The ARRL Committee of Tellers for the election of directors and vice directors for the 1997 through 1998 term met at ARRL Headquarters November 15 to count ballots. Here are the results.
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New England division for director, Tom
Frenaye, K1KI, 2705. Bill Burden,
WB1BRE, 1523.
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New England division for vice director,
Don Haney, KA1T, 2908. Hal Offutt,
W1NN, 1274.
In each case the candidate receiving the greatest number of votes was declared elected. The terms of office are for two years, beginning at noon January 1, 1997.
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A foundation has been laid to give Amateur Radio a permanent presence in space. Earlier this month, Amateur Radio delegates from eight countries--Russia, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, France and the US--met at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to map plans to include a permanent ham radio station aboard the International Space Station, to be tended by station crew members.
From the United States, members of the SAREX Working Group, officials from NASA, US representatives of the Russian Mir Amateur Radio experiment and members from the Johnson Space Center Amateur Radio Club attended the meetings November 4 and 5, chaired by Roy Neal, K6DUE. ARRL Vice President Joel Harrison, W5ZN (ex-WB5IGF), represented the League at the gathering. SAREX Working Group member Rosalie White, WA1STO, of the ARRL Headquarters staff, was among those on hand. The delegates jointly developed a draft memorandum of understanding to promote development of Amateur Radio on the International Space Station--to be known as ARISS.
The ARISS group will provide for the planning, coordination and performance of Amateur Radio projects on the space station, similar to the way the SAREX Working Group currently coordinates Amateur Radio activities on many space shuttle missions. AMSAT and IARU organizations in each of the eight countries are to review and consider approving the memorandum of understanding. In the US, this includes AMSAT-NA and the ARRL.
The AMSAT-NA Board unanimously approved the memorandum of understanding at its November 11 Board of Directors meeting in Tucson, Arizona. Once the memorandum is finalized, AMSAT-NA President Bill Tynan, W3XO, has been given authority by the board to sign it. AMSAT-NA Vice President for Manned Space Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, congratulated the international ARISS team for a job well done. ''We look forward to a truly cooperative international venture on the International Space Station,'' he said.
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Effective Jan 1, 1997, W1AW will cease its
Tuesday and Wednesday morning code
practice and bulletin schedules. Beginning
this date, the schedule will begin at 2100z, 4
PM ET. This change affects the Tuesday
and Wednesday morning schedules only and
is being initiated as part of a reallocation of
resources for routine station maintenance.
See January 1997 QST, page 104, for the
W1AW Schedule.
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The FCC spokesman said, however, that there's nothing in the current regulations to prevent any club from holding several different call signs, nor is there anything to prevent the trustee of those licenses from taking advantage of the vanity call sign program--provided the trustee is willing to put up the $30 per application.
(Source: The ARRL Letter, Vol. 15, No 12)