[FLham] Re: ARLB009 President Bush addresses Florida ARES net

[Jim White, K4OJ]

EXCELLENT STUFF - TNX TO THE HAMS WHO MADE THIS DEMO POSSIBLE...TOO BAD
DUBYA  COULDN'T MAKE THE HAMBOREE!

Most excellent occasion...congrats Volusia ARES

My fellow hams - Let's Roll!

A good day!

K4OJ


What no VE session - and instantaneous vanity call of W5 for GWB :-)
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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: ARLB009 President Bush addresses Florida ARES net


> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB009
> ARLB009 President Bush addresses Florida ARES net
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> ZCZC AG09
> QST de W1AW
> ARRL Bulletin 9  ARLB009
> From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington CT  January 31, 2002
> To all radio amateurs
>
> SB QST ARL ARLB009
> ARLB009 President Bush addresses Florida ARES net
>
> President George W. Bush spoke January 31 via Amateur Radio to
> members of the Northern Florida Amateur Radio Emergency Service Net
> (NFAN). The president was in Florida to spotlight five volunteer
> groups--among them the Volusia County Amateur Radio Emergency
> Service (ARES)--for their value to the new Office of Homeland
> Security.
>
> ''I want to thank all the volunteers who help make sure that Florida
> is prepared for any kind of emergency,'' the president said in part,
> after checking in around 9:15 AM to a regular ARES net session. ''I
> want to thank you all for helping your communities be prepared.''
> Bush spoke on the net for about 30 seconds.
>
> Northern Florida ARRL Section Manager Rudy Hubbard, WA4PUP, said
> Bush spoke from a portable station set up at a Daytona Beach fire
> station. At the request of ARES Volusia County Emergency Coordinator
> Joette Barnett, KG4HPN, John Schmidt, AF4PU, and Clifford Fraser,
> KE4HIY, arranged to have the station ready as a demonstration of
> Amateur Radio's role in emergency preparedness and in the hope that
> Bush would be willing to address the 75-meter net.
>
> ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, said he was ''extremely gratified''
> that President Bush recognized the valuable service Amateur Radio
> operators provide in times of emergencies. ''I know that all hams in
> the United States stand ready to do their part in America's Homeland
> Security Program,'' Haynie commented. Haynie has said that defining
> Amateur Radio's role in homeland security would top his list of
> initiatives for his second term.
>
> Hubbard said a copy of proposed expanded Amateur Radio (PRB-1)
> antenna legislation was given to the President and to the
> president's brother, Florida Gov Jeb Bush, for possible introduction
> in next year's Florida legislative session. ''We Amateur Radio
> operators will volunteer however we're needed, and maybe it will be
> seen that we can greatly help the nation if we have the antennas we
> need,'' Hubbard commented. The proposed bill would seek to extend
> Florida's PRB-1 law to include private deed covenants, conditions
> and restrictions.
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> /EX