[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] Please use the Rally Congress tool to support the Amateur Radio Parity Act (again!)

[Don Lewis (KI4D)]

The ARRL is asking all of us to  call on our Virginia Senators again to urge their support of the Amateur Radio Parity Act (H.R. 1301) when it comes up very soon in the Senate during the “lame duck” session of Congress.  Even if you have asked for their support in the past as I have, please use the link below to ask for their support again.  The link has a prepared letter that goes to both Virginia Senators after the requested information is provided.    There is concern that we may never get this close to passage an antenna parity act again, the ARRL is saying “The clock is ticking!”

Don, KI4D

https://arrl.rallycongress.net/


-----Original Message-----
From: ARRL Members Only Web site [mailto:memberlist at www.arrl.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 11:39 PM
Subject: Please use the Rally Congress tool to support the Amateur Radio Parity Act (again!)

To all ARRL Members in the Roanoke Division,

The message below under my signature was sent by our ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR earlier today.

We have spent over 2 1/2 years working on passage of the Amateur Radio Parity act, an act that would allow amateur radio operators living in deed-restricted communities to erect an effective outdoor antenna for Amateur Radio Communications.  This bill recognizes the needs of amateur radio operator and the deed-restricted communities to negotiate the best solution for both parties.

This Rally Congress link will work whether you sent a previous letter to your senators or not.

I ask that you take a few minutes, click on the link below, and send a personalized letter to your Senators TODAY!  We have less than two months left!

https://arrl.rallycongress.net/ctas/urge-us-senate-to-pass-amateur-radio-parity-act


Thank you!

'73 de JIM N2ZZ
ARRL Director
Roanoke Division  





Dear ARRL member,
 
I am writing to you today because we are nearing the end of the 114th Congress and the efforts to obtain passage of The Amateur Radio Parity Act are at a critical juncture. With a few short weeks left to the year, we must get this bill passed NOW or we will need to start all over again come January 1, 2017.
 
As you know, thanks to your previous efforts, the legislative efforts scored a major victory in our campaign when the Amateur Radio Parity Act, H.R. 1301, passed in the House of Representatives on September 12th. The legislation is now in the Senate in two forms – as H.R.
1301 and alternately in the packaged bill S. 253.  We still need every Senator to approve the bill.
 
You are one of over 730,000 licensed Amateur Radio Operators living in the United States.  Many of you already live in deed-restricted communities, and that number grows daily.
 
We asked you for your help in September - and you responded in great numbers.  We collected over 63,000 emails that were distributed to every single U.S. Senator.  That is amazing. However, with the election hiatus over, each and every Senator must be reminded that their business is not complete until this important legislation affecting hams is passed and sent to the President.
 
Even if you wrote in the past, we need you to write again!
 
ONCE AGAIN I REMIND YOU THAT NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL HAMS TO GET INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS!
 
•	If you want to have effective outdoor antennas but are not
currently allowed to do so by your Home Owner’s Association, PLEASE SEND THESE EMAILS TODAY!  
 
•	If you don’t live in a deed-restricted community but you care
about the future of Amateur Radio, please support your avocation and your fellow hams and SEND THESE EMAILS TODAY!
 
We need you to reach out one more time to your Senators TODAY!  Right away Right now!
 
Help us in the effort.  Please go to this linked website and follow the
prompts:

https://arrl.rallycongress.net/ctas/urge-us-senate-to-pass-amateur-radio-parity-act
  

Thank you.
 
73,
Rick Roderick, K5UR	
ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio®

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