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The FCC has established April 14, 2022, as the date by which amateur
radio transmissions must stop in the upper 3.45 to 3.5 GHz segment
of the amateur secondary 9 centimeter band. Secondary operations are
permitted to continue indefinitely in the remainder of the band, 3.3
to 3.45 GHz, pending future FCC proceedings.  On January 14 the FCC
released DA 22 39, which announces the results of Auction 110 for
the 3.45 to 3.55 GHz band. Release of this notice triggered FCC
rules adopted last year requiring that amateur radio operations
between 3.45 GHz and 3.5 GHz cease within 90 days of the public
notice.  DA 22 39 can be found online.  In October 2021, ARRL
President Rick Roderick, K5UR, urged Congress to direct the FCC to
preserve Amateur Radios secondary use of the 3 GHz band in a written
statement responding to H.R. 5378, the Spectrum Innovation Act of
2021, before the US House Commerce Communications and Technology
Subcommittee.  A chronology of actions responding to amateur access
on the 3.5 GHz band can be found on the ARRL website.  The multiple
websites mentioned in this bulletin can be found in teleprinter,
packet, and Internet versions of 2022 ARRL Bulletin ARLB005.  Thomas
Dick, KF2GC, Section Manager for the ARRL Northern New York Section,
has stepped down after serving, first from 2000 to 2006 and again
from 2009 to present.  ARRL Field Services Manager Mike Walters,
W8ZY, has appointed Rocco Conte, WU2M, of Gloversville, New York, to
succeed him on an interim basis. Conte has served as an Assistant
Section Manager and District Emergency Coordinator for the last
several years. His appointment became effective January 17, 2022.
Saif D. Shahid, S21A/KF6WJZ/G1NWJ, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, died
on January 10. He was 73. Shahid was the founder and President of
the Bangladesh Amateur Radio League, BARL, which was established
after more than 12 years of hard lobbying and negotiating with
government officials by Shahid and others. Until then, amateur radio
operation from Bangladesh had been sporadic and of questionable
legality.  The BARL became an International Amateur Radio Union
member society in 1988. Shahid, whose background was in mechanical
engineering and information technology, was the first Bangladeshi
national to be licensed. He had been living in the US since 1999
with his family, which includes his wife Mamtaz, S21J/KF6WJY, the
first woman to be licensed in Bangladesh, and daughter Maria Ashna,
S21JA/ex KF6WJX.

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