Big Island ARRL News, 02 February 2018, 0330 UTC, Post # 445.

Source:

http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2018-02-01

Editor:  Rick Lindquist (WW1ME).

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Comment:

Here are the top stories discussed in the current edition of “The ARRL Letter”:

• ARRL Hudson Division Director Promotes Amateur Radio Parity Act Before Senate Committee
• ARRL Comments on Technological Advisory Council Spectrum Policy Recommendations
• ARRL to Offer Expanded Orlando HamCation^® Presence February 9-11
• The Doctor Will See You Now!
• Nominations Sought for Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna Award
• Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, Appointed ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director
• Anticipated New Building Won’t Be Ready for Hamvention 2018, but Flea Market Could Expand
• Work Progressing to Incorporate CQ Magazine’s WAZ Award Program into LoTW
• Canadian Radio Amateur Finds Resurrected NASA Satellite
• In Brief…
• The K7RA Solar Update
• Just Ahead in Radiosport
• Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions

Upcoming events for Hawaii Island Radio Amateurs:

Everyone is invited to the Hawaiian Paradise Park Radio Day on 28 April 2018 from 0900 to 1600 HST. The event will be held at the Hawaiian Paradise Park Community Center at 17th and Maku’u.  Event coordinator Mike Stratton (KH6PAC) says “our plan is to have several different radios set up…there will be lots of activities and demonstrations.”  For more information, contact Mike–jeffan@hotmail.com.

Don’t forget to sign up for the QTH.NET Email Listserve.  Coordinator Les Hittner says “The main advantage of using such a listserve is that you do not have to individually maintain a list of club-member email addresses in order to enter important converstations related to club operations.”  To join the BIARC Listserve, please sed an email to: lhittner@hbci.com.

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Views expressed in this blog are mine unless otherwise stated.

Please send your Hawaii Island Amateur Radio news items to kh6jrm@arrl.net at least two weeks prior to your event so I can notify our local print and broadcast media in a timely manner.

Thanks for joining us today.

Aloha es 73 de

Russell Roberts (KH6JRM)

Public Information Coordinator

Hawaii County, ARRL Pacific Section