Temple Amateur Radio Club's Vice President Gerald Richmond N5ZXJ; TARC's President John Hobson, WD5BFS; Brennan Price, N4QX ARRL Chief Technology Officer; David Woolweaver, K5RAV Director West Gulf Division; John Stratton, N5AUS Vice Director West Gulf Division were present with the Temple Amateur Radio Club presented a generous contribution to ARRL for the Spectrum Defense Fund.

The club operates a successful hamfest twice year and eagerly shares that success with ARRL by contributing $1000 to the Spectrum Defense fund for the second year in a row! 

Since 1996 when Little Leos presented a threat to Amateur Radio,  ARRL has been mounting an annual campaign to inform radio amateurs about the vital role they can play in protecting Amateur Radio's frequencies.  Defending and enhancing radio amateurs' access to radio spectrum has become the most important mission of ARRL. 

Each year radio amateurs respond generously to support ARRL and become key members of the spectrum defense team. ARRL board, staff and volunteers join ARRL members to work on behalf of Amateur Radio every day, addressing issues that affect access to Amateur Radio frequencies. 

With constant vigilance and decisive action Amateur Radio has enjoyed many successes:

• Defeating the threat that Little Leo satellites posed to the 2-meter band;
• Protecting our bands and adding new ones;
• Even the loss of the bottom 40% of the 220-MHz band two decades ago gave us upgraded status, from shared to exclusive, in the remaining 60% of the band;
• Removing high-powered international broadcasting stations from the heart of the 40-meter band - doubling the size of the worldwide band and making it more useful than it had been in 70 years;
• Earning Amateur Radio's first low-frequency(LF) allocation. But ARRL must peitition the FCC to implement the allocation and it will not be granted without argument;
• Battling the Broadband Over PowerLine (BPL) interference for six years including successfully challenging the FCC on its prejudice that tainted the rulemaking process; and
• Preparing for legal arguments to guarantee that the FCC will correct its errors and resolve issues solely on technical grounds.

Your contribution to the Spectrum Defense Fund ensures that ARRL will have the resources to meet future challenges when they appearm and to protect your operating privileges. 

If you would like to support the Spectrum Defense Fund with pledge of $10 or more a month on your credit card, please contact the Development Office by phone at 860-594-0397 or by e-mail to mhobart@arrl.org to arrange a billing schedule.

Thank you for being as generous as you can.