John Smith I wrote:

I think it obvious, the new amateur is not going to tolerate the
ARRL, many of the old ones couldn't ... I think even the ARRL has
seen that written on the wall.

I suspect the potential amateur -- remember, the context of the discussion
was recruitment and googling 'amateur radio' -- isn't very likely to have a
clue about the politics of ham radio


If you are not going to recruit from the internet, where, the
dum-dums on the football field? Bars? Churches? Parks? The
homeless?

People interested in ham radio, who come on the internet to find out about
ham radio, are not very likely to do it in a USENET newsgroup. They're far
more likely to use a search engine to research their interest, and that
research (whether good or bad, whether you like it or not) is going to point
to the ARRL.

Google, Yahoo, MSN all have the ARRL as their top hit for the search term
'amateur radio'.


I am afraid the new crowd will need to come from here ... but hey,
that is only one mans' opinion.

If they came "here", e.g. RRAP, they'd run away from ham radio so fast, if
they concluded even a portion of the drivel posted in this newsgroup was
reflective of ham radio as a whole.


73
KH6HZ