Judging by the recent traffic, there is a realization about the dangers of H.R.555. So, the question is, “What to do about it?”
Contacting your Congressman/woman is a future requirment. Right now they are partying at the inauguration. However a place we need to start, RIGHT NOW, TONIGHT, is to tell the ARRL that we think that this is not in our self-interest. *The ARRL Board meets tomorrow and Saturday largely to discuss this.* I just sent the email below to the league executives and directors. Their email addresses are below. Make your own email. Make it polite but very direct. Make it very much yours with your own words. Don’t copy mine as a mass distributed email to the board is of no value to you. If the ARRL doesn’t hear from members on a topic, they have every right to hold the position that they are doing a good job. Here, now they aren’t. We need to tell them so, RIGHT NOW. ~~~~~ARRL email list~~~~~~~~ [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ~~~~~My email~~~~~~~~ The future of the league is in peril. The Amateur Radio Parity Act, H.R.555, has again been reintroduced in Congress without changed wording. My view is that this will end Amateur Radio in the United States as it will end amateur HF, satellite, and EME operations in the United States for anyone living under an HOA. That is most amateurs. This is being sold as requiring an HOA to consider an antenna request. Having been an HOA president I know that this *means nothing*. You receive the request; consider for some time; a very, very, very long time. You, the ARRL Board, know this too, or should. You are not stupid. What are you thinking? There is *nothing* in H.R.555 to motivate an HOA to behave otherwise. Supposing that you know what you are doing, one then realizes that your vision for American Amateur Radio is limited to a Baofeng HT. That speaks very poorly of you. This quite likely will matter little because the ARRL will have a lifetime of about three years after this legislation becomes law, as it likely will. You will instantly become irrelevant once a large portion of U.S. hams abandoned their license, the ARRL, and you who have killed it. That should be about the year 2020. ~~~~~~~~~~~End of email~~~~~~~~~~~~ Regards, Pete (KD5QPX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 713-376-7277 Cell 281-980-3733 Hard Line
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