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MINUTES OF THE 17-th PLENARY MEETING OF IARU REGION 1 ARDF WORKING GROUP, HELD ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30-th 1996 IN DAN PANORAMA HOTEL, TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL
 
PRESENT:
Krzysztof Slomczynski, SP5HS in the chair
Vincent Magrou, F5JFT IARU R1 EC, REF
Young Soon Park, HL1IFM IARU R3
Panayot Danev, LZ1US BFRA
Malcolm Appleby, G3ZNU RSGB
Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN CRC
Tome Dimiskovski, Z32RA RSM
Rainer Floesser, DL5NBZ DARC
Kurt Kawasch, OM8AA SARA
Zeljko Ulip, 9A2EY HRS
Gojko Mitrovic, YU6AO SRJ
Imre Gajarszki, HA4YD MRASz
Lars Olsson, SM3AVQ SSA
Ole Garpestad, LA2RR NRRL
Rudolf W. Heuberger, HB9PQX USKA
Hamed Al-Siyabi, A41KT ROARS
Henk v.Amersfoort, PAoHVA VERON
AGENDA:
1. Opening by Chairman
2. Welcome to Guests
3. Introduction of present WG members and attendants
4. Apologies for absence, accepting the proxies
5. To approve the agenda
6. To receive Minutes of the 16-th Plenary Meeting in Borovets
7. To receive the Conference ARDF Documents
8. To receive the proposal for office of ARDF WG chairman for the next 3-years term
9. Any other business, courtesies
10. To close the meeting
Ad 1:
Meeting was opened by Chairman at 14:35 hours.
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Ad 2:
Chairman welcomed the Guests attending the meeting:
- Mr. Vincent Magrou, F5JFT, member of IARU R1 EC, representing also REF;
- Mr. Young Soon Park, HL1IFM, Director IARU R3 and member IARU R3 ARDF
Committee.
Ad 3:
Attendants of the meeting introduced themselves.
Ad 4:
Apologies for absence were received from 9A2AY, SMoBGU, HB9QH, PAoHPV. Proxies were accepted to all present representatives of WG member societies.
Ad 5:
The Agenda was approved unanimously.
Ad 6:
The minutes of 16-th Plenary Meeting of ARDF WG were accepted unanimously with the following change in the second sentence of point 12:
"LZ1US proposed that all maps used in ARDF competitions shall be A4 format. This was not accepted, however ARDF WG advises the organisers to announce the size of a map prior to the competitions."
Ad 7:
Document C3.17 originated by NRRL, proposing the withdrawal of beacon (MO) transmitter, was discussed. By the majority against three (NRRL, SSA, VERON), the WG decided to leave the beacon transmitter operating. Thus, document C3.17 is not supported by the ARDF WG.
Document C3.28 was discussed carefully on the basis of revised version produced at the 16-th Plenary Meeting in Borovets. The following issues were discussed and approved:
- to remain the definition of ARDF as a "sport" with regard to support given to ARDF by official agencies in number of countries;
- to include a new wording of point C2.14, as proposed by G3ZNU and seconded by LA2RR;
- to add the words "or competitor" in the second sentence of point D2.1, as proposed by LZ1US.
The final amended and approved version of document C3.28 is to be circulated as document "C3.28 rev.1".
Document C3.18 was withdrawn by the originator as the new point C3.1 of the revised document C3.28 gives a completely different way of determining the starting time for each competitor.
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The draft Conference document dealing with proposal of World-Wide ARDF Coordinator was withdrawn by the originator (WG Chairman). Instead of, the ARDF WG produced recommendation to the Conference, to reconfirm the previous De Haan recommendation on the sam e subject.
Ad 8:
The ARDF WG unanimously proposed that present WG Chairman SP5HS will continue his duties for the next three years term.
Ad 9:
Z32RA raised the issue of giving more publicity to ARDF by organising the competitions and ARDF shows open and visible to the public, e.g in towns, city parks etc. This idea has been supported by the WG.
LA2RR raised the problem of financing of the participance of national teams in yearly IARU ARDF Championships (World and Regional). A number of societies is not ready to bear this task.
Chairman SP5HS informed the meeting on the offers yet received, to host 1998 IARU ARDF Championships. There are from the Hungarian society MRASz (World or Regional Championships) and from Croatian society HRS (Regional-European Championships). The venue of the 1988 Championships (a World event) is to be discussed and decided in 1997, after being consulted with IARU Region 3 ARDF Committee.
The ARDF WG approved unanimously the following recommendations to be presented to Committee C.3 of the Conference.
RECOMMENDATION 1
The ARDF Working Group recommends the approval by the Conference of the changes and amendments in existing "RULES FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AMATEUR RADIO DIRECTION FINDING" (see document 93/DHB/C.3 rev.1 annexed), as in document 96/TVI/C3.28 rev.1.
RECOMMENDATION 2
The ARDF Working Group recommends that the Conference reconfirms the recommendation on the World-Wide ARDF Coordinator taken at the IARU Region 1 Conference 1993 in De Haan.
RECOMMENDATION 3
The ARDF Working Group recommends that Krzysztof Slomczynski, SP5HS, will continue his duties as Chairman of IARU Region 1 ARDF Working Group for the next three-years term.
Courtesies: Chairman SP5HS passed his thanks to all members of the ARDF Working Group for their efficient cooperation.
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The meeting was closed by the Chairman at 18:00 hours.
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