We need *someone* to enable us to put up decent antenna systems that
would be valuable in emergencies when so many municipalities and
homeowners' associations are trying to make it impossible for us to do so.
Who would you like to do that?
73
Alan NV8A
On 05/06/09 09:44 am bob finger wrote:
> Not so sure this thread is tower related, but that said.
>
> It is so very sad that what US citizens once took for granted and did on
> our own now requires legislation and the BIG Government to study,
> oversee, spend money on, write regulations etc etc etc. Amateurs are
> volunteers. Always have been. We don't need big brother to "help us".
>> <mailto:richard.reed@hq.dhs.gov> Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
>> Enhancement Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)
>>
>> HR 2160 IH
>>
>> 111th CONGRESS
>>
>> 1st Session
>>
>> H. R. 2160
>>
>> To promote and encourage the valuable public service, disaster relief, and
>> emergency communications provided on a volunteer basis by licensees of the
>> Federal Communications Commission in the Amateur Radio Service, by
>> undertaking a study of the uses of amateur radio for emergency and disaster
>> relief communications, by identifying unnecessary or unreasonable
>> impediments to the deployment of Amateur Radio emergency and disaster relief
>> communications, and by making recommendations for relief of such
>> unreasonable restrictions so as to expand the uses of amateur radio
>> communications in Homeland Security planning and response.
<snip>
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