Dear Officers, Directors, and Vice-Directors,

We have revised the proposed statement, hopefully addressing everyone's concerns.  If we can get agreement on this statement by 10AM Thursday, we can have it in this week's ARRL Letter.

At its annual meeting, held Jan. 18-19 in Windsor, CT, the ARRL Board of Directors decided that the organization needs to “review, re-examine and reappraise the ARRL’s regulatory and legislative policy with regard to private land use restrictions.”

In order to effectively undertake such a review, the Board adopted a resolution to withdraw its Petition for Rule Making to the FCC (which would amend its Part 97 Amateur Service rules to incorporate the provisions of the Amateur Radio Parity Act), without prejudice to refiling. The resolution also asks the members of Congress who had refiled legislation to enact the Amateur Radio Parity Act (ARPA) to refrain from seeking to advance that legislation pending further input from the ARRL.

The Board noted that its “intent [is] to renew, continue and strengthen the ARRL’s effort to achieve relief from such restrictions.” This action represents a chance to get the best product possible for ARRL members and all amateur radio operators.

Board members noted that the ARRL has been pursuing adoption of the ARPA for the past several years and has been unable to achieve its objective. This has been a source of great frustration to the organization and its members. A majority of the board now believes that there is a need to reassess the organization’s approach to this issue.

The Board did express its sincere appreciation for the thousands of ARRL members who took the time to contact their representatives in Congress to urge them to support the Amateur Radio Parity Act and also offered its thanks to those members of Congress who have consistently and continuously supported the rights of amateur radio operators.

73, Howard, WB2ITX

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Howard E. Michel, WB2ITX
Chief Executive Officer
ARRL, The National Association for Amateur Radio® 
225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111-1494 USA
Telephone: +1 860-594-0404
email: hmichel@arrl.org

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