Dave,

You sent a very conciliatory reply to Mike after a rather inflammatory response from him. I appreciate your well thought out and courteous reply.

Speaking as a former SM, Mike was out of line.  Regardless of possible misunderstandings, the tone of his reply to our CEO and the ARRL in general was highly inappropriate, in my opinion.

Dismissing what the ARRL and volunteers have done up to this point with hr607 up to his meeting is highly insulting.

Of particular concern was his self perceived separation of him and the ARRL.  He represents the ARRL.  Does he understand this?

I. Believe he should be educated on proper ways to address our staff and the BOD in the future


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Mike, thank you for setting up the meeting. It's a great example of grassroots lobbying.
 
However, while I'm sure things are moving in the right direction, we are not out of the woods quite yet. Rep. King lost control of the bill when he submitted it; it now belongs to the House of Representatives. He is of course an influential member of the House, but the bill is assigned to the Commerce Committee and its Telecom Subcommittee and not to the committee that he chairs. Fortunately, the subcommittee is chaired by Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, W7EQI, and we know the subcommittee staff is not inclined to include 420-440 MHz in its draft of First Responder Broadband legislation.
 
It is good to hear that Rep. King assured you and the group that he will seek to modify the bill. I hope he will put that in writing to the committee of jurisdiction.
 
Again, congratulations on a fine piece of work.
 
73,
Dave Sumner, K1ZZ

From: arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org on behalf of Richard J Norton
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Subject: [arrl-odv:19967] Fwd: HR 607 & 70 cm...

The following is on QRZ.COM -

73,

Dick Norton, N6AA/8


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Mike Lisenco, N2YBB
n2ybb@arrl.org
917-865-3538

May 19, 2011, Massapequa Park, NY - A delegation of Amateur Radio
operators from the Long Island / New York City area met this morning
with Congressman Peter T. King (R-NY) to discuss his recent proposed
legislation, HR 607, and its impact on Amateur Radio.

Congressman King said that he fully understands and appreciates the
importance of Amateur Radio and the service it provides to the
community, and that he would see to the modification of the bill so
that the 420 - 440 MHz band would be excluded from the spectrum to be
auctioned. The delegation included Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, ARRL Section
Manager for New York City / Long Island (NLI), Peter Portanova,
WB2OQQ, NLI Local Government Liaison (LGL), George Tranos, N2GA, NLI
State Government Liaison (SGL), and Jim Mezey, W2KFV, NLI ARES Section
Emergency Coordinator (SEC).

"The Congressman went on to explain that it was never his intention to
remove the 70 centimeter band from Amateur use. He further asked us to
`get the word out' and inform the Amateur Radio community that 70
centimeters is not in jeopardy," said Lisenco.

Lisenco, Mezey and Tranos spoke about the importance of Amateur Radio
emergency communications while Portanova, who is also the local AMSAT
representative, addressed satellite and other amateur use of the 70
centimeter band.

The Congressman was very receptive to the group, who also extended an
invitation to attend Field Day locations in his District.
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