Frank, Since January we have been working specific, key congressional representatives in support of HR462. This has resulted in several directors being contacted directly for letters from specific congressional districts which has occurred and has been very successful to date. My email of May 22 for each director and vice director to write a letter to their own representatives, as well as to have the grassroots program begin letters to their specific representative was for co-sponsors to HR462. While we do want to generate as many co-sponsors as possible, that will not ensure passage of the bill. Working key committee representatives, as we have been doing since January, will, just as we did and were successful with last year during the previous Congress when the House of Representatives passed our bill. If my previous email was not informative enough, I will gladly clarify it, however I have not heard from anyone along those lines, only responses from the directors who have acted on it so far. 73 Joel W5ZN -----Original Message----- From: Frank Fallon [mailto:n2ff@optonline.net] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:09 AM To: arrl-odv Cc: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:15687] Re: RE: Emergency Amateur Radio Interference Act Joel and Dave, This is great news. Congratulations to the team! I hope that we will shortly have a web story up and a link to letters before Field Day. Many Directors and SM's will be meeting a lot of our members that weekend and it is good opportunity to push our members into action so that they will contact their congressional representatives and senators over the July 4th recess and get more cosponsors. Please remember that our grassroots program/network will not function as designed unless we keep those key members informed. By my count they have had only one message this year and that was Joel's May 22nd "Action Plan" message. We need a point person at HQ to push this effort! 73 de Frank...N2FF..... Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ wrote:

The number is S.1629. Dave HB9/K1ZZ

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I'm very pleased to report to you that we now have a Senate version of HR462!

The bill number will be available shortly.

Senator Mark Pryor (Arkansas) filed the bill today. This is successful completion of an effort that has been ongoing for a little over two months that has involved the activity of a variety of people. Another important fact is that Entergy, the major utility in Arkansas and many parts of the U.S. operates a BPL system to collect electric usage data (no subscriber base) and has been very cooperative with radio amateurs from the very beginning about preventing interference to amateur radio stations and actually bought off and supports the language of the bill.

More later.

73 Joel W5ZN

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*From:* John Chwat [mailto:john.chwat@chwatco.com] *Sent:* Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:18 PM *To:* w5zn@arrl.org; 'Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ'; cimlay@arrl.org *Cc:* 'Janet Worthington' *Subject:* FW: Emergency Amateur Radio Interference Act

Congratulations to all-we now have a House AND Senate bill-we will get a Senate bill number tomorrow to forward---we have offered to draft a Dear Colleague for Sen.Pryor's staff. We will begin our networking (Director's too) for Senate Cosponsors once we get a bill number and get a Dear Colleague back..

John

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*From:* Glaze, Terri (Pryor) [mailto:Terri_Glaze@pryor.senate.gov] *Sent:* Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:55 PM *To:* Janet Worthington *Cc:* john.chwat@chwatco.com *Subject:* Emergency Amateur Radio Interference Act

The bill was filed today!