Good morning Mike — The 23 Jan reference in our status report refers to when the statement was provided to Rick Lindquist, not the date of a published article. As you note, Rick did include the statement in his Feb 3 story that summarized three (out of a number of other) topics handled at the January board meeting. Happy to more directly get the word to Section Managers, along the lines of our statement noting that the study looks at program mechanics and its interface to FCC, we’ll reach out to the Field Organization for assistance as needed, our deliverable is recommendations to the Executive Committee, and — perhaps most importantly to some — it’s business as usual for OOs in the field; no changes to the current program have or will occur in the interim. 73, Brian N5ZGT

On Feb 17, 2017, at 8:33 AM, Mike Lisenco N2YBB <n2ybb@arrl.org> wrote:

Brian -

It appears that many Section Managers have not gotten the word and are looking for information on the status of the OO program. One of my Section Managers asked me about this yesterday, and also told me that it is a topic of consternation on the SM Yahoo group.

You mention that an announcement was made on your behalf in the ARRL news article of January 23rd, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The only recent news crawl mention that I can find is a blur buried deep and lost in the February 3, 2017 article about the legislative agenda. In fact, the only article specific to the OO restructure on the news crawl that I can find dates back to March 24th of last year, 2016. Am I wrong?

I would rather not have to answer questions from my SMs that really shouldn’t need to be asked. As a former SM, I understand why my current SMs feel left out on occasion. On an issue that falls in the jurisdiction of the Field Organization, I think that it would be better public relations to keep the Section Managers in the loop as best we can. It falls under the “happy wives make happy lives” school of thought.

Might I suggest that you send some notification directly to the 71 Section Managers to let them know what’s going on. It will make them feel engaged and included, as they should be anyway. Let’s not forget that they will have the responsibility to implement whatever we come up with.

73 de Mike N2YBB

From: Brian Mileshosky <> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 8:17 PM To: exec-com@arrl.org <> Subject: [exec-com:8547] OO Study -- January status report

Greetings -- With apologies for my tardiness, please find attached the OO Program Study team's status report summarizing progress made, issues to be aware of, and look-aheads from the month of January. I'll have the monthly status report summarizing similar information from the February timeframe distributed by the 5th. Happy to answer questions in the interim. Thanks and 73, Brian N5ZGT

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