April 2014 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:22585] Minutes of January 2014 A&F Committee Meeting
by G Widin 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

All, I should have sent this sooner, but attached are the Minutes of A&F's January 2014 meeting. 73, Greg, K0GW 2014 A&F Committee Chair

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[arrl-odv:22582] Greetings from Sweden
by Kay Craigie 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

This afternoon when I was calling CQ in the Centennial QSO Party, I had a call from the President of the Swedish national society. He sent his congratulations to the ARRL on our 100th anniversary. 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:22581] Second Century Campaign Monthly Financial Report
by Hobart, Mary K1MMH 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Good afternoon, Attached is the reconciled monthly financial report for March 2014 for the Second Century Campaign. I will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Mary, K1MMH ARRL Chief Development Officer The ARRL Second Century Campaign is underway to build the ARRL Endowment for ARRL's second hundred years. Your generous support of this campaign to add $10 million to secure ARRL's financial future is vital to the organization's financial health in the coming years. For more information on how you can participate, contact me at by email at mhobart(a)arrl.org or by telephone at 860-729-1031. Thank you.

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[arrl-odv:22574] Re: FCC Process Reform; Comments as-filed in Docket 14-25.
by Bill Edgar 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Dang, Counselor, this is superb! Kudos to you and your team. -------- Original message -------- From: Chris Imlay <w3kd(a)aol.com> Date:03/31/2014 4:50 PM (GMT-05:00) To: arrl-odv(a)arrl.org Subject: [arrl-odv:22573] FCC Process Reform; Comments as-filed in Docket 14-25. Greetings. Today, after careful review of a draft over the weekend by the Executive Committee and with the Committee's approval, we filed the attached comments in the FCC's "process reform" docket. We danced a bit of a tightrope here on the tone of these comments, which are direct, but at the same time, we hope, constructive. The thrust was to deal principally with three issues: (1) the current inadequate state of FCC Amateur Radio enforcement; (2) the Commission's inadequate response to Power Line Interference cases specifically; and (3) timeliness of resolution of open docket proceedings and petitions for rule making. Thanks to Brennan Price for the additional segment dealing with the International Bureau processes. Special thanks for helpful edits of this to President Craigie, CEO Sumner and Director Ahrens (aka "hawkeye" Ahrens, who never misses a typo -- being his law clerk would be the kiss of death). Seriously though, we will be taking these comments and scheduling a meeting with the new Chief of the Enforcement Bureau, Travis LeBlanc, in the near term, to discuss some changes in procedure that might help to reignite the Amateur Radio enforcement program. Please keep that to yourselves until we actually do it. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this filing. We do not anticipate the necessity for any reply comments and none are provided for in the Public Notice in this proceeding anyway. 73, Chris W3KD Christopher D. Imlay Booth, Freret & Imlay, LLC 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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