August 2011 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:20161] Youth committee
by Kay Craigie 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

It's taking longer than I expected to populate the Youth in the Second Century committee. Brian will chair it and Andrea will be on it, and we have two excellent young non-Board volunteers who have agreed to serve. However, it turns out that some other young folks who were invited to serve won't be able to participate. I would like to have 2 or 3 more volunteers, preferably late high school through college age and would appreciate your suggestions. Some of your Sections have Assistant SMs for Youth who would fit the bill, and you may know of others in your Divisions, too. I'm looking for creative-minded young hams who would work hard and work well in a committee environment. They need to be active ham radio operators, not just nice bright kids who happen to have a call sign. If a suggested person is under 18, it would be helpful to know that since parental approval would have to be obtained. Thanks and 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:20160] Fire Alarm
by Shelley, Barry, N1VXY 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

This afternoon at approximately 1:30 pm the fire alarm at HQ was set off. We cleared the building immediately. The cause of the alarm was determined to be an unusual amount of smoke created by a staffer using the metal lathe in the shop off the Lab. The Newington Fire Dept. responded as did one police cruiser. They were able to confirm our opinion of the source in short order and the staff was allowed back in the building. The alarm system worked as it should and the staff responded appropriately. If you hear of any issues with HQ lack of response between about 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm, this is the reason. 73, Barry J. Shelley Chief Financial Officer ARRL, Inc-The National Association for Amateur Radio(tm) 225 Main St. Newington, CT 06111 Phone: (860) 594-0212

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[arrl-odv:20149] Electronic QST--unanswered questions about archives
by K0GW 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

While we've discussed many facets of an electronic QST, I think there is one group of questions still unanswered--what will be a user's access to the archive? Many members have and are proud of their collection of past QST issues. For example, at one point, I had every issue from 1963 to the present (until I started getting the CD-ROMs). Leaving for the moment the difference in media, will members be able to "keep" their copies in the same way? From what's been discussed so far, it appears that a member will be able to view/use the issue, but not save a digital copy. This would mean that a user would need to be online continuously to read an issue. Would we preclude downloading to read elsewhere offline? Would printing be disabled? Would only current members be able to read archive years, while a lapsed member would be unable to review an issue, even if it was published during the time he/she was a member? If I have a current subscription/membership, does that mean I have access to all the past issues? I am not objecting to electronic delivery, just wondering how we should address the complicated access questions that can be raised. Any suggestions? 73, Greg, K0GW

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[arrl-odv:20156] Midwest Division Convention trip report
by Kay Craigie 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

The attached document is the report on my visit to the Midwest Division Convention earlier this month. 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:20148] FW: Re: [arrl-od:2724] Re: January 2012 Board Meeting Location
by Dennis Bodson 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Folks: I don't usually respond to messages but I agree with Director Norton's opinions. Regards, Dennis -----Original Message----- From: arrl-odv-bounces(a)reflector.arrl.org [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Richard J Norton Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:18 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:20140] Re: [arrl-od:2724] Re: January 2012 Board Meeting Location 1) Quantitatively, a meeting in New Orleans or most anywhere else will cost the League approximately $10,000 more than holding it in Hartford. We will incur the cost of 12 or so more airplane round-trip flights and 28 to 30 or so additional hotel room-nights, plus a few additional meals. There will be no attendees who live locally. 2) We will subject approximately 7 members of our paid staff to 2 days each of travel. Whereas most of them are salaried, and may fly home on their own time, they will spend a day each, traveling to the meeting rather than performing useful work in Newington. The MVP manager, if he attends only the PSC meeting, will spend 3 workdays to cover a one-day meeting. 3) We lose the face-to-face interface with other staff members at the committee meetings, and at the board meeting itself if otherwise appropriate. 4) We lose the efficiency of a single airfare covering both new board-member initiation at headquarters and meeting attendance. There will be at least one new member. 5) A significant contributor to flight delays will still be weather at home or connecting airports. 6) Once one reaches the destination, the meetings are held indoors, where the weather outside is not a factor. As much as I've never been in New Orleans, other than the airport, and might enjoy seeing it, I really can't justify the additional cost to the League membership and the considerable impact on the paid senior staff. I consider attending meetings in Hartford an expected cost of being on the ARRL board. 73, Dick Norton, N6AA On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ <dsumner(a)arrl.org> wrote: > Folks, > > Bylaw 25 applies: > > 25. The Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held in > the vicinity of Newington, Connecticut, beginning on the 3rd Friday of > January. The Second Meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held in the > vicinity of Newington, Connecticut, beginning on the 3rd Friday of July. > The places of the meetings shall be designated by the President and notified > by the Secretary. The times and places of the meetings may be changed > provided that specific provision is made therefor by (1) majority vote of > the Directors at the next preceding Annual or Second Meeting, or (2) > majority vote of the Directors by mail initiated by the Executive Committee > or on petition of at least five Directors, such mail vote to be taken at > least 60 days previous to the date proposed for the meeting. > > So if five of you want to get together and propose something, have at it. > Please try to avoid cities where there might be an NFL postseason game > played that weekend. If you want staff to research specific locations for > cost comparison purposes, let me know. _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org http://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv

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[arrl-odv:20145] W6KFC, Vic Clark, QSL From 1938
by Bob Vallio 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

I ran across this, and thought perhaps there may be a few of you who remember Vic. Bob http://picasaweb.google.com/115747543308902188110/W6OldQSLCards?gsessionid=…

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[arrl-odv:20140] Re: [arrl-od:2724] Re: January 2012 Board Meeting Location
by Richard J Norton 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

1) Quantitatively, a meeting in New Orleans or most anywhere else will cost the League approximately $10,000 more than holding it in Hartford. We will incur the cost of 12 or so more airplane round-trip flights and 28 to 30 or so additional hotel room-nights, plus a few additional meals. There will be no attendees who live locally. 2) We will subject approximately 7 members of our paid staff to 2 days each of travel. Whereas most of them are salaried, and may fly home on their own time, they will spend a day each, traveling to the meeting rather than performing useful work in Newington. The MVP manager, if he attends only the PSC meeting, will spend 3 workdays to cover a one-day meeting. 3) We lose the face-to-face interface with other staff members at the committee meetings, and at the board meeting itself if otherwise appropriate. 4) We lose the efficiency of a single airfare covering both new board-member initiation at headquarters and meeting attendance. There will be at least one new member. 5) A significant contributor to flight delays will still be weather at home or connecting airports. 6) Once one reaches the destination, the meetings are held indoors, where the weather outside is not a factor. As much as I've never been in New Orleans, other than the airport, and might enjoy seeing it, I really can't justify the additional cost to the League membership and the considerable impact on the paid senior staff. I consider attending meetings in Hartford an expected cost of being on the ARRL board. 73, Dick Norton, N6AA On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ <dsumner(a)arrl.org> wrote: > Folks, > > Bylaw 25 applies: > > 25. The Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held in > the vicinity of Newington, Connecticut, beginning on the 3rd Friday of > January. The Second Meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held in the > vicinity of Newington, Connecticut, beginning on the 3rd Friday of July. > The places of the meetings shall be designated by the President and notified > by the Secretary. The times and places of the meetings may be changed > provided that specific provision is made therefor by (1) majority vote of > the Directors at the next preceding Annual or Second Meeting, or (2) > majority vote of the Directors by mail initiated by the Executive Committee > or on petition of at least five Directors, such mail vote to be taken at > least 60 days previous to the date proposed for the meeting. > > So if five of you want to get together and propose something, have at it. > Please try to avoid cities where there might be an NFL postseason game > played that weekend. If you want staff to research specific locations for > cost comparison purposes, let me know.

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[arrl-odv:20143] ZS6
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

I am leaving the office momentarily to catch a flight to South Africa for the IARU Region 1 Conference, GAREC and IARU Administrative Council meeting. I expect to be on email intermittently from the conference site. I plan to be back in the office Tuesday, August 23. 73, Dave Sumner, K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:20142] IN-News
by Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

<<081011.doc>> IN-Newsletter <<Microsoft Word Picture>> Vol. 34, No. 32 August 10, 2011 -- Covers the period August 1-6. Upcoming Meetings and Events Executive Committee: October 1 @ 8:30am - Dulles, VA United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) October 3-7 - ARRL HQ Section Managers' Workshop October 21-23 - ARRL HQ Ballot Counting for Director/Vice Director Elections November 18 - ARRL HQ Media & Public Relations Reported by Allen Pitts, W1AGP Work continues on the main D.I.Y. video scheduled for release in September and also on a suite of five 30 second radio and TV PSAs plus one 15 second one. The listing of PR-101 graduates on the web has been updated to add the newest people and the WRTC video was added to the Now Hear This page for others to see. The McGan Award plaque has been forwarded to Dir. Sarratt and an excellent (and large) article appeared in Urgent Communications Magazine by Jay Jacobsmeyer, KD0OFB. The launch of ARISSat-1 resulted in several articles in NASA and space related web publications, but little coverage outside of the immediate community. Development Reported by Mary Hobart, K1MMH Lauren Clarke of Wethersfield CT has accepted the position of Individual Giving Manager in the Development Officer. Lauren will join the staff on August 29 and concentrate on the operations of the Development Office from budgeting to fund campaigns and the Diamond Club. Her years of fund raising experience include tenure a The Northeast Utilities Foundation, The Harriet Beecher Stow House, The Greater Hartford Arts Council, The United Way of the Capital Area (Hartford CT) and Trinity College. The mail campaign for the Education & Technology Program has reached $28,992 toward the goal of $65,000. Development will welcome the Second Century Campaign Committee to HQ on Thursday, August 11 to being their work to raise funds for the ARRL Endowment. Production/Editorial Reported by Joel Kleinman, N1BKE Khrystyne Keane wrote and distributed the ARRL Letter and produced and voiced ARRL Audio News for August 4, 2011. Sales and Marketing Reported by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R The large summer-themed publication mailing continues to reach mailboxes, producing orders received by mail, phone and on-line. An EmComm- and public service-themed publication solicitation has been prepared, for emailing later this month. The timing coincides with September QST's attention on the same. We collaborated with Sue Fagan to design covers for the upcoming editions of The ARRL Handbook and The ARRL Antenna Book. Both books will be introduced in September, and begin shipping in October. The large survey to support planning for a digital edition of QST will close next week. A new activity is being organized for the ARRL Tour Guide Program-suggested by some of the volunteers. Soon, our volunteers will begin taking photos of guests touring HQ-with an interest in sharing the photos as "souvenirs" of the visits. We may also use the photos to populate a Facebook photo album of HQ visitors. The ARRL YouTube channel, "ARRLHQ," which was created in June 2009, has seen a recent upswing in activity. There have been over 30,350 video views this year. The most populated age range of viewers falls between ages 45-54 (the second and third highest groups are 55-64 and 35-44 respectively), and viewers are 96% male. Amy, Diane and Bob participated in a meeting organized by Katie Glass, and including members of the IT staff, involving planning for handling member access to a future digital edition of QST. Amy and Bob participated in a meeting organized by Barry Shelley, investigating telephone software resources that provide reporting features for call volume, wait or hold times, and other metrics and live telephone status information. Membership & Volunteer Programs Reported by Dave Patton, NN1N Field Organization/Public Service Team One radio amateur from Wisconsin has completed the requirements to become an Official Observer this past week. ARRL Headquarters received Official Observer notes and documentation regarding interference that has been occurring on a California repeater. This was forwarded to the FCC. Official Observers Coordinators and Official Observers in Illinois and Southern New Jersey have their attention on some ongoing repeater interference cases. Also, a summary regarding the recent CODAR investigation was prepared for the ARRL Web's News Page. Chuck Skolaut conducted the 9 AM code practice this past Friday and assisted a visitor at W1AW. Leona Adams and Steve Ewald have continued to provide administrative support to Section Managers and Field Organization appointees. Meanwhile, monthly Field Organization activity reports for July have begun to arrive during the first week of August. Sincerely Compiled by, Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Assistant to the CEO Hamfest/Member Contact/ARRL Representative/Meetings/Vacations All Staff 9/5 Holiday Kathy Allison 9/2-9/9 Vacation Margie Bourgoin 8/18-8/23 Vacation Hugh Brower 8/15-8/19 Vacation Joe Carcia 8/5-8/12 Vacation `` 8/19 Vacation `` 8/26 Vacation Steve Ford 8/8-8/12 Vacation `` 8/18-8/25 West Virginia State Convention, Weston, WV/Vacation Scott Gee 9/7-9/9 Vacation `` 9/26-9/30 Vacation Mike Gruber 8/20-8/27 Vacation `` 9/26-9/30 Vacation Joel Hallas 8/11-8/16 Vacation Ed Hare 8/14-8/18 IEEE EMC Symposium/Meeting, Long Beach, CA `` 8/19-8/26 IEEE Regional Meeting/Vacation, San Francisco, CA Dan Henderson 8/29-9/2 Vacation `` 9/15-9/26 Ten Tec Hamfest, Sevierville, TN/SEDCO/Vacation Bob Inderbitzen 8/8-8/12 Vacation Joel Kleinman 8/11 Vacation `` 8/25 Vacation Greg Kwasowski 8/8-8/12 Vacation Zack Lau 11/5-11/6 Iowa Section Convention, Davenport, IA Monique Levesque 8/8-8/12 Vacation Bill Moore 8/20-8/21 Alabama State Convention, Huntsville, AL Dave Patton 8/25-8/28 JARL Ham Fair, Tokyo, Japan Diane Petrilli 8/5-8/12 Vacation `` 8/26-9/2 Vacation Becky Schoenfeld 8/15-8/20 Vacation Chuck Skolaut 8/15-8/19 Vacation `` 8/21-8/22 Kansas State Convention, Salina, KS/Vacation `` 8/23 Vacation `` 8/28 W. Pennsylvania Section Convention, New Kensington, PA Maria Somma 8/9-8/16 Vacation Dave Sumner 8/11pm-8/22 IARU Reg.1 Conference/AC Meeting, South Africa

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[arrl-odv:20141] WT Docket 11-130, Temporary Waiver to Allow Examination Credit for Expired Amateur Operator Licenses
by Chris Imlay 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Greetings. Attached are as-filed comments, both in Word 07 and PDF, in response to the Anchorage VEC's proposal for a temporary waiver, pending Commission action on its rulemaking petition, RM-11629, to allow VECs to afford examination element credit to those individuals who once held an Amateur Radio license but who allowed that license to expire beyond the two-year grace period. It is critical to note, as you will when you read these comments, that they carefully preserve the Board's prerogative to support RM-11629, which requests rule changes to permanently afford such exam credit, should the Board wish to take a supportive position on that petition. These comments urge, however, that the grant of a temporary waiver to afford such element credit and relicensing is a bad idea, because, principally, it prejudges the outcome of the Petition, making favorable action on the Petition a fait accompli. There are many other reasons why the waiver should not be granted, but that is the principal one. I think these are well-formulated comments, thanks to the entire Executive Committee, but especially to President Craigie who strategized this filing and actively participated in the edits of it. Thanks too to Dave Sumner and EC members Tom Frenaye, Bob Vallio, and Dick Isely for helpful edits. Good team effort by the EC. 73, Chris W3KD P.S. I am leaving today for vacation in the U.K. and will be back on the 22nd, and following a short trip thereafter to Arizona for a client, I will be back in the office after the 25th. I will allegedly have e-mail capability while in the U.K. We will see.... 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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