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- ARRL Bulletin 11 ARLB011
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT January 22, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- ARLB011 Board meeting news
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- The ARRL Board of Directors met in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, January
- 21-22, 1994. The following is a summary of meeting highlights.
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- The Board re-elected its present slate of officers: President George
- Wilson, III, W4OYI, First Vice President Rod Stafford, KB6ZV, Vice
- President Jay Holladay, W6EJJ, Vice President Tom Frenaye, K1KI,
- Treasurer Jim McCobb, K1LLU, Secretary and Executive Vice President
- David Sumner, K1ZZ, and Chief Financial Officer Barry Shelley.
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- Elected to the Executive Committee were Rocky Mountain Division
- Director Marshall Quiat, AG0X, Hudson Division Director Stephen
- Mendelsohn, WA2DHF, Delta Division Director Joel Harrison, WB5IGF
- and Great Lakes Division Director Al Severson, AB8P.
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- An interim report and band plan recommendation of an ad hoc
- committee was adopted, looking to the early implementation of the
- expected allocation of 219 to 220 MHz for limited amateur use.
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- The 1994-95 ARRL budget plan was adopted.
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- The Volunteer Resources Committee was tasked with studying the
- feasibility of a system of technical awards to recognize achievement
- in fields ranging from design and construction to the creation of
- innovative communications systems, and develop appropriate criteria.
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- The League will file a petition for rulemaking seeking to remove
- overly restrictive rule provisions concerning the use of spread
- spectrum techniques, and an ad hoc committee was created to
- recommend technical standards.
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- The Membership Services Committee will study the possibility of
- relocating the 40-meter Novice subband. The committee will report
- back to the Board in July.
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- The Board approved a revision of the ARRL/Red Cross Statement of
- Understanding.
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- ARRL Headquarters will begin to notify members of license
- expirations, and will include a Form 610 to effect license renewals.
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- The Administration and Finance Committee will study the feasibility
- of offering group legal defense insurance to ARRL members to cover
- legal costs in antenna cases and RFI lawsuits.
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- The ARRL Letter will be offered to affiliated club newsletter
- editors free-of-charge, on a trial basis.
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- The administration and finance committee was asked to investigate a
- multi-media production capability for Headquarters, to keep pace
- with the changing technology in today's personal computing
- revolution.
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- Perry Williams, W1UED, was commended for 40 years of dedicated
- service and congratulated on the occasion of his retirement from the
- Headquarters staff, in April 1994.
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- Details to follow in March QST.
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