<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-js_1sz" style="margin-top:4.5pt"><div id="gmail-id_5b7ab1ce8ed990668103089"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.5pt">The latest budget proposal to Congress includes shutting down radio stations WWV and WWVH.  The White House website currently has a petition requiring 100,000 signatures by September 15 in order to get a response on this issue. (At this time, there are not even 2,000 signatures.)</span></p><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.5pt">It takes a few seconds to add your signature, here:</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16.6667px"><a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh">https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh</a></span></font><br></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.5pt">Please forward to your family and fellow hams!  WWV is an important resource to the Amateur Radio Community in providing time signals, propagation testing, frequency calibration, etc.  </span><br></p></div></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-top:7.5pt"><div id="gmail-u_fetchstream_5_y"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:0px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><span style="font-size:14pt"><a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh" target="_blank" style="color:purple"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(54,88,153)"></span></a></span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><div>73,</div><div>    -Rick</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div class="gmail_signature">Rick Murphy, CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA</div></div></div>