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SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
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KEEPING UP WITH ARRL
The GLD web site is totally revised and updated! You are invited to go to http://www.greatlakes.arrl.org to get a look at what webmeister Gary Osborne, W8XS has done.
The web site and how we plan to use it will continue to evolve. If you have suggestions of features you would like to see on the site, please let me know. Keep in mind that this is a Division site. The three Section web sites will continue to provide most of the coverage
of Section information.
Thanks to W8XS for the fine work; work he has only just begun.
73, Jim
Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director
ARRL Great Lakes Division
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RILEY HOLLINGSWORTH,
K4ZDH, RETIRES
On Thursday, July 3, Special Counsel for the Spectrum Enforcement Division of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH -- the man who has come to embody Amateur Radio Enforcement -- said goodbye
to the FCC as he retired and began his life as a private citizen. In May, Hollingsworth announced he would definitely retire; he had contemplated retiring in January 2008, but cited "several issues on the table that I wanted] to continue to work through with the amateur community." While his successor has not yet been named, he was quick to point out that the FCC's Amateur Radio enforcement program will continue.
Hollingsworth said that he has "loved" working for the FCC and has "always had great jobs, but this one involving the Amateur Radio Service has been the most fun and I have enjoyed every day of it. I've worked with the best group of licensees on earth, enjoyed your support and
tremendous FCC support and looked forward every day to coming to work. The Amateur Radio Enforcement program will continue without missing a beat, and after retirement I look forward to being involved with Amateur
Radio every way I can. I thank all of you for being so dedicated and conscientious, and for the encouragement you give us every day."
ARRL Newsletter
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ECHOLINKS
A small slip of the fat finger and I erased W8DF-R call log on June 18. As a result, I can only report that there were 119 connections made to W8DF-R since that goof. If you examine the call log on w8df.com, you will note many of those were from a local station attempting to fix a blocked port problem and another was a California station trying to get echolink running for the first time.
I had an interesting contact on echolink that , in my opinion, verifies that echolink is indeed amateur radio. For a reason I did not learn, a VA3 from Toronto called me. After a couple of exchanges, a WD4 from Georgia also connected. In the first couple of exchanges, I knew the reason he called me due to his questions of why cereal manufactures can get away with putting less product
in the box and raise the price. During the QSO, I learned he was blind. Turning the QSO over to the VA3, he began asking the WD4 about software used on the computer. After a couple more exchanges, I learned the VA3 is also blind. During the roundtable QSO, I was able to offer some advice regarding echolink, but the majority of the contact was between Toronto and Georgia of a
technical nature. The QSO lasted some 90 minutes until I told them I needed to get to the field day site to help set up. Ham radio? No doubt!
W8RVT-Don
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FIFTH PILLAR
On Saturday, May 17 at the Dayton Hamvention, ARRL President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, plans to announce that the League will expand its identity program to include greater emphasis on technology. Harrison explained that "Ham radio operators, and particularly ARRL members, closely identify with current and emerging radio technology. Today, we are naming 'technology' as ARRL's new fifth pillar." ARRL's other four
pillars, the underpinnings of the organization, are Public Service, Advocacy, Education and Membership. "For hams, expanding the four pillars to include technology will reinforce one of the organization's guiding principles -- that ham radio is state-of-the-art, innovative and relevant," he said.
ARRL Newsletter
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