[SJRA-Members] Fwd: Antenna Legislation

[Richard Lawn]

Please read and do what you can to help move this legislation forward.

73
Rick, W2JAZ

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From: Ron Fish <ronf404 at aol.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Subject: Antenna Legislation
To: RONALD FISH <ronf404 at aol.com>


Please distribute this email to your respective club members.  You do not
have to be an ARRL member to send your letters.

Ron Fish, KX1W
SM, SNJ

*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/
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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.*





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<https://arrl.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zNDM4NDExJnA9MSZ1PTUyMDM2MDgyMiZsaT0zOTcyNDMwNw/index.html>,
point your phones at:*


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