Greetings. First of all, I want to thank all of the Directors and Vice-Directors who have made arrangements or who are making arrangements for District Office visits on behalf of H.R. 4969 during the August recess. The response from the ARRL team has been fantastic and we will surely meet our goal of cosponsors by mid-September. Those visits are gold. 

The Keelen Group for their part has done a spectacular job of both strategizing and administrating our effort, both here in Washington and by setting up appointments in the District offices. We are lucky to have them and I will assure you that we are in the best of hands. If you have any trouble scheduling a District Office visit, just e-mail the details to one of the four Keelen pros on this thread and they will fix you up pronto.

Now, it is critical that Alex at TKG have an accurate and complete list of those members of the Board who are coming to Washington in September during one of the two windows in the first part of September to do Congressional Visits. I know that Kay, Mike Lisenco, David Norris and Dick Isely are coming in and I have heard indirectly that David Woolweaver is planning to come in order to meet with West Gulf Division congressional offices. However, Alex and I have to make absolutely sure that we know the precise days you will be available to do meetings on the Hill so that the meetings can be set up in advance and so we can make the best use of your time and ARRL's money. Can you please, right away, respond to this e-mail IF YOU ARE COMING TO WASHINGTON IN SEPTEMBER and let us know what day you are arriving and what time you will be available to do your first and last meeting before heading home. You will NOT want to do more than two full days of this, I will assure you, but two days is also about the minimum to justify the cost of this effort.

Can those of you who are coming here to D.C. please confirm that (yes, again, Dick Isely) and the days that you will be ready to work?

Thanks.

73, Chris W3KD