One correction I need to make to my initial report from the IARU Region 3 Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand; ARRL is a member of Region 3 by virtue of American Samoa, northern Mariana Islands and Guam, not the Marshall Islands as I noted.

Day 2 (it is currently 1:45 PM Tuesday ZL time, 8:45 PM Monday EDT) is well in progress with the continuance of the Working Groups addressing the papers submitted to the conference. We are about to begin session 2 of Working Group 3, the ad-hoc group seated to address interference to amateur radio communications from sources not authorized to operate within an amateur allocation. These are situations currently handled by our Intruder Watch and under a the IARU's Monitoring Service. The issue posed is how to adequately document and report such interference matters in order to bring a quick resolution. Currently there is no uniform structure within IARU to accomplish this and a mechanism or protocol for prioritizing corrective actions to be taken in response to reports of harmful interference and intruders in the amateur bands is needed. Rod Stafford is serving as Secretary of Working Group 3.

Tonight IARU/ARRL will host a reception for the Delegates and guests. This is something we customarily do at conferences such as these. Others do so as well. Last evening a dinner was hosted by NZART sponsored by Tait Electronics. Many of you knew of Angus Tait, ZL3NL (SK) and his many contributions to the electronics industry as well as amateur radio. Tomorrow night JARL will also host a dinner as well for the delegates and guests.