{"id":802929,"date":"2026-07-06T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802929"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:02:33","slug":"new-arrl-atlantic-division-vice-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802929","title":{"rendered":"New ARRL Atlantic Division Vice Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"date\">07\/06\/2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARRL\u00a0The National Association for Amateur Radio\u00ae has announced the appointment of Ray Sokola, K9RS, of Wilmington, Delaware, as Vice Director for the ARRL Atlantic Division. The appointment, made by ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, fills the vacancy created in January when former Vice Director Marty Newingham, AG3I, assumed the office of Atlantic Division Director. Sokola will serve the remainder of a term that expires December 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Division includes the ARRL Sections of Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, Maryland-DC, Northern New York, Western New York, and Southern New Jersey. Elections are held for five of the 15 ARRL Divisions each year, for terms of 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>See also\u00a0ARRL Atlantic Division Leadership Change<b>\u00a0<\/b>(ARRL Letter, 1\/29\/2026) and\u00a0ARRL Member Bulletin\u00a0(1\/28\/2026).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/new-arrl-atlantic-division-vice-director?rand=771671\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07\/06\/2026 ARRL\u00a0The National Association for Amateur Radio\u00ae has announced the appointment of Ray Sokola, K9RS, of Wilmington, Delaware, as Vice Director for the ARRL Atlantic Division. The appointment, made by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}