ARRL HQ sent several of the top brass from Newington so we had the
opportunity to discuss various things. The BIG thing at the moment is
the legislative effort to pass the “Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness
Act”. This push is different than previous attempts to allow antennas in
residentual areas. Individual letters are welcome but have little or no
impact. A mass of letters hand carried into your Congressional office by
a professional lobbyist has a MUCH greater impact.

Details here: https://www.arrl.org/current-legislation#clubs

Individual hams (NOT clubs), members of ARRL or not, are asked to enter
their call and click the SEND button at this website:
https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/

If you haven’t done this yet, please do it NOW!

Now is also the time for clubs to send club letters. This is a different
method. The size of the club does not matter. If you are an officer of a
club please get the club to send in your letters. Info on how this
should be done is here: https://www.arrl.org/current-legislation#clubs

Scroll to the bottom of the web page for club instructions and a sample
letter.

Note: “Club” is an FCC club callsign. It can be a large club with many
members or it can be a very small, tiny club mainly used as a second
individual call. For example, my personal license call is AD6E which
I’ve had for some 40 years. I didn’t want to give that up when I moved
to Hawaii a dozen years ago so I generated a club and got the club
callsign KH6TU. As such, I need to do the club letter for KH6TU. If you
have a “club call”, please do BOTH your personal call letter AND your
club letter.

Aloha, Alan AD6E / KH6TU

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ARRL Pacific Section
Section Manager: Alan P Maenchen, AD6E
ad6e@arrl.org
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