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By Joel Kleinman, N1BKE
QST Managing Editor
August 2, 2004
This feature--including convenient Web links to useful information--is a quick monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of July.
ARRL VEC Manager Bart Jahnke, W9JJ, Education and Technology Manager Mark Spencer, WA8SME, and Assistant to the VEC Manager Perry Green, WY1O, attended the annual meeting of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Jahnke was selected as a member of the Question Pool Committee.
The ARRL will be receiving a $3000 grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) via the New York State Citizen Corps to recognize Amateur Radio operators in the Empire State who have been involved in emergency-related activities.
The ARRL submitted an application for year 3 of the CNCS federal grant to support emergency communications training and a pilot community education project.
Registration was held for several on-line courses, and the Level I and Level II Emergency Communication along with Antenna Modeling courses began.
ARRL Sales & Marketing Manager Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, was the banquet speaker at the Central States VHF Society Conference in Toronto July 23-24.
CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, wrote a letter congratulating the mayor of Penn Yan, New York, for the Village's decision to deploy WiFi technology instead of Broadband Over Powerline.
Sumner also asked the FCC for clarification of its recent response to a North Carolina amateur's complaint of BPL interference.
Ohio Section Manager Joe Phillips, K8QOE, announced the formation of a new Cincinnati-area group that will study the effects of a BPL rollout in two neighborhoods by utility Cinergy Corp.
The Programs and Services Committee of the ARRL Board of Directors approved several enhancements to the International EME Competition.
ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) teams and local amateurs in the Tallahassee, Florida, area assisted after electrical power went out in about half of the capital city.
With President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, wielding the gavel, the July meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors in Windsor, Connecticut, formalized a grassroots congressional lobbying program--with an initial focus on BPL.
The Board also adopted a resolution encouraging further development and expansion of an inaugural network to enhance the emergency communications capability of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES).
The Board announced its list of award winners to recognize excellence, achievement or innovation in several areas.
In other actions, the Board adopted a resolution encouraging further development and expansion of an inaugural network to enhance the emergency communications capability of the ARRL ARES, approved a system to automatically recognize long-term ARRL members, designated the next Dayton Hamvention as the ARRL National Convention, directed the filing of an application with the FCC for an experimental license authorizing low frequency operation for specified ham stations, directed that a petition be filed with the FCC to permit security of data for computer to computer communications of domestic transmissions above 50 MHz, and established as policy that ARES groups and any group using the ARES logo formally acknowledge ARES as an ARRL program.
DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, spoke and checked cards for DXCC at the Pacific Northwest DX Convention in Seattle.
Pacific Division Director Bob Vallio, W6RGG, and Field and Regulatory Correspondent Chuck Skolaut, K0BOG, attended the San Francisco Section Convention in Ferndale, California.
ARRL ARES volunteers assisted firefighters attempting to contain two separate forest fires in Nevada.
The ARRL DXCC Desk accredited several DX operations. A new DXCC FAQ is designed to answer members' DXCC-related questions.
Media Relations Manager Jennifer Hagy, N1TDY, was interviewed by two reporters working on BPL-related stories. She also worked with a reporter who working on a feature article about Amateur Radio.
The Contest Branch shipped 2003 November Sweepstakes plaques and 2004 DX Contest pins.
Regulatory Information Specialist John Hennessee, N1KB, assisted several ARRL members with local government zoning problems and covenant restriction difficulties.
Regulatory Correspondent Chuck Skolaut, K0BOG, served as liaison between Official Observers and the FCC in a Michigan interference case.
Field and Educational Services Assistant Linda Mullally, KB1HSV, shipped a variety of handouts in support of a demonstration station at the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Ohio in commemoration of the first moon landing.
Several enhancements have been made to the Regulatory Information Web site involving the new FCC call sign contractor, and updates to CEPT information and reciprocal licensing data for several countries.
In late June, VEC Department staff along with several volunteers organized and mailed new General class exams to 822 Field Stocked ARRL VE teams.
Lab Manager Ed Hare, W1RFI, spoke at
the Arizona State Convention in Williams.
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