What about donating books (assuming they are still up-to-date) or magazines that we might have sitting around at home directly to the library. Or does it have to be a cash donation? /Fish KG6RHQ --- Andreas Ott <andreas@naund.org> wrote: > Dear fellow Sunnyvale ARES hams, > > I recently checked the magazine copies of what the Sunnyvale > Public Library has available for checkout in the ham radio > book category and all ARRL license manuals are way outdated > (from the early 1990s) and not applicable to any of the > current FCC question pools. > > I do understand that the city nowadays does not have the money > to replace books that become outdated after a few years. I also > imagine the frustration a prospective new ham would go through > if she/he finds out that the books are not preparing you for the > currently administered exams. > > With that I thought I make a request to the ham community: I > am starting a fundraiser where people can donate any amount they > would like to give and I will then order the books and morse code > CDs from the ARRL. I have written to ARRL HQ and asked if we can > qualify to purchase books with the instructor material discount. > http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/discount/ > > I'd like to run this fundraiser through the quarterly ARES meeting > on Wed. September 10th, 2003. > > Please let me know what you think of this idea (and if you like > to donate anything to this fundraiser). > > 73, andreas K6OTT > -- > Andreas Ott andreas@naund.org > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > SARES members mailing list: <sares-list@sunnyvaleares.org> > For help with (un)subscription send e-mail to <majordomo@athm.net> __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SARES members mailing list: <sares-list@sunnyvaleares.org> For help with (un)subscription send e-mail to <majordomo@athm.net>Received on Fri Jul 11 04:10:32 2003
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