Len Over 21 wrote:

ARRL is 90 years old and they have not had much turnover at Hq.

That's simply a falsehood.

That leads to "cronyism" in Hq and a resultant status-quo thinking
which has contributed to their lack of getting new membership.

That many no-code Techs have as their sole amateur radio station, a
single, under $200 hand-held 2m FM transceiver which they use only on
local repeaters might itself be a contributing factor.

St. Hiram hisself remained president since day one until he got too
old to show up at the office.

Yeah. Dying will do that to you. HPM was in office for about 22 years.
That's about thirty years less than you've been a PROFESSIONAL in
electronics. Did you retire when you got too old to show up at the
office?

Dave Sumner is "executive president"
and isn't votable out of office.

You'd better check your facts, Mr. Wizard.

While there is a BoD at the ARRL, the publications arm takes its
direction direct from Hq staff. That leads to a concentration of
who-runs-what to the Newington group despite all the self-promotion
of "democratic principle" BoD "discussions."

Self-promotion of "democratic principle"? BOD "discussions"? Why the
quotation marks? The ARRL does indeed operate under democratic
principles. Division Directors are voted in and out with regularity.
BOD "discussions" are meetings of the board of directors.

That publishing arm
is a mighty strong venue for getting readers to think the way the
Hq advisers say they should.

Yeah, that's it, Leonid: The readers have been brainwashed into
thinking the way their Newington Masters want them to think. You really
should get your own conspiracy talk show.

Not that many publications left for
radio amateurs down here.

Down where?

What many of the league disciples fail to realize is that whatever
gets published out of Newington is the decision of the editors, not
some etheral "will of the ham community."

Really? Do you think the editors of "Gourmet" and the editors of "Time"
and "National Geographic" engage in such practices? By golly, you may
have uncovered one of the big scandals of all time! Come to think of
it, I've been a member of the National Geographic Society for over
thirty years. I've never had an opportunity to vote on any issue before
the society. I've voted in ARRL elections for four decades.

Hq staff have the very
final say-so on anything in print...and print with real ink on real
paper doesn't disappear or get revised easily.

I don't think any of us knew this. Are you telling us that once a
magazine or book is published, the pages and ink can remain intact for
long periods?

That is Real Opinion
Making Power!

Maybe you should start publishing your diatribes on real paper with real
ink. Then you'd have some Real Opinion Making Power.

Several of the Believers in here will cuss at cell phones because
they aren't "real" radios one puts on a nice desk in the "shack" in
prominent view.

They will? Cell phones are certainly real radios. They are low power
transceivers which will work over relatively short ranges. One must pay
in order to use them. Cordless phones are real radios too. Like
yourself, neither are a part of in amateur radio.

Those same Believers will trashmouth VHF and
above the same way...HTs are called "the shack on the belt." :-)

Many, many of us own HT's. A ham whose only amateur radio station is an
HT may be referred to as a "shack-on-a-belt" type. You aren't yet
eligible for that status.

A long time ago I did those "tune-ups" the old fashioned way for
a couple years. Bloody nuisance when there's three dozen big
transmitters under your care and NONE of the is taken down out
of circuit unless some high rank says so. :-)

I thought you were "big time". You needed someone's okay to pull a
transmitter? :-) :-)

Dave K8MN