Well.. I've been rather turned off by the "luddite"s in my local area.
Until recently, our league section person was the head of the VEC group
locally, an she refused to allow farnsworth testing for CW.

That is pretty serious. I have cc'ed Bart Jahnke, ARRL's VEC Manager, who will
contact you for more details. Farnsworth testing is the "standard" for amateur
exams and refusing to give it would be a pretty serious breach of ethics.
Thanks for reporting it.

I do see that the ARRL is going to be very important on this issue, and I'm
available to make observations within any reasonable driving distance of my
QTH. (Muncie Indiana)

Wether I'm a member or not shouldn't affect the validity of my data.

You are correct, but your being a member or not will affect how much ARRL is
able to do in what you have deemed to be an important area. The important
things it has done so far have been paid for by someone else -- at 12 cents a
day.

I am interested to know how you're calibrating your mobile to get uV/Meter
measurements.

I did a rough calibration of my mobile-whip dipole by comparing it against a
half-wave dipole at the same height. From there, is is easy to calculate field
strength.

I have a draft document on the measurement method -- email me at
and I will send it along to you. Feedback welcome.

73,
Ed Hare, W1RFI