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[arrl-odv:35008] Ham HF Signal Detection Using Artificial Intelligence
by david davidsiddall-law.com 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

Well, I added a word, but the principle must be the same. Maybe we’ll see an AI RBN soon? I thought someone here might be interested in this Rohde & Schwarz seminar. I’ll be flying on Monday, or I would try to take in at least some of it. I think they are pretty liberal with signing up -- they let me in, so everyone here probably is OK too. https://tinyurl.com/mr3absfx Travel safe. 73, Dave K3ZJ David R. Siddall Managing Partner DS Law, PLLC 1629 K St. NW, Ste 300 Washington, DC 20006 direct: +1 202 559 4690 Unauthorized Disclosure Prohibited. This e-mail is intended solely for the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is proprietary, confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, it is prohibited to disclose, copy, distribute, or use the contents of this email and its attachments. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all electronic and physical copies of the e-mail message and its attachments. Unintended transmission shall not constitute waiver of attorney-client or any other privilege. Thank you.

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[arrl-odv:35004] LOTW
by Boehner, James, N2ZZ (Dir, RK) 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

I don't want to take up everyone's time on this, but apparently LOTW is down. Cannot upload or download. Just FYI for tomorrow. '73 de Jim N2ZZ Director - Roanoke Division Representing ARRL members in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia ARRL - the national association for Amateur Radio Facebook Page: ARRL Roanoke Division Website: www.arrl-roanoke.org<http://www.arrl-roanoke.org/> [Text, logo Description automatically generated]

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[arrl-odv:35000] Guess What The Cat Drug In
by John Robert Stratton 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

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[arrl-odv:35003] Trademark Good News - - Report Trademark published today
by Famiglio, Bob, K3RF (Dir, AD) 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Good news - Today our long-sought registration for "The National Association for Amateur Radio" was published nationally by the USPTO. See attached notice. This is the last step as public comment is allowed for a 30-day period for filing oppositions. Some of you asked me in the last week or so what was up with the whole project. It has taken some time - I have many days of pro bono time in it myself over a few years. We filed this new application after the failure some years ago to get the term trademarked by other counsel. Rather than repeat the same explanation one on one, here is a brief overview with the good news of the last several days. This report is NOT for the minutes. If someone wants that, I can create a more formal report but there is no committee. Most or all of this information is published at the trademark office or otherwise in the wild. I knew this approval was coming but it took some time and appeals. We are The National Association for Amateur Radio now. No others. There can be other Amateur Radio Associations - there already are as local clubs so we had to concede that general language of course. Contrary to popular belief, we did NOT have a trademark registration on this valuable term by itself. In years past, our earlier counsel disclaimed, in writing, this term when he failed to argue the law related to entitlement based on many years of use as provided in well-settled law. Without trademark registration in all the classes of use we prosecuted in our new application; anyone could use it and not violate a registration. The remarkable admission against interest made some years ago by prior counsel (I reported to the board on all this during a Thursday night session) made it a bit difficult for us but after several years pending and the initial rejection I anticipated and reported on last year, we have full approval based on an appeal of the examining attorney's rejection. He originally found that The National Association for Amateur Radio was too descriptive and could be used by any national association for amateur radio. The limited product scope we had registration for was the combination ARRL, The National Association for Amateur Radio and only for certain uses and with the punctuation in combination with the ARRL mark which, by the way, was never registered by itself. We own only the logo ARRL for certain uses. The filings with our history of significant use created to support our DC firm are too massive to attach -Megabytes of PDF Evidence of long term use for the appeal. I will have it all with me this week. My personally drafted and signed affidavit certifying the history of use is attached with a list, but the supporting documents - public records now, can be provided through file transfer or a USB stick if someone is interested. By the way, though not on the original "fix-it" list, being the EC authorized trademark liaison for our League, I authorized our DC counsel to prepare and file an application for ARRL, standing alone, 2 years ago and we have completed prosecution of that. As with all the other problematic marks we fixed, many filed in the wrong name and many for the wrong class , service or product, we are batting 1000. We STILL need to file certain statements of use in the various categories we successfully prosecuted through the trademark office examiner. There have been inexplicable delays in obtaining what I need for our counsel since last year as HQ has been too busy to respond to my numerous, detailed written requests and phone calls. Working directly with counsel to HQ would multiply the cost significantly as counsel would need to understand our activities and needs. We have paid significant fees to extend the proof of use filing deadlines for each category for affidavits of use filings each 6 months, several time. I expected this project to be done a year ago. More good news. Though I expected this as well based on my 46 years experience, and as I reported to the board a year ago, we just received full trademark protection for NATIONAL TRAFFIC SYSTEM, not just the initials NTS which were also approved. This application was rejected some years ago as not subject to trademark protection since anyone could use the descriptive term, according to the examiner. Though appealed several times by prior counsel over many months, we lost. That all was frankly a mistake. I had provided my assistance and advice for years. The public docket at the USPTO shows several failed ARRL appeals. The evidence we filed in our new application and expected new appeal is also rather massive and not included here. The actual documents I can provide but the file is big. It is an interesting history of the NTS. We also have many classes of use approved as well. I do attach my personal affidavit filed verifying the evidence attached to the appeal response with a list. Also attached is the final registration issued July 11th, 2023. At the end of the above attachments, I attach a list of numerous other trademark registrations we have successfully prosecuted over the last several years. All have been allowed but are not issued yet until we file proof of use minimally acceptable under law for each separate category. And you can see the categories for which we claim protection. When I get the documents and data I need from HQ, this whole project comes to what I anticipate will be a very successful ending in spite of the difficulties I encountered and still am. Anyone wanting the gory details, seek me out and I can talk about this for hours. Intellectual property is at least half my practice. I have done many hundreds of trademark applications - maybe more- and conducted many trademark trials, Plaintiff or Defendant, to verdict in my career and would be happy to answer any questions. I will have the files with me electronically. By the way, we have several registrations that seem redundant on the list. They are not. Read the classes of use. DXCC, for example only, is not for just books and publications as filed years ago. It is a for certain membership in a group as described. We fixed that with a new application properly referenced to how we use it. On last thing of historical interest. The old Trademark committee appointed to address my extensive, detailed memo to my director Tom Abernethy (25 pages) dated January 14, 2017 resulted in a rather troubling, unsupported and conclusory report of the Ad Hoc Trademark Committee January 2018, which concluded: "Thus, in most cases, ARRL trademarks do not need the key benefits of registration". The legal reasons were bizarre and simply wrong as opposed to reasonable, supportable conclusions. They suggested we let our registrations expire! (Hint- they were already defective, filed in the wrong name and many wrong classes). We fixed the names on salvageable registrations after a year pending with a special petition for relief with the commissioner of trademarks. I signed the petition for special relief a few years ago. The attorney who undertook our applications for many years back in the day was the only attorney on that committee and paid by us. Let me know if you want a copy of my report from 2017 and their report of 2018 thereafter for reference. I think you would enjoy it. For those that have read this far down, please do ask any question. See you in the Windsor Marriott if the creek don't rise. Bob Famiglio, K3RF, 610-359-7300 ARRL Atlantic Division Director

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[arrl-odv:34983] Email
by k5ur＠aol.com 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

I just found out that I have not been receiving some ODV email. I've not received 15 of the last 30 ODV messages, and I've not had time to go back before that date so there may be more. I never had this problem before I heard the words Microsoft 365 floating around. Be that as it may, I ain't pleased. Art, I'll put in $500 for the staff appreciation bench. I just heard about it. 73,Rick - K5UR

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[arrl-odv:34998] Re: CONFIDENTIAL: Interview request
by Richard Norton 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Director McIntyre: There are no activities of the ARRL Board that are "confidential" with respect to any subset of the Board. I will be pleased to meet with the members of the Elections and Ethics Committee together with all members of the ARRL Board. All Board members are entitled to all information regarding League operations. There is no need or precedence for confidential activity by your committee or part of the Board. Dick Norton On Monday, July 17, 2023 at 05:56:44 PM PDT, McIntyre, Kristen, K6WX (Dir, PD) <kmcintyre(a)arrl.org> wrote: Director Norton: The Ethics and Elections Committee would like to interview you regarding an investigation of alleged disclosure of confidential ARRL information. We have several questions that will help us establish context for this matter. Please let us know when we might meet, at your earliest convenience. As we will all be in Connecticut for the Board Meeting, it would be convenient to meet in-person, if that’s possible. If not, we can arrange to meet virtually. Thank you. Kristen McIntyre Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee

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[arrl-odv:34997] PSC Meeting Agenda
by Michael Ritz 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

ODV; Attached is the proposed July 2023 PSC meeting agenda, subject to revision. As mentioned earlier, our meeting will begin at 11 AM on Thursday, due to several PSC member time conflicts with a Historical Committee meeting at HQ earlier in the morning. I still need to complete the July Board PSC Report, (Document #12), but it's in the works..... Safe travels, and see everybody on Thursday! 73; Mike W7VO

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[arrl-odv:34989] Nrw filing today in reference to the bandwdth proceedings pending for years.
by Famiglio, Bob, K3RF (Dir, AD) 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

I was alerted to this new FCC filing regarding the bandwidth proceedings. One of the filers, Janis AB2RA, is an active Atlantic division constituent and sent me this link today and wants to discuss it with me. It makes an interesting read. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/107151170924997/1 Bob K3RF

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[arrl-odv:34990] Re: confirm 7878028a4b881b2c54b33ca3ef731e1dba41a863
by ebhudgens＠comcast.net 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

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[arrl-odv:34982] And yet another threat to ham radio
by Famiglio, Bob, K3RF (Dir, AD) 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

This is not really a new issue, but this kind of equipment continues to become more serious. Vice Director Cooper brought this to my attention today. See the "Ham Radio" frequencies but license free offering which claims to be different than FRS and the usual license free offering. It is the usual wide-open dual band Chinese special. It incorrectly summarizes the mistaken view that in an emergency, anyone can use ham radio frequencies without a license to talk with family and friends - during a national emergency with grid down. Not what the rules provide for actually. Take a look at this ad from My Emergency Radio. Scroll down on the site to see what they claim it covers and that no ham license is needed but it uses ham frequencies. The claims from "customers" are entertaining to say the least. The tiny, fine print at the very bottom suggest the sellers know it may not be legal to use even in a widespread emergency just because your cell phone is down. https://myemergencyradio.com/ Bob Famiglio, K3RF, 610-359-7300 ARRL Atlantic Division Director www.QRZ.com/db/K3RF

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