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As I take over as Section Manager, I would like to, first of all, thank Al, N1FIK for his 14 years of service in that position -- it's a hard act to follow. I would also like to thank everyone who voted in the Section Manager election, demostrating faith in the democratic process. As Section Manager, my main goals are to enhance the enjoyment of our hobby for all amateurs and to organize and enhance our ability to be of service to our state and our nation. I hope to provide a two-way communications path between ARRL members in the state and the national ARRL organization by passing on news, information and ideas from the national organization and our local members and by collecting ideas, suggestions, comments, and criticisms from local members and passing them up the channels to the national organization. I am pleased to announce that Dave, WA1ZCN, has agreed to continue as Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC). Dave has, quite literally, writen the book on emergency communications, serving as editor for the ARRL Emergency Communications Courses. I am also pleased to announce that Rich, WB1ASL, and Rob, N1FSK, have agreed to continue their Assistant Section Manager roles serving, respectively, as North Country and Scounting liaisons. Peter, W1DAD, has agreed to continue his work as Official Observer Coordinator. Two of the initiatives that I'd like to pursue are (1) to get closer cooperation and information exchange among the various clubs in the state and (2) encourage individuals to serve as both technical and operating activity focal points. I would like to invite anyone interested in serving on the Section Staff in any capacity to get in touch with me. There are a number of roles that I'd like to fill with enthusiaistic staff members, especially the area of providing technical and operating activity focal points for specific information sharing among amateurs at the state level. During June, along with SEC WA1ZCN and WW1Y, I traveled a total of 520 miles to visit eight Field Day sites across the state, including club sites: CNHARC, CVRC, CCDX, TSRC, GBRA, PCARC, and NARC, plus a non-club site run by members of Sullivan County ARES. I was very interesting to see different approaches and styles that were followed at the various sites. June Traffic NH Totals: Orig: 8, Sent: 124, Rcvd: 98, Deliv: 13, Total: 243. Thanks to N1NH: 142, WA1JVV: 37, KM1N: 34, and AB1AV: 30. June Public Service Honor Roll: WA1JVV: 91, KM1N: 84, NH Total: 175. 73, Sterling, AK1K, NH Section Manager