The League is a *national* organization. Focused mostly on national,
international, and regional issues, and not so much local ones.

Now if a ham's focus and interest are national or international, the
League can have a lot to offer. But at the local level, how much the
ARRL can offer someone depends entirely on who the local folks are.

As a prime example, look at QST. How much of it is devoted to purely
local stuff? Not much - the mag would have to be huge to cover ever
locality in any depth at all. So why should someone whose main interest
in amateur radio is the folks within, say, 50 miles, shell out $40/yr
for a membership?


There is a lot of "generic" local stuff the ARRL could
deal in. Doing a parade or county fair in Cowville, North
Nebraska won't be that different than the parade or county
fair in Swampgulch, Alabama. Sure the names are different,
but organizational politics and technical issues with 2 meter
handhelds on the street would be quite similar.