W2LJ via rec.radio.amateur.moderated Admin wrote:

LOYAL...He/[She] offers loyalty, encouragement and support to other
amateurs, local clubs, the IARU Radio Society in his/[her] country,
through which Amateur Radio in his/[her] country is represented nationally
and internationally.

This is BS. The original code said loyal to Amateur Radio. In the 1990's
the ARRL was losing membership because no-code techs found no support
for them there. Someone else started a no-code tech group and it eventually
had more than half as many members as the ARRL, which made them a force
in the marketplace and a group heard by the FCC.

This upset the ARRL, so they changed the loyalty from amateur radio to the
ARRL, hoping to make the "other guys" look bad. This is just the 2016 version
of the same garbage.

The reality of the situation is that the FCC wanted a no-code HF license in
the 1950's, to be in line with Japan and the Soviet Union. They had them then
and had none of the problems that the ARRL claimed that the US would have.

73,

Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379