This announcement is not an endorsement from the SECC. It is being posted as
a courtesy to the candidate.
Tom - W4BQF
President - SECC
Fellow ARRL members-
This October, members of the League across the Southeastern Division
(Alabama, Georgia, Northern Florida, Southern Florida, West Central Florida,
Puerto Rico and US Virgin Island sections) will receive ballots to elect who
they believe will best represent them on ARRL's Board of Directors. As a
candidate for Vice-Director and as a Ham who is passionate for our amazing
hobby, I respectfully ask for your support and vote.
For over a decade my involvement in amateur radio has spanned across many of
its facets, and it is the resulting breadth, experience, and perspective
gained that I wish to put to work on your behalf as your Vice-Director.
These include: serving as a Georgia Assistant Section Manager for nearly
seven years; devoting my time in leadership roles within local and regional
clubs; fulfilling voluntary and appointed positions as an active ARES
member; ensuring public safety through involvement in our valuable Skywarn
program; enjoying ham radio's roots as a CW operator and FISTS member;
exploring ham radio's future by experimenting with its new modes and methods
such as PSK31 and D-STAR; encouraging experimentation through involvement in
activities such as high altitude balloon launches and homebrewing; chasing
new countries and entities as a DXer; enjoying the competitive side of ham
radio through contesting; and so much more.
Among my biggest passions is working to involve and engage the next
generation of hams - our youth. For half a decade I served as one of ARRL's
Contributing Editors, focusing on topics related to ham radio's legacy. And
to more effectively involve our youth at hamfests across the United States,
I co-developed the concept of a "Youth Lounge" (vastly different from a
typical youth forum) which is promoted on ARRL's website for all interested
hams, clubs, and hamfest committees to utilize. This concept has been a
part of hamfest programs across Georgia, Alabama, California, North
Carolina, and Wyoming, and it continues to spread elsewhere across our
nation. Further exemplifying its effectiveness, the Youth Lounge concept
has been an established program area of the Dayton Hamvention since 2005.
Today I am running to serve great members like you as Vice-Director of
ARRL's Southeastern Division. As a life member of the League, Amateur
Extra, and A-1 Operator, I believe strongly in the positive impact and
influence the ARRL has and look to improve its effectiveness through
offering my experience, perspective, and passion for ham radio.
If elected, I confidently make the following pledges to you:
(1) to greatly improve communication within our Division. Leadership is
ineffective without communicating to those whose views, concerns and
opinions need to be represented;
(2) to remain engaged with issues that pose a threat to our spectrum and
operating privileges, whether it's BPL, the current ReconRobotics threat, or
an FCC that bases its decisions on politics rather than sound engineering
principles;
(3) to assist the ARRL and its members in better attracting and involving
youth in ham radio. They are our legacy who will one day lead the ham radio
we care so much about today;
(4) to improve the level end effectiveness of advocacy within our Division
on matters before Congress and the FCC that affect amateur radio, its
precious spectrum, or our valuable operating privileges.
I invite you to visit my website - www.SouthEasternDivision.org - to learn
more about the upcoming election, my background and passion for ham radio,
my position on a variety of issues that hams are concerned about, and to
read further elaborations on my pledges to you. I encourage you to vote
this October and kindly ask for your support so that I may represent you and
your concerns effectively as Vice-Director of ARRL's Southeastern Division.
Thank you and 73,
Andrea Hartlage, KG4IUM
Candidate for Vice- Director, ARRL Southeastern Division
website: www.SouthEasternDivision.org
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