[MCARC] [Fwd: ARRL Member Bulletin for July 22, 2025]

[Nate Bargmann]

----- Forwarded message from ARRL <memberlist at arrl.org> -----

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:46:23 -0000
From: ARRL <memberlist at arrl.org>
To: n0nb at n0nb.us
Reply-To: memberlist at arrl.org
Subject: ARRL Member Bulletin for July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025

ARRL Board Reviews and Approves By-Law Changes, Establishes 2026 as Year
of the Club, and Creates 10-Band DXCC
  
The ARRL Board of Directors met in Windsor, Connecticut, for its Second
Meeting, July 18 –19, 2025. ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, presided
over the meeting.
  
President Roderick recognized Pacific Division Director John Litz, NZ6Q,
who previously served as Vice Director.
  
Prior to the Board meeting, Board committees met on July 17 with the
following actions highlighted below:
  
The Programs & Services Committee and Headquarters staff from the
Radiosport Department, on the heels of creating the DXCC Trident award
in January, are moving ahead with the creation of another new DXCC award
— 10-Band DXCC — which will recognize those who achieve DXCC on all
bands from 6 meters to 160 meters (excluding 60 meters). Higher
achievement endorsements can be earned at the 200, 300, and Honor Roll
levels, like the DXCC Trident.  The 10-Band DXCC award challenges
participants in the DXCC program to establish station capabilities and
operator skills for dealing with myriad band conditions in pursuing DXCC
across all 10 bands.
  
The Administration & Finance Committee discussed the current status of
ARRL’s Washington advocacy. This includes continuing work to build
Congressional support for bills H.R.1094 and S.459 — the Amateur Radio
Emergency Preparedness Act — for passage. The committee recommended to
the Board that the ARRL CEO take the lead on the efforts, including
executing a campaign to involve members in reaching out to their
Congressional representatives later this year.
  
The Emergency Communications and Field Services Committee reviewed
year-to-date activities, including a complete rewrite of the ARES®
training modules and the recently executed Memorandum of Understanding
between ARRL and Radio Relay International (RRI). The committee also
discussed making 2026 the Year of the Club and proposed ideas for
consideration by the Board.
  
The Historical Committee met to review the ARRL Heritage Museum’s online
collection, Radio Alpha, which currently features more than 3,000 images
and documents. The repository is now online and can be found at
www.arrl.org/arrl-museum-and-research-library [
https://www.arrl.org/arrl-museum-and-research-library?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ARRL
] .
  
Here are highlights of actions taken at the Board meeting:
 • Board members, after having an additional 6 months to review the
   Report and Recommendations of the Special Committee on By-Law 46 that
   was submitted during the Annual Board Meeting in January, undertook a
   discussion and voted to approve the motion to adopt the report.

   The proposed updated language was reviewed by ARRL’s Connecticut counsel
   who was present for questions and discussion.

   The changes affect By-Law 46, the Board's Conflict of Interest Policy,
   and By-Law 42, the charter for the Ethics & Elections Committee.

   The most significant change is that this introduces an unbiased
   competent third party to provide the Board with the results of its own
   determination in an E&E matter before submitting it to the ARRL Board.

 • The Board approved a year-long celebration of the semiquincentennial
   of the United States. This will include commemorative ARRL US250 Worked
   All States awards from contacts made during 2026, as well as other
   on-air activity.
 • The Board approved making 2026 the Year of the Club and passed other
   motions in support of the initiative including:
    ◦ Creation of a book featuring high-performance clubs.
    ◦ Establishment of working with and recognizing outstanding club
      websites while helping clubs with ineffective websites.
    ◦ Recognizing ARRL Affiliated Clubs that maintain a
      higher-than-required ARRL membership level for affiliation. Clubs that 
      achieve a 70% or a 90% ARRL membership level within their clubs will
      receive acknowledgment and special recognition.


The complete minutes of the 2025 Second Meeting of the ARRL Board of
Directors will be available soon on the ARRL website.
  
The next Annual Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors is scheduled for
January 16 – 17, 2026.

Copyright © 2025 American Radio Relay League, Incorporated. Use and
distribution of this publication, or any portion thereof, is permitted
for non-commercial or educational purposes, with attribution. All other
purposes require written permission.

ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio®

----- End forwarded message -----

-- 
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."
Web: https://www.n0nb.us
Projects: https://github.com/N0NB
GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 195 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/mcarc/attachments/20250722/6888d7b0/attachment.sig>