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February 11th 04, 02:45 AM
Leo
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On 11 Feb 2004 00:00:18 GMT,
(N2EY) wrote:
In article , Leo
writes:
On 10 Feb 2004 09:52:50 -0800,
(N2EY) wrote:
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Without the ARRL, do you think we'd still have amateur radio? I don't.
Um, the rest of the planet does not have the ARRL, and amateur radio
is still going strong there.....
In large part that's because of US influence at the international level. Also
the IARU, which was founded by guess who?
Perhaps, but are there specific historical facts which support that
theory?
The ARRL was a founding member of IARU - not the only founding
member....
Except for Japanese 4th class licensees, how many hams are there in the rest of
the planet?
Well, my trusty EuroCall 2003 CD lists 276,446 callsigns in Europe
alone - even if a couple of guys died, there's probably more than that
now. I don't have figures for Asia, Africa, Oceania or the rest of
the Americas (except that there's around 56,000 or so up here...).
Quite a few, anyway! DX wouldn't be the same without 'em.....
That's a lot of real estate, covering some 150 or so countries, give
or take a few....
You might want to check out what the rest of the world wanted to do to amateur
radio in the 1920s at the Paris conferences....
Would you have a link handy for that one?
And, did the ARRL actually exert that much influence over the other
members? As there is one IARU zone for each ITU zone, I'd expect that
they would have infinitely more say in the Zone 2 group than the
others...they may have been founders of the IARU in 1925, but they
didn't own it - did they?
73 de Jim, N2EY
73, Leo
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