Bill Text: DE HR36 | 2015-2016 | 148th General Assembly | Draft
Bill Title: Recognizing June 20-26, 2016 As Amateur Radio Week In Delaware.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-21 - Passed in House by Voice Vote [HR36 Detail]
Download: Delaware-2015-HR36-Draft.html
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Rep. Smyk |
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 148th GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 36 |
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RECOGNIZING JUNE 20-26, 2016 AS AMATEUR RADIO WEEK IN DELAWARE. |
WHEREAS, Amateur Radio Operators are celebrating over a century of the miracle of the human voice transmissions over the airwaves; and
WHEREAS, Amateur Radio has continued to provide a bridge between peoples, societies, and countries by creating friendships and the sharing of ideas; and
WHEREAS, Amateur Radio Operators have also provided countless hours of community services both in emergencies and to other local organizations throughout these decades; and
WHEREAS, these Amateur Radio services are provided wholly uncompensated; and
WHEREAS, the State also recognizes the services Amateur Radio's people also provide to our many Emergency Response organizations, including the Delaware State Police in Sussex County, the Emergency Operations Centers of Sussex, Kent, and New Castle Counties, and to the Delaware Emergency Management Agency as well as to Beebe, Christiana, Nanticoke, and Wilmington Hospitals; and
WHEREAS, these same individuals have further demonstrated their value in public assistance by providing free radio communications for local parades, bike-a-thons, walk-a-thons, and other charitable events; and
WHEREAS, the State of Delaware recognizes and appreciates the diligence ofthese "hams" who also serve as weather spotters in the Skywarn Program of the U.S. Government Weather Bureau; and
WHEREAS, the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the leading organization for Amateur Radio in the USA; and
WHEREAS, the ARRL Amateur Radio Field Day exercise will take place on June 25-26, 2016 and is 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;
NOW, THEREFORE:
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the 148th General Assembly of the State of Delaware that we recognize and designate June 20-26, 2016 as Amateur Radio Week in the State of Delaware.
