Next Meeting: November 6, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Our next meeting will be on November 6, 2025 at the Boerne Library. Check out our meetings page for more details.
Are you a newly licensed ham or want to become one? Join us at our
monthly meeting for tips and tricks on everything from antennas, radio usage, digital modes and
technical presentations.
Social Hour Venue Change
Many members meet for dinner prior to the monthly meeting for social hour. We will meet at the
Hungry Horse Restaurant located at
109 Saunders St. at 5pm. Come join us for good food and conversation!
Amateur Radio Licensing Update During US Government Shutdown
The government shutdown began at 12:01 Eastern time on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, when Congress had not passed an
appropriations bill or other plan to keep the government funded for the new fiscal year (begins October 1).
The Federal Communications Commission, which issues Amateur Radio Service licenses, issued a Public Notice on Tuesday, September 30,
indicating that it would suspend most operations following a shutdown. “Aside from a few emergency and auction filing systems, all
other Commission electronic filing systems will be unavailable to the public until normal agency operations resume,” said the FCC Notice.
The FCC Notice indicates that the CORES registration system will remain available to the public and will not be affected by the shutdown.
Exam candidates can still register in CORES and be assigned an FCC Registration Number (FRN) at https://apps.fcc.gov/cores/userLogin.do.
The FCC's Universal Licensing System (ULS) databases are currently unavailable to the public. ULS and related systems (like the License Manager,
License Search, Application Search, etc.) are not accessible during the shutdown. Users cannot file applications with the FCC, or access
license data, including address information.
Call to Action
The ARRL is focused on reducing legal restraints on the ability of American Amateur Radio Operators to engage in the active practice and enjoyment of Amateur Radio.
One of the most insidious and increasing threats to the survival of Amateur Radio and our ability to serve our communities and Nation, as we are required to do by
Federal regulation, is the proliferation of private land use restrictions that prohibit the installation of outdoor antennas and that sometimes actually deny Federally
licensed Amateurs from operating any amateur radios, regardless of where their antennas are located — in their attics, hidden in trees, or mounted on their vehicles.
Federal law — since 1996 — has guaranteed to every American — except Amateur Radio Operators — the right to erect antennas outside or on their residences for the purpose
of TV reception, satellite TV and internet access, wireless internet access, and even wireless internet redistribution. But Amateur Radio operators are denied the equal
right to erect comparable antennas.
Since 2005, Federal law has also guaranteed to every American the right to proudly display the American Flag by installing flagpoles in their yards. But, despite that right
to install vertical poles in their yards — American Radio Amateurs are denied the right to use those vertical flagpoles as vertical antennas.
We believe the denial — to licensed Amateur Radio Operators — of the rights guaranteed to all non-Amateur Radio licensed American homeowners — the right to install antennas
on the land they own — is without justification and should not be permitted to continue.
To eliminate these private land use restrictions, the ARRL has worked over the past several years with our elected officials to draft Congressional legislation —
H.R. 1094 in the U.S. House of Representatives and S. 459 in the U.S. Senate — that, when passed will extend to all Hams the right to operate from their homes and the
right to install antennas on the land they own. We have bipartisan support for this legislation.
BUT, WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PASS THIS LEGISLATION!!!
How can you help? By sending a letter to your Representative and Senators asking that they co-sponsor and support H.R. 1094 and S. 459.
How can you send these letters? It is easy.
Go to — https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ — enter your call sign and click on “Send My Letters” and your letters will
be delivered to our Washington legislative team for hand delivery to your Representative and Senators.
Does your individual letter matter? YES.
Your Representative and Senators need to know that the passage of this legislation is important to you.
Your letter could be the difference in whether we are able to pass H.R. 1094 and S. 459.
