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[arrl-odv:26525] Yep, a little boasting
by Northwestern Division Director 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

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[arrl-odv:26517] Official Notice and Draft Agenda for 2017 2nd Board Meeting
by Pereira, Carla 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Dear Officers, Directors, and Vice Directors of the ARRL: Attached is the official notice letter for the 2017 Second Board meeting from the CEO. Please read the letter carefully. Also attached are the draft agenda for the meeting and the dinner choices for both Board dinners. Please get back to me with your dinner choices (and your spouse's if applicable) no later than Thursday, July 13. As stated earlier, the deadline for submitting reports to the Board is January 6, to allow sufficient time to prepare the books. Motions should also be sent in advance of the meeting. On May 25th you were sent the accommodation form. If you have not already done so, please return that form to me by Monday, June 26, the hotel's cut-off date. Please let me know if you have any trouble opening the documents, and feel free to contact me with any questions. Respectfully, [ARRL NAFAR Logo Color.png]Carla Pereira, KC1HSX Assistant to Tom Gallagher NY2RF ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio(tm) Tel:1-860-594-0242<tel:1-860-594-0242> Fax:1-860-594-0259 cpereira(a)arrl.org<mailto:cpereira@arrl.org>

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[arrl-odv:26516] Fwd: [arrl-od:3369] Articles and Bylaws Rewrites
by k5ur＠aol.com 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

FYI. 73 Rick - K5UR ... -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Imlay <w3kd.arrl(a)gmail.com> To: arrl-od <arrl-od(a)arrl.org> Sent: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 11:41 am Subject: [arrl-od:3369] Articles and Bylaws Rewrites Greetings. Per the instruction of President Roderick, I am distributing for the Board's review and consideration prior to the upcoming meeting three iterations of revised Articles and Bylaws. Option A is the version that includes all of the proposed revisions NOT pertaining to Vice Directors that were presented to the Executive Committee in March. It also includes provisions that preclude Vice Directors from voting in the stead of the Director due to a temporary absence and a preclusion of automatic succession of Vice Directors in case of an in-term vacancy of the office of Director. Option B is the version that includes all of the Option A provisions but provides for Vice Directors to be appointed by the Division Director rather than elected by the membership, and it also contains other provisions with respect to Vice Directors, all of which you have seen before, in the version circulated earlier by my office, first to OD and then to ODV most recently. Option C is the version that includes all of the Option A provisions but provides for Vice Directors to continue to be elected by the membership rather than appointed by the Division Director for the respective Divisions. All three of these versions includel a revised provision (a new Article 15) providing for indemnification of Board members, agents and employees for liability incurred in the course of performing their obligations on behalf of the corporation. We have been instructed by Day, Pitney that this is a requirement for non-profit articles of association in Connecticut. The Board will be asked to adopt one of the three general configurations of the AABL rewrites at the upcoming Board meeting. Of course, any edits to any version can be done at the pleasure of the Board at the time of the meeting. The distribution of these now is to ensure that only a 2/3rds vote will be required to amend the Articles and Bylaws in the general respects contained in any of these drafts. Please feel free to discuss this with me, or with Rick Roderick, Tom Gallagher or one of the Vice Presidents if you have any questions. 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 _______________________________________________ arrl-od mailing list arrl-od(a)reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-od

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[arrl-odv:26509] Reliability milestone for LoTW
by G Widin 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

The message below appeared on the Yahoo! group ARRL-LoTW on Saturday. Not only does it show that Logbook has maintained a high level of accessibility, but it has reached a new high, with 13 weeks and counting of uninterrupted 100$ availability. Please note that these figures are assessed at a computer outside the ARRL network, so they represent the true availability to our members and other users. For those who remember the "dark days" of Logbook at the end of 2012, I'm sure you will agree that this represents a true milestone. Kudos to all those who have contributed to reaching this goal. 73, Greg, K0GW ______________________________________________________________________ 27904 LoTW Availability Jun 17 7:17 PM Target Availability: 99% Actual availability: - for the UTC week ending 2017-06-17 was 100% - for the 4 UTC weeks ending 2017-06-17 was 100% - for the 13 UTC weeks ending 2017-06-17 was 100% - for the 26 UTC weeks ending 2017-06-17 was 99.93% - for the 52 UTC weeks ending 2017-06-17 was 99.95% Outages during the week ending 2017-06-17: none Notes: 1. this is the first time since monitoring began on 2015-05-02 that LoTW has achieved 100% availability over the past 13 weeks 2. 99.95% is the highest 52-week availability reported so far 3. at some point, planned maintenance will likely lower these availability numbers 73, Dave, AA6YQ

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[arrl-odv:26508] IN Newsletter
by Pereira, Carla 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

[ARRL logo-and-logotype black gold vertical] IN-Newsletter Vol. 42, No. 23 June 16, 2017 Covers the period June 4 - June 10, 2017 Upcoming In-Person Meetings and Events: PCC.II June 26 - 29 @ Orlando, FL HAM RADIO 2017 July 14 - 16 @ Friedrichshafen, Germany Administrative & Finance Committee July 20 @ HQ, Newington, CT Programs & Services Committee July 20 @ HQ, Newington, CT ARRL 2nd Board Meeting July 21 - 22 @ Farmington, CT JARL (Tokyo Hamfest) September 2 - 3 @ Tokyo, Japan New England Division Convention September 8 - 10 @ Boxboro, MA ARRL Audio News Below is a link to last week's edition of the ARRL Audio News podcast, dated June 9, 2017: https://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/24355593/arrl-audio-news-june-92017?s… Chief Executive Office Reported by Tom Gallagher, NY2RF Tom Gallagher filmed a new webisode of "60 Second Century" for his July QST editorial, "Mythbusting: ARRL Not 'Big Radio Club'." The video was shot by Michelle Patnode here at HQ and will appear on all ARRL's social media accounts. Below is a link to his June video: "Fighting the Last War, or the Next?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW1HnNIvzUI Carla Pereira passed the Technician's License exam. She is very excited to start operating. Her call sign is KC1HSX. Development Reported by Lauren Clarke, KB1YDD Discussions have been ongoing to finalize Terms of Reference documents for five new scholarships through the ARRL Foundation; three of these scholarships have been sent to the ARRL Foundation Board for official approval. Development is pleased to welcome two new members to the Legacy Circle: Debbie, KD5EFM, and Mickey, AK5D, Driver, and Ben Patton, N4AXE. Photos from the 17th Annual ARRL Donor Recognition Reception, held on May 18 at America's Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio, can be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/2017ARRL-Donor-Reception. Field Services Reported by Dave Patton, NN1N Field Organization Leona reports that an SM nomination petition was received from SM, Jack Ciaccia, WMØG of the Colorado section for the term beginning October 1, 2017. As our SM nomination deadline was Friday, June 9th by 4 pm, Leona reports that there will be no upcoming SM elections for the term beginning October 1, 2017. The following SM's will continue as Section Manager for the following sections: Jack Ciaccia, WMØG - Colorado Mark Tharp, KB7HDX - Eastern Washington David Benoist, AG4ZR - Georgia Diana Feinberg, AI6DF - Los Angeles Carol Milazzo, KP4MD - Sacramento Valley Bill Hillendahl, KH6GJV - San Francisco Lee Cooper, W5LHC - South Texas Darrell "Dan" Ringer, K8WV - West Virginia Monte Simpson, AF7PQ - Western Washington W1AW Joe updated the web code practice files and their archives. He also updated the code practice file QST source web page. Joe installed the temporary 40-meter antenna to be used for the regularly scheduled transmissions. Scott worked on slow and fast code practice texts for the upcoming week. He also processed VUCC applications and credits. Production Reported by Becky Schoenfeld, W1BXY The August issue of QST is in production and goes to press on Wednesday, June 21. Nearly all of the text for the 2016 Annual Report is with the designer for layout. Radiosport Reported by Norm Fusaro, W3IZ Paper/Fieldcheck Processing Time 1 - 2 Weeks Logbook Processing Time 1 - 2 Business Days 2017 DXCC Applications 5563 2017 WAS Applications 639 2017 VUCC Applications 228 2017 WPX Applications 303 Sales and Marketing Reported by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R Yvette Vinci prepared the bulk email notification for the July 2017 digital edition of QST, distributed to ARRL members on Friday, June 9. The distribution list included 117,458 members. Yvette reports that in June we processed 23 paid-in-full Life Memberships and 20 new Life Membership pledges. "Reminder letters" were sent to 499 members making quarterly payments toward Life Membership. Jackie Ferreira reports that online ordering was brisk over the weekend, as members responded to a Handbook promotion bundling the title with a companion book. Sales and marketing information was prepared to support a publication planning meeting attended by Bob Inderbitzen and other colleagues. With ARRL Field Day fast approaching, final pushes were made to members promoting orders for 2017 Field Day supplies. Membership applications returned from the ARRL Northwestern Division Convention, SEA-PAC (June 2-4) have all been processed. Of the 83 applications, 21 were from new and previous members. Materials are being prepared for ARRL's exhibit at the International Exhibition of Radio Amateurs, "HAM RADIO," July 14-16 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Now shipping: ARRL Frequency Chart<http://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-Frequency-Chart-11-17/>, 11 x 17-inches. These revised charts include the new 630 Meter and 2,200 Meter bands. The charts include a note explaining that the effective date of these new allocations has not yet been determined (more information<http://www.arrl.org/graphical-frequency-allocations>). Hamfest/Member Contact/ARRL Representative/Meetings/Vacations Leona Adams 06/26 - 06/30 PTO Bob Allison 06/15 - 06/19 PTO Kathy Allison 06/15 - 06/19 PTO Ken Bailey 07/19 PTO Steve Capodicasa 06/16 PTO " 06/26 PTO Joe Carcia 06/15 - 06/16 PTO " 07/05 - 07/07 PTO " 07/14 PTO " 07/21 PTO " 07/28 PTO " 08/04 PTO " 08/07 - 08/11 PTO " 08/25 PTO " 09/05 - 09/08 PTO " 10/09 PTO Lauren Clarke 06/23 AFP Fundraising Day, NYC " 08/01 - 08/04 Bridge to Integrated Marketing & Fundraising Annual Conference, National Harbor, MD Mike Corey 06/19 - 06/20 PTO " 06/21 NYC Marathon Communications Coordinators Meeting " 06/29 FEMA Region 1 Meeting Steve Ewald 06/12 - 06/17 PTO " 06/18 - 06/19 Tennessee State Convention, Knoxville " 06/20 PTO Tom Gallagher 06/22 - 06/28 PCC.II Meeting, Orlando, FL " 06/24 - 06/24 ARRL South Florida Field Day events with Vice Director Joe Tiritilli, N4ZUW " 07/20 - 07/22 ARRL 2nd Board Meeting, Farmington, CT " 08/28 - 09/03 JARL (Tokyo HAMFEST), Tokyo, Japan " 09/04 - 09/11 PTO Regina Galuppi 07/10 PTO Scott Gee 06/29 - 06/30 PTO " 09/15 - 09/18 PTO " 09/22 - 09/25 PTO Jen Glifort 07/05 - 07/07 PTO Perry Green TBD Medical Leave Dan Henderson 06 28 - 06/30 PTO " 07/19 - 07/23 PSC Committee and Board of Directors meetings, HQ " 07/05 PTO " 07/20 - 07/22 ARRL 2nd Board Meeting, Farmington, CT Gail Iannone 08/10 - 08/16 PTO Bob Inderbitzen 06/16 PTO " 06/30 - 07/05 PTO " 07/11 - 07/17 HAM RADIO, Friedrichshafen, Germany " 07/18 PTO " 08/21 - 08/25 PTO Sean Kutzko 06/29 - 07/09 PTO Maryann MacDonald 08/24-08/29 PTO Allie McLellan 05/25 - 08/01 On Leave Diane Middleton 06/23 PTO " 06/28 - 06/30 PTO Dave Patton 06/12 - 06/13 PTO Carla Pereira 07/05 PTO " 07/20 - 07/22 ARRL 2nd Board Meeting, Farmington, CT " 07/31 PTO " 09-05 - 09/08 PTO Diane Petrilli 06/15 - 06/19 PTO " 06/26 - 06/30 PTO " 07/07 PTO " 07/14 PTO " 07/28 PTO " 08/04 - 08/11 PTO " 09/29 PTO John Proctor 06/14 - 06/28 PTO Andy Shefrin 06/19 PTO " 07/10 - 07/14 PTO Becky Shoenfeld 07/24 - 07/28 PTO Barry Shelley 06/09 - 06/12 PTO " 06/23 PTO " 06/27 PTO " 07/20 - 07/22 ARRL 2nd Board Meeting, Farmington, CT Jon Siverling 07/19 - 07/29 PTO " 08/18 - 08/23 PTO " 10/06 PTO Deborah Voigt 06/15 - 06/21 PTO Compiled and Edited by: Carla Pereira, Assistant to CEO

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[arrl-odv:26493] KC1HSX
by Gallagher, Tom, NY2RF (CEO) 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Ladies & Gentlemen: Congratulations to our executive assistant, Carla Pereira, KC1HSX. Passed on the first attempt yesterday afternoon. Gallagher Tom Gallagher - NY2RF Chief Executive Officer ARRL Headquarters ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 860 594 0404 cell 704 907 7158 tgallagher(a)arrl.org<mailto:tgallagher@arrl.org>

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[arrl-odv:26505] Fwd: Proposed Revised Articles and Bylaws; Board Confidential, attorney-client privileged communication
by Christopher Imlay 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Greetings. Per the instruction of President Roderick I am forwarding to ODV the e-mail and attachments by which, on June 5 I circulated to officers and directors a draft of proposed revised Articles and Bylaws. There may be in the near term a revised version of these as the result of input provided to President Roderick from Directors. Please read the following e-mail carefully because, as explained in it, the redline/strikeout version of the AABL proposal is a bit convoluted. Both it and the clean version incorporate all proposed changes to date but in the redline version not all proposed changes are shown in redline/strikeout. 73, Chris W3KD ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christopher Imlay <w3kd.arrl(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:25 PM Subject: Proposed Revised Articles and Bylaws; Board Confidential, attorney-client privileged communication To: arrl-od <arrl-od(a)arrl.org> Greetings. Attached you will find two versions of proposed, revised Articles of Association and Bylaws. They are being sent to you today for your review and any comments you wish to make, or suggestions. Some version of these Articles and Bylaws will be proposed for adoption in toto at the upcoming Board meeting. In order for that to occur, and to avoid the necessity of a 3/4ths majority vote rather than a 2/3rds majority vote, the final proposal for these should be distributed with a proposed motion on or before June 21 , 2017 -- 30 days in advance of the commencement of the Board meeting. So the following are attached: 1. A Redline/strikeout version of the AABL. THE REDLINES AND STRIKEOUTS THAT YOU WILL SEE IN THIS VERSION PERTAIN ONLY TO CHANGES AFFECTING VICE DIRECTORS. THEY ARE NOT REPEAT NOT THE ONLY PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE AABL. THERE ARE OTHER CHANGES FROM THE CURRENT AABL THAT ARE INCORPORATED IN THIS VERSION BUT WHICH ARE NOT SHOWN IN REDLINE/STRIKEOUT FORMAT. Here is why: Jay Bellows and I prepared in March a draft of revisions to the AABL for consideration by the Executive Committee (just to see if we were on the right track). That draft represented several full days of work, during which Jay Bellows came to Washington to work with me in my office on revisions to the entirety of the AABL. We made a large number of recommended changes in numerous articles and bylaws that experience had indicated needed changing. Many of those changes were simply editorial, non-substantive changes, but a good number represented significant and/or policy changes as well. At the time that we presented the proposed changes to the Executive Committee in March, there were no significant changes made with respect to Vice Directors, because at that time Jay and I had no instruction as to what changes we should make. This was before the webinars, before the EC meeting, and before the second Day, Pitney opinion was in hand. We showed the EC in March a redline strikeout that included all of the changes that we had come up with for each Article and each Bylaw (but with no suggested Vice Director reform provisions). It included comments in the margins of the redline draft where we showed the EC what we considered to be substantive and/or policy change recommendations. The EC considered that presentation and made very few comments and virtually no decisions, reserving for the full Board the decision on the revisions to the AABL. However, the EC did make recommendations about what was NOT in that initial draft concerning Vice Director reform. Subsequent to the EC meeting, the two webinars and the OD discussions about Vice Director reform, and having received Director Pace's compromise proposal #2 concerning Vice Director reform that differed from the EC recommendations, Jay and I took a clean copy of the AABL with our recommendations in it that we had presented to the EC and redlined that, so as to incorporate all of the changes in Director Pace's proposal relative to Vice Directors. So what you will be reading in the redline version attached to this memo are the Article and Bylaw changes that Jay and I recommended to the EC in March; annotated with comments in the margin delineating what we consider to be the substantive changes from the AABL as they read today which do not pertain to Vice Directors; and the redlines and strikeouts pertaining only to provisions regarding Vice Director reform that were set forth in the Jim Pace compromise proposal #2. The reason for this convoluted method of providing you a review version of the edited AABL document is that, if we gave the Board the original redlines plus the later Vice Director reform redlines plus the comments noting significant changes, the document would literally not be readable. It was bad enough at the EC meeting trying to wade through the changes, before we added the proposed Vice Director reform provisions. We hope that enough guidance will be available from (a) the comments in the margins pertaining to significant, non-vice-director-related revision proposals; and (b) the redlines and strikeouts pertaining to Vice Directors. 2. A "clean" version of the AABL which Jay and I recommend to the Board for adoption, subject to your comments. This contains all of the proposed changes, stem to stern, from the current AABL. Frankly, Board members would be well-served by reading this version in its entirety, so as to not miss any changed provision. However, it is necessary to review the comments and redlines and strikeouts in the other version as well. The current instruction from President Roderick is to ask for the comments of Directors and Officers on these documents and then to prepare a final proposal for circulation with a draft motion to adopt the revised AABL prior to the 14th of June. If you have any questions please contact Jay Bellows or myself or both of us. The Vice Presidents have reviewed this document and have offered helpful edits, but the bulk of the editing was mine with exceptional help from Jay Bellows, for which I am deeply appreciative. Remaining errors are my own fault exclusively. One additional note as to form: The proposed revisions include appending the Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct to the Bylaws as Appendices A and B respectively. There were no substantive edits to either document so they appear in the redline/strikeout version as unedited. 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 -- 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:26492] IN Newsletter June 6 2009
by Pereira, Carla 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Dear All: Please see this week's IN Newsletter, attached. Have a great weekend! Carla Pereira Assistant to Tom Gallagher NY2RF ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio(tm) Tel:1-860-594-0242<tel:1-860-594-0242> Fax:1-860-594-0259 cpereira(a)arrl.org<mailto:cpereira@arrl.org>

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[arrl-odv:26490] Followup Day, Pitney Opinion re Governance Structure
by Christopher Imlay 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

Greetings. Per President Roderick's instruction today, please find attached the Day, Pitney opinion addressing additional questions concerning Vice Directors. The memo responds to questions raised during the two webinars held on the subject posted to Day, Pitney by me, and the entirety of Mike Raisbeck's two-page question list. This was circulated to Directors and Officers on June 1. 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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[arrl-odv:26489] Poor signal to noise
by Arthur I. Zygielbaum 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

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