rjr@mgweed.UUCP (Bob Roehrig) (02/05/85)
qst de k9eui hr arrl bulletin nr 9 from arrl headquarters newington ct february 1, 1985 to all radio amateurs bt fcc has placed a moratorium on new repeater operation in certain metropolitan areas. details on which metropolitan areas are affected by the moratorium and on what the nprm (garble) available from arrl hq. jim clary, wb9ihh, is handling requests for this information at 203 666 1541 ext 241 ar
wheatley@inuxi.UUCP (Steven Wheatley) (02/04/86)
qst de k9eui hr bulletin nr 9 from arrl headquarters newington ct january 26 1986 to all radio amateurs bt the arrl board of directors held its annual meeting in hartford ct on january 23 and 24 1986. president larry e. prince, w4ra was reelected to serve until the 1988 annual meeting. also reelected were executive vice president david sumner, k1zz, secretary perry williams, w1ued and treasurer james e. mc cobb jr, k1llu. newly elected as first vice president was jay a. holladay, w6ejj. leonard m. nathanson, w8rc and william j. stevens, w6zm were elected as vice presidents. tod olson, k0to, is the new international affairs vice president. replacing olson as dakota division director is the present vice director howard mark, w0ozc. serving on the executive committee, in addition to messrs price, holladay and sumner, will be directors paul grauer, w0fir, george s. wilson, w4oyi, frank m. butler jr, w4rh and hugh a. turnbull, w3abc until the 1987 annual meeting. the board asked the president to take actions to correct the restrictive and crippling effects of fcc docket 85-105 on the development of packet radio and packet radio emergency (traffic) the order in the docket requires a control operator on duty at a digipeater when third party traffic is to be handled. the president was also asked to (garbled) equally to perform administrateve and clerical tasks which are required of any vec. a petition will be filed with the fcc requiring the labeling of home electronic equipment with regard to its susceptibility to rf energy. the league will seek memoranda of understanding with the national weather service and with the civil air patrol concerning the service of amateurs to these agencies in emergencies. moreover, the executive vice president will promote local memoranda of understanding between amateur radio emergency service untis and the cities, towns, states and service groups they can serve. a brochure explaining amateur radio disaster capabilities, suggested by the emergency communications advisory committee was ordered to be produced and distributed to the media and served agencies. plans to continue discussing the possibility of league involvement in call sign issuance with the fcc were left in place, despite some expressed misgivings. the board adopted a modified band plan for the 160 meter band. cw, rtty and other narrow band modes will be urged to use 1800 to 1840 khz while cw, ssb, sstv and other wideband modes can use 1840 to 2000 khz. because the segment from 1830 to 1850 is the most common international allocation in the band, amateurs are encouraged to use it only for intercontinental qsos. the board did not agree to a proposal that these subbands should be incorporated in the fcc rules at this point. the board agreed that field day activities and communications seeking award credit may be carried on in all amateur bands except 10.1 to 10.15 mhz where u.s. amateurs are required to protect non amateur services of other countries from interference. no change was made in rules for the five band awards however. in recogintion of dxcc being fifty years old in 1987, plans for a golden jubilee dxcc award will be developed for board consideration at the july meeting. the board approved implementation of a national repeater data base at arrl headquarters, available by phone to repeater coordinators. it also decided that the repeater coordinators newsletter should be offered by subscription to the general membership, while continuing its free distribution to repeater coordinators. however, a separate action reiterates that the league is not a national coordinator and does not choose, endorse or certify coordinators. its role is to offer support services to coordinators chosen by served groups in the various parts of the country. the repeater directory indications that certain repeaters are coordinated is determined by these corrdinators and not arrl. in other areas of interest, the board recognized with thanks the work of the federal preemption task force as having been virtually complete in the adoption by the fcc of prb1, and it was discharged. a new legal strategy committee will be appointed by the president to provide assistance to volunteer counsels in relation to antenna ordinances zoning restrictions as they relate to amateur radio and deed restriction problems. the headquarters staff was asked to prepare in consultation with experienced members in the field a guidebook for conventions and hamfests. special encouragement and support will be provided to amateur radio clubs at u.s. military institutions, particularly those at which communications and electronics training is performed. the board took two actions looking forward to the arrl 75th anniversary in 1989. the arrl will offer to host the 1989 triennial meeting of iaru. criteria for selecting the 1989 arrl national convention site were also adopted. these criteria will be published in the march and april issues of qst and selections made at the july 24 meeting from among applications received from interested groups by july 1 1986. matters being studied by board committees include a study of message traffic overloads during disasters. a special blue ribbon committee will be appointed by the president for this purpose. another special committee will take a close look at all the advisory committees, including thier size, selection of members, tenure and financing. also to be studied is the possibility of arrl providing a tape recorded news and information service to be accessed by telephone. the feasibility of combining several arrl newsletters into one readily and inexpensively available to members will be explored by the publications committee. full details of other studies will be in the march issue of qst. ar