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[arrl-odv:19244] IN-News
by Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

<<072810.doc>> IN-Newsletter <<Microsoft Word Picture>> Vol. 33, No. 30 July 28, 2010 -- Covers the period July 18-24. Regulatory Information Reported by Dan Henderson, N1ND Between the Board meeting and attending the NCVEC conference, the past two weeks have been hectic. Work continued with General Counsel on several projects. There has been a resolution to the Midwest City, OK RFI citation received by David Box, K5DBX. The prosecutor has indicated he has not received the complaint from the city and after looking at the situation will not be pursuing legal action. While this resolves Mr. Box's immediate situation, it still leaves the ordinance on the books. Local amateurs will be working with the city to try to address this issue, with the ARRL providing support as requested. We are also working on an antenna ordinance situation involving Cleveland County, NC. After discovering that the local ordinance (intended for cell towers) did not allow an amateur tower in residential areas, a local amateur petitioned the county for a new amateur ordinance. Upon reviewing the ordinance, speaking with the County planning and zoning officials, and discussing the ordinance with General Counsel, the proposed ordinance (drafted by the amateur) appears to be overly restrictive and in conflict with portions of PRB-1 and the local NC state PRB-1 law. We are in contact with NC Section Manager Bill Morine, N2COP, and the small group of amateurs in the county that are now working on a revision to the proposal. The initial court date for Steve Bozac, WB2IQU, did not go well. Bozac was cited under the new NY state cellphone bill for using his amateur mobile radio while driving. We will continue to work with General Counsel and Bozac as they appeal to the next level of court in NY. The changes of command are complete at both the Cape Cod and Beale PAVE PAWS sites, and we are working with the new commanding officers to keep the positive momentum going on this project. Lt. Col. Shawn Smith is the new CO at Cape Cod. We are working with his office on a mission briefing for amateurs to be presented at the New England Division Convention at Boxboro on August 28. In preparation for this, we will be visiting the Cape Cod site to meet with Lt. Col. Smith sometime before the event. Also, Lt. Col. Scott Schroff is the new CO at the Beale site. We have worked with Lt. Col. Schroff, who was previously the second in command at Cape Cod. In October, Lt. Col. Schroff, Laura Smith from the FCC, and I will be doing a joint presentation on the status of the PAVE PAWS situation at PACIFICON. During the time in Gettysburg, we met briefly with both Bill Cross and Laura Smith from the FCC. Bill indicated he is currently working on the R&O for the call-sign docket and then will be working on the R&O for the spread spectrum docket. He anticipates their release near the end of the year. Laura indicated she was returning to work from maternity leave on Monday, July 26. Field Day submissions are proceeding well, with over 2000 already processed through the www.b4h.net <http://www.b4h.net/> website. MVP staff (especially Kathy Allison, KA1RWY) have already begun data entry for submissions sent via regular mail and sorting through non-applet web submissions. Daily updates of Logs Received are prepared then sent to the Contest Branch for posting. Development Reported by Mary Hobart, K1MMH Revenues to date from the first Spectrum Defense Matters newsletter mailing have brought the year's total to $76,681 or 24% of the 2010 target. The first edition of the newsletter is now on the web. An email with a link to it was sent out the week of July 26. The production of the Education & Technology Fund mailing is progressing toward a mail date of late August. Revenues for the Teachers Institute now total $90,040. Proceeds for the Diamond Club now total $147,018 from 976 donors. This is 56% of the 2010 target for that Development program. Additional bricks were installed in the Diamond Terrace the week of July 12. Production/Editorial Reported by Joel Kleinman, N1BKE Khrystyne Keane wrote and distributed The ARRL Letter and voiced and produced ARRL Audio News for July 22, 2010. Sales and Marketing Reported by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R An invitation was emailed to a sample of ARRL members across license classes, seeking their participation in an online survey about ARRL membership benefits and digital publications. The same survey will be snail-mailed to a sample of members for whom we do not have recorded email addresses. Some end-of-month broadcast e-mail is being prepared to solicit members-mostly from among lapsed members. Many of the ARRL Tour Guide volunteers will attend a special training session on Friday, August 6, familiarizing them with the Education & Technology Program. A mid-month email solicitation offering a free Repeater Directory with purchases of $20 or more has generated more than $14,250 going into the last week of the month. A special upgrade mailing for TravelPlus for Repeaters has returned $4,600 in sales. Testing is being completed to ensure that ARRL-registered instructors and Diamond Club members can take advantage of group discounts via the new e-store. Instructors receive as much as a 25% discount on many popular ARRL instructional materials including the ARRL License Manual series. Diamond Club members at the Brass-level and higher receive a 10% publications discount. Organization and formatting improvements continue to be made to the e-store. A new product category, "History & Adventure," has been added. A home page Radiosport announcement was produced for the upcoming Rookie Roundup. This 6-hour SSB contest is August 15. Designs are being finalized for commemorative merchandise being produced for the ARES 75th Anniversary: T-shirts, mug, and challenge coin. During the last week, the warehouse crew fulfilled 942 packages for publication and product orders, 339 membership premiums, and QST mailing supplements. Membership & Volunteer Programs Reported by Dave Patton, NN1N W1AW Joe Carcia updated the code practice source list on the web. He uploaded logs to LoTW for IARU station W1AW/8 and for the previous week's regular visitor contacts. He also processed regular QSL card requests. He hosted teachers (during the lunch hours) who were in attendance for the "Teachers Institute". He got them on the air, fielded some questions on the station and also offered assistance in the NOAA-x weather satellite receiver demonstration. Scott Gee worked on fast and slow code practice files for the latter part of the month of July. He also assisted the DXCC department with the editing of applications. Field Organization/Public Service Team A report of a Part 15 type operation on 900 MHz that is causing interference to a repeater and a radio amateur announcing a bogus "May Day" call on a 2-meter repeater were forwarded to the FCC. South Carolina Official Observers were asked to check out a report of obnoxious behavior on a 40 meter CW frequency. Arkansas OOs are checking on what appears to be VOX operation on 75 meters that has been keying a transmitter over recent weekends. We received updated information regarding repeater interference in Indiana. A report of interference on an Ohio repeater frequency was found to likely be caused by a low power D-Star repeater. National Public Radio recently aired a short segment dealing with "Numbers Stations" and was forwarded to our volunteer monitors. The 2010 Section Managers' Workshop for new Section Managers has been scheduled for September 24 -26 (Friday to Sunday) here at ARRL Headquarters. Participants and Headquarters staff presenters are starting to make arrangements and setting their schedules. Sincerely Compiled by, Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Assistant to the CEO Staff Absentee List All Staff 9/6 Holiday Leona Adams 7/23-7/24 Vacation Steve Capodicasa 9/13-9/17 Vacation Joe Carcia 7/23 Vacation `` 7/30 Vacation `` 8/6-8/13 Vacation `` 8/20 Vacation `` 8/27 Vacation Michael Cory 7/30-8/6 APCO Conference, Houston, TX `` 8/20-8/22 Southeastern Division Convention, Huntsville, AL Steve Ford 7/27 Vacation `` 8/2-8/6 Vacation Norm Fusaro 7/30-8/6 Vacation Scott Gee 8/2-8/4 Vacation `` 8/30-8/31 Vacation Mike Gruber 8/23-8/27 Vacation Dan Henderson 8/23-8/27 Vacation `` 9/24-10/3 Ten-Tec Hamfest,(TN)/W4DXCC/SEDCO/Vacation `` 10/14-10/19 Pacificon Mary Hobart 7/23 Vacation `` 8/11-8/13 Vacation Amy Hurtado 7/14-7/26 Vacation Gail Iannone 8/20-9/7 Vacation Bob Inderbitzen 8/4-8/5 Training `` 8/6-8/9 Vacation `` 8/23-8/27 Vacation Joel Kleinman 8/5 Vacation `` 8/23 Vacation Harold Kramer 8/2-8/6 Vacation Sean Kutzko 8/16-8/25 Tokyo Ham Fair Greg Kwasowski 7/21-8/5 Vacation Zack Lau 7/12-7/23 Vacation Rose-Anne Lawrence 7/20-7/22 Jury Duty Monique Levesque 7/19-7/23 Vacation Dave Patton 8/6-8/7 Texas State Convention, Austin, TX Diane Petrilli 8/4-8/5 Training `` 8/23-8/27 Vacation Allen Pitts 7/26-7/28 Vacation Steve Sant Andrea 8/30 Vacation Barry Shelley 8/9-8/20 Vacation `` 8/26-8/27 Vacation Dave Sumner 7/26 Washington Perry Williams 7/22-8/11 Vacation

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RE: [arrl-odv:19242] Re:RE: RE: Board minutes
by Jim Weaver K8JE 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

R Tnx. Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040; Tel. 513-459-1661 ARRL, The national organization for AMATEUR RADIO _____ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 5:23 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:19242] Re:RE: RE: Board minutes Jim, in general, content management is the responsibility of the individual most knowledgeable about the content. In the case of news stories it's the news editor. Dave _____ From: Jim Weaver K8JE [mailto:K8JE@ARRL.org] Sent: Sun 8/1/2010 10:22 PM To: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ; arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:19239] Re:RE: Board minutes Dave, The link you sent still works as a matter of fact. In general, where does the responsibility lie for adding links to the web site -- i.e. managers of the departments, select individuals in each department, IT, etc.? Tnx, Jim Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040; Tel. 513-459-1661 ARRL, The national organization for AMATEUR RADIO

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RE: [arrl-odv:19239] Re:RE: Board minutes
by Jim Weaver K8JE 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Dave, The link you sent still works as a matter of fact. In general, where does the responsibility lie for adding links to the web site -- i.e. managers of the departments, select individuals in each department, IT, etc.? Tnx, Jim Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040; Tel. 513-459-1661 ARRL, The national organization for AMATEUR RADIO _____ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 5:03 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:19239] Re:RE: Board minutes I don't know why the link in the news story is broken, but the information I sent to ODV on Thursday afternoon is correct. Monday morning we'll fix the link. Dave _____ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Thu 7/29/2010 6:46 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:19223] Board Minutes Available The minutes of the July 16-17 meeting are now available at <http://www.arrl.org/board-meetings> http://www.arrl.org/board-meetings. Dave

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[arrl-odv:19240] Re: Board minutes
by Bob Vallio 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Wow, you are exactly correct, as usual. Less is more in this case, but I'm still mystified as to how the search, with all the same words as in the heading of the link, can fail! :>) Bob On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Tom Frenaye <frenaye(a)pcnet.com> wrote: > At 03:12 PM 8/1/2010, Bob Vallio wrote: > > Thanks, Tom. That's not found intuitively. I wonder how many others will > find that path; and, why doesn't our high-priced Google Search feature point > to the correct link? Typing the exact title from the URL you found "Minutes: 2010 Second Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors"<http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2010%20July%20…>, > into the search box, does not take you there, but instead to another > dead-end result. > > > Remember that indexing of a web site doesn't necessarily happen > immediately, sometimes it takes a few days. > > Also, you can think things out too far. > > If you had typed "2010 minutes" into the search field it would have found > them. (also, no need to type "arrl" on the ARRL web site...) > > -- Tom > > PS: I agree that having a broken link in a news story isn't so good! > > > ===== > 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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[arrl-odv:19239] Re:RE: Board minutes
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

I don't know why the link in the news story is broken, but the information I sent to ODV on Thursday afternoon is correct. Monday morning we'll fix the link. Dave ________________________________ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Thu 7/29/2010 6:46 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:19223] Board Minutes Available The minutes of the July 16-17 meeting are now available at http://www.arrl.org/board-meetings <http://www.arrl.org/board-meetings> . Dave ________________________________ From: Tom Frenaye [mailto:frenaye@pcnet.com] Sent: Sun 8/1/2010 9:14 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:19238] Re: Board minutes At 03:12 PM 8/1/2010, Bob Vallio wrote: Thanks, Tom. That's not found intuitively. I wonder how many others will find that path; and, why doesn't our high-priced Google Search feature point to the correct link? Typing the exact title from the URL you found " Minutes: 2010 Second Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors" <http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2010%20July%20…> , into the search box, does not take you there, but instead to another dead-end result. Remember that indexing of a web site doesn't necessarily happen immediately, sometimes it takes a few days. Also, you can think things out too far. If you had typed "2010 minutes" into the search field it would have found them. (also, no need to type "arrl" on the ARRL web site...) -- Tom PS: I agree that having a broken link in a news story isn't so good! ===== 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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[arrl-odv:19238] Re: Board minutes
by Tom Frenaye 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

At 03:12 PM 8/1/2010, Bob Vallio wrote: >Thanks, Tom. That's not found intuitively. I wonder how many others will find that path; and, why doesn't our high-priced Google Search feature point to the correct link? Typing the exact title from the URL you found "<http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2010%20July%20…>Minutes: 2010 Second Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors", into the search box, does not take you there, but instead to another dead-end result. Remember that indexing of a web site doesn't necessarily happen immediately, sometimes it takes a few days. Also, you can think things out too far. If you had typed "2010 minutes" into the search field it would have found them. (also, no need to type "arrl" on the ARRL web site...) -- Tom PS: I agree that having a broken link in a news story isn't so good! ===== 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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[arrl-odv:19237] Re: Board minutes
by Bob Vallio 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Thanks, Tom. That's not found intuitively. I wonder how many others will find that path; and, why doesn't our high-priced Google Search feature point to the correct link? Typing the exact title from the URL you found "Minutes: 2010 Second Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors"<http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2010%20July%20…>, into the search box, does not take you there, but instead to another dead-end result. Does anyone really believe that this "new" website will ever work, and if it does, how soon will that come to pass? The more staff time we *spend* on this mission, the more the end *cost* becomes. Bob On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Tom Frenaye <frenaye(a)pcnet.com> wrote: > > The link in the article is wrong but the minutes are here: > > http://www.arrl.org/board-meetings > > Found by selecting "About ARRL" from the main menu, then "General > Information" > > -- Tom > > > At 12:57 PM 8/1/2010, Bob Vallio wrote: > > Things are not getting any better, are they, David? I spent 10 minutes > typing in various permutations of "2010 arrl board second meeting minutes" > and ended up at the same URL you cited, below. > > Bob > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:28 AM, David Woolweaver <k5rav(a)ix.netcom.com> > wrote: > A members just informed me that the link to the Board minutes is broken. > > However, since that news item appeared, the link fails and sends me to > http://www.arrl.org/img/file_types/missing.png > > > I checked it out and I was taken to the same page....missing in action. > > David > > ===== > 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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[arrl-odv:19236] Re: Board minutes
by Tom Frenaye 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

The link in the article is wrong but the minutes are here: http://www.arrl.org/board-meetings Found by selecting "About ARRL" from the main menu, then "General Information" -- Tom At 12:57 PM 8/1/2010, Bob Vallio wrote: >Things are not getting any better, are they, David? I spent 10 minutes typing in various permutations of "2010 arrl board second meeting minutes" and ended up at the same URL you cited, below. > >Bob > > >On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:28 AM, David Woolweaver <<mailto:k5rav@ix.netcom.com>k5rav(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: >A members just informed me that the link to the Board minutes is broken. > >However, since that news item appeared, the link fails and sends me to ><http://www.arrl.org/img/file_types/missing.png>http://www.arrl.org/img/file_types/missing.png > > >I checked it out and I was taken to the same page....missing in action. > >David > ===== 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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[arrl-odv:19235] Re: Board minutes
by Bob Vallio 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Things are not getting any better, are they, David? I spent 10 minutes typing in various permutations of "2010 arrl board second meeting minutes" and ended up at the same URL you cited, below. Bob On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:28 AM, David Woolweaver <k5rav(a)ix.netcom.com>wrote: > A members just informed me that the link to the Board minutes is broken. > > However, since that news item appeared, the link fails and sends me to > http://www.arrl.org/img/file_types/missing.png > > > I checked it out and I was taken to the same page....missing in action. > > David > >

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[arrl-odv:19233] Minutes of the July 1 EC teleconference
by Kay Craigie 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

You were previously sent (ODV:19171) the rough notes on the EC's July 1 teleconference on the 5 MHz NPRM. The attachment is the minutes based on those notes. 73 - Kay N3KN

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