PRINTER'S NO. 962
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
160
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY SCAVELLO, JUNE 12, 2019
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, JUNE 12, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the month of June 2019 as "Amateur Radio Month" and
the week of June 16 through 22, 2019, as "Amateur Radio Week"
in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Amateur radio operators are celebrating more than a
century of the miracle of the human voice broadcast over the
airwaves; and
WHEREAS, Amateur radio continues to provide a bridge between
peoples, societies and countries by creating friendships and the
sharing of ideas; and
WHEREAS, Amateur radio operators have provided countless
hours of community services in emergencies and to other local
organizations throughout the decades; and
WHEREAS, Amateur radio services are provided wholly
uncompensated; and
WHEREAS, Amateur radio operators also provide services to
emergency response organizations in this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Amateur radio operators demonstrate their value in
public assistance by providing free radio communications for
local parades, bike-a-thons, walk-a-thons, fairs and other
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charitable public events; and
WHEREAS, The Senate recognizes and appreciates the diligence
of these "hams" who also serve as weather spotters in the
Skywarn program of the National Weather Service; and
WHEREAS, The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the
leading organization for amateur radio in the United States; and
WHEREAS, The ARRL Amateur Radio Field Day exercises are
taking place on June 22 through 23, 2019, and are a 24-hour
emergency preparedness exercise and demonstration of the radio
amateurs' skills and readiness to provide self-supporting
communications without further infrastructure being required;
and
WHEREAS, The Eastern Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Association
is holding its annual field day activities at Big Pocono State
Park; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the month of June 2019 as
"Amateur Radio Month" and the week of June 16 through 22, 2019,
as "Amateur Radio Week" in Pennsylvania.
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