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TravelPlus CD-ROM -- Locate repeaters along your travel route. Detailed maps and current repeater data.

Getting Started with Ham Radio -- Get on the air now! A guide to your first Amateur Radio station.

The ARRL DXCC Handbook -- Worldwide ham radio operating and the ARRL DXCC Award!

Radio Amateur Callbook CD-ROM (2010) -- Coming early December! -- Winter Edition! More than 1,600,000 licensed radio amateurs! Includes International and North American listings and Amateur Radio Prefix Maps.

ARRL's HF Digital Handbook -- Join the Digital Race! 4th Edition.

The Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 2005

ARRL Government Relations

Sample Letter to Request HR 691 Cosponsorship

Use this version to write to your congressperson (US Representative) regarding HR 691. You may customize this letter. A version for your US Senator follows.

<YOUR NAME>
<YOUR ADDRESS>
<CITY, STATE ZIP>

Dear Rep ____________

As one of the nation's more than 670,000 federally licensed radio amateurs, I urge you to co-sponsor HR 691, the "Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 2005," sponsored by Rep. Michael Bilirakis (R-FL).

This bill is a nonpartisan, non-controversial measure designed to help protect the radio frequencies used by Amateur Radio volunteers throughout our nation in providing emergency communications assistance during times of disaster. Most recently, radio amateurs have aided government and private relief agencies after the terrorist attacks of September 2001 and during the severe forest fires which engulfed many parts of the Western United States last summer.

Your cosponsorship of HR 691 will help ensure that Amateur Radio operators have access to the needed spectrum, essential to their public service role.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,



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