Public Service Announcements

A public service announcement (or "PSA" or "spot") is an excellent way to tell the public about Amateur Radio.

Audio Files

Now Playing...

• Take a listen to ARRL's radio spot (MP3 file, 528,300 bytes), which is currently being aired on radio stations throughout the country. If you'd like to get it on the air in your community, contact us for the 30-second spot on CD. Broadcasters may wish to download the file right from this Web site.
• Listen to the first of the Hello audio PSAs.
• Here is a 30 second PSA regarding Hurricane Katrina emergency communications operations.

(To DOWNLOAD...right-click once on the above link and choose "save target".)

These 30 second PSAs were made possible thanks to Johnny Donovan at WABC-AM and Howard Price, KA2QPJ, of WABC-TV in New York who is Acting President of the Broadcast Employees Amateur Radio Society, a member of the ham organization at WABC Radio & TV in New York and also the BEARS.

More audio PSAs will be coming out - about one every 8 weeks in 2006

Video Files

Hello -- the movie (3min 40 sec)

Emergency Communications video PSA

CLICK HERE for a 30 second mpeg of Katrina Operations video (2.57meg)

KATRINA -- The Untold Story

MPEG files may be good enough for your computer, but the files do not have high enough resolution for "real" TV work. To get a DVD of the video, please write to hello@arrl.org with your name, address and where you will be placing it. The DVD's are not cheap, so we cannot just speculatively pass them out. If you have a local TV station that must have BetaSP or the full, uncompressed digital files, please send me an email with specifics about what they need to hello@arrl.org .