IN-Newsletter Vol. 40, No. 16 May 13, 2015 - Covers the period May 3-9. Upcoming In-Person Meetings and Events LoTW Study Committee July 15 @ 9:00am in Newington, CT Administration & Finance Committee July 16 @ 8:30am in Newington, CT Programs & Services Committee July 16 @ 8:30am in Newington, CT Second Board Meeting July 17-18 @ 9:00am in Windsor, CT Production/Editorial Reported by Becky Schoenfeld, W1BXY The commemorative booklet about the W1AW portable operations is at the printer. Sales and Marketing Reported by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R A digital photo album<https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153014309012408.1073741873.20069212407&type=1&l=9f5354c1a5> has been posted to the ARRL Facebook page, to share our photos from ARRL EXPO at Dayton Hamvention(r). The album is linked from the ARRL website homepage. Jackie Ferreira reports that an email featuring ARRL EXPO at Dayton Hamvention(r) is being prepared for distribution this week-promoting membership, new publications, and more. Yvette Vinci prepared the email notification for the June 2015 digital edition of QST, distributed to ARRL members on Friday, May 8. The distribution list included 120,271 members. Diane Petrilli is preparing materials for our exhibit at SEA-PAC, the ARRL Northwestern Division Convention which will be held June 5-7 in Seaside, Oregon. Materials have also been supplied to help promote membership at Ham-Com, the West Gulf Division Convention June 12-13. Ham-Com has relocated its annual convention from Plano to Irving, Texas at the larger Irving Convention Center. New editions of The ARRL General Class License Manual and ARRL's General Q&A are now available as e-books from Amazon's Kindle store. Now shipping: Propagation and Radio Science<http://www.arrl.org/shop/Propagation-and-Radio-Science/>, by Eric P. Nichols, KL7AJ and published by ARRL. In addition to the print edition, a Kindle e-book version will be introduced this week. Summary of warehouse fulfillment activity, reported by Steve Capodicasa: Week ending Packages fulfilled Member Premiums 5/8/2015 923 326 5/1/2015 1,086 471 4/24/2015 1,146 974 4/17/2015 1,104 1,061 Field Services & Radiosport Reported by Dave Patton, NN1N DXCC Paper/Fieldcheck Processing Time 4 Weeks Logbook Processing Time 2-4 Business Days Number of Centennial applications processed: Centennial Challenge QSO 1768 W1AW/WAS 1263 W1AW On Friday, May 8, Mat Strelow, KC1XX, and Andrew Toth both of XX Towers Inc. were on hand to perform the Spring W1AW/W1HQ antenna and tower inspections. W1AW needed a few antennas to be reoriented and a few pine tree branches pruned away from the South tower. W1HQ required a turnbuckle on the 2-meter Satellite antenna's truss system to be replaced. Repairs were made to the connections for the D-STAR antennas as well. Overall, inspections to both stations revealed nothing of any significance. In addition to preparing for the antenna inspections, Joe also updated the regular CW practice QST source page and processed a few regular QSL card requests. Scott worked on slow and fast code practice files for the week. Field Organization/Public Service Team Nancy McCain, K5NLM, of Fort Worth, Texas, has been appointed the North Texas Section Manager as of May 1. Dave Patton, NN1N, made the appointment after Chris Brewer, N5GMJ, announced his resignation because of the work and family commitments. Dave reviewed Chris Brewer's recommendation and consulted with West Gulf Division Director Dr David Woolweaver before making the appointment official. Brewer, of Saginaw, has been the North Texas Section Manager since April 30, 2013. Nancy McCain will complete the current term of office as North Texas Section Manager that continues nearly two full years until March 31, 2017. Leona Adams report that Georgia Section Manager Gene Clark, W4AYK, has been nominated and South Texas Section Manager Lee Cooper, W5LHC, has also been nominated to run for a new terms of office in their respective sections. Nominating petitions are due by June 5 for this election cycle and the new terms will begin October 1. Chuck Skolaut compiled and forwarded the monthly ARRL Monitoring System/Intruder Watch report to the IARU Region 2 Monitoring Coordinator. An update was received on 6 meter interference in Oregon and the Connecticut OOC is gathering equipment to direction find reported interference on 6 meters in Burlington, Connecticut. Several reports were received of Over the Horizon Radars being heard on 10 meters. An Illinois station reported that what he first thought were just carriers on 7000.7 kHz and 7000.87 kHz were actually QRSS "squarer" beacons running approximately 200 milliwatts. One is in Oklahoma, and the other one is in New Mexico. QRSS beacons use very slow CW to enable copying below the audible noise floor. QRP is often heard over great distances! Questions fielded involved reciprocal licenses, antenna zoning, amateur frequencies and operating overseas. Sincerely Compiled by, Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ Assistant to the CEO Hamfest/Member Contact/ARRL Representative/Meetings/Vacations All Staff 5/25 Holiday All Staff 7/3 Holiday Leona Adams 5/22 PTO Bob Allison 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Joe Carcia 5/22 PTO Lauren Clarke 5/15-5/19 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH/PTO `` 5/26-5/27 PTO Mike Corey 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Steve Ewald 5/14-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Trish Feeney 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Jacqueline Ferreira 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Steve Ford 5/14-5/19 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH/PTO Norm Fusaro 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Scott Gee 5/14-5/15 PTO Amanda Grimaldi 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Mike Gruber 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH `` 6/1-6/5 PTO `` 7/20-7/24 PTO `` 8/24-8/28 PTO `` 9/28-10/2 PTO Ed Hare 6/5-6/7 Northwestern Division Convention, Seaside, OR Dan Henderson 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH `` 5/26-5/29 PTO `` 7/16-7/18 Board Meeting/Committee Meeting Ian Humphreys 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Bob Inderbitzen 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH `` 8/7-8/9 South Texas Section convention, Austin, TX Karen Isakson 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Debra Johnson 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Harold Kramer 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH `` 6/5-6/7 Northwestern Division Convention, Seaside, OR `` 6/19-6/26 PTO `` 7/16-7/18 Board Meeting/Committee Meeting Sean Kutzko 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH `` 5/22 PTO Kim McNeill 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Cassandra Parkman 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Dave Patton 7/24-7/26 Oklahoma Section Convention, Oklahoma City, OK Diane Petrilli 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH `` 6/5-6/7 Northwestern Division Convention, Seaside, OR Brennan Price 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Michael Scharr 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Becky Schoenfeld 5/22 PTO Barry Shelley 7/16-7/18 Board Meeting/Committee Meeting Dave Sumner 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH `` 5/26-6/5 PTO `` 6/11-6/14 West Gulf Division Convention, Irving, TX `` 6/23-6/29 Friedrichshafen Convention, Germany `` 7/16-7/18 Board Meeting/Committee Meeting Yvette Vinci 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH Matt Wilhelm 5/15-5/17 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH