[SFDXA] ARRL Member Bulletin for September 17, 2025

[Bill]

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September 17, 2025




*YOU CAN HELP US *

*CHANGE THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN HAMS*

The ARRL is focused on reducing legal restraints on the ability of 
American Amateur Radio Operators to engage in the active practice and 
enjoyment of Amateur Radio.

One of the most insidious and increasing threats to the survival of 
Amateur Radio and our ability to serve our communities and Nation, as we 
are required to do by Federal regulation, is the proliferation of 
private land use restrictions that prohibit the installation of outdoor 
antennas and that sometimes actually deny Federally licensed Amateurs 
from operating any amateur radios, regardless of where their antennas 
are located — in their attics, hidden in trees, or mounted on their 
vehicles.

Federal law — since 1996 — has guaranteed to every American — except 
Amateur Radio Operators — the right to erect antennas outside or on 
their residences for the purpose of TV reception, satellite TV and 
internet access, wireless internet access, and even wireless internet 
redistribution. But Amateur Radio operators are denied the equal right 
to erect comparable antennas.

Since 2005, Federal law has also guaranteed to every American the right 
to proudly display the American Flag by installing flagpoles in their 
yards. But, despite that right to install vertical poles in their yards 
— American Radio Amateurs are denied the right to use those vertical 
flagpoles as vertical antennas.

We believe the denial — to licensed Amateur Radio Operators — of the 
rights guaranteed to all non-Amateur Radio licensed American homeowners 
— the right to install antennas on the land they own — is without 
justification and should not be permitted to continue.

To eliminate these private land use restrictions, the ARRL has worked 
over the past several years with our elected officials to draft 
Congressional legislation — H.R. 1094 in the U.S. House of 
Representatives and S. 459 in the U.S. Senate — that, when passed will 
extend to all Hams the right to operate from their homes and the right 
to install antennas on the land they own. We have bipartisan support for 
this legislation.

*BUT, WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PASS THIS LEGISLATION!!!*

*How can you help? *By sending a letter to your Representative and 
Senators asking that they co-sponsor and support H.R. 1094 and S. 459.

*How can you send these letters? **It is easy.*

*Go to — https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ 
<https://arrl.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zNDM4NDExJnA9MSZ1PTUyNTQ3MzY2NCZsaT0zOTcyNDMwNw/index.html> 
*— enter your call sign and click on “Send My Letters” and your letters 
will be delivered to our Washington legislative team for hand delivery 
to your Representative and Senators.

*Does your individual letter matter? YES.*

*Your Representative and Senators need to know that the passage of this 
**legislation is important to you.*

*Your letter could be the difference in whether we are able to pass H.R. 
1094 **and S. 459.*

*Go to — https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ 
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— and help us by sending your letters **to your Representative and 
Senators.*

*For ease of access to https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ 
<https://arrl.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zNDM4NDExJnA9MSZ1PTUyNTQ3MzY2NCZsaT0zOTcyNDMwNw/index.html>, 
point your phones at:*

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