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[arrl-odv:24960] Midwest Division Report - Corrected Copy
by Rod Blocksome 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Lisa, Please use the attached report for the directors workbook. I had misspelled Art's last name in the earlier version. Thanks, Rod Blocksome, K0DAS

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[arrl-odv:24959] Report #4 from ARRL Second Vice President
by k9jf＠arrl.org 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Attached find Report #4 to the ARRL Board of Directors. James E. Fenstermaker K9JF 2nd Vice President American Radio Relay League (206) 930-9372

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[arrl-odv:24958] Roanoke Division Report, January 2016
by James F. Boehner MD 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Respectfully submitted, '73 de JIM N2ZZ Director - Roanoke Division Serving ARRL members in the Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina sections ARRL - The National Association for Amateur RadioT

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[arrl-odv:24954] Fwd: RFSC Report for ARRL Board Meeting
by qtipf16 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Greetings, Attached is the latest RF Safety Committee Report. See you all next week. 73! Kent KA0LDG Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab®4 -------- Original message -------- From: Greg Lapin N9GL <n9gl(a)comcast.net> Date:01/05/2016 12:31 PM (GMT-06:00) To: rfsc(a)arrl.org, lkustosik(a)arrl.org, ka0ldg(a)arrl.org Subject: RFSC Report for ARRL Board Meeting Attached is the RFSC Report for the upcoming ARRL Board Meeting. As always, comments are welcome. 73 and Happy New Year, Greg N9GL Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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[arrl-odv:24956] Midwest Division Annual Report - 2015
by Rod Blocksome 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Attached is the annual report for the ARRL Midwest Division. See everyone next week, Rod Blocksome, K0DAS

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[arrl-odv:24955] Document #19 EMC COMMITTEE REPORT - two attachments
by Kermit Carlson 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hello ALL; Please find attached the EMC Committee Report forthe ARRL January 2016 Annual Meeting. The first file is thereport, the second file are the Appendices. Please feelfree to contact me with any questions or corrections that youfind. I look forward to seeing everyone in one week at themeeting. 73, Kermit Carlson W9XA

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[arrl-odv:24953] New Contest Manager
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hi, I wanted to everyone to know that our new Contest Manager is Bart Jahnke, W9JJ. Bart began his new position yesterday. Many of you already know Bart, but for those who don't, he is returning to the ARRL staff after a 10-year sabbatical in the Customer Service and IT industries. Bart was with ARRL from 1985 to 2005, beginning as Repeater Directory editor for 3 seasons, then in 1989, moving on to head up our VEC department for 16 years. Bart is an avid contester whose primary interest has been weak signal VHF+ contesting and Meteor Scatter/EME, but he has also been found operating during HF contests as well. When you are here next week, stop by and say hello to Bart and congratulate him on his new position and return to the ARRL. 73, Harold

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[arrl-odv:24952] Fwd: DePolo v. Treddyfrin Township, 3rd Circuit United States Court of Appeals
by Christopher Imlay 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Greetings. I am very much concerned about recent events in this ongoing antenna case, which has been and is being handled by Bob Famiglio with help from Fred Hopengarten. I don't want to play the "Chicken Little" role here but neither do I want the Board to be surprised by whatever might happen in this case in the near term; it has taken a very unexpected and potentially quite ominous turn. Below is a memo that I sent to the Executive Committee and the ARLDAC yesterday. We will keep the Board apprised of the events in this case, which seems to be potentially altered profoundly by a very recent, 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case. The current effort is to distinguish the circumstances of the Supreme Court decision from the issues in the DePolo antenna case. 73, Chris W3KD ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christopher Imlay <w3kd.arrl(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:08 PM Subject: DePolo v. Treddyfrin Township, 3rd Circuit United States Court of Appeals To: exec-com <exec-com(a)arrl.org>, ARRL Legal Defense and Assistance Committee Reflector <arrl-arldac(a)reflector.arrl.org> Cc: "Price, Brennan, N4QX" <bprice(a)arrl.org> I need to alert you to a potentially major problem that has arisen today with respect to the DePolo antenna case in the 3rd Circuit United States Court of Appeals. You will recall that the only two issues that ARRL addressed in our Amicus Curiae Brief ( that was accepted by the Court ) were (1) the propriety of the United States District Court's dismissal of the complaint filed with respect to the denial of DePolo's antenna permit for an alleged failure of DePolo to state a claim on which relief can be granted; and (2) the argument that DePolo validly claimed that the ordinance was preempted on its face because it imposed a blanket 35-foot antenna height without any chance of variation. The case was briefed and oral argument has been set for Tuesday, January 12. Today, the Clerk of the Court sent around a terse letter to all counsel including me stating that the court directs "counsel" to submit letter briefs by 9 AM Thursday January 7 addressing "whether DePolo has properly stated a claim in light of Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc., 135 S. Ct. 1378 (2015)." This is a Supreme Court case from earlier in 2015 which addresses whether or not a private party has a private right of action to assert a supremacy clause argument in a Federal Court. The facts are grossly dissimilar to the DePolo case for a lot of reasons. The Clerk's letter also directs "counsel" to address whether this case is barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel. It is not at all clear to Bob Famiglio, Fred Hopengarten, Brennan Price or myself what the heck the Court is talking about here. There are only two decisions in this case: one by the municipal zoning authorities, which is not a court and therefore cannot issue decisions that, if challenged, are res judicata. The other is a U.S. District Court, which dismissed the case on a preliminary motion and never heard the case on its merits. So that can't be res judicata either. As to collateral estoppel, no one has any idea what the court is asking for. Fred Hopengarten is going to address the letter brief on behalf of DePolo, working with Bob. I am disinclined to recommend that ARRL file anything more than has been filed so far; it is not at all clear that ARRL, as amicus curiae, is included in the opportunity to file anything else. There really isn't time for ARRL to prepare and file anything else in this case anyway. Both Brennan and I have given preliminary input to Bob Famiglio of our views, and I will continue to do so as time permits in the next two days. I think Fred is well on his way to distinguishing the Armstrong case from the DePolo case, which I think is quite possible. But the reason for bringing this up now is that the Clerk's letter strongly indicates that the Court is looking for a way to affirm the trial judge's dismissal of the DePolo complaint; and the Court may hold that there is no private right of action conferred by PRB-1. That is a disaster scenario that not only undoes 30 years of jurisprudence to the contrary, but it also potentially would take teeth out of applying PRB-1 to covenant cases if our legislation passes. The Third Circuit is not the Supreme Court, and its decisions only affect part of the northeast, but other cases in other courts could follow that precedent and we would be hurt. Badly. We will keep you posted as this new problem develops. 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 <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#1520eaf7a97841df_DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- 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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[arrl-odv:24951] Yearend 2015 membership
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

It's always nice to begin a new year with good news. We ended the year with 170,528 members, an increase of 2.94% for the year and 2,801 ahead of what we had projected when the 2016-17 operational plan was put together. This gives us a nice cushion as we begin a year with the first dues increase in more than a decade. Bob Inderbitzen's team and Diane Petrilli in particular did a splendid job trolling for members, with emails to specific target groups proving to be a very cost-effective method. It helped that new licensing and upgrading both ran ahead of expectations during the year; I do not have final figures yet, but there were more than 31,000 new licensees and 11,000 upgrades in 2015. Percentage-wise the top division was Northwestern with a 5.2% increase, led by Idaho with impressive 9.9% growth. The complete stats are available in the ODV section of the website. Every division gained members. International membership showed a slight decline, probably attributable to the strong dollar. Incidentally, an analysis by Joe Speroni, AH0A, shows that over the past five years Idaho has had the greatest percentage growth in amateur licensing of any state. Yesterday was the first business day since the dues increase went into effect. There were no unusual problems, and a minimum of grumbling on the phones and in email. 73, Dave K1ZZ

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[arrl-odv:24950] Document 24
by Northwestern Division Director - Jim K7CEX 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Happy New Year all: Please find attached the report to the Board from the CEOSC. 73 and good Hamming Jim Pace, K7CEX ARRL the National Association for Amateur Radio Northwestern Division Director

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