<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Very few people have signed these so far, two weeks to go…<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">taki157 <<a href="mailto:taki157@sbcglobal.net" class="">taki157@sbcglobal.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [W9RCA-News] WWV/WWVH Closure</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">August 30, 2018 at 6:40:21 PM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Jim Keeth <<a href="mailto:JKeeth@sbcglobal.net" class="">JKeeth@sbcglobal.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">taki157 <<a href="mailto:taki157@sbcglobal.net" class="">taki157@sbcglobal.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi Jim,<br class=""><br class="">According to this article at EE Times:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1333650" class="">https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1333650</a><br class=""><br class="">Both the following petitions must be signed. (I don't understand why this is so, but that's what it says.) They need 100,000 petitions signed for each:<br class=""><br class="">Due by Sept 15 petition:<br class="">https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh<br class=""><br class="">Due by Sept 17 petition:<br class="">https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/proposed-shutdown-nists-wwv-and-wwvh-radio-stations<br class=""><br class="">It says: <br class=""><br class="">"unless everyone who signs one also signs the other, they may both fail."<br class=""><br class="">This is so annoying. Every few years or so, we get these petitions to block the shut down WWV and WWVH.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">Gabe<br class=""><br class="">--------------------------------------------<br class="">On Sun, 8/19/18, Jim Keeth <JKeeth@sbcglobal.net> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""> Subject: [W9RCA-News] WWV/WWVH Closure<br class=""> To: "W9RCA Newsletter" <News@w9rca.org><br class=""> Date: Sunday, August 19, 2018, 6:18 PM<br class=""><br class=""> Begin<br class=""> forwarded message:<br class=""><br class=""> From: <serc1mp@sbcglobal.net><br class=""> Subject: FW: [Elecraft] WWV/WWVH Closure<br class=""> Date: August 19,<br class=""> 2018 at 5:40:26 PM EDT<br class=""> To: <serc1mp@sbcglobal.net><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> If you have not already heard there is<br class=""> a proposed budget cut to close WWVH and WWV This is<br class=""> something we all use and need so consider signing the<br class=""> petition . I do not know if it will make a difference but at<br class=""> least we tried. Pass this along to any one you think might want know<br class=""> I only had a few email addresses.. <br class=""><br class=""> Here is a link to the petition if you<br class=""> wish to sign it:<br class=""> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv<br class=""> -wwvh<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> _______________________________________________<br class=""> W9RCA News mailing list<br class=""> News@W9RCA.org<br class=""> http://lists.w9rca.org/mailman/listinfo/w9rca-news<br class=""><br class=""> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>