• ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, to Keynote ARRL National Convention Banquet
• Radio Amateurs of Canada Honors Past ARRL, IARU President Larry Price, W4RA
• Florida Ham Agrees to Penalty for Failure to Identify
• New Section Manager Appointed in Alaska
• Nominations Solicited for Six ARRL Awards
• See How You Can Earn a $50 Credit for Supporting ARRL!
• ARRL Rookie Roundup is Just Ahead
• Astronaut Tim Peake, KG5BVI, to Host First ARISS Video Contact
• Ohio Amateur Radio Club Donates to Help Needy Families
• SAQ to Carry on Tradition of Christmas Eve VLF Transmissions
• Fessenden Christmas Eve Commemorative Transmissions Set
• UK Telecoms Regulator Revokes 500+ Ham Radio Licenses Not Revalidated by Holders
• Spanish Radio Amateur Dies in Afghan Violence
• In Brief...
• The K7RA Solar Update
• Just Ahead in Radiosport
• Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions and Events

This is the final edition of The ARRL Letter for 2015. There will be no editions of The ARRL Letter or ARRL Audio News on December 24 or December 31. Both will return on January 7, 2016. ARRL Headquarters will be closed on December 25 and January 1, and there will be no W1AW bulletins or code practice on those days. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday season and a happy new year!

ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, will deliver the keynote banquet address at the 2016 ARRL National Convention, held in conjunction with Orlando HamCation^®. The banquet will take place on Saturday, February 13, 2016, at the historic Highland Manor in Apopka, Florida. Tickets are available on the ARRL National Convention website.

ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ.

Sumner will retire in May, and his address will be part retrospective, part a look toward the future. He joined the Headquarters staff in 1968 for the summer and became a part of the permanent staff in 1972. He was named Secretary and General Manager of ARRL in 1982, with a change in title to Executive Vice President in 1985, and named CEO in 2001.

He has traveled to more than 60 countries in connection with his ARRL and International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) responsibilities, which included 17 years as IARU Secretary.

First licensed as KN1ZND in 1962 at age 13, Sumner has been active in most phases of Amateur Radio operating. He is an avid CW contester and has served on the judging committees of World Radiosport Team Championships in Slovenia (2000), Finland (2002), Brazil (2006), Russia (2010), and New England (2014). Sumner is the trustee of the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station W1AW and of IARU club station NU1AW.

Orlando HamCation is hosting the 2016 ARRL National Convention February 12-14 at the Central Florida Fair and Expo Park in Orlando. The convention will mark the 70th anniversary of HamCation, which attracted some 14,000 visitors in 2015. Sponsored by the Orlando Amateur Radio Club, an ARRL-affiliated radio club, Orlando HamCation has regularly served as the host for the ARRL Southeastern Division Convention

ARRL EXPO, the focus of the League's national convention, will feature an array of ARRL exhibits and programs. The League also will sponsor several presentations and forums. Visit the 2016 ARRL National Convention website for additional details and information.

Larry Price, W4RA, a President Emeritus of ARRL and of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), has been appointed as the inaugural honorary member of the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. The appointment, announced by the Hall of Fame Board of Trustees, followed his nomination by the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) Board of Directors. The RAC said the honor recognizes Price's "many years of support of Radio Amateurs of Canada and Amateur Radio in Canada."

Larry Price, W4RA. [Larry Bilansky photo]

In 2014, Price, who has been active in Amateur Radio leadership roles for more than 30 years, was named Dayton Hamvention^® Amateur of the Year. His other past honors include the highest award of the Norwegian Radio Relay League, Knight of the Order of the Golden Key, for his many years of service to the IARU, ARRL, and Amateur Radio in general. RSGB also has honored Price with its Calcutta Key, for promoting international goodwill. In 2006 the Quarter Century Wireless Association (QCWA) elected Price to its Hall of Fame. He is an ARRL Life Member and a member of the ARRL Maxim Society.

Price served as ARRL president from 1984 until 1992 and as IARU president from 1999 until 2009. Among other accomplishments, he has been credited with protecting Amateur Radio frequency allocations; the adoption of ITU Recommendation ITU-R M.1544 -- minimum qualifications of radio amateurs; expansion of 40 meters in ITU Regions 1 and 3, and the allocation of new Amateur Radio LF bands.

His formal induction into the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame will take place in early 2016. Read more. -- Thanks to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Board Chair Ed Frazer, VE7EF

The FCC Enforcement Bureau has entered into a consent decree with a Florida radio amateur to resolve an investigation into whether the licensee violated Sections 97.113(b) and 97.119(a) of the FCC rules by transmitting one-way communications and failing to identify. As part of the deal, Thomas J. Warren, K3TW, of Lecanto, Florida, will pay a monetary penalty. The FCC issued an Order incorporating the Consent Decree on December 9 in the case, which dates back to June 2015.

"In response to complaints that an unidentified station was transmitting on an Amateur Radio frequency at 14 MHz, FCC agents determined that the transmissions were coming from Mr Warren's residence," the FCC said in its December 9 Order. "To settle this matter, Mr Warren admits that he failed to transmit his assigned call sign, violated the Commission's rules, will report any noncompliance with rules governing the Amateur Radio Service, and will pay a $3500 civil penalty."

The Consent Decree provided a few more details of the case. The FCC recounted that, after tracking down the unidentified transmissions to Warren's residence, Warren conceded that he had not identified at least some transmissions that he'd made that day. "The agents issued an on-scene written warning to Mr Warren regarding the violations," the FCC said in the Consent Decree. "In his written response to the warning, Mr Warren acknowledged that he may have failed to transmit his station identification as required on June 25, 2015."

According to the Consent Decree, Warren's transmissions "related to an ongoing dispute with another Amateur Radio operator, whose intentional interference had allegedly disrupted communications on the American Foreign Service Net that operates weekly on 14.316 MHz." Read more.

Alaska will soon have a new ARRL Section Manager. Ray Hollenbeck, KL1IL, of Wasilla, Alaska, has been appointed to succeed Jim Larsen, AL7FS, effective on January 1. Hollenbeck's appointment will be in effect for the first half of 2016. He has served as an ARRL Emergency Coordinator for nearly 7 years.

ARRL Manager of Field Services and Radiosport Dave Patton, NN1N, made the appointment in consultation with Northwestern Division Director Jim Pace, K7CEX, and the outgoing SM. Larsen, of Anchorage, who will complete his fourth term as Alaska SM at year's end, decided not to run for another term after serving for the past 8 years.

When the call for nominations for the next term of Alaska Section Manager was announced this past summer, no nominating petitions were submitted by the early September deadline. In accordance with ARRL Field Organization Rules and Regulations, the Section Manager's position is being resolicited (see the January 2016 issue of QST, page 77).

A Section Manager elected through resolicitation will serve a term of 18 months -- in this case, starting on July 1, 2016. Details about the Section Manager nominating process are available on the ARRL website.

The ARRL is inviting nominations for awards that recognize educational and technological pursuits in Amateur Radio. Nominations are also open for the League's premier award to honor a young licensee.

• The Hiram Percy Maxim Award recognizes a radio amateur and ARRL member under age 21, whose accomplishments and contributions are of the most exemplary nature within the framework of Amateur Radio activities. Nominations for this award need to be made through your ARRL Section Manager, who will then forward the nomination to ARRL Headquarters by March 31, 2016.

• The ARRL Herb S. Brier Instructor of the Year Award honors an ARRL volunteer Amateur Radio instructor or an ARRL professional classroom teacher who uses creative instructional approaches and reflects the highest values of the Amateur Radio community. The award highlights quality of and commitment to licensing instruction. Nominations are due by March 15, 2016.

• The ARRL Microwave Development Award pays tribute to a radio amateur or group of radio amateurs who contribute to the development of the Amateur Radio microwave bands. The nomination deadline is March 31, 2016.

• The ARRL Technical Service Award recognizes a licensed radio amateur or group of radio amateurs who provide Amateur Radio technical assistance or training to others. The nomination deadline is March 31, 2016.

• The ARRL Technical Innovation Award is granted to a radio amateur or group of radio amateurs who develop and apply new technical ideas or techniques in Amateur Radio. The nomination deadline is March 31, 2016.

• The Knight Distinguished Service Award was established to recognize exceptionally notable contributions by a Section Manager to the health and vitality of the ARRL. The nomination deadline is April 30, 2016.

The ARRL Board of Directors selects recipients for these awards. Winners are typically announced following the Board's July meeting. More information about these awards is on the ARRL website, or contact Sean Kutzko, KX9X, tel (860) 594-0328.

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The 2015 CW Rookie Roundup is Sunday, December 20. Rookies can take up their Morse keys (or keyboards) and "pound some brass" in pursuit of Rookies and Non-rookies alike. Rookies -- anyone licensed for 3 years or less -- get on the air and call "CQ RR," so other participants can find them. Grizzled CW veterans call "CQ R" (CQ Rookies).

W6YX at Stanford University hosted a multioperator Rookie Roundup in 2013.

Veteran operators are encouraged to invite new hams to use their stations and give CW a try, or to invite several newbies over and have a multi-op. This also is great practice for Straight Key Night on New Year's Eve, so limber up those sending skills and help to introduce the joys of CW to a new generation of hams! This is also an excellent opportunity to take a crack at contesting, during an event designed for newcomers.

Rookie entrants are encouraged to read "HF Contesting - Good Practices, Interpretations and Suggestions."

To register teams or submit scores visit the ARRL Rookie Roundup Contests page, hosted by Bruce Horn, WA7BNM. -- Thanks to Ward Silver, N0AX

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake, KG5BVI, who just arrived on board the International Space Station, will be the first ISS crew member to use the HamTV digital Amateur Radio TV (DATV) system during an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact. Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, KE5UDN, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP, launched in a Soyuz spacecraft on December 15 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and arrived at

ESA Astronaut Tim Peake, KG5BVI (left), on board the Soyuz spacecraft and on his way to the ISS with Astronaut Tim Kopra, KE5UDN, and Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP. [NASA TV image]

the ISS about 6 hours later. The UK ARISS team is assembling a mobile Earth station, to be installed at the school on the day of the contact. The team recently visited Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall to commission a dish to receive the 2.4 GHz HamTV DATV transmissions from the ISS. The ARISS activities have been designed to maximize the impact of Peake's "Principia Mission" outreach by directly engaging students with communication technologies and inspiring them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

"Both Tim's space mission and Amateur Radio have the power to inspire young people and encourage them into STEM subjects," said Jeremy Curtis, Head of Education at the UK Space Agency. "By bringing them together we can boost their reach and give young people around the UK the chance to be involved in a space mission and a hands-on project that will teach them new skills."

During the contacts the ARISS team will provide information displays on the ISS position and webcams showing both the local and Goonhilly dishes as they track the ISS. The hosting schools will organize presentations and displays before and after the contacts, and the ARISS team will offer a live webcast of the day's events, including the actual contact with Peake. Read more. -- Thanks to AMSAT, ARISS, and RSGB

The Portage County Amateur Radio Service (PCARS) in Ohio recently donated nearly $4000 to support the efforts of the Center of Hope in Ravenna. PCARS President Rick Kruis, K8CAV, and Vice President Jim Wilson, AC8NT, presented Mark Frisone, chief executive officer of

(L-R) PCARS President Rick Kruis, K8CAV, Mark Frisone, and PCARS Vice President Jim Wilson, AC8NT. [Stephanie Berry/F&CS photo]

Family & Community Services Inc (F&CS), with a check for $3,851 to support the Center's efforts. An ARRL-affiliated special service club, PCARS has more than 200 members. The club sponsors licensing and upgrading classes as well as operating events and project-building sessions each month.

"This is truly a clear example of the impact that the Center has on our community," Frisone said in accepting the club's contribution. "It is generous donations from area organizations that give us the resources to continue to help those in need."

The Center of Hope is dedicated to enhancing the nutrition of low-income people in Portage County where there are no local food pantries. The center provides free hot meals 5 days a week for 75 to 100 individuals. Groceries are also available monthly through the Christian Cupboard, free of charge, dependent upon an individual's income.

Alexanderson alternator transmitter station SAQ at the World Heritage Grimeton site in Sweden will continue a holiday tradition begun 10 years ago when it takes to the airwaves on Christmas Eve, December 24. There will be a CW transmission from the Alexanderson alternator on 17.2 kHz from Grimeton Radio/SAQ at 0800 UTC on December 24, with transmitter tune-up starting at 0730 UTC. Amateur Radio station SK6SAQ will not be active this year, because the radio room is being refurbished. The Alexanderson Association website has information on how to receive the VLF signal.

SAQ accepts listener reports via e-mail, direct mail to Alexander-Grimeton Veteranradios Vaenner, Radiostationen Grimeton 72 SE-432 98 Grimeton, Sweden. The radio station will be open to visitors.

The vintage SAQ Alexanderson alternator, dating from the 1920s, is essentially an ac alternator run at extremely high speed. It can put out 200 kW, but typically is operated at less than one-half that power level. Once providing reliable transatlantic communication, it is now a museum piece and only put on the air for special occasions. The transmitter was developed by Swedish engineer and radio pioneer Ernst Alexanderson.

Six 400+ foot towers with 150 foot crossarms support a multi-wire antenna for SAQ. The actual signal radiates from a vertical wire, one from each tower. -- Thanks to Lars Kalland, SM6NM

Brian Justin, WA1ZMS, will again put his 600 meter Experimental Station WG2XFQ on the air on for a Christmas Eve commemorative transmission. WG2XFQ will transmit on 486 kHz from Forest, Virginia, to mark the 109th anniversary of Reginald Fessenden's first audio transmission. Historic accounts say Fessenden played the violin -- or a recording -- and read a brief Bible verse. It's been reported that other radio experimenters and shipboard operators who heard Fessenden's broadcast were astounded.

Brian Justin, WA1ZMS, built this replica circa-1920 transmitter, capable of CW and Heising modulated AM. [Brian Justin, WA1ZMS, photo]

Justin will conduct a run-up to this year's event starting at around mid-day Eastern Time on December 23. The "official" Christmas event will begin on December 24 at 0001 UTC (the evening of December 23 in US time zones) and will continue for at least 24 hours. Justin said he plans to repeat the commemorative transmissions on New Year's Eve and on New Year's Day.

Fessenden's transmitter was an ac alternator, modulated by placing carbon microphones in series with the antenna feed line. Justin's homebuilt station is slightly more modern, based on a 1921 vacuum tube master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) design. Listener reports are appreciated and may be sent directly to Brian Justin, WA1ZMS, at his QRZ.com address.

Ofcom, the UK telecommunications regulator, has revoked the first batch of Amateur Radio licenses that had not been "revalidated" by their holders. Ham licenses in the UK used to expire annually, but in 2006, Ofcom began issuing lifetime licenses, which remain in effect until the agency takes specific action to revoke them. Ofcom has canceled some Amateur Radio licenses in the past, when the licensee has specifically requested, but revocation is a different administrative process altogether. Ofcom announced earlier this fall that it would begin revoking the licenses of those who had not revalidated their ham tickets, as UK regulations require; 529 licenses were in the initial batch.

Ofcom's revocation procedure for the first group of revocations took about 7 weeks, from the initial announcement to the revocations on December 4. A formal appeal process is in place, but Ofcom reported that no one has taken advantage of it so far.

Some estimates have suggested that the number of unvalidated Amateur Radio licenses might number in the tens of thousands, but the actual figure won't be known until Ofcom has completed its work on the project, which is said to be time consuming and labor intensive. It could be some time before the backlog is cleared. Read more.

Isidro Gabino "Gabi" San Martin Hernandez, EB1BT, of Leon, Spain, died on December 11 as the result of a 9-hour shootout in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was 48 and the father of four. San Martin was part of a police contingent guarding the Spanish Embassy in Kabul when a car bomb, believed set by the Taliban, exploded at the Embassy Guest House gate. The bombers then entered the compound, and a gun battle erupted. At least seven members of the diplomatic staff were killed, including San Martin and another police officer who died in the residential block of the embassy.

Gabi St Martin Hernandez, EB1BT.

Europa Press reported that San Martin, who volunteered to serve at the embassy in Kabul, was stationed at the Police Intervention Unit of Oviedo, although on Friday he was working as part of the embassy security team. The online 20 Minutos reported that San Martin left a safe location to look for one of his colleagues and ran into gunfire.

According to an article posted in The Spain Report, the Afghan Interior Ministry claimed that Afghan Police Special Forces killed all of the attackers involved in the Friday night raid. Spanish authorities are still sorting out the details of the bombing and the resulting deaths. -- Thanks to The Daily DX

Santa Claus Arctic Circle Team Active: The Santa Claus Arctic Circle Team will be active as OH9SCL (Santa Claus Land) and OF9X (Old Father 9 Christmas) from the Finnish Lappland above the Arctic Circle during December. OH9SCL and OF9X have been on the air each holiday season for the past 30 years. Activity will be mostly on the HF bands, on all modes. The activity is organized by the Radio Club of the Arctic Circle, OH9AB, and the Radio Club of Pusula, OH9W, and supported by Radio Arcala, OH8X. QSL via OH9AB. For more information and updates, visit the OH9AB website or the Santa Claus Land Facebook page.

Kosovo Amateur Radio Association SHRAK Joins International Amateur Radio Union: The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has announced that the Kosovo Amateur Radio Association, (SHRAK) has been accepted into membership as the result of a second vote by member societies. The action has no effect on Kosovo's DXCC status. Kosovo was proposed for IARU membership in 2014, but the proposal failed. Two affirmative votes arrived after the ballot deadline, however, and IARU Region 1 requested the IARU International Secretariat to conduct another vote, which did result in SHRAK's receiving the necessary affirmative votes. With a history that dates back to the days of the former Yugoslavia, SHRAK was reconstituted in 2012, when the government authorized the establishment of an Amateur Radio Service, and SHRAK established a training and licensing program. Vjollca Caka, Z61VB, is SHRAK's president. Special event station Z60IARU is expected to be on the air for the closing days of 2015 as part of the IARU's 90th anniversary commemoration.

CW Skimmer Developer Alex Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA, Receives RAC Radio Amateur of the Year Plaque Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) honored CW Skimmer developer Alex Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA, as its 2014 Radio Amateur of the Year, and he received the plaque on October 31 at the annual York Region Hamfest near Toronto. Presenting Shovkoplyas with the plaque was the new RAC Ontario South Director Phil Mcbride, VA3QR. The plaque cites Schovkoplyas for "outstanding and consistent contribution to the welfare of Amateur Radio." A contesting tool, CW Skimmer interprets call signs sent in CW over a wide receiver bandwidth and identifies waterfall traces by call sign. The extracted call signs then are exported as DX spots. He's also developed other free software packages for Amateur Radio, including the propagation tool Ham Cap.

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Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Solar activity increased over the past week, compared to the previous 7 days. The average daily sunspot number for December 10-16 was 74.3, up from 48 over December 3-9. Average daily solar flux increased from 102.2 to 118.6.

Geomagnetic indices were also higher, with the planetary A index going from 9.9 to 15.6, and the mid-latitude A index from 6.6 to 11.3.

The latest prediction from USAF/NOAA forecasters shows daily solar flux at 125 on December 17-19; 120 on December 20-21; 115 on December 22-24; 110, 105, and 98 on December 25-27; 95 on December 28-29; 98 on December 30-31; 100 on January 1-2; 105 on January 3; 110 on January 4-6; 115 on January 7-9; peaking at 130 on January 11-13, then dropping back below 100 after January 22.

The predicted planetary A index is 5 on December 17-26; 18, 15, and 10 on December 27-29; 5 on December 30-31; 15, 20, 18, and 10 on January 1-4; 8, 20, 18, and 12 on January 5-8, and 10, 8, 18, and 25 on January 9-12. The planetary A index then quiets down to 5 on January 16-22.

HF radio conditions look promising over the next 10 days, with low geomagnetic activity and sustained sunspot activity and solar flux.

Sunspot numbers for December 10 through 16 were 86, 77, 89, 74, 81, 64, and 49, with a mean of 48. The10.7 centimeter flux was 108.5, 113.7, 116.7, 122.5, 124, 118.9, and 126.2, with a mean of 102.2. Estimated planetary A indices were 23, 20, 12, 8, 22, 17, and 7, with a mean of 9.9. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 18, 14, 8, 6, 15, 13, and 5, with a mean of 6.6.

Send me your reports and observations.

• December 18 -- Russian 160 Meter Contest (CW)

• December 18 -- AGB-Party Contest (CW, phone, digital)

• December 19 -- Feld Hell Sprint

• December 19 -- OK DX RTTY Contest

• December 19 -- 144 RAC Winter Contest (CW, phone)

• December 19-20 -- Croatian CW Contest (CW)

• December 20 -- ARRL Rookie Roundup (CW)

• December 21 -- Run for the Bacon QRP Contest (CW)

• December 23 -- SKCC Sprint (CW)

• December 26 -- DARC Christmas Contest (CW, phone)

• December 26-27 -- World Wide Iron Ham Contest (CW, phone, digital)

• December 27 -- Stew Perry Topband Challenge (CW)

• December 27 -- RAEM Contest (CW)

• January 1 -- ARRL Straight Key Night

• January 1 -- AGB New Year Snowball Contest (CW, phone, digital)

• January 1 -- SARTG New Year RTTY Contest

• January 1 -- AGCW Happy New Year Contest (CW)

• January 1 -- AGCW VHF/UHF Contest (CW)

• January 1 -- QRP ARCI New Years Sprint (CW)

• January 2 -- PODXS 070 Club PSK Fest

• January 2-3 -- WW PMC Contest (CW, phone)

• January 2-3 -- Original QRP Contest (CW)

• January 2-3 -- ARRL RTTY Roundup

• January 2-3 -- EUCW 160 Meter Contest (CW)

• January 3 -- Kids Day (phone)

• January 5 -- ARS Spartan Sprint (CW)

• January 6 -- UKEICC 80 Meter Contest (phone)

See the ARRL Contest Calendar for more information. For in-depth reporting on Amateur Radio contesting, subscribe to The ARRL Contest Update via your ARRL member profile e-mail preferences.

• January 9 -- TECHFEST, Lawrenceville, Georgia

• January 10 -- New York City-Long Island Section Convention, Bethpage, New York

• January 15-16 -- Southern Florida Section Convention, Fort Myers, Florida

• January 15-16 -- North Texas Section Convention, Forest Hill, Texas

• January 17-23 -- Quartzfest, Quartzsite, Arizona

• January 29-30 -- Mississippi State Convention, Jackson, Mississippi

• January 29-31 -- Puerto Rico State Convention, Hatillo, Puerto Rico

• February 6 -- South Carolina State Convention, N. Charleston, South Carolina

• February 12-14 -- ARRL National Convention, Orlando, Florida

• February 19-20 -- Southwestern Division Convention, Yuma, Arizona

• February 27 -- WCF Section Technical Conference, Tampa, Florida

• February 27 -- New Mexico TechFest, Albuquerque, New Mexico

• February 27 -- Vermont State Convention, S. Burlington, Vermont

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