[SJRA-Members] Fwd: Antenna Legislation

[Bonnie Nuzzi]

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Bonnie Nuzzi - KE2EGE

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM Bill Luebkemann <bill at lcceng.com> wrote:

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> This was super easy, literally took less than 30 seconds.
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> Thanks,
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> Bill
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> On Sep 18, 2025, at 5:19 PM, Richard Lawn <rjlawn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Please read and do what you can to help move this legislation forward.
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> 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>
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> 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
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> *YOU CAN HELP US*
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> *CHANGE THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN HAMS*
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> *BUT, WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PASS THIS LEGISLATION!!!*
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> *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.
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> *How can you send these letters? **It is easy.*
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> *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.
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> *Does your individual letter matter? YES.*
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> *Your Representative and Senators need to know that the passage of
> this **legislation
> is important to you.*
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> *Your letter could be the difference in whether we are able to pass H.R.
> 1094 **and S. 459.*
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> *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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> *For ease of access to https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/
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