March 2010 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:18701] More on the S. 1755 effort
by Kay Craigie 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

We have a story on the web site about the push to get faxes sent to Chairman Waxman and Ranking Minority Member Joe Barton. Chairman Waxman's fax number was posted earlier today and Representative Barton's fax number is 202-225-1919. 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18700] ECAC update
by Kay Craigie 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

As of this morning, five Divisions do not have Emergency Communications Advisory Committee representatives yet. Please make your appointments as soon as possible, so a chair can be appointed and the PSC can task the committee if a suitable study topic arises. Thanks & 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18699] S.1755 on the Web
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

We have replaced the "Support H.R. 2160" button at the top of the ARRL home page with a "Please Help S.1755!" button. This takes you to the information about our current effort aimed at the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Dave

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Waxman's Fax
by Kay Craigie 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

With regard to letters in support of S. 1755, the fax number for Chairman Waxman is (202) 225-2525. Chwat suggests that direct faxes to Waxman would be the best way to go and I sent my letter by fax this morning. I'm going to follow up the fax with a paper letter for Chwat to deliver in person. The fax number can be communicated to members. 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18697] RE: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Jim, while S.1755 is of course a Senate bill number, the bill has already passed the Senate. We don't need to communicate with Senators about the bill. We're communicating with the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, who decide what business their committee will take up. As I understand John Chwat's strategy, it is for everyone to concentrate on sending faxes to the Committee fax machine (which is controlled by the majority party) as well as to the committee office of the minority since the bill went through the Senate as a bipartisan measure. As for communicating with other members of the House committee, it certainly wouldn't hurt to do so if one has a personal relationship. For example, Harold Kramer is having breakfast with his Congressman next week and will bring it up if he has the opportunity since his Congressman is on Energy and Commerce. However, it's not part of our current strategy to generate volumes of letters to committee members. 73, Dave K1ZZ ________________________________ From: K8JE [mailto:k8je@arrl.org] Sent: Wed 3/10/2010 12:46 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action Corrected message follows. I left out a few key words in my initial haste. Sorry. Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je(a)arrl.org, Tel.: 513-459-1661 ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio -----Original Message----- From: K8JE [mailto:k8je@arrl.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 7:31 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action CORRECTED Kay, All is understood; however, I have a question regarding S.1755. Although writing to all senators is inappropriate at this time, would it be good for members to write to one's own senator if he is on the Committee as well as to Chairman Waxman with the same basic request? In the case of members of the Committee, the request would to get behind the bill and help move it to the Senate floor with a favorable recommendation. I believe the GLD has eight senators who are on Waxman's Committee. Tnx, Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je(a)arrl.org, Tel.: 513-459-1661 ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio -----Original Message----- From: Kay Craigie [mailto:n3kn@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:05 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action We now have a sample letter on the charitable mileage deduction issue. But wait, there's more. I'm asking Dan Henderson to hold off activating the grass-roots network on that issue for just a bit. This is because John Chwat has recommended a full-court press (hey, it is almost March Madness time) on S. 1755, which is now in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This would involve letters not only from ARRL members in Chairman Henry Waxman's own district in California urging him to move the legislation through his committee and out to the House floor, but also letters from all members everywhere to Chairman Waxman. He needs to know this legislation has nationwide support. For your convenience, I am attaching a copy of the sample letter on S. 1755. It should be addressed as shown to Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Barton, not to your own home district representative. As usual, please mail, e-mail, or fax your letter to Chwat's office. We hope to have a big pile of letters to be plopped on the desk at Chairman Waxman's office to make our point loud and clear. Dave, please ask Dan to get the DLACs going on S. 1755. 73 - Kay N3KN

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RE: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action
by K8JE 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Corrected message follows. I left out a few key words in my initial haste. Sorry. Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je(a)arrl.org, Tel.: 513-459-1661 ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio -----Original Message----- From: K8JE [mailto:k8je@arrl.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 7:31 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action CORRECTED Kay, All is understood; however, I have a question regarding S.1755. Although writing to all senators is inappropriate at this time, would it be good for members to write to one's own senator if he is on the Committee as well as to Chairman Waxman with the same basic request? In the case of members of the Committee, the request would to get behind the bill and help move it to the Senate floor with a favorable recommendation. I believe the GLD has eight senators who are on Waxman's Committee. Tnx, Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je(a)arrl.org, Tel.: 513-459-1661 ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio -----Original Message----- From: Kay Craigie [mailto:n3kn@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:05 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action We now have a sample letter on the charitable mileage deduction issue. But wait, there's more. I'm asking Dan Henderson to hold off activating the grass-roots network on that issue for just a bit. This is because John Chwat has recommended a full-court press (hey, it is almost March Madness time) on S. 1755, which is now in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This would involve letters not only from ARRL members in Chairman Henry Waxman's own district in California urging him to move the legislation through his committee and out to the House floor, but also letters from all members everywhere to Chairman Waxman. He needs to know this legislation has nationwide support. For your convenience, I am attaching a copy of the sample letter on S. 1755. It should be addressed as shown to Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Barton, not to your own home district representative. As usual, please mail, e-mail, or fax your letter to Chwat's office. We hope to have a big pile of letters to be plopped on the desk at Chairman Waxman's office to make our point loud and clear. Dave, please ask Dan to get the DLACs going on S. 1755. 73 - Kay N3KN

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RE: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action
by K8JE 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Kay, All is understood; however, I have a question regarding S.1755. Although writing to all senators, would it be good to write to one's own senator if he is on the Committee as well as to Chairman Waxman with the same basic request? In the case of members of the Committee, the request would to get behind the bill and help move it to the Senate floor with a favorable recommendation. I believe the GLD has eight senators who are on Waxman's Committee. Tnx, Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je(a)arrl.org, Tel.: 513-459-1661 ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio -----Original Message----- From: Kay Craigie [mailto:n3kn@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:05 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action We now have a sample letter on the charitable mileage deduction issue. But wait, there's more. I'm asking Dan Henderson to hold off activating the grass-roots network on that issue for just a bit. This is because John Chwat has recommended a full-court press (hey, it is almost March Madness time) on S. 1755, which is now in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This would involve letters not only from ARRL members in Chairman Henry Waxman's own district in California urging him to move the legislation through his committee and out to the House floor, but also letters from all members everywhere to Chairman Waxman. He needs to know this legislation has nationwide support. For your convenience, I am attaching a copy of the sample letter on S. 1755. It should be addressed as shown to Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Barton, not to your own home district representative. As usual, please mail, e-mail, or fax your letter to Chwat's office. We hope to have a big pile of letters to be plopped on the desk at Chairman Waxman's office to make our point loud and clear. Dave, please ask Dan to get the DLACs going on S. 1755. 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18694] RE: [arrl-odv:18663] Hamfest Materials
by Kramer, Harold, WJ1B 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Just FYI and follow up to the email below: 1. We will back out shipping and the cost of membership supplies and promotional material already incurred in 2010 that were billed to Section and Division budgets and move them to the HQ budget. 2. We are working on an automated Web order process for SMs and ODVs who need membership supplies and promotional materials. This new process will not charge Section or Division budgets for membership supplies. It is still being developed, so details will not be available for a few weeks until the new Web site is launched. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 860 594 0220 hkramer(a)arrl.org From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:20 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Inderbitzen, Bob, NQ1R; Patton, David NN1N; Hurtado, Amy KB1NXO; Fusaro, Norm W3IZ; Dotolo, Kim, KB1TLN; Pinto, Ann-Marie; Iannone, Gail; Cornell,Jacqueline, KB1PWB; Petrilli, Diane, KB1RNF; Ewald, Steve, WV1X Subject: [arrl-odv:18663] Hamfest Materials To: ARRL ODV As a side effect of setting up the Forms and Media Warehouse feature on the Web site to make it easier to see what promotional materials are available as well as to order them, the costs were being charged back to the appropriate division and Section budgets. Effective immediately, this is no longer being done. The costs will be charged to a Headquarters account. Thanks to those of you who pointed out the problems that the change inadvertently caused. Our intention, and that has been proven out, was to make it easier for members and others interested parties to easily and quickly obtain these materials. In the past, members were often sent from one department to another to obtain these materials and this Web platform eliminated that problem. However, as is often the case, the law of unintended consequences went into effect and because of the automated ordering system, we began charging Section and Division budgets for the materials. I am sorry that this happened. Internally, we are working on an interim process for fulfilling your material orders. The new Web store will launch in a few weeks and I believe that we can automate the process a few weeks after that. In the meantime, I will meet with the staff members involved in order fulfillment and I will get back to you the beginning of next week on how we will handle your orders. If there is a need for materials in the next few days, just email me and I will get it fulfilled. We will be sending a similar message to the Section Managers shortly. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: 860 594 0220 email: hkramer(a)arrl.org <mailto:hkramer@arrl.org> web: www.arrl.org/ <http://www.arrl.org/>

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[arrl-odv:18693] RE: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Here's the corrected sample letter. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Kay Craigie [mailto:n3kn@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:05 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action We now have a sample letter on the charitable mileage deduction issue. But wait, there's more. I'm asking Dan Henderson to hold off activating the grass-roots network on that issue for just a bit. This is because John Chwat has recommended a full-court press (hey, it is almost March Madness time) on S. 1755, which is now in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This would involve letters not only from ARRL members in Chairman Henry Waxman's own district in California urging him to move the legislation through his committee and out to the House floor, but also letters from all members everywhere to Chairman Waxman. He needs to know this legislation has nationwide support. For your convenience, I am attaching a copy of the sample letter on S. 1755. It should be addressed as shown to Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Barton, not to your own home district representative. As usual, please mail, e-mail, or fax your letter to Chwat's office. We hope to have a big pile of letters to be plopped on the desk at Chairman Waxman's office to make our point loud and clear. Dave, please ask Dan to get the DLACs going on S. 1755. 73 - Kay N3KN

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[arrl-odv:18692] Re:RE: RE: Legislative action
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

I should have been more explicit. Don't use the sample letter that Kay forwarded. There's an error in it. We're fixing it. Dave From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:51 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18691] Re:RE: Legislative action Marty, we'll get to that. We're still tweaking the letter. Dave From: Marty Woll [mailto:n6vi@socal.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:49 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:18690] Re: Legislative action Hi, Kay. Since our Section and Division e-mails cannot transmit attachments, will the sample letter and instructions for customizing and forwarding appear on the ARRL Web site so that we can direct our members there? 73, Marty N6VI ----- Original Message ----- From: Kay Craigie <mailto:n3kn@verizon.net> To: arrl-odv <mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 11:04 AM Subject: [arrl-odv:18689] Legislative action . . . John Chwat has recommended a full-court press . . . on S. 1755, which is now in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This would involve letters not only from ARRL members in Chairman Henry Waxman's own district in California urging him to move the legislation through his committee and out to the House floor, but also letters from all members everywhere to Chairman Waxman. He needs to know this legislation has nationwide support. For your convenience, I am attaching a copy of the sample letter on S. 1755. It should be addressed as shown to Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Barton, not to your own home district representative. As usual, please mail, e-mail, or fax your letter to Chwat's office. We hope to have a big pile of letters to be plopped on the desk at Chairman Waxman's office to make our point loud and clear. . . . 73 - Kay N3KN

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