12-R263

2012 -- H 8138

Enacted 05/09/12

 

 

H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N

PROCLAIMING THE WEEK OF JUNE 18TH - 24TH, 2012, TO BE "AMATEUR RADIO

WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

     

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Menard, MacBeth, and McLaughlin

     Date Introduced: May 09, 2012

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the leading organization for

Amateur Radio in the United States; and

     WHEREAS, Amateur Radio or “ham radio” operators will be celebrating over a century

of “the miracle of human voice broadcast over the airwaves”; and

     WHEREAS, Amateur Radio provides a bridge between peoples, societies, and countries

by creating friendships and through the sharing of ideas; and

     WHEREAS, There are more than 2.5 million Amateur Radio operators worldwide, with

more than 650,000 in the United States and approximately 2,000 in Rhode Island; and  

     WHEREAS, Amateur Radio operators have provided countless hours of community

service without compensation; and

     WHEREAS, During June of this year, as they have for decades, Rhode Island’s “ham”

operators will join amateur operators from across the United States and Canada in setting  up a

24-hour emergency encampment exercise, known as Field Day, demonstrating their skills and

readiness to provide emergency communications; and

     WHEREAS, Over the past decade, Amateur Radio operators have provided critical

emergency communications when other systems failed during the devastating events of Hurricane

Katrina and, more recently, during the catastrophes in Haiti and Chile; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

Providence Plantations hereby proclaims the week of June 18th - 24th, 2012, to be “Amateur

Radio Week.”  We furthermore thank our local “hams” for their diligence and dedication to our

state’s communication preparedness; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and he hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Bob Beaudet, W1YRC, ARRL Section

Manager, Rhode Island Section ARRL, and the National Association for Amateur Radio. 

     

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