January 2013 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:21462] National Broadband Plan Status Report
by Kay Craigie 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

The EC is charged with monitoring the status of the National Broadband Plan. The attached document is a report submitted to the EC by a task group made up of EC members and others. The EC wanted the full Board to have the benefit of the information contained in it. 73 - Kay N3KN ====================================================== Greetings. At the request of IAVP Bellows, attached please find a report prepared by Director Mileshosky, CTO Price and myself which contains information that we have been able to gather from meetings in Washington and from research we have done updating the National Broadband Plan Committee's report to the Board of a year ago. The Washington meetings that Brian, Brennan and I have had were at the direction of the EC at its September, 2012 meeting. We believe that the information we obtained in Washington and the documents referred to in the attached memo reflect a reasonable, current assessment of the impact of the NBP implementation on Amateur spectrum between 222 MHz and 5.925 GHz. This report has been reviewed by Mr. Bellows, Mr. Woolweaver, Mr. Mileshosky, Mr. Price, Mr. Blocksome, and Mr. Carlson, all of whom have kindly agreed to participate in ongoing review activities relative to the NBP for the benefit of the EC. 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

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[arrl-odv:21457] Re: LoTW is current
by Dwayne Allen 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

Thanks Dave, The improvement was noticed right away. The K3UK website is a popular hangout for LoTW users. There they contact other users for skeds to fill slots in WAS, DXCC and other awards. Comments were favorable all weekend. Sunday, I uploaded the club's RTTY Roundup log. All in all, the system queued and processed the 1490 QSO log along with the others in the queue, in about a hour. This is a VAST improvement in the week or so it was taking in December. Please pass along appropriate pats on the backs of the LoTW team. 73 es See y'all in New Orleans, Dwayne, WY7FD -----Original Message----- From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ Sent: 1/14/2013 7:17 AM To: arrl-odv(a)arrl.org Subject: [arrl-odv:21455] LoTW is current As those of you who follow www.arrl.org/logbook-queue-status know, the Logbook of The World queue went to zero on Sunday morning. Processing has been essentially current ever since. With the new SSDs installed and operating the system processed 18 days' worth of uploads in 6 days. That gives us a good margin to handle upload peaks, but that happy state of affairs won't last forever since demand is bound to grow. We will plan accordingly. 73, Dave K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:21460] FW: ARRL State Legislative Report
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

The attached from John Chwat addresses Brian's questions. Dave K1ZZ From: John Chwat [mailto:john.chwat@chwatco.com] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 12:10 PM To: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ Subject: ARRL State Legislative Report Dave... As promised.... John Chwat President Chwat & Company, Inc. 625 Slaters Lane, Suite 103 Alexandria, Virginia 22314 (P) 703.684.7703 (C) 703.963.2917 (F) 703.684.7594 www.chwatco.com <http://www.chwatco.com/>

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[arrl-odv:21459] Historical Committee Report
by John Bellows 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

The Historical Committee Report is Attached. Please pardon the late filing. My laptop literally went "pop" yesterday and I have not been able to raise it from the dead. I had the wait to forward the copy of the report on my office computer. 73, Jay, KØQB

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[arrl-odv:21456] Media and Public Relations Report
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

Despite his retirement, Allen Pitts is neither gone nor forgotten - he is continuing to spend a few hours per week in the office on an hourly basis until a new Media and Public Relations Manager is hired and trained. Here is his report, which is an annex to mine (Document #7). Dave K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:21455] LoTW is current
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

As those of you who follow www.arrl.org/logbook-queue-status know, the Logbook of The World queue went to zero on Sunday morning. Processing has been essentially current ever since. With the new SSDs installed and operating the system processed 18 days' worth of uploads in 6 days. That gives us a good margin to handle upload peaks, but that happy state of affairs won't last forever since demand is bound to grow. We will plan accordingly. 73, Dave K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:21454] Doc #15 - A&F Committee
by Tom Frenaye 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

I've attached a copy of the Administration and Finance Committee report for the January Board meeting. (Will also send a copy to Lisa K) -- 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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[arrl-odv:21449] Document 11 CTO
by Price, Brennan, N4QX 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Good evening. Please find attached in both Word 07 and PDF formats the report of the Chief Technology Officer for next week's meeting. I'll be pleased to answer questions in New Orleans or before. 73, Brennan T. Price, N4QX Chief Technology Officer American Radio Relay League 3545 Chain Bridge Road Suite 209 Fairfax VA 22030-2708 Tel +1 703 934-2077 Fax +1 703 934-2079

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[arrl-odv:21452] ARRL Southeastern Division Director Report
by Greg Sarratt 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Good evening, Please see the attached ARRL Southeastern Division Director Report. 73, Greg Sarratt, W4OZK Director, Southeastern Division American Radio Relay League <http://www.southeastern.arrl.org> www.southeastern.arrl.org

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[arrl-odv:21451] January VHF Contest Rover Operation
by Price, Brennan, N4QX 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

The hotel for the board meeting is very close to the common corner of grid suares EL49, EL59, EM40, and EM50. The January VHF contest starts at 1300 CST on Saturday and will run through most of Sunday. Now, I acknowledge that work has to and will come first, but to have this many hams this close to a grid square corner during a VHF contest requires that a rover operation be conducted, however limited in scope. Failure to do so would almost be a crime against Amateur Radio. If anyone would be interested in joining me in such an effort, either Saturday afternoon/evening or Sunday morning before our flights, please let me know, and we'll see if we can come up with a plan. 73 de Brennan N4QX

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