I plan to be running such letters next Saturday at a hamfest. Getting our Senate letters right is of great importance because one of our Senators is on the relevant committee. If anyone knows how to fix or work around this issue, a quick response would be most appreciated. Tnx es 73, Greg, K0GW On Sunday, September 13, 2015, Marty Woll <n6vi@socal.rr.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','n6vi@socal.rr.com');>> wrote:

We're just back from the Southwestern Division Convention, having sent over 400 letters back with Ed Hare to HQ. Unfortunately, over 160 of them may be unusable. It turns out that our Access database, which worked well for House letters, was generating senate letters containing the house-bill information. We discovered this late Saturday morning after having already put in eight hours at the booth since Friday afternoon. Reinstalling the database from the flash drive given to Directors did not fix the problem. I'm glad I was not near a live mic at the time! My work-around was to print stacks of form letters I had previously created for our two California senators and have people manually add their own address below their signature. That was, of course, a much slower process.

It had been made clear to me that changing the content of the Access-generated letters requires considerable Access expertise, which I do not possess.

I hope Dan and crew can figure out a way to make use of all those signatures on the faulty letters.

73,

Marty N6VI

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