I agree. This bill is totally self-serving and we should come out against it. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Tom Frenaye <frenaye@pcnet.com> To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:34:34 -0400 Subject: [arrl-odv:12802] NWS - Senate Bill 786 I thought we spent a little time at the recent Board meeting talking about Senate Bill 786 (regarding weather information), introduced by Senator Santorum. Couldn't find any reference to it in the minutes so I guess it was a brief mention - perhaps in John Chwat's presentation. I guess the bottom line was that we (John, Chris, etc) didn't think there was a real chance if it becoming law, so we didn't take any action. I'm second-guessing that now after reading an article about it in Information World: http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165702845 I also believe we have a lot of members who find our association with the NWS to be very positive (and vice versa). I think it'd be a good move for us to publicly state that we do not support S.786. -- Tom ===== e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444