March 2010 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:18798] RE: [arrl-odv:18777] Red Cross/ARRL MOU
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

The Red Cross MOU story is now at the top of the ARRL Web news crawl. Dave K1ZZ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:52 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18777] Red Cross/ARRL MOU We're not quite ready for a public unveiling, but here is the MOU as signed last Thursday. If you share it with anyone please implore them not to scoop the official announcement, which is coming. 73, Dave K1ZZ <<MOU ARRL and Red Cross final 2010Feb.pdf>>

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[arrl-odv:18797] Re:FW: RE: North American Center For Emergency Communications, (NACEC)
by Bob Vallio 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

It looks like we have plenty of Board interest in this issue, along with some concern regarding what exactly Addy is doing, and for whom. I do not see very much good coming from his efforts, but I do see the potential for various problems. Is this an item for the E C to consider, someone at HQ, or perhaps P & S C? I do not believe that we can take the risk that inaction by the Board be our policy at this time. 73, Bob -- W6RGG On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:42 AM, John Bellows <jbellows(a)skypoint.com> wrote: > There is a typo in the last paragraph of my last posting. It should read: > > > > “For what it is worth. If past experience is an indication Addy is > UNLIKELY to draw volunteers from those who are currently affiliated with > another emcom organization. Aurora, MN is a 4 to 5 hour drive from > Minneapolis/St. Paul so you can do the math as to how many folks would be > interested in traveling to operate at the NACEC location.” > > > > 73, > > > > Jay, KØQB > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* John Bellows [mailto:jbellows@skypoint.com] > *Sent:* Friday, March 26, 2010 9:24 AM > > *To:* arrl-odv > *Subject:* RE: [arrl-odv:18738] RE: [arrl-odv:18735] North American Center > For Emergency Communications, (NACEC) > > > > I little background on Ed Addy and NACEC from Minnesota. > > > > Ed Addy popped up at the time of Gulf War I and formed an organization > called Desert Voices. The group built a station, including several very nice > rhombic antennas with the sole purpose of providing health and welfare > traffic and phones patches for the benefit of military personnel stationed > in the Middle East and their families. The station was located in > Rosemount, MN. For the most part Desert Voices use amateur frequencies and > relied upon local amateurs as volunteer operators. Addy was quite successful > in obtaining donations of equipment for the venture. The operation was well > received and successful. To the best of my knowledge when the Desert voices > operation closed the equipment was all returned or donated as directed by > the original donors. > > > > Ed Addy is a “Type A” person and not shy about asking for help, equipment > or volunteers. At least at that point in time his aggressive approach in > “recruiting” volunteers wasn’t universally applauded in the local amateur > community though I am not aware of any problems with the operation. > > > > There was a brief resurrection of the Desert Voices activity for Gulf II > but by that time Addy had moved to Aurora, MN where he had purchased a > large tract of land for the purpose of establishing the North American > Center for Emergency Communications (NACEC). > > > > Since that time I haven’t heard much of or from Ed Addy until yesterday. There > was a minor flurry of local email s from Addy about his interest in rising > once again. Just as I was leaving the office yesterday I received a call > from Mr. Addy. He said he had sent out a mass emailing looking for > volunteers. It wasn’t clear what he planned, but it didn’t seem likely that > there would be a lot of interest on the part of volunteers to trek to Northern > Minnesota so I just listened. > > > > Addy said he was concerned because in response to his emails he had > received some replies that the recipient had checked with ARRL (I don’t know > who) and was told they never heard of Ed Addy and NACEC. Addy wanted to know > who to speak with at ARRL. I did tell him that the multi-section and > regional Emergency Communications activities of ARRL had expended > considerably since Katrina and ARRL has an Emergency Preparedness and > Response Manager and associated structure so that the resurrection of NACEC > could likely be duplication. I did give him Alan Pitt’s name as the current > contact point at ARRL. Addy said he already had that information. > > > > For what it is worth. If past experience is an indication Addy is likely to > draw volunteers from those who are currently affiliated with another emcom > organization. Aurora, MN is a 4 to 5 hour drive from Minneapolis/St. Paul > so you can do the math as to how many folks would be interested in traveling > to operate at the NACEC location. > > > > If there is some further concern I would be happy to try and get more > information from Mr. Addy. > > > > 73, > > > > Jay, KØQB > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Grant Hopper [mailto:ghopper@eskimo.com] > *Sent:* Friday, March 26, 2010 12:12 AM > *To:* arrl-odv > *Subject:* [arrl-odv:18738] RE: [arrl-odv:18735] North American Center For > Emergency Communications, (NACEC) > > > > Funny thing. Jim Fenstermaker and I were JUST talking about this group. > They have been aggressively contacting groups in my area and one local ham, > knowing I'm a volunteer council as well as a radio officer forwarded the > email to me. I did some digging and am a bit concerned by what I found, > especially given that they seem to be targeting hams. > > > > If there is interest, either on or off this forum, I'll be glad to share > what found, but I do think some more investigation (at a more local level) > is certainly called for before any action is taken. > > > > 73, > > Grant > > > > Grant Hopper, KB7WSD > ARRL Northwest Division, Vice Director > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Bob Vallio [mailto:rbvallio@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:56 PM > *To:* arrl-odv > *Subject:* [arrl-odv:18735] North American Center For Emergency > Communications, (NACEC) > > I don't know if anyone has any knowledge of this organization, but this > fellow is soliciting members of my Division to sign up to work for his group > to provide emergency radio communications all over the world. Is there some > action we should take to disabuse this fellow of continuing this tactic? In > addition to reinventing the wheel, he appears to want to do it with our > members. > > 73, Bob -- W6RGG > > > > Edward Addy KEØEG, Executive Director > North American Center For Emergency Communications, (NACEC) > P.O. Box 174 > Aurora, MN 55705 > Ph: 218-305-4100 > Web: www.nacec.org > >

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[arrl-odv:18796] FW: [arrl-odv:18767] FW: Site Login Test Correction
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Bob, Here's a response from Katie Glass. Just let us know what is not working right for you or is missing and we will fix it. 73, Harold From: Glass, Katie Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:39 PM To: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:18767] FW: Site Login Test Correction Hi Bob, I'd be happy to go through and check the changes. I put this page together and essentially copied and pasted from the old site, though there is potential for human error. I'm also happy to add a link back to the main page on all of the lower pages. Thanks for your input. Katie Glass Digital Content Manager ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111-1494 USA Telephone: (860) 594-0250 E-mail: kglass(a)arrl.org <mailto:dpetrilli@arrl.org> Web: www.arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org/> From: Bob Vallio [mailto:rbvallio@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:31 PM To: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B Cc: arrl-odv; Glass, Katie Subject: Re: [arrl-odv:18767] FW: Site Login Test Correction Hi Harold, The ODV area is incomplete; sections are incorrectly named; it is impossible to simply return to the ODV screen to start over; the staff list has been renamed key staff list, and the key personnel list is nowhere to be found. Switching between the ODV area of the old system, and the sort-of ODV area of the new system, gives one a graphic presentation of the problem. May I recommend that one of you, using two PCs, place the screens side by side, and go through the marked differences to catalog them for repair. I'm afraid that I do not have the time, or the resources to do so, and have to get back to catching up on reading Division mail, etc. Thanks, Bob Vallio, W6tRGG On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Kramer, Harold, WJ1B <wj1b(a)arrl.org> wrote: The password should be hiram225 My poor typing! Use the itdevel.arrl.org link and username [beta] and password [hirarm225] that you already have to enter the test site. You will then be on the new Web Site: Login (top of the page) using your current ARRL Username and Password Make sure that the sites acknowledges your Login. It will say "Hello [Your username] Please also check that you have access to ODV Material: 1. Click "About ARRL" on the top menu 2. Click "Organization Structure" on the left (under "About ARRL") 3. Then click the "ODV" Link also on the left You should see the ODV information If you cannot login or if you do not see the ODV information, please contact Katie Glass KGlass(a)arrl.org and cc me. Thanks for your help/73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: hkramer(a)arrl.org <mailto:hkramer@arrl.org> web: www.arrl.org/ <http://www.arrl.org/>

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[arrl-odv:18795] Re: FW: Site Login Test Correction
by Bob Vallio 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hi Harold, The ODV area is incomplete; sections are incorrectly named; it is impossible to simply return to the ODV screen to start over; the staff list has been renamed key staff list, and the key personnel list is nowhere to be found. Switching between the ODV area of the old system, and the sort-of ODV area of the new system, gives one a graphic presentation of the problem. May I recommend that one of you, using two PCs, place the screens side by side, and go through the marked differences to catalog them for repair. I'm afraid that I do not have the time, or the resources to do so, and have to get back to catching up on reading Division mail, etc. Thanks, Bob Vallio, W6tRGG On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Kramer, Harold, WJ1B <wj1b(a)arrl.org> wrote: > The password should be hiram225 > > > > My poor typing! > > > > > > > > > > Use the itdevel.arrl.org link and username [beta] and password > [hirarm225] that you already have to enter the test site. > > > > You will then be on the new Web Site: > > > > Login (top of the page) using your current ARRL Username and Password > > > > Make sure that the sites acknowledges your Login. It will say “Hello [Your > username] > > > > Please also check that you have access to ODV Material: > > > > 1. Click “About ARRL” on the top menu > > > > 2. Click “Organization Structure” on the left (under “About ARRL”) > > > > 3. Then click the “ODV” Link also on the left > > > > You should see the ODV information > > > > If you cannot login or if you do not see the ODV information, please > contact Katie Glass KGlass(a)arrl.org and cc me. > > > > Thanks for your help/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/ > > >

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[arrl-odv:18794] PowerPoint of Inside HQ
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hi, My Inside HQ PowerPoint is up in the ODV section, http://itdevel.arrl.org/odv-media on the new Web site. Please edit it as you require. Thanks to Jim, N2ZZ, for his suggestion on how to mail it to Board Members who want a copy. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: hkramer(a)arrl.org <mailto:hkramer@arrl.org> web: www.arrl.org/ <http://www.arrl.org/>

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[arrl-odv:18793] Web Site Status
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

To: ARRL Staff and Board Cc: Fathom I wanted to let everyone know what is happening with the new Web site. We met Monday with Fathom's staff and we reviewed a few last issues to be refined on the new Web site. While these individual items are not difficult to complete, together they add up to a few days work. Concurrent with this effort, Jon Bloom and his staff, working with Fathom, are also implementing a solution for the hardware and bandwidth issues that we also identified during our testing last week. Our current plan is to make the final pre-launch adjustments and to open up the site for additional testing to more people - including all Section Managers. While some SMs are already testing the Site, we would like all Section Managers to populate their pages and review parts of the site. We will begin this process today. Because of the short week and the holidays this weekend, we have decided to use the next few days fine-tuning and testing the site with an actual launch after Easter, early in the week of April 5. We also request that any employees or Board Members, who have a personal login on the current Web site, check their login on the new Web site. All logins should work now. Please report any problems to Katie Glass. Also, the store is now live, so if you enter a credit card number and make a purchase, your credit card will be charged. If you would like to be a test purchaser, please contact Bob Inderbitzen or Amy Hurtado. Additionally, if you modify your membership data, that also will be changed permanently. This launch has been a frustrating, long and difficult process for all of us. But just think of what we have accomplished. During the past two years we have conducted extensive research about what people want from the ARRL Web site; we created an entirely new architecture and navigation scheme; and we approved and implemented a fresh and contemporary new design. After that, we extensively edited our current Web content and created lots of brand new content including multimedia. Many of us also learned how to use the new content editor and began adding material to the new Web site. During the past few months, we have polished up that content section by section and we began implementing and testing the incredibly complicated functionality, ecommerce, advertising and database connections of the new Web site. It has been a lot of work and it is disappointing that we are not out the door quite yet. But, we are now in the home stretch. I realize that I have said this before but it bears repeating. We just want to make sure that when we commit to the final launch, that the site looks great, works well and is something that we can all be proud of. Thanks to all of you who have helped. It will be worth the effort. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: hkramer(a)arrl.org <mailto:hkramer@arrl.org> web: www.arrl.org/ <http://www.arrl.org/>

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RE: [arrl-odv:18784] PowerPoint Presentation
by David A. Norris 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

K1SFA gave this presentation at the Arkansas Convention last year and everyone really enjoyed it. I think this would be great as a stand alone program at a hamfest or club meeting, but as Dave says it is LONG! Also, as Jim says www.yousendit.com <http://www.yousendit.com/> works well on large files. Try it if the opportunity arises. 73 ES DX David A. Norris, K5UZ Vice Director, Delta Div. -----Original Message----- From: James F. Boehner MD [mailto:jboehner01@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 9:17 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: 'Glass, Katie' Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:18784] PowerPoint Presentation Harold and all, Putting it on the ODV Reflector is the best course of action for the presentation, but just wanted to mention a service that will send large files, if you have a need to do so: www.yousendit.com I have used it to send fairly large files ( up to 100 MB or more). It will send some for free, but there is a subscription for continued use. It has been a valuable resource for me. '73 de JIM N2ZZ ARRL Vice Director Roanoke Division ARRL, the national association for Amateur RadioT From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 3:53 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Glass, Katie Subject: [arrl-odv:18784] PowerPoint Presentation Hi, I would be happy to share my PowerPoint presentation about "Inside HQ" with all of you. I, however, cannot email it since it is too large (almost 15MB) to go through most mail clients. I will have it posted on the ODV page of the new Website by tomorrow. You should all be able to access it there, and, if you cannot, we need to know that anyway. Feel free to modify it as required for your individual presentation. I just added some new pictures and update it constantly as I visit various hamfests. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur RadioT 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: <mailto:hkramer@arrl.org> hkramer(a)arrl.org web: <http://www.arrl.org/> www.arrl.org/

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RE: [arrl-odv:18784] PowerPoint Presentation
by James F. Boehner MD 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Harold and all, Putting it on the ODV Reflector is the best course of action for the presentation, but just wanted to mention a service that will send large files, if you have a need to do so: www.yousendit.com I have used it to send fairly large files ( up to 100 MB or more). It will send some for free, but there is a subscription for continued use. It has been a valuable resource for me. '73 de JIM N2ZZ ARRL Vice Director Roanoke Division ARRL, the national association for Amateur RadioT From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 3:53 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Glass, Katie Subject: [arrl-odv:18784] PowerPoint Presentation Hi, I would be happy to share my PowerPoint presentation about "Inside HQ" with all of you. I, however, cannot email it since it is too large (almost 15MB) to go through most mail clients. I will have it posted on the ODV page of the new Website by tomorrow. You should all be able to access it there, and, if you cannot, we need to know that anyway. Feel free to modify it as required for your individual presentation. I just added some new pictures and update it constantly as I visit various hamfests. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur RadioT 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: <mailto:hkramer@arrl.org> hkramer(a)arrl.org web: <http://www.arrl.org/> www.arrl.org/

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RE: [arrl-odv:18768] Re: Site Login Test
by James F. Boehner MD 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

It is working for me! Will we have access to the SM pages also, as we do on the current website? '73 de JIM N2ZZ ARRL Vice Director Roanoke Division ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio™ From: G.P. Widin [mailto:gpwidin@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:27 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: arrl-odv; Harold Kramer, WJ1B Subject: [arrl-odv:18768] Re: Site Login Test Katie, Yes; it works now. It still says Gregory, not K0GW as the old one, but it does take me to the ODV page. -- 73, Greg, KØGW Director, Dakota Division ----- Original Message ----- From: "Katie Glass" <kglass(a)arrl.org> To: "Gregory Widin, (Dir, DK)" <gpwidin(a)comcast.net>, "Harold Kramer, WJ1B" <wj1b(a)arrl.org> Cc: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 11:15:11 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:18763] Site Login Test Hi Greg, I apologize for the confusion. You are now all set to view the ODV pages. If it does not work, please let me know. Thanks, Katie Katie Glass Digital Content Manager ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio™ 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111-1494 USA Telephone: (860) 594-0250 E-mail: kglass(a)arrl.org <mailto:dpetrilli@arrl.org> Web: www.arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org/> From: G.P. Widin [mailto:gpwidin@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:12 PM To: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B Cc: Glass, Katie; arrl-odv Subject: Re: [arrl-odv:18763] Site Login Test Harold, When I log in, it shows my name in the "Hello" box. On the old site (I just checked), it shows my callsign. Then when I try to access ODV on the new site, it sez I'm not in ODV. We're sorry, the page you are trying to view is accessible by ODV only. So, something is amiss. My login is OK, but it doesn't know that I have ODV access. -- 73, Greg, KØGW Director, Dakota Division ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Kramer, WJ1B" <wj1b(a)arrl.org> To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Cc: "Katie Glass" <kglass(a)arrl.org> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 10:59:38 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [arrl-odv:18763] Site Login Test Hi, We would like you to check to make sure that your existing Registration and Passwords are working on the new Web Site. Use the itdevel.arrl.org link and username [beta] and password [hirarm225] that you already have to enter the test site. You will then be on the new Web Site: Login (top of the page) using your current ARRL Username and Password Make sure that the sites acknowledges your Login. It will say “Hello [Your username] Please also check that you have access to ODV Material: 1. Click “About ARRL” on the top menu 2. Click “Organization Structure” on the left (under “About ARRL”) 3. Then click the “ODV” Link also on the left You should see the ODV information If you cannot login or if you do not see the ODV information, please contact Katie Glass KGlass(a)arrl.org and cc me. Thanks for your help/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: <mailto:hkramer@arrl.org> hkramer(a)arrl.org web: <http://www.arrl.org/> www.arrl.org/

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[arrl-odv:18789] W9GIG Site Login Test
by dick＠pobox.com 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

29 MAR 2010 - 1615 CDT After clearing up a typo on my part, I was able to bring up the new (beta) web site and then with my ARRL member login, access the ODV pages. I then exercised a couple of ODV selections (members search was one) and they worked OK. - Dick, W9GIG

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