Her staffers prepared this, I'm sure, probably at the behest of hams or a ham group in her district. If those who initiated the event aren't well educated or don't understand what our basis is, that's a problem. I know we write/talk a lot about what Ria suggested, but maybe we need to do a better job making sure our members and the ham community know. (And I admit, I'm surprised that they don't.) Ria is right that any publicity helps. There is a lot of material out there. Some focus on our message would be good. 73, Art On 6/23/2021 10:45 AM, rjairam@gmail.com wrote:
While any publicity is good publicity, she missed all of the parts of basis and purpose except for half of one part (emcomm).
Amateur radio is multiple things and we have purposes not only in emcomm but also international goodwill, training of radio operators in general, and enhancing operational and technical skills and the radio art. All of these are part of 97.1 of the FCC regulations.
Since STEM is a big push these days, especially for youth, and we are closely tied to the space program, not emphasizing this as a reason that the service exists -particularly with regard to our spectrum that is under threat from commercial interests- is a huge missed opportunity.
73 Ria N2RJ
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