The ARRL Letter
Vol. 13, No. 22
November 28, 1994

David Funderburk, K4TPJ, elected to Congress

         The Republicans are in and one of them is one of us.
David Funderburk, K4TPJ, has been elected to the US House of
Representatives. Funderburk, a Republican, was picked for North
Carolina's 2nd District, and will fill the seat of a retiring
Democrat.
     Funderburk, 50, was first licensed at age 15 and described
himself to Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, as an "avid ham
radio operator."
     He told us "Maybe I can be the next Barry Goldwater,"
referring to the former US Senator, who is K7UGA. "I think Senator
Goldwater was the first person I supported politically, back in
1964," he said.
     Funderburk holds a PhD in history with a specialty in
international relations and Eastern Europe. He taught history for
14 years at several North Carolina colleges before being appointed
by President Reagan as US ambassador to Romania in 1986. His
expertise is in East European and Russian studies.
     Shortly after his election in November he left for six
days in Romania.
     Funderburk first went to Romania as Fulbright scholar
while in graduate school. "I got interested in that part of the
world and studied the Romanian language, at UCLA and the
University of Washington. I got grants to go to Romania and spent
a year there as a student-researcher, then came home to teach
while continuing my research."
     Funderburk has a General class license. "I've not been as
active as I should be," he said, but he hopes to find more time
once settled in Congress. "It's been a love of mine," he said.
     "I was fortunate to have friends and classmates in high
school (in Aberdeen, North Carolina) who were ham nuts and
aficionados, geniuses at it. If it hadn't been for them I would
never have been able to do what I did. They persuaded me to pursue
the idea of building a ham radio kit, and then to get my Novice
license, in 1959.
     "They prodded me and helped me and that's what made the
difference.
     "I was interested in doing code. all over the US and
some DX, too, because I was very interested in geography and other
parts of the world. I remember operating after Hurricane Hazel,
too."
     Funderburk is an Eagle Scout. "One of my first merit
badges was Radio."
     Since returning as ambassador to Romania, Funderburk has
worked as a writer and speaker for several foundations, doing
political critiques on foreign policy and US relations with
Eastern European and former Soviet states.
     "I met some hams in Romania in the 1970s," he said. "At
first it was hard for me to believe they even permitted anything
like ham radio there. They didn't like citizens communicating
outside the country. State control was very strict and it was
interesting to find even a few Amateur Radio operators in what was
one of the harshest Communist dictatorships. They were very
paranoid. Even shortwave radios were suspect because people could
use them to listen to the BBC and Radio Free Europe."
     Funderburk and his wife Betty Jo live in Buies Creek,
North Carolina (pronounced Boo-ease Creek). They settled there
when he taught at Campbell College. They have two grown children.
     "I'm going to come back here from Washington as often as I
can," he said. "I'm not going to Washington because I love the
place and want to wallow in it and all of that.
     "And I want to continue to do foreign travel," too, he
says.
     As for the Barry Goldwater Amateur Radio legacy
(Funderburk is definitely a Republican in the Goldwater-Reagan
mold), "I'd like to help fill that role, if it's needed. Whatever
concerns Amateur Radio operators have, I certainly can look into
them. I don't know if I'll be on the appropriate committee but
certainly you can have certain influences.
     "But we will have to settle in, and will be busy at least
in the first 90 days, pushing to enact the Republicans' 'Contract
with America.'"
     When informed that a reporter got his age from the FCC
database ("there's no hiding from the government") Funderburk
laughed. "That's why I'm going to Washington, to try to stop a
little bit of that!"
     K4TPJ knows that radio amateurs hold high hopes for one of
their own in Congress.
     "I just want to be a good friend and do what I can," he
said. "If you have any legislation or concerns and if I can
facilitate matters, I'd certainly be glad to do it."

New ARRL director, 3 new vice directors elected
     Ballots in elections for positions on the ARRL Board of
Directors were counted November 18. In each case the candidate
receiving the greatest number of votes was declared elected, and a
new Northwestern Division director and three new vice directors
will take office on January 1, 1995, for two-year terms. Here are
the complete election results:
Central Division for director:
Ed Metzger, W9PRN, 2821.
Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, 1793.
     Ed Metzger continues as Central Division director, the
position he's held since 1981. He is a member of the Board's
Administration and Finance Committee. He is retired and lives in
Springfield, Illinois.
Central Division for vice director:
Howard Huntington, K9KM, 1951.
Mike Hoshiko, W9CJW, 1579.
Ken Ebneter, K9EN, 1059.
     Howie Huntington returns as vice director of the Central
Division, a position he's held since 1983. He is board liaison to
the Public Service Advisory Committee and lives in Hawthorn Woods,
Illinois. He is a manager at Motorola in Libertyville, Illinois.
Hudson Division:
     Both Director Steve Mendelsohn, WA2DHF, and Vice Director
Paul Vydareny, WB2VUK, were unopposed.
     Mendelsohn begins his fifth term as director after serving
six years as vice director. He serves on the Executive and
Membership Services Committees, and is a broadcast engineer for
ABC.
     Paul Vydarney begins his fourth term as Hudson Division
vice director. He also is section manager for Eastern New York and
is board liaison to the Contest Advisory Committee. He lives in
North Tarrytown, New York, and also works for ABC.
New England Division:
     Both Director Bill Burden, WB1BRE, and Vice Director
Warren Rothberg, WB1HBB, were unopposed.
     Burden begins his second term as director. He previously
was vice director for four years and had served as New Hampshire
section manager. He is retired and lives in Strafford, Vermont. He
is chairman of the Administration and Finance Committee
     Rothberg begins his second term as vice director. He's 48,
lives in Derry, New Hampshire, and is a member of the ad hoc
Computer Needs Committee.
Northwestern Division for director:
Mary Lou Brown, NM7N, 2955.
Mary Lewis, W7QGP, 1505.
Don Clower, KA7T, 471.
     Mary Lou Brown, vice director for five years, was
successful in her race to unseat the incumbent director, Mary
Lewis. Brown, who is a member of the Membership Services
Committee, was a department chairman at the University of
California before retiring. She lives in Anacortes, Washington.
Northwestern Division for vice director:
Gregory Milnes, W7AGQ, 2506.
Clay Freinwald, K7CR, 2301.
     Greg Milnes, W7AGQ, 55, lives in Hillsboro, Oregon. He has
been an Oregon circuit court trial judge for 25 years and before
that was a lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission. He
has been especially active in issues surrounding amateurs' rights
to antennas.
 Roanoke Division for director:
John Kanode, N4MM, 3073.
William Jacobs, WA8YCG, 509.
Edward Dingler, N4KSO, 407.
     John Kanode begins his fourth term as ARRL Roanoke
Division director. He previously was vice director for eight
years. He is chairman of the Membership Services Committee and a
director of the ARRL Foundation. He's retired and lives in Boyce,
Virginia.
Roanoke Division for vice director:
Dennis Bodson, W4PWF, 2758.
Robert Pattison, KM4DU, 1190.
     Dennis Bodson begins his second term as vice director. He
holds a PhD in electrical engineering and works for the
government. He is board liaison to the RFI Task Force and a member
of the Future Systems Committee. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Rocky Mountain Division for director:
Marshall Quiat, AG0X, 1371.
Ted Colby, W0RA, 507.
Whit Brown, WB0CJX, 443.
     Marshall Quiat begins his fifth term as director after
three terms as vice director. He is a member of the Executive and
Membership Services Committees.
     Quiat is a lawyer and a former district judge and state
legislator. He lives in Denver.
Rocky Mountain Division for vice director:
     Walt Stinson, W0CP, ran unopposed for Rocky Mountain
Division vice director. He's 46, and president of ListenUp, a
chain of consumer electronic stores in Colorado. His wife, Mary
Kay, is N0UGX, and 11-year-old son Evan is KB0OOH. He is a past
chairman of the ARRL Contest Advisory Committee and also a founder
and past president of the Professional Audio/Video Retailers
Association. He lives in Englewood, Colorado.
Southwestern Division:
     Both Director Fried Heyn, WA6WZO, and Vice Director Art
Goddard, W6XD, were unopposed. Heyn has been director since 1984.
He is a member of the Administration and Finance Committee. He
also has been a vice director, assistant director, and section
manager. He's a retired math teacher.
     Art Goddard, W6XD, begins his second term as vice
director. He's 52, lives in Costa Mesa, California, and is board
liaison to the RF Safety Committee.
West Gulf Division:
     Both candidates ran unopposed in this division. Director
Tom Comstock, N5TC, begins his third term and was previously vice
director for 12 years. He is a member of the Administration and
Finance Committee and lives in College Station, Texas, where he is
Professor Emertius at Texas A and M University.
     New Vice Director Jim Haynie, WB5JBP, returns to the ARRL
Board Family; he was West Gulf Division director from 1987 through
1990, and was an ARRL vice president from 1990 to 1992. He's 51
and is a businessman in Dallas.

Hams run 1994 New York City Marathon
By Steve Mansfield, N1MZA
     Before dawn on an unseasonably warm November 6, 1994,
several hundred hams drove toward their stations along the streets
of New York City to staff 26 checkpoints along the route of the
1994 New York City Marathon.
     Others gathered around base stations at both ends of the
race route to begin testing the 12 official nets that tie this
event together.
     The NYC Marathon, with more than 30,000 entrants from all
over the world, and upward of two million spectators (plus or
minus a few), defies conventional planning methods. Indeed, the
Amateur Radio "game plan" assembled by race communication director
Steve Mendelsohn, WA2DHF, and his team resembles a plan for the
invasion of Normandy.
     It's one of the largest sports event in the world, and
definitely one of the most visible. New York City is the media
capital of the planet, and Sunday is a slow news day. So the
chance to watch world class athletes hammering through all five
boroughs attracts television cameras and newspaper photographers
from every major media outlet.
     That visibility helps Amateur Radio, says Mendelsohn, who
is also ARRL Hudson Division director.
     "This is a chance for Amateur Radio to shine nationally,"
he says. "Network TV coverage always gives us a pat on the back,
and millions of New Yorkers get to see us 'up close and personal,'
contributing to the health and safety of runners and spectators
alike."
     But the proof of any marathon is in the running, and
through the years, hams have provided increasing logistics
expertise to manage course communication, start and finish
communication, and a traveling circus of runners, camera trucks,
and police, emergency and support vehicles, as the race wends its
way safely through the cheering crowds of the city's five
boroughs. Many hams remained on duty even as the slowest runners
staggered to the finish line in Central Park long after dark.
     The Amateur Radio operation uses a number of VHF and UHF
frequencies, both repeater and simplex, with equipment loaned by
ham volunteers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The
radio operation is supplemented by cellular telephone and
commercial radio links to cover every communication contingency.
     "Without hams, this event would have had a rockier start,"
says Mendelsohn. "Since Amateurs first got talked into
participating back in 1976, with one repeater and 24 volunteers,
we've developed an elite team of communication logistics experts,
to do everything from coordinating the delivery of water to the 30
official water stations, to providing high priority medical
information reports.
     "We now have a core of more than 400 amateurs who probably
could handle communication for anything from a big sports event to
a major catastrophe. It demonstrates to the nation what we can do
when the stakes are high and there's no margin for error."
     Mendelsohn says that the Amateur Radio medical nets were
particularly busy this year, as higher than normal temperature and
humidity punished runners who had prepared for cooler November
weather. There were hundreds of heat-related illnesses, some
serious, and more than a hundred requests for ambulances. Without
the rapid communication capability of hams to provide early
warning to medical officials, the toll might have been higher.
     The 1994 Marathon was the first to be run without the firm
guiding hand of race Director Fred Lebow, who died from cancer in
October. According to Mendelsohn, it was Lebow who challenged the
hams every year to attempt the impossible, and inspired them to
achieve it.
     Mendelsohn says, "every ham who ever worked on the
Marathon with Fred was a better person for having done so. He
understood how valuable ham radio is, and gave us his complete
confidence and support. His faith in us was an honor we never took
for granted."
     (ARRL Manager of Legislative Affairs Steve Mansfield has
run the NYC Marathon himself in past years. A longer version of
this story will appear in an upcoming QST.)

NEW ZEALAND BACKSHF MORSE REQUIREMENT
     In response to questions and rumors, the New Zealand
Association of Radio Transmitters Inc. (NZART) has issued a
statement regarding its position on the International
Telecommunication Union rule requiring Morse proficiency for
amateurs operating below 30 MHz. NZART is New Zealand's IARU
member-society and recognized by the New Zealand  Ministry of
Commerce as the body representing Amateur Radio in New Zealand.
     Since 1963, New Zealand has had a "very successful"
codeless license for operation above 30 MHz, the NZART said, and
about a third of New Zealand radio amateurs hold that license. To
operate below 30 MHz, a Morse test must be passed.
     The NZART said it used a nationwide membership survey in
1993 to develop its policy on Morse code. The NZART presented its
policy statement at the IARU Region 3 Conference at Singapore in
September, 1994, where the matter was debated. The Conference
endorsed a recommendation that the "status quo" be continued.
     More information on the IARU conference was in November,
1994 QST, page 108.

SECTION MANAGER ELECTION RESULTS
     Ballots have been counted in ARRL section manager
elections for terms of office beginning January 1, 1995. The
results are as follows:
     Nebraska Section: Bill McCollum, KE0XQ 203; Todd LeMense,
KG0EJ 187; McCollum was declared elected.
     Six other sections were not contested and the following
were declared elected:
     Santa Clara Valley Section: Kit Blanke, WA6PWW.
     South Carolina Section: Mike Epstein, KD1DS.
     Missouri  Section: Roger Volk, K0GOB.
     Western Pennsylvania Section: Bernie Fuller, N3EFN.
          Southern New Jersey Section: Bruce Eichmann, KE2OP.
     Eastern Massachusetts Section: Phillip Temples, K9HI, has
been appointed to fill the term of David Crocker, W1TMO, died in
early November.

CQ MAGAZINE PREPARES TO UNVEIL 50th-YEAR ISSUE
     The January golden anniversary issue of CQ magazine looks
like a keeper; the editors call it the "first comprehensive ham
radio history since 1936." Longtime CQ writers Bill Orr, W6SAI,
and Joe Lynch, N6CL, recount, in a 72-page special section,
Amateur Radio's growth since 1945, "from the rebirth of Amateur
Radio after World War II through the development of single
sideband and transistors to today's miniaturized, computer-
controlled transceivers."
     CQ calls it "the first compilation of ham radio history
since Clinton B. DeSoto's classic, 200 Meters and Down, was
published in 1936."
     The issue also includes greetings from President Clinton,
Vice President Gore, FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, and ARRL Executive
Vice President David Sumner, K1ZZ.  A second series of articles,
by Richard Moseson, NW2L, runs parallel to those on ham history
and reviews world and technological history since 1945.  And
current and former CQ editors, publishers and columnists share
their recollections of the magazine's first half century in print.


BRIEFS
     * Nominations are now being sought for annual awards to be
presented at the ARRL Atlantic Division Convention, to be held in
association with the Rochester, New York, Hamfest, May 19 to 21,
1995. The awards are commemorated by handsome plaques presented at
the hamfest banquet.
     "Amateur of the Year" nominees should be outstanding
Amateurs from the Atlantic Division with a strong record of
service to the Amateur Radio community. An award for lifetime
service to Amateur Radio, the "Grand Ole Ham," is open to Atlantic
Division amateurs who have been licensed at least 30 years or are
at least 50 years of age. The Atlantic Division "Technical
Achievement" award may be presented to an individual or to a
group.
     Complete information is available from the Rochester
Hamfest, 300 White Spruce Blvd, Rochester NY 14623. Deadline for
nominations is April 1, 1995.
     * The GOLIST is changing hands. Jay and Jan O'Brien, W6GO
and K6HHD, are retiring next month after 15 years of publishing
the W6GO/K6HHD QSL Manager List. The new proprietors of the List
are Paul and Nancy Smith, N4FFO and KB4RGW, of Paducah, Kentucky.
The Smiths say they plan to continue the List in all its forms,
including DX-BBS, without interruption.
     * At its recent national convention, the Quarter Century
Wireless Association (QCWA) made the following awards: Hall of
Fame Award, Leo Meyerson, WOGFQ; John DiBlasi Award, Helen
Schmock, W8GJX; Distinguished Service Award, Ken Miller, K6IR;
Presidential Award, Jerry Sevick, W2FMI, and Bill Orr, W6SAI;
Member of the Year Award, Jay Strom, K9BSL.
     * Another CQ Publications video, "Getting Started in VHF,"
has been named a competition finalist -- in The New York Festivals
video competition for 1994. "Getting Started in VHF" was one of
more than 1,250 programs entered in the competition's non-
broadcast categories.
     Last month, "Getting Started in VHF" garnered an award
from the International Communication Film and Video Festival. The
program was written, produced and directed by Rich Moseson, NW2L,
executive producer of the CQ Video Library (and ARRL Northern New
Jersey section manager).
     Winners of the competition will be announced in January.
10 years ago in The ARRL Letter
     The League continued to bear down on PRB-1, its request
for limited FCC preemption of antenna regulations. The FCC's
comment date had been extended to allow amateurs to relate their
"horror stories" to the Commission. The Letter excerpted from
several of those stories.
     The Letter reported on ARRL Board of Directors ballot
counting but said it was indicating only apparent winners, as the
vote count hadn't been certified. Winners with familiar names
include Ed Metzger, Howie Huntington, Steve Mendelsohn, John
Kanode, Marshall Quiat, Fried Heyn, and Tom Comstock (see page 1).
     The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
gave a tentative go-ahead for Tony England, W0ORE, to be the
second ham in space, aboard the shuttle, but no guarantee of when
his flight might take place.
     The ARRL filed a Petition for Rule Making with the FCC to
allow automatic control of digital communication above 30 MHz,
citing amateurs' increasing use of "computer-based message
systems." The League's petition said, however, that "given the
heavy use of [frequencies below 30 MHz] it is believed that manual
control for digital communications is more appropriate."
     And, finally, Letter editor Pete O'Dell, KB1N, left for
greener pastures "in industry."


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