Greetings, As Dave mentioned over the weekend, Kim and I are currently in KH6 on vacation. We'll be returning later this week. At that time, I'll be taking action on a few items that have been working since the board meeting. Some of these are: 1. Appointment of the Emergency Communications Ad-hoc committee There have been a number of excellent recommendations 2. Appointment of the VUAC. We're still waiting on three divisions to make appointment recommendations 3. Update on Advocacy. Regarding advocacy, I want to emphasize that while our recent focus has been on our grassroots effort, our advocacy program involves a much broader effort. It includes our FCC contact, our Washington office work and IARU support for ITU/WRC, as well as our congressional effort. In the coming days you will be receiving more information about each of these as we coordinate the activities and plans. On the congressional front, we'll have the 90 day plan from Chwat I mentioned at the board meeting completed in a few days and then we can begin coordinating that effort with the Grassroots ad-hoc committee. Dave has already communicated with each of you on the "35 Letters" campaign. Thank you for actively moving forward with this effort. As previously mentioned, the Executive Committee will be meeting on March 11. The location will be identified later this week. First Vice President Craigie will be directly involved in the EmComm Ad-hoc committee and Vice President Roderick will be preparing the draft terms of reference for the band planning committee that will be presented to the EC March 11. IAVP Stafford continues his involvement in IARU Region II activities and interface with our sister societies. 73 Joel W5ZN