[Adrian ARC] "Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act"

[Mark Hinkleman]

If you got the below letter from Jim Weaver (Arrl Div. Director) you =
have likely made up your mind as to what you will do, (or have done).

If not, please read the below and consider sending a email to Smith. =
Levin and Stabenow.=20

They have made it very easy. It took about 10 minutes to send to all =
three.  Just go to their websites and fill out the info and do the cut =
and paste thing. Very Easy!!

Mark NU8Z


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from Jim Weaver.............................

(Please pass the following message around via BBs, Reflectors and other
means as promptly as possible.  We NEED as many letters as we can
possibly get!)

IT'S TIME TO FISH OR CUT BAIT!

Folks, we are at a critical time regarding the legislation I've been
asking you to write your Congressmen/women to support.  This is the
AMATEUR RADIO SPECTRUM PROTECTION ACT OF 2003.  There are only about 2 =
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weeks left in this legislative session.  We have a chance to get these
House and Senate bills passed . . . PROVIDED YOU ACT NOW!

You don't think we can influence what our congressional representatives
do?  We can.  AS PROOF, Sen. Levin of MI became a co-sponsor of the
Senate version (S 537) ONLY BECAUSE a number of Michigan amateurs wrote
and asked him to become a co-sponsor.  He did!  You who wrote to him
caused him to do this!

The other end of the scale has many examples of Senators and
Representatives who have received no or virtually no requests to sponsor
the legislation.  As of today, I've learned of only 111 Division members
who have written.  Who else other than you is going to write?

ONE EXAMPLE of the results of not writing came from a visit to Rep. John
Boehner's (Ohio-House District 8) office a few days ago.  At the time
the people who keep tabs on what happens on Capitol Hill made their
visit, Rep. Boehner's aide said he had received NO LETTERS asking him to
co-sponsor the legislation.

I realize we Americans are very complacent about writing our Congress
people, but please let's get off our duff's and let our representatives
know how we feel.  The Spectrum Protection Act -- provided you help get
it passed -- can also be used to help defend our frequencies from the
disaster of BPL, not just from the potential of reallocation by the FCC
which is the specific goal of the Spectrum Protection Act.  But the act
would be another tool we could use in the fight against BPL if
necessary.

To write to your Representative and Senators, get their names from:

To E-Mail Your Member of Congress, see:

http://www.house.gov/writerep/ Representatives.

http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm Senators

Because of the shortness in time, E-mail them from information at these
sites.  You will need your postal ZIP+4 codes to get directly to the
addresses for your people.  To get to their E-mail forms, click on their
names and then E-mail or Contact Us or similar instruction depending on
the individual web site.

FOR REPRESENTATIVES

<YOUR NAME>=20
<YOUR ADDRESS>=20
<CITY, STATE ZIP>
=20
Dear Rep. ____________=20

As one of the nation's more than 670,000 federally licensed radio
amateurs, I urge you to co-sponsor HR 713, the "Amateur Radio Spectrum
Protection Act of 2003," sponsored by Rep. Michael Bilirakis (R-FL).

This bill is a nonpartisan, non-controversial measure designed to help
protect the radio frequencies used by Amateur Radio volunteers
throughout our nation in providing emergency communications assistance
during times of disaster. Most recently, radio amateurs have aided
government and private relief agencies after the terrorist attacks of
September 2001, during the traumatic electrical outage in the
northeaster part of the US earlier this year and during the severe
forest fires which engulfed many parts of the Western United States last
summer.

Your co-sponsorship of HR 713 will help ensure that Amateur Radio
operators have access to the needed spectrum, essential to their public
service role

I look forward to hearing from you.=20

Sincerely,=20

<YOUR NAME>


FOR SENATORS

<YOUR NAME>=20
<YOUR ADDRESS>=20
<CITY, STATE ZIP>=20

Dear Sen. ____________=20

As one of the nation's more than 670,000 federally licensed radio
amateurs, I urge you to co-sponsor S 537, the "Amateur Radio Spectrum
Protection Act of 2003," sponsored by Sen. Michael Crapo (R-ID).

This bill is a nonpartisan, non-controversial measure designed to help
protect the radio frequencies used by Amateur Radio volunteers
throughout our nation in providing emergency communications assistance
during times of disaster. Most recently, radio amateurs have aided
government and private relief agencies after the terrorist attacks of
September 2001, during the severe forest fires which engulfed many parts
of the Western United States last summer and during the traumatic
electrical outage over most of the northeast part of the US earlier this
year.

Your co-sponsorship of S 537 will help ensure that Amateur Radio
operators have access to the needed spectrum, essential to their public
service role.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
=20
<YOUR NAME>

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU WRITE AND TO WHOM YOU WRITE.  THANKS.

WHEN WRITING:

PLEASE PERSONALIZE THE MESSAGE BY INSERTING ANY USE OF AMATEUR RADIO IN
YOUR AREA THAT PROTECTED PUBLIC LIFE OR PROPERTY AND ASSISTED POLICE,
FIRE, EMA, RED CROSS AND SIMILAR AGENCIES.

PLEASE MENTION ONLY ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION (HR 713 OR S 537) IN YOUR
MESSAGE.  COMMENTING ON MORE THAN ONE TOPIC IN A LETTER CONFUSES THE
ISSUE AND WORKS TO DIMINISH THE VALUE OF WRITING.

Now, lets get to writing and &quot;win one for Hiram Percy, 1AW!

73, GL, tnx,

Jim, K8JE

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