HR 560

                                                  PRINTER'S NO.    3571
                THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
         HOUSE RESOLUTION
            No. 560
                                            Session of
                                              2026
INTRODUCED BY PICKETT, BURGOS, GREINER, HAMM, KAUFFMAN, NEILSON,
   STAMBAUGH AND ROWE, JUNE 8, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY,
   JUNE 9, 2026
                             A RESOLUTION
1 Recognizing the week of June 22 through 28, 2026, as "Amateur
2    Radio Week" in Pennsylvania.
3WHEREAS, Amateur radio operators, or "hams," are celebrating
4 more than a century of the miracle of the human voice broadcast
5 over the airwaves; and
6WHEREAS, Amateur radio has continued to provide a bridge
7 between peoples, societies and countries by creating friendships
8 and the sharing of ideas; and
9WHEREAS, There are 23,473 licensed amateur radio operators
10 living in this Commonwealth; and
11WHEREAS, The Commonwealth recognizes that these same radio
12 operators have demonstrated their value in public assistance by
13 providing free radio communications for local parades, bike-a-
14 thons, walk-a-thons, fairs and other charitable public events;
15 and
16WHEREAS, The Commonwealth recognizes the more than 1,500
17 members of the Amateur Radio Emergency Services and Radio
1 Amateur Civil Emergency Services programs who serve this
2 Commonwealth, county and local emergency response organizations;
3 and
4WHEREAS, The Commonwealth recognizes and appreciates the
5 diligence of the "hams" who also serve as weather spotters in
6 the SKYWARN program of the National Weather Service; and
7WHEREAS, All of these amateur radio services are provided
8 wholly uncompensated; and
9WHEREAS, The Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the body
10 that organizes the annual exercise called "Amateur Radio Field
11 Day"; and
12WHEREAS, The ARRL "Amateur Radio Field Day" exercise will
13 take place June 27 through 28, 2026, and is a 24-hour emergency
14 preparedness exercise and demonstration of the radio amateurs'
15 skills and readiness to provide self-supporting communications
16 without further infrastructure being required; therefore be it
17RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
18 week of June 22 through 28, 2026, as "Amateur Radio Week" in
19 Pennsylvania.
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