August 9, 1984

Customarily, June through September is the peak season for household moves - and for the packing, the planning and the angst that accompany them. Americans who are moving this summer face more than the usual share of frustrations. Industry spokesmen call this the busiest moving season in memory, and many interstate van lines are booked a month in advance. ''Last year we could move people on a week's notice,'' said J. Donald Wilson, vice president of advertising and public relations for the Aero Mayflower Transit Company. ''Now if the move is a month away you'd better have a mover lined up.'' Aero Mayflower shipments increased 17 percent and revenues rose 31 percent compared with the first half of 1983, Mr. Wilson said.

The Federal Communications Commission deregulated the nation's commercial satellite operators today, concluding that the market was sufficiently competitive to justify an end to reviews of customer rates. Industry observers said they were not surprised by the ruling nor did they expect to see any rate increases as a result. The decision to ''forebear'' from regulating domestic satellite companies was unanimous. The vote means that companies such as RCA American Communications Inc., of Princeton, N.J.; the Western Union Corporation of Upper Saddle River, N.J., and Satellite Business Systems of McLean, Va., are free to raise or lower their rates, offer new services or discontinue old ones without seeking F.C.C. approval.

The head of New York City's Human Resources Administration resigned yesterday, saying that widespread criticism of his performance had crippled the agency's effectiveness. In a letter to Mayor Koch and at a subsequent City Hall news conference, the official, James A. Krauskopf, defended his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the agency, which serves more than a million New Yorkers and has 25,000 employees. He said that he had accomplished much during his administration, the longest since the agency was created in 1966, but that the numerous criticisms of him were making his job virtually impossible. The most recent charge, by District Attorney Mario Merola of the Bronx, was that the agency had hampered an investigation into reported sexual attacks against children in a day-care center. Mr. Krauskopf has denied the accusations of a cover-up. 2d Resignation This Week ''The effectiveness of the agency would be difficult to improve, given the personalizing of the criticism,'' he said at City Hall. Later, he added, ''I don't have anything to apologize for.''

One of the latest challenges to the New York banks for the consumer's long-term savings dollar has come from a two-story, shoebox of a building on 25th Street in this shorefront community. The building sits between Atlantic and Pacific Avenues, a fitting location for a savings and loan that sees itself serving a coast- to-coast market. The Virginia Beach Federal Savings and Loan Association has only 15 tellers, a dozen potted plants, seven vice presidents and no automatic teller machines. Nevertheless, it is one of several relatively small institutions competing successfully for a share of deposits from out-of-state savers who will trade the inconvenience of banking mostly by mail for higher interest rates. And although a recent rate war on certificates of deposit has temporarily lifted the New York rates - which are competitive with those in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit - still higher rates for a variety of maturities are being offered in some smaller towns.

In camouflage fatigues and pin- striped business suits, veterans of the Vietnam War flocked to a Federal courtroom in Brooklyn yesterday to speak out on the proposed $180 million settlement of the Agent Orange lawsuit. It was the first day of a nationwide series of hearings on the fairness and adequacy of the landmark settlement of the herbicide liability suit. At times it was as much a forum for opinion on the suit as it was an opportunity for veterans and family members to relive some of their wartime traumas. For some, it was a chance to vent their frustration and anger over the Vietnam War itself.