From omik at mailman.qth.net  Thu Feb 17 15:24:31 2022
From: omik at mailman.qth.net (OMIK Amateur Radio Association)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:24:31 -0600
Subject: [OMIK] REMINDER: Quarterly General Meeting - Saturday, February 19,
	2022
Message-ID: <CAA6v4nm_WTQhzeuuAH-WqkQwCWm-BP8_CXysgxjTvgW503rjwQ@mail.gmail.com>

OMIK is having our quarterly general meeting this Saturday, February 19th
via Zoom at 3 PM Eastern / 2 PM Central / 1 PM Mountain / 12 Noon Pacific /

To Join the meeting - follow this link Join Meeting (https://zoom.us/join
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fjoin&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEDaqf0alGIZgMikzr39ZaxEq09bA>
)

? The Meeting ID is 84614816003

? And Password is 5by9

-- 
Patricia Nelson
Interim Secretary,  OMIK <https://sites.google.com/view/omik-amateur-radio>
Amateur Radio Operator - KE0QXD <https://www.qrz.com/db/ke0qxd>
Certified Volunteer Examiner, AARL <http://www.arrl.org/volunteer-examiners>
Director, Governing Board, AARG <https://aarg.club/>

From omik at mailman.qth.net  Thu Feb 17 18:51:58 2022
From: omik at mailman.qth.net (OMIK Amateur Radio Association)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:51:58 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [OMIK] REMINDER: Quarterly General Meeting - Saturday,
 February 19, 2022
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Thank you.? 

    On Thursday, February 17, 2022, 02:25:37 PM CST, OMIK Amateur Radio Association <omik at mailman.qth.net> wrote:  
 
 OMIK is having our quarterly general meeting this Saturday, February 19th
via Zoom at 3 PM Eastern / 2 PM Central / 1 PM Mountain / 12 Noon Pacific /

To Join the meeting - follow this link Join Meeting (https://zoom.us/join
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fjoin&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEDaqf0alGIZgMikzr39ZaxEq09bA>
)

? The Meeting ID is 84614816003

? And Password is 5by9

-- 
Patricia Nelson
Interim Secretary,? OMIK <https://sites.google.com/view/omik-amateur-radio>
Amateur Radio Operator - KE0QXD <https://www.qrz.com/db/ke0qxd>
Certified Volunteer Examiner, AARL <http://www.arrl.org/volunteer-examiners>
Director, Governing Board, AARG <https://aarg.club/>
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From omik at mailman.qth.net  Tue Feb 22 21:32:20 2022
From: omik at mailman.qth.net (OMIK Amateur Radio Association)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 02:32:20 +0000
Subject: [OMIK] Follow up comment to the 2/19 meeting discussion about OMIK
 becoming a FCC VEC
Message-ID: <MN2PR02MB70551DD370B1C82C40929D8B843C9@MN2PR02MB7055.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>

Saturday's meeting brought up the topic of OMIK becoming a VEC. ?I'm not sure if folks were aware, but the FCC took comments in February 2021 about expanding the number of VEC's above the current 14. ?The public notice can be downloaded from https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-21-9A1.pdf .  You can read submitted comments at https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?limit=25&offset=25&proceedings_name=21-2&q=(%22vec%22)&sort=date_disseminated,DESC .  If link fails just search for VEC and WT Docket 21-2. 

The ARRL's position is that no additional VEC's are needed beyond the current 14.  See post at https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-to-fcc-additional-volunteer-examiner-coordinators-not-needed .  Laurel VEC also opposes.  See https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1020352587363/LARC%20VEC%20Response%20to%20WTB%2021-2.pdf

Unless I'm misunderstanding, the current number of VEC's is locked at the existing 14.  The only way OMIK could become a VEC is for the FCC to authorize an expansion beyond the 14 or an existing VEC was removed by the FCC.  Therefore, OMIK's focus should be on forming VE teams under at least 2 existing VEC's.

Ria Jairam (N2RJ) is listed as an OMIK member.  She's the ARRL Hudson division director. I've never met her but watched many of her videos.  I'm sure she could clarify if what I stated above is accurate.

Just wanted to share.  I'll crawl back in my hole now.  :)

Court Smith
KD2SPJ
Bridgeton, NJ

