Ladies & Gentlemen:

Jon Siverling reports that the Amateur Radio Administration Course (ARAC) (ARRL/IARU Region 2) in Mexico City (CD MX) was attended by 15 regulators. Costa Rica has begun issuing licenses after a nearly four year hiatus. However, operations in Mexico for non-Mexican nationals is still a problem.

• Successful Amateur Radio Administration Course (ARAC) (ARRL/IARU Region 2) in Mexico City (CD MX)
  • 15 participants -  *all* regulators -  from 4 countries (CLM, CTR, HON, MEX)
  • Costa Rica success!  Regulator participated – reported 14 licenses issued this month and renewals now being processed -  this after 3 ½ - years of *no* amateur licenses (due to the 2014 law)
  • Costa Rican regulator asks for help to teach regular classes in amateur radio
  • Future ARAC (?) -  Southern cone (?) -  IARU R2 EC to consider
• PCC.I
  • ARRL (JVS) Chaired Rapporteurship on disaster prevention, response and mitigation
  • Question on emergency communications was revised (doc. 4463 REV 1)
  • 28 Inter-American Proposals going forward to the ITU World Telecommunications Development Conference 2017 (WTDC-17) from Americas Region
  • Julie Zoller (KJ4EMJ), Senior Deputy U.S. Coordinator, resigned from State
  • Next PCC.I May 2018 in Lima

Gallagher 08/15/17

Tom Gallagher – NY2RF

Chief Executive Officer

ARRL Headquarters

ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio™

860 594 0404 cell 704 907 7158

tgallagher@arrl.org