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The ARRL Letter
Vol. 22, No. 05
January 31, 2003
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IN THIS EDITION:

* +ARRL comments on FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force
Report
* +Extraordinary gift funds new "full-ride"
scholarship
* +"Hybrid" emergency communications classes offer
advantages
* +Wisconsin utility gives $40,500 to ARES groups
* +FCC warns unlicensed ops, threatens fines
* +Comments invited on amateur-related petition
* +Utah antenna bill on fast track
*  Solar Update
*  IN BRIEF:
     This weekend on the radio
     ARRL Emergency Communications course registration
     Kathy Capodicasa named ARRL Customer Service
Manager
     Position opening at ARRL Headquarters
     ARRL supports AMSAT-NA petition
     Hams provide assistance following plane crash
     Prompt action by Amateur Radio operators helps
save lives
     AA6JR appointed to head PR Committee

+Available on ARRL Audio News

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==>ARRL EXPRESSES MIXED FEELINGS ON SPECTRUM POLICY
TASK FORCE REPORT

The ARRL has registered some mixed feelings about the
FCC's Spectrum
Policy Task Force Report issued late last November. In
comments to the 
FCC
this week, the League called the report "a positive
first step" in
developing a comprehensive national spectrum
management approach. At 
the
same time, the ARRL said, the SPTF Report "fails to
address the needs 
and
goals" of the Amateur Service and urged the FCC to not
abandon
longstanding allocation policies based on engineering.

"Overall, ARRL asks that the Commission not adopt the
SPTF Report in 
toto,
but rather use it as a basis for future planning on an
ongoing basis," 
the
League said January 27 in its comments in ET Docket
02-135. "Spectrum
policy reform should be viewed as an ongoing process,
not as a 
wholesale
paradigm shift to be accomplished in half a year." The
ARRL said the
report's orientation toward commercial services makes
it not wholly
applicable to the Amateur Service. Among other
factors, the League 
said,
services such as public safety and Amateur Radio
cannot pay for 
spectrum
access.

Cautioning the FCC to not continue an apparent "rush
to judgment," the
ARRL said there's not been enough time to study the
report's
recommendations thoroughly, much less deploy them
immediately. The 
League
also warned against basing allocation policy on
anticipated advances in
technology.

The ARRL again called on the FCC to consider greater
use of "negotiated
rulemaking" to expedite allocation decisions. "Instead
of acting as the
judge and jury, the Commission could act as more of a
facilitator among
competitors for spectrum," the League said.

In terms of sharing schemes, the ARRL said it supports
"to a limited
extent" the concept of "interference temperature"
calculations and
measurements. But, it pointed to the 2400-2450 MHz
band as "an example 
of
a failing attempt at inter-service sharing" that some
predictive
calculations might have alleviated. The ARRL said the
explosion of Part 
15
devices coupled with relaxed rules on power, antenna
gain and duty 
cycles
of high-powered unlicensed devices "has rendered the
band unusable in 
some
areas."

Once again asserting that the FCC "has pushed the Part
15 concept 
beyond
the point that it works," the ARRL took advantage of
the comment
opportunity to again express its view that unlicensed
devices "cannot 
be
authorized by the Commission under current statutes"
without first
determining that they do not pose a significant
interference potential 
to
licensed radio services.

The ARRL's comments on the FCC's Spectrum Policy Task
Force Report in 
ET
Docket 02-135 are available on the ARRL Web site
<http://www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/et02-135/arrl-comments.html>.

The
report itself is available from the FCC Web site
<http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2002/db1115/DOC-228542A1
.doc>

==>$1 MILLION GIFT FUNDS NEW SCHOLARSHIP

The ARRL Foundation <http://www.arrl.org/arrlf/> has
announced the
Goldfarb Memorial Scholarship, a full, four-year
undergraduate 
scholarship
that will go to a meritorious young Amateur Radio
operator about to
graduate from high school. The new award is the result
of a generous
endowment from the late William Goldfarb, N2ITP.

ARRL Foundation Secretary Mary Lau, N1VH, said the
Goldfarb scholarship
marks the first Foundation scholarship that funds a
complete 
undergraduate
education. Before his death in 1997, Goldfarb set up a
scholarship
endowment of close to $1 million in memory of his
parents, Albert and
Dorothy Goldfarb, Lau explained.

Each year, to the extent of the funds available, the
Foundation will
select a deserving young Amateur Radio operator to
receive a "full 
ride"
for his or her undergraduate studies at an accredited
baccalaureate
degree-granting institution. The successful applicant
must major in
computers, engineering, the sciences, medical/nursing
or a
business-related area. Also, financial need must be
demonstrated via
submission of a copy of the applicant's Free
Application for Federal
Student Aid (FAFSA) <http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/>. The
grant will cover 
all
conventional educational expenses--including tuition,
room and board 
and
textbooks.

A close friend of Goldfarb's--Richard
Goldstein--characterized Goldfarb 
as
"a wonderful person" who was genuinely interested in
other people. "He
placed a high value on education, and he saw this
scholarship as a way 
to
perpetuate the memory of his parents," he said.
Goldfarb grew up in
Brooklyn, and his parents died while he was a
teenager. After a stint 
in
the US Air Force, he worked for the New York City
Department of 
Finance.

An on-line application for the Goldfarb Memorial
Scholarship is 
available
on the ARRL Web site
<http://www.arrl.org/arrlf/Goldappl.html>. The
application deadline for the 2003 Goldfarb Scholarship
is March 15. For
additional information, contact Mary Lau, N1VH,
n1vh@arrl.org.

==>"HYBRID" AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
CLASSES BEST OF ALL
WORLDS

You've heard of hybrid tomatoes and hybrid ham radios.
Now, some 
"hybrid"
ARRL Level I Amateur Radio emergency communications
(EC-001) classes 
offer
a mix of on-line and on-campus instruction.

"This marriage of teaching has been absolutely
perfect," said ARRL
Emergency Communications Course Manager Dan Miller,
K3UFG. "Previously,
these classes were either all on-line or anything but
on-line. The
implementation of hybrid classes offers the best of
all available 
worlds."

Miller says each Level I hybrid course is a little
different, as
instructors take advantage of their particular
strengths, access to
varying materials and local interests.

Since the Corporation for National and Community
Service (CNCS)
grant-sponsored Amateur Radio emergency communications
classes began 
last
September, 1277 students have signed up for the Level
I course. To 
date,
723 have graduated and been reimbursed for their
tuition. Miller hopes 
the
hybrid classes will help to boost graduation rates.

Under the first year of the nearly $182,000 CNCS
grant, students can be
reimbursed for the $45 registration fee after they
successfully 
complete
the course. "When each student has a financial stake
in completing the
course, each dollar of the grant will have maximum
impact," Miller
explained.

The ARRL is strongly encouraging older amateurs to
take advantage of 
the
emergency communications training since they're a
target of the CNCS
grant. "Senior hams bring a wide variety of experience
and knowledge to
the program," Miller said. "When they become active
participants, they 
add
more insight which then yields a better learning
experience."

Miller said successful implementation of the
grant-funded training 
program
already has had some positive effects, including an
increased awareness 
of
Amateur Radio as a resource by government; the
formation of new 
ARES/RACES
groups; stronger ties between existing amateur
emergency communication
groups and local emergency operations centers; and an
influx of new 
hams
to emergency communication teams.

To learn more about the Amateur Radio emergency
communications courses 
and
other ARRL Certification and Continuing Education
classes, visit the 
C-CE
Course Listing Web page
<http://www.arrl.org/cce/courses.html>.

==>WISCONSIN UTILITY MAKES AWARD TO ARES/RACES GROUPS

We Energies, a Wisconsin gas and electric utility, has
given ARES/RACES
organizations <http://wi-aresraces.org> in 17
Wisconsin counties a 
total
of $39,000 to enhance their emergency communication
capabilities. A
ceremonial check presentation was held January 21.

"We are excited about this timely award, which will
bring needed 
equipment
to several of our counties," said Wisconsin Section
Emergency 
Coordinator
Dr Stan Kaplan, WB9RQR, who also serves as RACES Chief
Radio Officer in
the Badger State. "We thank We Energies for their
forethought and
generosity."

Kaplan said the grant would help to build an effective
statewide packet
network for use during emergencies. He also said he
hopes the idea will
"snowball" and inspire other companies to follow suit.

Last November, PA Consulting Group--the energy
industry's largest
management consulting firm--honored We Energies by
presenting the
ReliabilityOne Award for superior electric system
reliability in the
Midwest during 2001.

"In planning how we wanted to celebrate this award,
including what we
could give to our employees as recognition, we decided
that we could 
put
these dollars to better use," said Charles Cole, We
senior vice 
president
of distribution operations. "We are proud that we were
able to take 
this
award, take it one step further, and share it with a
worthwhile
organization such as ARES."

EC Resources, a 501(c)3 group established 10 years to
fund Outagamie
County ARES, will accept the donation from We, solicit
written requests
from each county's EC for equipment and disburse the
funds to buy the
needed gear.

Counties picked to receive funds were those with at
least 5000 We
customers, and funds were apportioned according to the
number of 
customers
it serves in county. The top grant of $9000 went to
Milwaukee County,
while Waukesha County got $6000 and Racine County
$3000. ARES/RACES
organizations in 14 other Wisconsin counties plus one
We-served county 
in
Michigan got $1500 each.

==>FCC WARNS UNLICENSED OPS, RESCINDS REPEATER'S
AUTOMATIC CONTROL
AUTHORITY

The FCC has sent warning notices to 10
individuals--eight of them 
Amateur
Radio licensees--for operating without a license in
the 11-meter band. 
All
but one of the operators live in the Greater New York
City area.

"Such operation will subject you to fine or
imprisonment, as well as an 
in
rem seizure of radio transmitting equipment, in
cooperation with the
United States Attorney for your jurisdiction," FCC
Special Counsel 
Riley
Hollingsworth wrote January 15. He cited "monitoring
information before
the Commission" indicating that the individuals were
transmitting on
26.540 and/or 26.555 MHz, frequencies allocated for
government use. 
Fines
for unlicensed operation can run as high as $10,000.

In other enforcement actions, the FCC rescinded the
automatic control
authority of a repeater operated by Daniel Granda,
KA6VHC, of Whittier,
California. The action means a control operator must
be present at all
times at the control point of the KA6VHC repeater. FCC
Los Angeles
District Director Catherine Deaton wrote Granda
January 13 to say the
action was being taken because Granda's repeater was
under review by 
the
Enforcement Bureau for apparent violations of the
FCC's rules. Alleged
violations include obscene and indecent
communications, inadequate 
station
control and deliberate interference.

Deaton told Granda that--under threat of fines and
revocation
proceedings--he may not operate his repeater under
automatic control 
until
the enforcement allegations are cleared up.

Last October, the FCC dismissed Granda's complaint
against the KD6ZLZ 
and
WA6NJJ repeaters on 223.82 and 223.84 MHz. The FCC
told Granda that his
16-year-old coordination document "was insufficient to
establish
coordination" and that he bears primary responsibility
for preventing
interference to the two repeaters because he cannot
show current
coordination. Granda has told the FCC that he's been
using the two
frequencies "continuously for over 25 years."
Hollingsworth told 
Granda,
however, that, even if he were properly coordinated 16
years ago,
"coordination is not a lifetime grant" nor a de facto
frequency
assignment.

The FCC said it continues to receive complaints about
deliberate
interference from Granda's station to the two
repeaters as well as
allegations of obscene and/or indecent speech. It's
asked Granda to
respond to the complainants. In addition, the
Commission wants Granda 
to
provide "a detailed plan" to prevent interference to
the KD6ZLZ and 
WA6NJJ
repeaters or risk enforcement action. Noting that
Granda's license 
expires
next November 9, Hollingsworth said the FCC would not
act upon a 
renewal
application until the enforcement issues were
resolved.

The FCC also wrote a Florida amateur, John S. Gregory,
W3ATE, letting 
him
know that the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau had
set aside his
General-class upgrade on December 4. As a result,
Gregory reverts to a
Tech Plus licensee. The action, the FCC said, was
based on complaints 
that
Gregory--on more than one occasion in 2002--had
operated his station on 
20
meters while still licensed as a Technician. The FCC
issued Warning
Notices to Gregory last May and June but said both
were returned as
"unclaimed."

The FCC gave Gregory 20 days to explain the alleged
operation. "Failure 
to
respond will result in the dismissal of your
application," 
Hollingsworth
concluded.

==>FCC INVITES COMMENTS ON AMATEUR-RELATED PETITION

Comments are due February 28 on another Petition for
Rulemaking filed 
by
Dale Reich, K8AD, of Seville, Ohio.

Reich has petitioned the FCC to require sellers of
two-way voice or 
data
equipment to keep on file a buyer's name, address,
telephone number and
"any future information when selling a radio that
required licensing 
under
the current FCC rules." Information collected would
remain private,
available only to the FCC or law enforcement. Reich
said in his 
petition
that, under his proposal, any retail vendor would be
able to ask local
police to investigate if the retailer suspected that
the radios were 
not
going to be used in compliance with the law.

A separate petition would require "ownership and
license tagging" for 
gear
operating under Parts 5, 15, 18, 74, 80, 90, 95 and
97, including call
sign, owner's name and address and any FCC file
number. It would 
include
CB, Family Radio Service, Multi-Use Radio Service and
General Mobile 
Radio
Service gear. In his petition, Reich said such tagging
used to be an 
FCC
requirement and that his proposed change was long
overdue as a needed 
tool
for local law enforcement.

The FCC has lumped both petitions into one, designated
as RM-10641. The
full text of Reich's petitions is available on the FCC
Web site
<http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_docu
ment=6513398853>.

In an earlier petition, designated RM-10620, Reich had
asked the
Commission to upgrade Novice and Advanced license
holders to the "next"
license class if the licensee has 20 or more years of
operating
experience. Reich said such test-free upgrades would
compensate for 
"the
previous tougher exam that was past administered" and
give credit for
violation-free service records. Before the comment
window for Reich's
earlier petition closed January 17, it attracted more
than 150 comments
from the amateur community.

==>UTAH AMATEUR RADIO ANTENNA BILL PASSES HOUSE

Utah's Amateur Radio antenna bill appears to be on the
fast track. Just 
11
days after its introduction, the bill made it through
the Utah House of
Representatives. The vote January 31 was 65 to 8 (with
two members not
voting). ARRL Utah Section Manager Mel Parkes, AC7CP,
has been 
encouraging
Utah amateurs to get behind the new measure, House
Bill 79, which was
introduced January 20.

Sponsored by Rep Neal B. Hendrickson, HB 79,
"Regulation of Amateur 
Radio
Antennas," received a favorable recommendation from
the House standing
committee on political subdivisions earlier this
month. HB 79 would
prohibit municipalities and counties in Utah from
enacting ordinances 
that
fail to comply with the limited federal preemption
known as PRB-1.

The measure would require that local ordinances
involving placement,
screening or height of an Amateur Radio antenna that
are based on 
health,
safety or aesthetics "reasonably accommodate amateur
radio 
communications"
and "represent the minimal practicable regulation to
accomplish the
municipality's purpose."

The bill now moves to the Utah Senate. A copy of the
proposed 
legislation
is available on the Utah State Legislature Web site
<http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/hbillint/hb0079.htm>.

So far, 16 states have incorporated the essence of
PRB-1 into their
statutes. Bills are pending in several other states.

==>SOLAR UPDATE

Solar guru Tad "Sunshine Superman" Cook, K7VVV,
Seattle, Washington,
reports: Again this week the solar numbers were lower,
with average 
daily
solar flux down more than 9 points and average daily
sunspot numbers 
down
more than 25. Solar flux has probably reached a
minimum for the short 
term
at about 125, and it should slowly rise over the next
10 days. There
aren't any large clusters of sunspots visible, but a
holographic image 
of
the sun's far side shows a complex of spots which
eventually will 
rotate
into view.

Over the past week the quietest geomagnetic day was
January 27, when K 
and
A indices at all latitudes were quiet low. Other than
January 27,
conditions have generally been unsettled to active,
indicating higher
absorption on higher latitude paths. The latest
prediction is for
unsettled to active conditions on Friday, with a
planetary A index 
around
20, then a drop back to quieter conditions on
Saturday, followed by 
active
geomagnetic conditions on Sunday and Monday.

For more information about propagation and an
explanation of the 
numbers
used in this bulletin, see the ARRL Web site
Propagation page
<http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html>.

Sunspot numbers for January 23 through 29 were 123,
129, 103, 133, 134,
133 and 173, with a mean of 132.6. The 10.7-cm flux
was 135.9, 129.8,
128.9, 125, 121.3, 125.6 and 124.4, with a mean of
127.3. Estimated
planetary A indices were 19, 15, 28, 17, 8, 12 and 14,
with a mean of
16.1.

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==>IN BRIEF:

* This weekend on the radio: The  North American
Sprint (SSB), the 
10-10
International Winter Contest (SSB), the Delaware and
Minnesota QSO
parties, the FYBO Winter QRP Field Day and the Mexico
RTTY 
International
Contest are the weekend of February 1-2. JUST AHEAD:
The North American
Sprint (CW), the Six Club Winter Contest, the CQ/RJ WW
RTTY WPX 
Contest,
the Asia-Pacific Sprint (CW), the Dutch PACC Contest,
the YL-OM Contest
(CW), the FISTS Winter Sprint, the OMISS QSO Party,
the RSGB 1.8 MHz
Contest (CW) and the QRP ARCI Winter Fireside SSB
Sprint are the 
weekend
of February 8-9. The ARRL School Club Roundup is
February 10-15. See 
the
ARRL Contest Branch page
<http://www.arrl.org/contests/> and the WA7BNM
Contest Calendar
<http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/index.html> for
more info.

* ARRL Emergency Communications course registration:
Registration opens
Monday, February 3, at 12:01 AM Eastern Time (0500
UTC) for the on-line
Level I Emergency Communications course (EC-001).
Registration remains
open through the February 8-9 weekend or until all
available seats have
been filled--whichever comes first. Class begins
Tuesday, February 18.
Thanks to the federal homeland security grant from the
Corporation for
National and Community Service, the $45 registration
fee paid upon
enrollment will be reimbursed after successful
completion of the 
course.
During this registration period, approximately 200
seats are being 
offered
to ARRL members on a first-come, first-served basis.
Senior amateurs 
are
strongly encouraged to take advantage of this
opportunity. To learn 
more,
visit the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education
Web page
<http://www.arrl.org/cce> and the C-CE Links found
there. For more
information, contact Emergency Communications Course
Manager Dan 
Miller,
K3UFG, dmiller@arrl.org; 860-594-0340.

* Kathy Capodicasa named ARRL Customer Service
Manager: Kathy 
Capodicasa,
N1GZO, has been promoted to ARRL Customer
Service/Circulation Manager,
overseeing the distribution of QST, QEX and NCJ. She
takes over the 
reins
from Debra Jahnke, who was named ARRL Sales Manager
several months ago 
but
has continued to oversee the Circulation Department.
"As manager, I 
want
to maintain the high standards of the department and
the excellent 
record
of customer service the staff has had over the years,"
Capodicasa said. 
"I
want to continue that tradition." The Circulation
Department is
integrating a new computer system to help manage
distribution of the 
three
publications. She's also getting acquainted with the
large number of 
forms
and tracking statistics it takes to make sure members
get their
periodicals in the most efficient and timely manner.
An ARRL HQ 
employee
since 1987, Capodicasa most recently served as Senior
Fulfillment
Supervisor and Circulation Supervisor. A Connecticut
native, she holds 
a
bachelor's degree in management from Central
Connecticut State 
University.

* Position opening at ARRL Headquarters: ARRL seeks a
state-certified
teacher with classroom experience--preferably several
years at the
middle-school level--to coordinate ARRL's Amateur
Radio Education and
Technology Project, "The Big Project," and handle
other duties as 
needed.
The candidate should be an Amateur Radio operator,
preferably with
experience in a wide range of ham activities. The
position is at ARRL
Headquarters in Connecticut. For information on skills
required and job
responsibilities, contact ARRL Field and Educational
Services Manager
Rosalie White, K1STO, rwhite@arrl.org, ARRL, 225 Main
St, Newington, CT
06111. Please, no telephone calls. The ARRL is an
Equal Opportunity
Employer.

* ARRL supports AMSAT-NA petition: The ARRL has
commented in favor of 
an
AMSAT-NA Petition for Rulemaking that seeks to change
an FCC rule
regarding pre-space notifications for Amateur
Satellite Service 
stations.
AMSAT-NA wants the rule changed to require a single,
written pre-space
notification (or information document) within 30 days
after receiving a
launch commitment. The current rule, �97.207(g),
requires two pre-space
notifications--the first at 27 months before
initiating space station
transmissions and the second at five months prior,
even if no 
information
has changed. The ARRL said that because finding
affordable launch
opportunities can be difficult and often involves
last-minute 
decisions,
"the 27-month notice requirement imposes an
unreasonable and 
practically
impossible compliance burden." AMSAT must seek a
waiver of the 
requirement
for essentially every launch, and the FCC has
routinely granted such
waivers, the ARRL noted. The change to a 30-day
requirement (with 
updates
also required if any information changes) "reflects
the realities of 
the
Amateur Satellite Service, which is a model of the
type of scientific
accomplishment, educational opportunity and
self-regulation that is a
hallmark of the Amateur Radio Service," the League
commented. AMSAT-NA
President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, expressed his
appreciation to ARRL 
for
its support of its petition.

* Hams provide assistance following plane crash: After
two small planes
collided and crashed January 24 over Denver's West
Highland 
neighborhood,
Amateur Radio operators were among those on hand to
assist. Five 
persons
onboard the two aircraft were killed, and seven on the
ground were 
treated
for minor injuries. One plane came down near an
apartment complex 
occupied
mostly by retired older adults. The other landed in a
backyard. The
Salvation Army's Emergency Disaster Services (EDS)
Metro Denver team 
was
called in to provide canteen services. Metro Denver
EDS Supervisor Mike
Gelski, KB0PVD, contacted team volunteers to prepare
two canteens. 
Gelski
reports that during the response, nine members of the
Denver Radio Club
provided Amateur Radio communication between two
feeding stations as 
well
as with the Denver command post and the Salvation Army
command post.
Canteen services were concluded the following evening
after aircraft
debris was removed from both crash locations.

* Prompt action by Amateur Radio operators helps save
lives: As ARRL
member Joe Giraudo, N7JEH, was on his long, daily
commute to his office 
at
a mining corporation outside Elko, Nevada, he came
upon a car that had
skidded on "black ice" and rolled over a number of
times in isolated
valley north of Carlin. A bus carrying emergency
medical technicians to
the mine had already arrived, and the EMTs were
mobilizing to treat the
three accident victims. Giraudo immediately called up
the autopatch on 
the
W7LKO 146.85 repeater to notify the Nevada Highway
Patrol and the 
Carlin
police and fire departments. He again used the
autopatch so EMTs could
relay situation reports to the responding emergency
units. When the
emergency units started arriving, they found they were
unable to
communicate using their own radios because of the
local terrain. Again,
the autopatch under Giraudo's control allowed them to
communicate with
their central dispatcher to coordinate other
responding units, warn 
them
of the black ice and request helicopter support. At
one point the W7LKO
autopatch went down, but Gene D'Asto, WA7BWF,
immediately came up on 
the
repeater and began relaying information via landline.
After a 30 minute
extraction effort, all three victims were taken by
ambulance to the 
Elko
Regional Medical Center.--Dick Flanagan W6OLD/Carson
Valley Radio Club
Carson Currents.

* AA6JR appointed to head PR Committee: ARRL President
Jim Haynie, 
W5JBP,
has appointed Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR, of Agoura Hills,
California, as 
the
2003 chairman of the League's Public Relations
Committee. A veteran
committee member, Reinhardt, is also Public
Information Coordinator for
the ARRL Santa Barbara Section and Public Information
Officer for his
local club. He said his first order of business would
be to schedule a
committee conference call to discuss the group's
priorities for 2003.
Committee members provide advice and counsel to the
League's media
relations manager and handle other tasks as determined
by the media
relations manager or the ARRL Board. Reinhardt is a
partner in 
Reinhardt &
Reinhardt Advertising. In addition to a long list of
accomplishments 
and
community activities, he serves on the Agoura Hills
City Council and 
was
recently elected as mayor.



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