Dear fellow PVARC members,
Our March QRO newsletter is attached for your reading in advance of Thursday night's monthly meeting at Hesse Park. Arnie Shatz, N6HC, will enlighten us about the South Pacific Ocean's remote Pitcairn Islands and ham radio there. Arnie served as team physician and an operator during last Fall's Pitcairn Islands DXpedition.
The PVARC's weekly K6PV repeater nets are tonight although we realize some members might be engaged in last-minute voting. Our DMR net now runs from 7:00-7:25 pm while the analog net continues as usual from 7:30-7:55 pm. Hope you can check in and say hello on either or both nets.
Lastly for those living in Rancho Palos Verdes...tomorrow night's Rancho Palos Verdes City Council meeting at Hesse Park has an agenda item discussing whether to impose a temporary 45-day moratorium on new amateur radio antenna/tower permits while the city's amateur radio antenna regulations get updated. RPV's non-commercial antenna regulations (i.e., for ham radio) were last updated in 1989 while the city's commercial antenna regulations were updated in 2011. Since the 1989 regulations there have been at least two cases of antenna permits granted for amateur radio use that soon became commercial repeater sites. More recently the Board of Directors for one Homeowners Association in RPV has challenged a new amateur antenna tower proposed by PVARC member Larry, K6RO. To see the City's staff report on this agenda item visit: https://rpv.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=5&event_id=1660&meta_id=80013 .
If you wish to speak at the City Council meeting about this issue please be respectful and rational. Be advised speakers have three minutes to present oral comments and that Council meetings are video-recorded for live-streaming as well as archived for future online viewing. It's worth noting there are currently about 400 ham radio operators in Rancho Palos Verdes (per qrz.com after eliminating known Silent Keys and repeater licenses) of whom perhaps only half are active vs. 28,000 registered voters of whom just over 10,100 voted in last November's City election.
73,
Diana, AI6DF