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December 18th 03, 11:05 PM

(N2EY) wrote in message ...
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(Brian) writes:

You don't seem to recognize that the desire to modernize the ARS has a
groundswell of support.

How do you know?

Have you made a scientific survey to determine this "groundswell"?

Yes, I did. Sorry, but you weren't on my mailing list. You're
welcome to go over my head and directly petition your government
instead of me having to filter out your desires.

What constitutes "modernizing the ARS"? Shall we all go out and buy new radios?

No.

Since you received your Extra under the inventive licensing scheme,
you should develop a new receiving circuit and make it available to
the rest of us unworthy slobs via the pages of QST. See if Far
Circuits can make the boards.

It doesn't need to be filtered through state
and regional directors, brought up in a board meeting, with lots of
hand-wringing that there is no clear mandate...

Then what needs to be done? What is the "mandate"?

Exactly. Nothing needs to be done. They said there was no mandate.

The the FCC issued an NPRM to which the ARRL had to finally respond.

Some folks make a big deal out of the fact that ARRL's membership is only about
25% of US hams. These same folks ignore the fact that No-Code International's
membership is less than 1% of US hams, despite the fact that such membership
has no dues and no expiration or renewal requirements.

So folks have no leadership ability; others do.