Includes international and North American listings. FCC changes spectrum policy hearing date. New Division Directors. Three New York counties to resolve section status. DXCC program to be reviewed.
Board bestows honors.
FCC call sign update. Anik E2 is at 107.3 W in equatorial geosynchronous orbit. The service carries ARRL and RAC bulletins, contest and convention information, propagation forecast summaries, the Radio Amateur Information Network, the Amateur Radio Newsline, and other features in audio newsmagazine format on over 100 nets and repeaters throughout North America. It had been off of satellite air since Thanksgiving weekend. The original hearing date of January 31 had to be rescheduled because of the Federal furloughs triggered by the congressional budget deadlock and heavy snow in early January which extended the shutdown.