Thank You for Making Our Hamfest a Success
Thank-you to the sponsors, attendees, seminar speakers, vendors, volunteers, and our hosts: the Minnesota National Guard. Your support and involvement made this event a great success!
See you next year ‼️
CHIRP Radio Programming Webinar
The ARRL will host a CHIRP Radio Programming Webinar on October 19, 2016 at 8PM ET (0000 UTC on Thursday, October 20, in US time zones).
Attendees must register on-line for this webinar.
Every Letter Counts
Over 50K #HR1301 emails have been sent to #CapitolHill. Has yours? Every letter counts: Please do it now https://t.co/nmRAFrDc3K #HamRadio pic.twitter.com/5iAV87dmcc
— ARRL (@arrl) September 23, 2016
Simulated Emergency Test
September is National Preparedness Month. Every year in September ARRL encourages ARES, RACES, and SKYWARN leaders to plan a Simulated Emergency Test (SET). In their effort to be as prepared as possible to provide auxiliary communications if needed during a disaster, the RRRA ARES group has planned informal nets Sunday, October 2nd , and Monday, October 3rd on VHF and HF bands with relays between these bands handled by the net controllers.
September 2016 Business Meeting Minutes
- 19:00 Meeting called to order 7:01
- Crop Walk Oct 2nd at 1:30. Certificates handed out to members that helped last year. If you are interested in helping, Contact Dave N0WQZ
- Introductions of members 26 members present
- Approve order of agenda
Contact Your Senator About The Amateur Radio Parity Act
“The bill is passed without objection.” With those words, Amateur Radio history was made on September 12, when the US House of Representatives approved the Amateur Radio Parity Act, H.R. 1301 on a voice vote under a suspension of the rules. The focus of the campaign to enact the legislation into law now shifts to the US Senate.
(ARRL: Amateur Radio Parity Act Passes in the US House of Representatives!)
As ARRL Dakota Division Director, Kent Olson KA0LDG, wrote in his Tuesday, September 13, 2016, email to Dakota Division Members:
This is a “call to arms” and crunch time for us to get this bill through the Senate. The days of the 114th Congress are getting less and less each day so the faster this bill gets to the floor, the better.
Please, please, please, take a few minutes and do this for the future of Amateur Radio. ARRL officers, directors, and staff have put countless hours into getting HR-1301 passed and yet the work is not quite done. Now we need another push for [HR-1303 in the Senate] to get passed and you can help.
To this end the ARRL have deployed a Rally Congress page to simplify the letter writing process. And Rick Roderick (K5UR, ARRL President) sent the following letter to the ARRL Membership requesting their support:
