From Newsgroup: rec.radio.amateur.misc

September 17, 2025

YOU CAN HELP US
CHANGE THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN HAMS

The ARRL is focused on reducing legal restraints on the ability of American Amateur Radio Operators to engage in the active practice and enjoyment of Amateur Radio.



One of the most insidious and increasing threats to the survival of Amateur Radio and our ability to serve our communities and Nation, as we are required to

do by Federal regulation, is the proliferation of private land use
restrictions

that prohibit the installation of outdoor antennas and that sometimes
actually

deny Federally licensed Amateurs from operating any amateur radios,
regardless

of where their antennas are located r-" in their attics, hidden in trees, or mounted on their vehicles.



Federal law r-" since 1996 r-" has guaranteed to every American r-" except Amateur

Radio Operators r-" the right to erect antennas outside or on their
residences for

the purpose of TV reception, satellite TV and internet access, wireless internet

access, and even wireless internet redistribution. But Amateur Radio
operators

are denied the equal right to erect comparable antennas.



Since 2005, Federal law has also guaranteed to every American the right to proudly display the American Flag by installing N4eagpoles in their yards.
But,

despite that right to install vertical poles in their yards r-" American
Radio

Amateurs are denied the right to use those vertical N4eagpoles as vertical antennas.



We believe the denial r-" to licensed Amateur Radio Operators r-" of the
rights

guaranteed to all non-Amateur Radio licensed American homeowners r-" the
right to

install antennas on the land they own r-" is without justiN4Ucation and
should not

be permitted to continue.



To eliminate these private land use restrictions, the ARRL has worked over
the

past several years with our elected ofN4Ucials to draft Congressional legislation

r-" H.R. 1094 in the U.S. House of Representatives and S. 459 in the U.S. Senate r-"

that, when passed will extend to all Hams the right to operate from their
homes

and the right to install antennas on the land they own. We have bipartisan support for this legislation.

BUT, WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PASS THIS LEGISLATION!!!

How can you help? By sending a letter to your Representative and Senators asking

that they co-sponsor and support H.R. 1094 and S. 459.



How can you send these letters? It is easy.



Go to r-" https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ [https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/]r-" enter

your call sign and click on "Send My Letters" and your letters will be delivered

to our Washington legislative team for hand delivery to your Representative
and

Senators.



Does your individual letter matter? YES.



Your Representative and Senators need to know that the passage of this legislation is important to you.



Your letter could be the difference in whether we are able to pass H.R. 1094 and

S. 459.



Go to r-" https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ [https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/] r-" and

help us by sending your letters to your Representative and Senators.

For ease of access to https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ [https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/], point your phones at:

[https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/]


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