Editor,

I would like to say thanks to the many people who helped Hinsdale County in our Request to the FCC in Washington DC.
From the 2013 Mandate that required the entire nation to go to “narrow banding”or more clearly “lower power transmissions”on our VHF radio system, this mandate affected Hinsdale in a very negative way. Many areas in our very remote county that had some radio receive and transmit areas were totally lost from VHF communication. After two years of working on getting a variance from this mandate, Hinsdale County is happy to report we have been given a variance from this harmful mandate by the FCC.
I would like to say thanks to the following individuals for the help and support they did on our behalf: Dale Meyers, DigiCom Electronics, Congress Woman Lauren Boebert and her staff in Washington DC, Mike Murphy of Lake City who somehow found a plane to take the congresswoman to Hill 71 and fly over our main VHF radio system, in the process showing her how important this system is to our small remote county.
And of course Sandy Hines, our always capable County Administrator for all the emails and other correspondence to our surrounding government agencies to ask for their support of our receiving the variance.
And lastly, but so important, the support of my fellow Hinsdale County Commissioners to see our request through even with many setbacks.
_{Take care all,
Robert Hurd
Hinsdale County Commissioner, District 3}