January 2014 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:22262] ARRL EMC Committee Report - Document #20
by Kermit Carlson 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hello ALL: I hope that this email finds you in good health and in good spirits ! Please find attached the ARRL EMC Committee Report, Document #20 for the Board Meeting Agenda. I appreciate and welcome any feedback, corrections, or questions about the Report. 73, Kermit Carlson W9XA EMC Committee Chair Central Division Vice director ENCL: .PDF - ARRL EMC Committee Report - REV.C

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[arrl-odv:22260] As-Filed Reply Comments, ARRL Symbol Rate Petition for Rule Making, RM-11708
by Chris Imlay 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Greetings and Happy New Year. I have just filed the attached reply comments relative to our Petition for Rule Making seeking to eliminate the symbol rate limitation on MF and HF data communications and to substitute a 2.8 kilohertz maximum occupied bandwidth. These reply comments took a lot of time to prepare because there are, to date, 910 comments filed in response to the Petition, and it was necessary to address each of the arguments made by commenters. Thanks to Dan Henderson for a very helpful analysis of opposing comments. Between Dan's and my own analyses of the comments, we have a very high degree of confidence that we have in these reply comments addressed all of the arguments made in opposition to the Petition. It is gratifying that a very substantial majority of the comments filed support the ARRL Petition. Those that do not are basically concerned about HF data overwhelming CW, PSK-31 and other narrow bandwidth modes in use in the lower portions of bands where data emissions (with no bandwidth limitation) are permitted now. Some are concerned with stations now operated under automatic control, but the rules regarding automatically controlled HF and MF stations are not affected at all by this Petition, and their arguments are in effect enforcement issues, not rules issues. My draft of these reply comments was made far better by very good edits offered by Dave Sumner, Kay Craigie, Jay Bellows, Brian Mileshosky, Brennan Price, and Bruce Frahm. Thanks also to the Executive Committee which quickly reviewed and approved this filing on relatively short notice. 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:22257] Document 24
by Kay Craigie 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

The final report of the Centennial Celebration Committee is attached. 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:22192] Centennial QSO Party website
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

http://centennial-qso-party.arrl.org/ At the moment I'm at the top of the Leader Board. That won't last. Cliff, K0CA is tied for the top of the W1AW WAS Leader Board. Dave K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:22255] Centennial QSO party-W1AW/x
by James F. Boehner MD 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Doug, First, welcome to the board family, as our division neighbor! Second, I do appreciate you forwarding Bill’s (SM NC) e-mail. I have already made one post regarding W1AW/x, and did not want to appear repetitive. To all, The Roanoke Division has been fortunate to be able to host the first week of W1AW/x, from NC and WV. The next week will also include my section, SC. We are the first division to experience the W1AW/x operation. Bill is a longstanding member of the ARRL Public Relations Committee, of which I am the Board Liaison. He is pointing out a missed public relations opportunity by not even attempting to involve the section leadership in this endeavor-not to manage or interfere with the selected operations, just to be involved. I believe the image of the ARRL to the members should be that we work as a cohesive unit, or a family, if you will. It does not fare well for an organization when one hand doesn’t know what the other one is doing. At the very least, please consider requesting the remaining operations to place their respective SM’s on their distribution list, and to consider sharing some of their allotted time as W1AW/x with the Field Service’s representatives of their section. In turn, the section leadership has the opportunity to mobilize their resources to promote the W1AW/x operation, to take advantage of the PR opportunity, and to have a more cooperative rather than adversarial relationship. >From the operations side, W1AW/x from NC and WV have been very active tonight. Kay, it was a pleasure to work you on 75m this evening. ’73 de JIM N2ZZ ARRL Vice Director Roanoke Division From: arrl-odv-bounces(a)reflector.arrl.org [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Doug Rehman Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 1:38 PM To: 'arrl-odv' Subject: [arrl-odv:22235] FW: Centennial QSO party I’m forwarding this as an FYI. I suspect that there will be more unhappy Section Managers as the event progresses. Although not mentioned in the below emails, I’ve seen some complaints about the level of activity from the W1AW/8 group both in spots (asking where they are) and in forum posts. Thanks & 73, Doug Doug Rehman, K4AC Director Southeastern Division ARRL National Association of the Amateur Radio From: Bill Morine N2COP [mailto:n2cop@ec.rr.com] Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 10:38 AM To: 'Edward Tyler'; k4ac; 'Kevin ODell'; 'KX9X Sean Kutzko' Cc: 'David Drummond'; N2ZZ(a)arrl.org Subject: RE: Centennial QSO party Dear Ed et al: My section of North Carolina has W1AW portable now (Jan 1-7) as part of the overall Centennial QSO Party. I wrote a detailed email last night to Pres. Kay Craigie, CEO Dave Sumner, COO Harold Kramer and Dave Patton, ARRL’s Membership and Volunteer Programs Manager, who’s the architect and administrator of the Centennial QSO Party. In my email, I relayed how as a Section Manager I had received no contact or communications about W1AW portable in my section. The North Carolina W1AW leader designated by Dave Patton in my section had incorrect contact information listed on his ARRL profile, and he did not respond to me until two days after W1AW operations began in my section, and only after I went through intermediaries to get in touch with him. He has communicated with me only be email, and in the tersest of text. My opinion is that he sees me as a nuisance in his operation of W1AW in my section. I strongly urge that you relay this information to your Director and Vice Director for discussion at the upcoming board meeting. Section Managers must be on the distribution list of information about W1AW portable operations in their sections. Also, the Section Manager needs to know how to make contact with the W1AW portable team. Finally, ARRL section officials should be offered a chance to operate W1AW from their sections, such as one day, ten two hour shifts, etc. In my section, the contesters shanghaied W1AW and froze out section management. Yet I’m the one to whom ARRL members turn for information. Ed, I very much understand your dilemma, which is why I urge you and your directors to contact ARRL upper management and get this disconnect between W1AW field operations and section officials resolved. Now, let’s look at the next level. Contesters tend to be insular – they live in their own world of DX and points, and the majority don’t venture into the section trenches. The nature of the contesting beast is that the overwhelming majority don’t get involved with other ARRL activities in their section. They are clueless, which is why ARRL HQ needs to slam them with a 2X4 between the eyes and mandate they reach out and coordinate with ARRL elected and appointed section leaders to coordinate the use of W1AW portable for the balance of the Centennial year. This is not your vanilla “get as many points as you can” type of contest – this is showcasing the flagship station and most visible symbol of ARRL – W1AW – to the world. W1AW portable should be more egalitarian and its use should be more democratic in operation, such as Field Day, rather than be positioned as another elite contest whose purpose is to get points, points, points !! I am dismayed that the CW ops for W1AW/4 in my section are machine gunning consistently at ~ 30 WPM. I pointedly asked if there are QRS times allotted for slower ops without CW Skimmer to check in, and the one word answer I got back from the NC W1AW leader was “No”. At least the SSB ops are asking for mobile and QRP check-ins, but only after they are promoted by a determined mobile op who happens to get through and reminds them it might be nice to see if there are any ops out there running at 100 watts or less. And for those of us who are PIOs, we are squandering the chance to display W1AW to the world and let the public know about ARRL, its centennial and what Ham Radio is about. W1AW portable at the state and section level would be the perfect place to show Radio Sport as a hobby. All the more reason I think at least one day out of the seven in the week each state has W1AW that the contesters need to be kicked out for a day, and ARRL field management and PIC be brought in to orchestrate media coverage. Sure, it won’t be a 2,000+ QSO day during ARRL day, but on the other hand a lot more people may understand what Ham Radio is. Ed and David, I notice you don’t have W1AW in Alabama until June 4th. This should give you plenty of time to design some meaningful activities for W1AW in your state. I sincerely hope you have a better working relationship with your W1AW portable team than I have had in North Carolina. 73, Bill N2COP Bill Morine - N2COP ARRL North Carolina Section Manager Member - ARRL Public Relations Committee 101 Windlass Drive, Wilmington, NC 28409-2030 HOME: (910) 452-1770 CELL: (910) 367-1758 WORK: (910) 799-7800 FAX: (910) 452-7565 ARRL - The National Association For Amateur Radio™ From: Edward Tyler [mailto:ehtyler@icloud.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 9:53 AM To: Doug Rehman; Kevin ODell; KX9X Sean Kutzko Cc: Edward Tyler; David Drummond; Morine Bill N2COP Subject: Centennial QSO party At Freeze Fest, Alabama's first Hamfest of the year, there were many questions asked about the ARRL Centennial QSO party. Question included the normal who, what, when, and where of the activity. It is interesting to note that at the local level there has been a structural failure in passing the information about the QSO party. It is obvious that there has been much thought and preparation put into the program but, the local awareness of needed details is lacking. This again points up the need for any organization that is operating or promoting amateur radio need to have a structured public information program. Most of the groups, such as contesting groups, provide adequate internal program information distribution but, don't have any process to pass information to the larger amateur radio community. When Section managers start asking the who, what, when, where, and why questions about an amateur radio activity of the magnitude of the Centennial QSO party after is has become active it high lights our failure to distribute the information effectively. Ed - N4EDT ARRL- Public Information Coordinator - Alabama Home 205-338-6786Cell 205-919-4610 ed(a)edtylerinc.com =

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[arrl-odv:22254] Document 27 - CEO Selection Criteria Board Report
by Bill Edgar 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

The CEO Selection Criteria Committee report to the Board is attached. - Bill N3LLR

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[arrl-odv:22235] FW: Centennial QSO party
by Doug Rehman 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

I’m forwarding this as an FYI. I suspect that there will be more unhappy Section Managers as the event progresses. Although not mentioned in the below emails, I’ve seen some complaints about the level of activity from the W1AW/8 group both in spots (asking where they are) and in forum posts. Thanks & 73, Doug Doug Rehman, K4AC Director Southeastern Division ARRL National Association of the Amateur Radio From: Bill Morine N2COP [mailto:n2cop@ec.rr.com] Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 10:38 AM To: 'Edward Tyler'; k4ac; 'Kevin ODell'; 'KX9X Sean Kutzko' Cc: 'David Drummond'; N2ZZ(a)arrl.org Subject: RE: Centennial QSO party Dear Ed et al: My section of North Carolina has W1AW portable now (Jan 1-7) as part of the overall Centennial QSO Party. I wrote a detailed email last night to Pres. Kay Craigie, CEO Dave Sumner, COO Harold Kramer and Dave Patton, ARRL’s Membership and Volunteer Programs Manager, who’s the architect and administrator of the Centennial QSO Party. In my email, I relayed how as a Section Manager I had received no contact or communications about W1AW portable in my section. The North Carolina W1AW leader designated by Dave Patton in my section had incorrect contact information listed on his ARRL profile, and he did not respond to me until two days after W1AW operations began in my section, and only after I went through intermediaries to get in touch with him. He has communicated with me only be email, and in the tersest of text. My opinion is that he sees me as a nuisance in his operation of W1AW in my section. I strongly urge that you relay this information to your Director and Vice Director for discussion at the upcoming board meeting. Section Managers must be on the distribution list of information about W1AW portable operations in their sections. Also, the Section Manager needs to know how to make contact with the W1AW portable team. Finally, ARRL section officials should be offered a chance to operate W1AW from their sections, such as one day, ten two hour shifts, etc. In my section, the contesters shanghaied W1AW and froze out section management. Yet I’m the one to whom ARRL members turn for information. Ed, I very much understand your dilemma, which is why I urge you and your directors to contact ARRL upper management and get this disconnect between W1AW field operations and section officials resolved. Now, let’s look at the next level. Contesters tend to be insular – they live in their own world of DX and points, and the majority don’t venture into the section trenches. The nature of the contesting beast is that the overwhelming majority don’t get involved with other ARRL activities in their section. They are clueless, which is why ARRL HQ needs to slam them with a 2X4 between the eyes and mandate they reach out and coordinate with ARRL elected and appointed section leaders to coordinate the use of W1AW portable for the balance of the Centennial year. This is not your vanilla “get as many points as you can” type of contest – this is showcasing the flagship station and most visible symbol of ARRL – W1AW – to the world. W1AW portable should be more egalitarian and its use should be more democratic in operation, such as Field Day, rather than be positioned as another elite contest whose purpose is to get points, points, points !! I am dismayed that the CW ops for W1AW/4 in my section are machine gunning consistently at ~ 30 WPM. I pointedly asked if there are QRS times allotted for slower ops without CW Skimmer to check in, and the one word answer I got back from the NC W1AW leader was “No”. At least the SSB ops are asking for mobile and QRP check-ins, but only after they are promoted by a determined mobile op who happens to get through and reminds them it might be nice to see if there are any ops out there running at 100 watts or less. And for those of us who are PIOs, we are squandering the chance to display W1AW to the world and let the public know about ARRL, its centennial and what Ham Radio is about. W1AW portable at the state and section level would be the perfect place to show Radio Sport as a hobby. All the more reason I think at least one day out of the seven in the week each state has W1AW that the contesters need to be kicked out for a day, and ARRL field management and PIC be brought in to orchestrate media coverage. Sure, it won’t be a 2,000+ QSO day during ARRL day, but on the other hand a lot more people may understand what Ham Radio is. Ed and David, I notice you don’t have W1AW in Alabama until June 4th. This should give you plenty of time to design some meaningful activities for W1AW in your state. I sincerely hope you have a better working relationship with your W1AW portable team than I have had in North Carolina. 73, Bill N2COP Bill Morine - N2COP ARRL North Carolina Section Manager Member - ARRL Public Relations Committee 101 Windlass Drive, Wilmington, NC 28409-2030 HOME: (910) 452-1770 CELL: (910) 367-1758 WORK: (910) 799-7800 FAX: (910) 452-7565 ARRL - The National Association For Amateur Radio™ From: Edward Tyler [mailto:ehtyler@icloud.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 9:53 AM To: Doug Rehman; Kevin ODell; KX9X Sean Kutzko Cc: Edward Tyler; David Drummond; Morine Bill N2COP Subject: Centennial QSO party At Freeze Fest, Alabama's first Hamfest of the year, there were many questions asked about the ARRL Centennial QSO party. Question included the normal who, what, when, and where of the activity. It is interesting to note that at the local level there has been a structural failure in passing the information about the QSO party. It is obvious that there has been much thought and preparation put into the program but, the local awareness of needed details is lacking. This again points up the need for any organization that is operating or promoting amateur radio need to have a structured public information program. Most of the groups, such as contesting groups, provide adequate internal program information distribution but, don't have any process to pass information to the larger amateur radio community. When Section managers start asking the who, what, when, where, and why questions about an amateur radio activity of the magnitude of the Centennial QSO party after is has become active it high lights our failure to distribute the information effectively. Ed - N4EDT ARRL- Public Information Coordinator - Alabama Home 205-338-6786Cell 205-919-4610 ed(a)edtylerinc.com =

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[arrl-odv:22244] Rooming list
by Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

For those of you that did not receive it. Sincerely, Lisa Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Assistant to the CEO / Meeting Planner ARRL--The National Association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Tel: 860-594-0245 --- Fax: 860-594-0259 email: lkustosik(a)arrl.org

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[arrl-odv:22241] BOD Meeting dinner choice
by Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hello, Please let me know your meal choices. Please respond to me and not ODV by Thursday January 9. Dinner choices are: Thursday grilled rib eye fingerling potatoes, root vegetables, natural jus, creamed horseradish or crusted chicken panko crusted chicken breast, madeira jus, rosemary roasted potatoes, seasoned vegetables or atlantic salmon chipotle glaze, red beans & rice, grilled asparagus Friday new york strip steak grilled to perfection, served with herb roasted wild mushrooms in a port reduction, cauliflower au grati (carb conscious) or shrimp crusted halibut braised artichoke hearts, brussel sprout leaves, lemon aioli or free range breast of chicken roasted with Peruvian mashed, grilled vegetables, apple cinnamonport wine Sincerely, Lisa Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Assistant to the CEO / Meeting Planner ARRL--The National Association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Tel: 860-594-0245 --- Fax: 860-594-0259 email: lkustosik(a)arrl.org

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[arrl-odv:22231] Update: 26 Report of the LoTW Study Committee for 2013.
by G Widin 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Attached is an updated version of the LoTW report for 2013. The original version was confusing and incomplete in identifying the group of volunteers that provided the most visible and appreciated improvements in TQSL. This new version corrects that mistake. Please delete the original message and attachment that was sent out on Saturday. 73 es HNY, Greg, K0GW Chair, LoTW Study Committee ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: G Widin <gpwidin(a)comcast.net> Date: Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM Subject: 26 Report of the LoTW Study Committee for 2013. To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv(a)arrl.org>, LotW Study Cmte <lotw-comm(a)arrl.org>, Lisa Kustosik <lkustosik(a)arrl.org> Attached is a PDF of the Report of the LoTW Study Committee for 2013. This is report #26 on the recently posted Draft Agenda for the meeting. Questions concerning this report may be directed to me, or to any of the committee members, who are all listed at the end of the report. 73, Greg, K0GW Chair, LoTW Study Committee

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