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73, Tom - W3TOM

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From: arrl-odv [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Brian Mileshosky
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 12:27 PM
To: arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org
Subject: [arrl-odv:24258] April 14 PSC meeting minutes

Colleagues –

For your situational awareness, please find attached UNAPPROVED minutes

from PSC's April 14 meeting, prepared by Dan Henderson.  They will be

approved at our next (TBD) meeting.

Something to bring to your attention.  At our meeting in January, the

full Board approved a rule to impose a transmitter and receiver

co-location limitation intended to disallow (by honest people, anyway)

the use of remote receivers if they were further than 500 meters away

from the transmitter.

The approved rule read as such:

"9. All stations must be contacted from the same DXCC entity. The

location of any station shall be defined as the location of the

transmitter. For the purpose of DXCC credit, all transmitters and

receivers must be located within a 500-meter diameter circle, excluding

antennas.  QSOs made with legally licensed, remotely controlled stations

are allowed to be used for DXCC credit."

Staff and PSC has received questions and feedback from DXers concerned

that the third sentence of Rule 9 (that beginning with "For the

purpose..."), if read literally, disallows DXCC credit for any QSOs made

from anywhere outside of a 500 meter circle, whether using remote

control, or from previous or additional QTHs.  Obviously that was not

the intention of the rule at all.

During its April meeting, PSC decided to tweak/clarify Rule 9 to remove

any further unintended abiguity/confusion/angst.  The revised language

is found in the meeting minutes, which leads me to this question:

PSC does not believe the intended fit, form, or function of Rule 9 was

altered by its tweak.  Would anyone object to giving staff a green light

to apply this clarification to the official rules as-is, as opposed to

waiting until July to approve it as a full Board?

Thanks and 73,

Brian N5ZGT