[WIham] Fwd: K1ZZ, IARU Secretary @ FARC Meeting, Fond du Lac, Tonight, Monday, 1/14

[Mark Thompson]

K1ZZ, IARU Secretary @ FARC Meeting, Fond du Lac, Tonight, Monday, 1/14 
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MEETING TONIGHT WITH GREAT ENTERTAINMENT! 

Dave Sumner K1ZZ, Secretary for the IARU, will Speak at the January FARC Meeting. 

Moraine Park College, World Room, 7:00 PM. Fond du Lac, WI 

Have you ever heard of the International Amateur Radio Union? We are honored
to have with us for the January meeting, Dave Sumner K1ZZ , Secretary of the
IARU. The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), is the global federation
of national amateur radio associations in more than 160 countries and territories. Dave
was active with the IARU during his entire 44-year career on the staff of
the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national association for Amateur
Radio in the United States. He retired as ARRL Chief Executive Officer in
2016.

Dave is active in most phases of Amateur Radio operating with special
emphasis on CW DX contesting. Active from the first as an ARRL volunteer, he
joined the Headquarters staff in 1968 for the summer, became a part of the permanent staff in 1972,
and was named Assistant General Manager four years later. The ARRL Board
elected him Secretary and General Manager in 1982 with a change in title to
Executive Vice President in 1985 and to Chief Executive Officer in 2001.
Much of Dave's career was devoted to defending and expanding amateurs'
access to the radio spectrum. 

In the 1970s he was deeply involved in worldwide Amateur Radio preparations
for the 1979 World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC) of the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and attended the entire
three-month conference in Geneva as a member of the IARU observer team.
WARC-79 granted new amateur bands at 10, 18 and 24 MHz and made other
improvements to amateur allocations. He also served on the IARU team at the
World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRCs) in Istanbul in 2000 and in
Geneva in 2003, 2007 and 2012. He regards the dramatic improvement in the 7
MHz band that was gained at WRC-03 as a highlight of his career.

While on the ARRL staff Dave was Secretary of the IARU and a member of its
Administrative Council (AC) from its inception in 1982 until 1989 and from
1999 to 2009. He served as recording secretary for the AC during the other
periods when the position of Secretary was held by a volunteer. He was
reappointed as

Secretary as a volunteer after his retirement from the ARRL. He has traveled
to more than 60 countries in connection with his ARRL and IARU
responsibilities.

Apart from his ARRL and IARU activities, Dave served on the judging
committees of all World Radiosport Team Championships from 2000 to 2014 and
was a referee at the 2018 WRTC in Germany.

Dave holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from Michigan State University
where he was active from the club station W8SH from 1967 to 1970. He also
holds the Master of Business Administration degree from the University of
Connecticut and resides with his wife Linda, KA1ZD, on a 15-acre "antenna
farm" in rural Coventry, Connecticut, where they are active on the air.
Their daughter Deryn, N1UCI, is an attorney in Washington, DC.

SEE YOU AT TONIGHT'S MEETING! Bring a friend.

Moraine Park College World Room, 7:00 PM. Fond du Lac, WI 

Joe K9VY

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