[South Florida DX Association] Webinars From ARRL Contest Update

[Bill]

The Northern California Contest Club presents "RTTY Contesting for 
Newbies <http://bit.ly/rtty-recording>", another of their fine Webinars, 
this one concentrating on the practical aspects of getting your station 
up and running on RTTY. CQWW WPX RTTY and NAQP RTTY are both coming up 
in February. Make 2010 the year you stopped making excuses about why you 
can't be active in RTTY contests, says the club! Topics include RTTY 
fundamentals and interfaces, common problems, and demos of setting up 
MMTTY, N1MM, and Writelog software. The Webinar is presented by Dean 
N6DE, Iain N6ML, John K6MM, and Fred K6DGW. It's nearly two hours long 
and the video file is 115 Mbytes. (Thanks, Dean N6DE)

Co-hosted by the Potomac Valley Radio Club and the Northern California 
Contest Club, Bob N6TV will be featured in a repeat viewing of the 
popular Webinar "How To Operate the CW Sprint 
<https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Acwz3jYxWkIhZGczNnNnM2pfMzhjZnN2NXhjcA&hl=en>". 
This is very timely, since the North American CW Sprint is running on 
Saturday evening of this coming weekend.

Following a senatorial request to add more staff-level engineers, a new 
report from the General Accounting Office describes the "brain drain" at 
the FCC between 2003 and 2008. The report is discussed in a Slashdot 
news item 
<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/20/1551217/Brain-Drain-Admin-Failures-Threaten-the-FCCs-Role> 
for Jan 20. The FCC's public comment policy also comes in for some 
criticism. The background section of the report is also instructive as 
to the nature and structure of the FCC.