Hi, all.


Check out the links in this story from this week's ARRL weekly news letter.

Thanks to Dave Marthouse (N8OM) for his role in this.

Hope you like it.

Best 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

==>BIG APPLE BROADCASTER AMPS UP ARRL RADIO SPOT FOR LIMBAUGH NETWORK FILL

ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP, says it's nice
to have friends in high places. One of the friends of Amateur Radio public
relations is Howard Price, KA2QPJ, of New York City's WABC-TV (Channel 7).
Pitts says Price--acting president of the Broadcast Employees Amateur
Radio Society (BEARS) <
http://www.w2abc.org/>,

the ham radio organization
at ABC TV and Radio in New York City and an ARRL Special Service
Club--heard the League's new radio public service announcement (PSA) and
had an idea.

"He passed it on to Johnny Donovan, production director at WABC Radio in
New York City, who dressed it up in one night and made it available as
'network fill' on The Rush Limbaugh Show," heard on hundreds of radio
stations across the US. While most larger stations cover program breaks
with paid advertising, many smaller stations don't, "and their listeners
will hear this wonderfully enhanced PSA for ham radio," Pitts says.

Voicing the beefed-up PSA was Donovan himself, a WABC legend and also a
radio amateur. "Folks all over America will recognize his voice from
commercial radio," Pitts said.

ARRL has obtained permission to make the 30-second version of the radio
PSA <
http://www.arrl.org/pio/HAMWORKS30.mp3>

featuring Donovan's voice
available on the League's Web site for audition and distribution to radio
stations. A 60-second version of the PSA
<
http://www.arrl.org/pio/60HamRadioWorks0105.mp3>,

voiced by ARRL Media
and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP, and produced by Dave
Marthouse, N2AAM, also is available.