this showed up in my inbox. It would not hurt to write the powers that be and ask them to pass it. It sems to be a way to reduce the annoyances of land use rules and HOA impediments.
> > HR 81 can be found on the web in PDF format at,
> >
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr81ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr81ih.pdf.
[ARLI] Fw: ARLB003 New Amateur Radio Bill Introduced in Congress
To all Amateur Radio Operators:
Okay, this bill has been submitted once again. This makes the fourth or
fifth time this particular Bill, or a similar version of it, has been
introduced into the House and/or the Senate. What do we have to do to get
this Bill out of committee and acted upon?
C'mon, fellow hams, get off of your duffs and get cracking on this one! Ten
years and going is FAR TOO LONG to be working on a ham radio bill that
should have passed a LONG time ago! LET'S GO!! NO EXCUSES THIS TIME!!
I want to see every single member of the club to write a letter to your
Congressman and ask them to support and co-sponsor this Bill. The more
letters we write, the more Congress will know we are serious and want
something done. The reason this Bill, or versions of it, died in committee
so many times is because Amateur Radio Operators did NOT CARE ENOUGH about
their hobby to write a simple letter to Congress to get this bill passed. I
have written a letter to my Congressman each time this Bill was
reintroduced, but I am only one person. It will take thousands of "one
person's" to get the ball rolling and get HR 81 passed. Or would you prefer
that our precious frequencies be taken over by commercial operators?
I am challenging each and every one of you to write to your Congressmen and
Congresswomen, and your Senators if and when a Senate version is introduced,
and get this thing moving. I am already thinking about what I will write to
my Congressman. Get that fire lit!!
HR 81 has already been referred to a committee. If we do nothing, it will
end up just like all the bills before it... it will die in committee. If we
all write our letters, Congress will see that we mean business and that we
care about saving our spectrum, and they will act to get the Bill passed.
Let's not allow what happened last time to happen again. In the 111th
Congress, a bill was introduced into the House as HR 2160 and referred to a
committee. The bill died in committee because not enough hams wrote letters
to their Congressmen asking them to sign on as co-sponsors and get the bill
acted upon. A similar Senate Bill, S 1755, was introduced into the Senate
during the same session, but that bill made it all the way through the
Senate, only to be sideswiped by the House because again, not enough hams
cared enough to write to their Representatives asking them to co-sponsor the
Senate bill. S 1755 also died in a House committee at the end of the
session.
Every time this Bill was reintroduced, I urged all of my fellow Amateur
Radio Operators to write to Congress to get the bill passed. I yelled, I
shouted until I was blue in the face, I pleaded... but each time, my urgings
fell upon deaf ears because very few hams actually cared about the issue and
couldn't be bothered to write a letter or even make a phone call. Let's not
make that mistake a fifth time.
The ball is in your hands, there's one second left on the clock, and you've
got one chance to win the game. Are you going to take that desperation
shot? Or will you just hold the ball and let the clock run out once again?
It's your choice; it's up to you.
So the question now is... when are you going to write your letter?
73,
Paul Gray, NŲJAA
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From: "ARRL Web site"
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Subject: ARLB003 New Amateur Radio Bill Introduced in Congress
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> > ARLB003 New Amateur Radio Bill Introduced in Congress
> >
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> > ARRL Bulletin 3 ARLB003
> > From ARRL Headquarters
> > Newington CT January 11, 2011
> > To all radio amateurs
> >
> > SB QST ARL ARLB003
> > ARLB003 New Amateur Radio Bill Introduced in Congress
> >
> > The Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Enhancement Act, which
> > died at the end of the 111th Congress, has been reintroduced in the
> > 112th Congress as HR 81. The sponsor is Representative Sheila
> > Jackson Lee (D-TX-18). The new bill -- which was introduced on
> > January 5 -- has been referred to the House Committee on Energy and
> > Commerce.
> >
> > Rep Jackson Lee first introduced the bill -- HR 2160 -- in the 111th
> > Congress in April 2009. It gained an additional 41 co-sponsors but
> > did not progress out of the committee of jurisdiction. A similar
> > bill introduced in the Senate -- S 1755 -- made it all the way
> > through that body in December 2009, but likewise was not taken up by
> > the House.
> >
> > The objective of the bill -- which is supported by the ARRL -- is
> > for the Secretary of Homeland Security to study the uses and
> > capabilities of Amateur Radio communications in emergencies and
> > disaster relief and to identify and make recommendations regarding
> > impediments to Amateur Radio communications, such as the effects of
> > private land use regulations on residential antenna installations.
> >
> > "We are hopeful that this early start will lead to success in the
> > new Congress," commented ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner,
> > K1ZZ.
> >
> > HR 81 can be found on the web in PDF format at,
> >
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr81ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr81ih.pdf.
> > NNNN
> > /EX
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