April 2010 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:18838] NFCC and ARRL MOU
by Bill Edgar 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

How is the relationship between ARRL and NFCC? Is the MOU still relevant? - Bill N3LLR

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[arrl-odv:18837] Re: Status of Active FCC Proceedings
by Chris Imlay 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Dave, good summary. The Reconrobotics (Docket 08-63) reply to opposition is due (most conservatively calculated) on April 16, a week from today. I am drafting the reply now. 73, 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 -----Original Message----- From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ <dsumner(a)arrl.org> To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 3:20 pm Subject: [arrl-odv:18836] Status of Active FCC Proceedings For the first time in quite a while, there are enough active FCC proceedings involving Amateur Radio to make it difficult to remember where they all stand. A couple of weeks ago, in preparation for a hamfest I made up a little reference sheet to help me keep them straight. This afternoon I updated and expanded it a bit, and share it here in case any of you might find it to be useful. Suggestions for additions, improvements, etc. are welcome. Dave K1ZZ <<100409 Status of Active FCC Rule Making Proceedings Related to Amateur Radio.doc>>

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[arrl-odv:18836] Status of Active FCC Proceedings
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

For the first time in quite a while, there are enough active FCC proceedings involving Amateur Radio to make it difficult to remember where they all stand. A couple of weeks ago, in preparation for a hamfest I made up a little reference sheet to help me keep them straight. This afternoon I updated and expanded it a bit, and share it here in case any of you might find it to be useful. Suggestions for additions, improvements, etc. are welcome. Dave K1ZZ <<100409 Status of Active FCC Rule Making Proceedings Related to Amateur Radio.doc>>

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[arrl-odv:18835] FW: [smlist:5877] Server Transfer
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

To: ODV [and SM sent separately] We are in the process of moving the new Web site to the new servers. Some services may not work during this transition. Please be patient! This will not affect the current Web site. Thanks, 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:18833] IN-News
by Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

<<040710.doc>> IN-Newsletter <<Microsoft Word Picture>> Vol. 33, No. 14 April 7, 2010 -- Covers the period March 28-April 3. Upcoming Meetings and Events Programs & Services Committee: May 1, 2010 @ 8:30am - ARRL HQ Administration &Finance Committee: May 5, 2010 @ 8:30am - ARRL HQ Technical Relations Reported by Brennan Price, N4QX In addition to several long term projects, Brennan Price is teaching an Amateur Radio unit at a USTTI course hosted by the NTIA and participating in an FCC panel on the Consolidated Licensing System this week. Regulatory Information Reported by Dan Henderson, N1ND An article on Field Day safety was written and sent to Production for use in June QST. Queries on various Field Day topics continue to come in via email and telephone. We provided Rick Palm, K1CE, information related to amateur radio rules when it interfaces with other services in large-scale emergencies, such as the Haitian earthquake. Some "housekeeping" updates for the VC/VCE/DLAC lists were performed. We assisted an amateur in Florida in finding a VCE to assist with his tower permit needs. We have been working with Jim Buscemi, NY2NY, who applied for a NY vanity license plate for his callsign. The application was denied on the basis that the plate had already been issued. Mr. Buscemi asked us to review his letter to the Commissioner of the NY Department of Motor Vehicles. Buscemi's position is the issuance of the plate to another party violates NY statutes, as it is a format reserved for issuance to a special class, in this case, amateur radio. He has also contacted the office of the NY State Attorney General on the issue. Production/Editorial Reported by Joel Kleinman, N1BKE The new Third Edition of The ARRL RFI Book has been released to the printer. Khrystyne Keane wrote and distributed The ARRL Letter for April 1, 2010. Membership & Volunteer Programs Reported by Dave Patton, NN1N Contest Branch We've received 3,088 logs for the DX SSB contest. Deadline is in 2 days. Initial results data has been received from the log checkers for the 2010 DX CW contest as well as the 2010 January VHF Sweepstakes contest. RTTY Roundup data is in the hands of the results author. The announcement of the addition of 32 Mexican states to the ARRL 10 Meter contest has generated a lot of comments. Most are favorable, some are negative. We'll keep working with the 10 Meter Contest volunteers over the next several months to ensure the adjudication for the December event will be fine. The Rookie Roundup contest is two weeks away. An off-site blog has been created for the event, http://RookieRoundup.wordpress.com <http://rookieroundup.wordpress.com/> , to communicate info about the event. When the new ARRL web site is launched, the information on the blog will be moved to the Rookie Roundup page on the new site. 2009 Sweepstakes cups and pin orders are being processed. "Pin-only" orders have been mailed (Monday, April 5); cup-only and cup-pin combo orders will ship within the next two days. DXCC Branch Credits Applications 2009 Carryover 164,146 1,241 2010 Received 170,099 1,395 Cumulative Total 334,245 2,636 2010 Processed 305,405 2,455 Remaining 28,840 181 Processing Time 2 Weeks Logbook of the World Category March 2010 % Change Jan - Mar 2010 QSO Records Entered Into System 276,704,895 5% QSL Record Matches 29,164,544 8% Logs Processed 1,417,037 10% Active Certificates 49,892 4% Registered Users in System 32,988 4% Logbook (Email Only) Inquiries March 2010 Maintenance 1,019 Initial Setup Inquiries 546 Award Related Concerns 401 Customer Usage Issues 424 Phone Calls 118 Total 2,508 W1AW Joe processed three Qualifying Run certificates and three endorsements. He processed all the initial W1AW/KL7 (2009 IARU) QSL card requests. Joe also created the texts for the April W1AW Qualifying Runs. He also built another shelf to be used with the Alpha 9500 amplifier which is to be placed in operation in one of the visitor operating studios. Scott worked on slow and fast code practice files for the first part of the month of April. Field Organization/Public Service Team Betsey Doane, K1EIC, has been nominated to run for a new term of office as Connecticut Section Manager. The next term of office for this particular election cycle begins in October. Leona has been receiving/filing Section expense reports from Section Leaders, and arranging for new Field Appointees to receive their introductory information and supplies. Updates to the Field Organization data base also continue. All Section Managers have now been invited to log onto the new ARRL Web site to look it over. Headquarters staff has been receiving feedback from the SMs and responding accordingly. Steve Ewald prepared the Public Service column for June QST and turned the material over to our Editorial and Production staff. Radio amateurs from North Texas and Michigan completed their training to become Official Observers. The total number of OOs is now 709. Chuck Skolaut forwarded details from the FCC to all OOs, OOCs and Section Managers regarding a recent incident on 14.275 MHz for their information. Documentation was received regarding operation on two separate 75 meter frequencies, and OOs continue to investigate. The Arizona OOC reported an incident where someone advertised on Craig's list that he or she wanted to pay for an Amateur Radio license. This case was immediately followed up on. We also received an updated report of a wide signal that continues to be seen on PSK-31. Sincerely Compiled by, Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Assistant to the CEO Staff Absentee List Leona Adams 4/19-4/20 Vacation Steve Capodicasa 4/12 Vacation Joe Carcia 5/28 Vacation Jackie Cornell 5/12-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dauton, OH Steve Ewald 4/16-4/17 Delaware State Convention, Georgetown, DE `` 4/19-4/23 Vacation `` 5/13-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Steve Ford 4/22-4/23 Vacation Norm Fusaro 5/13-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Scott Gee 4/14-4/16 Vacation `` 5/13-5/14 Vacation Mike Gruber 4/30 Vacation `` 6/1-6/4 Vacation Ed Hare 4/19-4/22 ANSI asc C63 EMC Comm. meeting, Piscataway, NJ Dan Henderson 4/5-4/9 Vacation `` 4/30-5/5 SC Section Convention, Spartanburg, SC/Vacation Mary Hobart 5/12-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton OH `` 6/11-6/13 HamCom, Dallas, TX Amy Hurtado 5/12-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Bob Inderbitzen 4/8-4/9 AES Superfest, Milwaukee, WI `` 4/19-4/23 Vacation Bob Inderbitzen 5/12-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Debra Johnson 4/23-4/26 Arkansas Section Convention, Rogers, AR Joel Kleinman 4/8 Vacation `` 4/13 Vacation Linda Kleinschmidt 4/22-4/23 Vacation Lisa Kustosik 5/13-5/18 Vacation Amy Leary 5/13-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH `` 5/17 Vacation Monique Levesque 4/15-4/21 Vacation Maryann Macdonald 5/12-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Bill Moore 4/15-4/19 International DX Convention, Visalia, CA `` 5/13-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Diane Petrilli 5/13-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Kim Piatek 5/12-5/16 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Chuck Skolaut 4/23-4/25 Louisiana Section Convention, Monroe, LA Janice Wytas 4/5-4/9 Vacation

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[arrl-odv:18832] City of Manassas to End BPL Service
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Here's our story, which goes into more depth than the Washington Post's. Dave http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2010/04/08/11427/?nc=1

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[arrl-odv:18831] Manassas BPL Bites the Dust
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Today's Washington Post has the story: Manassas to end broadband-over-power line Internet service By Jennifer Buske Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 8, 2010; PW18 Manassas residents who rely on the city's broadband-over-power line Internet service will have to find a new provider after Manassas City Council members voted unanimously Monday to end the city's role as a telecommunications provider. Manassas <http://www.manassascity.org> took over the program from Communication Technologies in October 2008, and city officials have debated whether to keep it <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR20090 41403723.html> . The BPL service, which reaches about 520 residents and businesses, runs off the city's electrical grid and allows users to access the Internet through any electrical socket, rather than through phone or cable television lines. The service is about 10 times as fast as dial-up, while most households today have a service that is 50 times as fast as dial-up, officials with the Manassas utilities department said. Proponents once said they wanted to give BPL a chance because it provided affordable Internet service, about $25 a month. Some council members said it is not the government's job to provide Internet service. Manassas officials said BPL costs the city $170,000 annually. "I think this was a worthwhile experience . . . but the business model just didn't work," Manassas City Council member J. Steven Randolph (I) said. Manassas officials said notices will be sent to users of the BPL service, who will have until July 1 to find a new provider. Comcast serves the entire city, and Verizon officials said they serve "most" Manassas residents, with plans to have Fios Internet available to all residents by 2011. Discontinuing the BPL service could mean losing the wireless Internet available in Old Town, which was launched less than a year ago and has not had many users, city officials said. Manassas utilities officials said they will try to find the $2,000 to $3,000 a year needed to operate it through another provider. <http://www.washingtonpost.com?referrer=emailarticle> E-mail <http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/14302-93014-2151-3?mpt=430474> <http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/tr/14302-93014-2151-3?mpt=430474> Manassas will end broadband service via power lines <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/06/AR20100 40603796.html?referrer=emailarticle> By Jennifer Buske Manassas residents who rely on the city's broadband-over-power line Internet service will have to find a new provider after Manassas City Council members voted unanimously Monday to end the city's role as a telecommunications provider.

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[arrl-odv:18830] New Web server architecture
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hi, I have had a few questions about what we have done to address the server problem that we discovered during our first live test of the new Web site. Here an analysis, written by Jon Bloom, of what actions he has taken. If you want further information, Jon has written a more detailed, very technical document on this topic that I can send you. I am also distributing this to the Board, Fathom and additional in-house staff for their information. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 860 594 0220 hkramer(a)arrl.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- From: Jon: Our initial attempts and additional testing revealed that the server we were using was inadequate to the task of serving up the pages of the new Web site. A simplified explanation is that each page viewed on the new site needs about 10 times as much memory and 10 times as much processor power to generate compared to a page of the old site. This drastically limited the number of pages that could be served simultaneously, even though the new site was running on a server about twice as capable as the one serving the old site. In addition, using a single server queue for all requests meant that when page generation slowed down, requests for image files (which take no processor power to speak of) often waited in the same queue. The result was that users experienced dreadfully slow page loads. To address this problem, I spent much of last week devising a new server architecture. This architecture is based on a cluster of "cloud" servers. It splits the generation of pages across a number of servers, allowing the generation of far more pages simultaneously. In addition, images and other static files are served from a queue capable of handling many more simultaneous requests. The new architecture provides more scalability, too. If page generation becomes a limiting factor, it is a simple matter to add additional servers to generate more pages in parallel. Looking at two days of traffic on the old site, we see a busiest hour of 5,141 page views and 74,015 total hits. The busiest minute was 187 page views and 1736 total hits. The new cluster was load-tested and measured to serve approximately 1,000 page views and 14,000 total hits per minute, about five times the load of the busiest minute seen during those two days. (Since that load test was performed, additional page caching has been added to the page-generation code that should further improve performance.) Jon Bloom, KE3Z IT Manager ARRL - The national organization for Amateur Radio 225 Main St Newington, CT 06109 860-594-0276 jbloom(a)arrl.org <mailto:jbloom@arrl.org>

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[arrl-odv:18828] RE: [arrl-odv:18826] RE: [arrl-odv:18823] N4QX to be on FCC panel
by Price, Brennan, N4QX 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Just to follow up, the workshop will probably be rescheduled for next month. Pat Rinn has specifically requested Amateur Radio participation and has indicated that we will be reinvited. General Counsel Imlay will have the right of first refusal. Of course, the reason for or fact of the evacuation, while obvious to anyone on the scene, ought not to be disseminated at this time. 73 de Brennan N4QX (stopping at home on the way to Fairfax) ________________________________ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Wed 4/7/2010 10:52 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18826] RE: [arrl-odv:18823] N4QX to be on FCC panel If you were planning on watching/listening to this workshop, it has been cancelled for today - Brennan reports that the FCC building has been evacuated this morning while an "explosive device investigation" is being conducted. Dave From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:51 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18823] N4QX to be on FCC panel Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX will be on the panel for tomorrow's discussion of the FCC Consolidated Licensing System, which is intended eventually to replace the ULS (and other systems). Released: 04/05/2010. FCC ANNOUNCES PANELISTS FOR APRIL 7, 2010 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSOLIDATED LICENSING SYSTEM WORKSHOP. (DA No. 10-596). (Dkt No 10-73 ). OMD . Contact: Pat Rinn at (202) 414-1223, email: Pat.Rinn(a)fcc.gov <mailto:Pat.Rinn@fcc.gov> or Rich Lerner at (202) 418-1495, email: Richard.Lerner(a)fcc.gov <mailto:Richard.Lerner@fcc.gov> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-10-596A1.doc <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-10-596A1.doc> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-10-596A1.pdf <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-10-596A1.pdf> Dave K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:18827] FW: Response to Brian on Search Results and Display
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Brian and ODV, Here is Kim Mitola's response to your question about the search function on the new Web site. I am also sending this to some of our internal folks for their information. 73, Harold ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------- Brian, Thanks for your thoughtful feedback. Because the new site isn't live, Google is still indexing the old website. Google will begin indexing the new site at launch and will take 2-4 weeks to fully process. Once the site is fully indexed, descriptions will display with headline links to provide a bit more detail for users. During this time, Katie may continue to enter meta information for pages to yield stronger results. The advanced search is a more complex addition that we can certainly explore with you post launch. Currently, we're focused on making adjustments to optimize the site prior to launch on Monday. We've received very helpful feedback from the Board and SMs and appreciate the collaborative spirit from all throughout this remarkable project. If you have any other questions, feel free to let us know. All the best, Kim .......................................... Kimberly Mitola Director of Accounts Fathom | www.fathom.net 100 Allyn Street Hartford, CT 06103 P: 860-677-9737 x 6015 F: 860-677-9767 http://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlymitola *For web updates and immediate needs, please send your request to AccountService(a)fathom.net

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