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 ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP. |
NEWINGTON, CT, Jan 18, 2002--As expected, the ARRL Board of Directors has unanimously re-elected President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, to a second, two-year term. Haynie said defining Amateur Radio's role in homeland security will top his list of initiatives for his second term. The Board, meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, January 18 and 19, also chose other ARRL officers, as well as members of the Executive Committee, an honorary vice president, and ARRL Foundation directors.
"We have a great role we could play in homeland security," Haynie said. "The problem we have is getting Amateur Radio introduced to the proper agencies." He said federal agencies "need a big education on what Amateur Radio does."
The Board also elected former Southwestern Division Director Fried Heyn, WA6WZO--who retired as of January 1--as Third Vice President. Heyn will replace incumbent Third VP (and former Roanoke Division Director) John Kanode, N4MM, who also was a candidate. All other ARRL officers were re-elected unanimously.
In other business, Rick Roderick, K5UR, was elected to replace Heyn on the ARRL Executive Committee. President Haynie chairs the EC. Incumbent EC members Tom Frenaye, K1KI (New England); Frank Fallon, N2FF (Hudson); Frank Butler, W4RH (Southeastern) were re-elected. ARRL Executive Vice President David Sumner, K1ZZ, and First Vice President Joel Harrison, W5ZN also sit on the EC.
 Former Southwestern Division Director Fried Heyn, WA6WZO, was elected ARRL Third Vice President. |
Former Southeastern Division Vice Director Evelyn Gauzens, W4WYR, was elected as an ARRL honorary vice president.
The Board is expected to review a wide range of FCC proceedings and regulatory issues. The list includes consideration of the possibility--raised again recently by Haynie--that the ARRL work toward getting a bill introduced in Congress on the issue of CC&Rs. "We're going to be talking about that at length and what strategy we're going to use as far as congressional support," Haynie said. The League has been unsuccessful in efforts to get the FCC to incorporate CC&Rs under its limited federal preemption policy known as PRB-1.
 Former Southeastern Division Vice Director Evelyn Gauzens, W4WYR, is the ARRL's newest honorary vice president. |
Also up for discussion is the band threat posed by SAVI Technology's plan--and now tentatively agreed to by the FCC--to deploy unlicensed transient RF identification devices between 425 and 435 MHz in the 70-cm band. The League maintains that deploying such devices under the Commission's Part 15 rules could result in significant interference to amateur operations. Comments on the proposal are due February 12 (for more information, see "Threats to Our Amateur Bands".
Haynie said the Board also will be considering the controversial topic of whether to eliminate "Section News" and contest results writeups from QST and move these to the ARRL Web site as a cost-saving measure. "That's being debated at great length," Haynie said. "I'm trying to set aside a lot of time to give all the directors an opportunity to state their thoughts and their feelings about it." Section News pages have been available on the Web site since January 1.
The Board also will hear a formal report from the Novice Spectrum Study Committee and consider action based on its recommendations. The committee, headed by ARRL International Affairs Vice President Rod Stafford, W6ROD, last month advised eliminating the CW Novice/Technician Plus subbands, as such, and permitting Novice and Tech Plus (or Technicians with Element 1 credit) licensees to operate CW on General-class 80, 40, 15 and 10-meter CW allocations at up to 200 W output. The committee proposed refarming the current Novice/Tech Plus subbands, in part to allow expansion of phone allocations on 80, 40 and 15 meters.
During its two-day session, the Board will hear reports from standing committees. The Administration and Finance, Membership Services and Volunteer Resources committees met in Texas on January 17 prior to the Board meeting. Supplementary reports from ARRL officers and reports and recommendations of individual Board members also are on the agenda.
The complete minutes of the meeting and the Committee reports can be found on the ARRLWeb.
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