ; Johnson, Debra, K1DMJ; Kramer, Harold, WJ1B; Patton, David NN1N; Somma, Maria, AB1FM Subject: [arrl-odv:18561] FW: DXCC Notice to Board Hi, I am passing along this update from Dave Patton: The MVP staff, and a few helpers from other Departments, have now completed all of the 2009 DXCC applications. We are now doing "clean up work" on awards fulfillment before Bill Moore re-indexes the DXCC database. While this happens, DXCC will be shut down for a day. Then we will run a DXCC report and produce the data for the Annual Listing that appears in the DXCC Yearbook. Later next week, we will begin processing the 2010 applications. Bill Moore reports that this is the earliest in the year that DXCC has been at this stage of processing. 73, Harold

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[arrl-odv:18562] Update on FCC Meetings, Friday, February 19, 2010 - Confidential, Privileged Communication
by Chris Imlay 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Greetings. As an important postscript to yesterday's memo to the Board about our Section 97.113 lobbying effort and other FCC lobbying activities, this is the last update on this subject. Briefly, today, Dave and I met with the usual large crowd from the Office of Engineering and Technology, as we had been invited to do by Julius Knapp when we saw him in passing on the 8th floor during our first round of Section 97.113 meetings with the Commissioners' offices. We made the same pitch to the OET folks about BPL, and handed them our briefing paper on the subject (copy attached to refresh your recollection; you have received this before, however). We had a valuable exchange of views that led Dave and me to conclude that we should document in the BPL rulemaking record our basis for contending that virtually all BPL companies with presently operating systems have implemented full time notching of Amateur allocations to a notch depth of minus 35 dB. We made our argument that we have a "win-win" solution to BPL regulation, a point we have made numerous times to OET already. We also noted that there is an outstanding interference complaint that we are in the process of documenting. Bruce Romano at OET was most interested in this and challenged us about it, as he has repeatedly at meetings on this subject that he has attended. He is not our friend on this issue, but his probing questions have been helpful to us in deciding what tactically we need to do "next" in the BPL proceeding. We then asked about the long-pending status of the 5 MHz channel modification petition, RM-11353. Knapp was sheepish about this, and promised to move it as and NPRM soon; It is drafted and ready for FCC consideration. Knapp made some reference to hoping that a simple order could be issued, but he could not have been serious, and Geri Matise, his lawyer, said correctly, and in no uncertain terms that this would have to be an NPRM. We think Julie was trying to placate us somewhat. They also made reference to the possibility of a future upgrade of our status at 1900-2000 kHz, which was welcome and unexpected, but we won't hold our breath on that until we see something coming from OET. Finally, Dave alerted them to a possible PLT threat on the horizon in the 80-200 MHz band, which of course includes 2 meters. We did not have to explain the impact of such a problem; they were well-aware that any interference threat to 2 meters from PLT systems would not be tolerated by ARRL. Finally, Dave explained our efforts with respect to a medium frequency allocation. Overall, this was more cordial than prior recent OET meetings, and we do expect finally to see an NPRM on 5 MHz channels soon, perhaps this Spring. Our second meeting today was the last of our meetings on 97.113. We have completed our aggressive lobbying effort for the Board's Section 97.113 proposal, and the favorable reception that we have had from the Commissioners' offices, and from the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau was well-taken. We met with Admiral Jamie Barnett, the Chief of PSHSB, and his deputy, David Firth, the author of the draft NPRM that is before the Commission now. After this meeting, we are relatively certain that the draft does exactly what we are told it does: it would allow employees to conduct Amateur Radio communications on behalf of their employers during government sponsored drills and exercises. While we explained the reasons why the Board's language is more appropriate, the draft from PSHSB had already gone to the Commissioners before the Board met, and therefore, the draft on the 8th floor is largely out of PSHSB's hands at the moment. While we are hoping that one or more of the Commissioners' offices will cause the draft that PSHSB sent up there before the Board meeting will be modified before it is released, it is not now for the PSHSB to unilaterally change the draft sent up to the Commissioners long ago. Barnett and Firth urged us to note in any comments why drills and training exercises that are not government sponsored should be permitted. We will of course do that. We warned them that they should expect a large number of comments on this issue, and they well understood the importance of this to the Amateur community. We told them that we had been told by the Chairman's office that the Board version of 97.113(a) dovetailed largely with the PSHSB version, and they essentially agreed. Their interest was in having the NPRM released by FCC soon, and we told them that we anticipated it quite soon; probably shortly after "Job #1" (the National Broadband Plan) was completed and sent to Congress, which it must be by March 17. Speaking only for myself here, I believe that we have as aggressively as possible advocated the Board's version of Section 97.113, and we can report accurately that it was well-received by the Commissioners and by the PSHSB staff. Please do not expect that the Board's language will appear in the NPRM when it is released by the Commission. While we can hope that one or more of the Commissioners' offices will ask that such be done, or that the PSHSB version will be amended prior to releasing the document, the more likely outcome is that we will have to file comments urging the substitution of the Board's language for that of the earlier-prepared NPRM draft from PSHSB. That said, we have positioned the Commission as well as we can at this point to ultimately adopt the conceptual framework of the Board's version of 97.113, if not the specific words. 73, and good DX contest weekend to all. Chris W3KD Christopher D. Imlay Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper. P.C. 14356 Cape May Road Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6011 (301) 384-5525 telephone (301) 384-6384 facsimile W3KD(a)ARRL.ORG

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[arrl-odv:18561] FW: DXCC Notice to Board
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hi, I am passing along this update from Dave Patton: The MVP staff, and a few helpers from other Departments, have now completed all of the 2009 DXCC applications. We are now doing "clean up work" on awards fulfillment before Bill Moore re-indexes the DXCC database. While this happens, DXCC will be shut down for a day. Then we will run a DXCC report and produce the data for the Annual Listing that appears in the DXCC Yearbook. Later next week, we will begin processing the 2010 applications. Bill Moore reports that this is the earliest in the year that DXCC has been at this stage of processing. 73, Harold

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