ROBERT B FAMIGLIO K3RF APPOINTED CORPORATE SOLICITOR FOR RADIO RELAY INTERNATIONAL

May 1, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ROBERT B FAMIGLIO K3RF APPOINTED CORPORATE SOLICITOR FOR RADIO RELAY INTERNATIONAL

Radio Relay International is pleased to announce Robert B. Famiglio, Esq., K3RF of Media, Pennsylvania was unanimously confirmed as its solicitor by the board of directors at its recent meeting. Bob will serve pro bono as our legal counsel bringing a wealth of legal, radio industry, and public service expertise to our RRI team.

Famiglio has a long career in amateur radio, first licensed in 1967. He is a graduate electrical engineer and an attorney licensed to practice law in several states and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. An ARRL member of more than fifty years, he served as the elected section manager for eastern Pennsylvania until winning a hotly contested race for a three year term as vice director of the Atlantic division in 2014.

An traffic handler himself, Famiglio is a staunch proponent of a nationally recognized, disaster communication role for amateur radio’s traffic system. A champion of radio amateurs, he serves tirelessly assisting hams and their clubs with legal issues faced with antenna battles, interference disputes, and the many concerns facing hams today.

A graduate of the Pennsylvania Fire Academy, Famiglio is as an active officer with his town’s volunteer fire company, providing first responder fire and rescue services. In addition to wearing those hats, he is an appointed public safety radio officer and provides land mobile radio consulting for his fire company and his county’s fire and EMS radio service.

Said RRI’s chairman Joe Ames W3JY, a long-time friend and colleague, “Bob’s an incredibly talented, driven man. He understands radio and he understands public service because he lives the life. We couldn’t be happier he signed on with RRI.”

ABOUT RRI

RRI is the leading traffic handling outfit for operators in the U.S.A. and Canada with affiliates worldwide including in the UK, EU, Oceania, and beyond. By supporting the communication needs of local residents (see RRI’s National Communication Strategy and the highly regarded National SOS Radio Network program) our goal is to introduce Americans, especially young people, to ham radio via the purposeful use of two-way radio in their own homes and neighborhoods.

“Decades of experience.” “Proven leadership.” “Quiet professionals doing their job.” RRI is traffic handling the way it should be done with proven methods, new technology and a new sense of purpose.

· High-frequency network topology and management

· Standards and training for digital waveforms, radiotelephony and radiotelegraphy operations

· Outreach and recruiting

· Professional development through sponsored organs dedicated to traffic handling

· Camaraderie, fellowship and recognition

Radio Relay International is chartered and incorporated by the state of California. It an IRS recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit charity operated in the public interest. Contributions to RRI may be deductible expenses for federal and state income tax purposes; please consult your tax professional for advice.

HamRadioNow’s David Goldenberg interviews RRI spokemen Joe Ames and Jim Wades on their March 8, 2018 webcast. Watch it at https://www.hamradionow.tv/episodes/2018/3/8/hrn-394-radio-relay-international

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MEDIA & GOVERNMENT

Joseph Ames Jim Wades

National Chairman Corporate Secretary

joseph.ames@radio-relay.org james.wades@radio-relay.org


Visit our website at www.radio-relay.org or send an email to us via info@radio-relay.org .

 

To an outsider like me this development implies a possible explanation for the unexplained and probably bogus disqualification by the ARRL EE committee of the K3RF candidacy for Vice Director. Or perhaps this is just a reaction to it.

Either way IMO its unfathomable and really a shame that the League could not / did not find a way to work with and retain the principles, talent and energy of the RRI.

Good luck and 73, John, WØPV

 

Traffic handling by quiet professionals?

In this day and age?

Have any of the quiet professionals ever heard of the internet or are they still stuck in the past?

Traffic handling? It would be funny if it was not so pathetic...

Good luck to them though. There has been a shortage of windmills lately though and big horses are harder to find these days also...

 

Gary:

Why do you think you possess a license right now? So you can get on the air and have fun and get your precious QSL "buro via buro"? LMAO. No, you are licensed because the FCC feels that amateur radio is a viable EMCOMM entity and maybe of service in terms of an emergency. As someone who took hundreds of messages out of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Maria, when amateur radio was their only link to the outside world, I'd say they have a point. Now there are many, and I'm assuming you fall into this group, which are just "users" or "takers" of ham radio's fruits. RRI picks up the slack for folks like you and helps keep our spectrum, because we not only qualify as a public service, but we practice what we preach. Thank goodness many intelligent hams, including K3RF recognize this. Others, well they're calling "CQ DX".

 

Never heard of the RRI before....

 

Well that condescending attitude won't help the cause very much.

 

Hi Bubba.

Neither has anyone else, and it will most likely stay that way.

 

Amateur radio history shows that when the stuff hits the fan, the mere fact that ham radio people were there before, during and after the fact made us valuable enough to keep around.

Ham radio organizations came after the fact, and the recent emphasis on "emcomm" has diluted the service with many folks who never have a conversation on air and who usually drop the service entirely after the battery on their new Chinese toy dies.

Ballooning the roles to over 750, 000 hams, most of whom will not do anything except put the HT in a drawer or glovebox "in case of emergency" will not do anything for them, for ham radio, or for any Amateur Radio association.

I did wish this new organization good luck, because they're going to need it. We already have one national organization, that like it or not, has done a lot (and that's putting it mildly) for Amateur radio.

Actually, I expected the response I got, so its not surprising that the OP is getting defensive. The fact that the response was over the top a bit is also expected.

 

...among several other reasons. The one you mentioned is part of one of the five specific purposes listed in 47 CFR 97.1.

 

So does that mean that K3RF and his supporters are trying to form a new association, And are trying to make
it sound bigger than life by the Yuuge announcement on Da Zed ?

 

It's possible...

 

I don't see anything newer than August 2016 on their site? About when did all the ARRL Rucus start??......

 

Earlier in 2016.

ARRL News Item

CQ Editorial

QRZ forum thread

 

I refuse to join any organisation that would have me as a member.

 

Bob is da MAN!