RadioBanter - View Single Post - With CW gone, can the CW allocations be far behind?

July 26th 03, 01:33 PM

(Brian) wrote in message . com...
(Brian Kelly) wrote in message . com...
Jon Bloom wrote in message g...

And then we hire the mail crew to open and the data-entry crew to enter
the responses from a half million 14-question survey responses. This is
your idea of money well spent?

Why not?

In my opinion, because it's a waste of resources -- time and money -- that
would be better devoted to tackling the problems Amateur Radio faces that
are important -- a list that does not, in my mind, include anything to do
with Morse testing.

Your list of priorities is yours and is not at all indicative of the
membership's as a body. You're not any more prescient or more on top
of what the membership thinks than I am. Since the code test wheel is
apparently going to make yet one more revolution and many members do
have opinions on the code test question I think a poll of the
membership would be very much in order. Particularly in light of ARRL
BoD divisive cat fight which preceeded the last revolution of the
wheel. It's time for solid membership input on this one, repeat
debacles get boring.

I don't agree with Jim's proposal for a detailed survey for the same
basic reasons you don't agree. I'd like to have a very simple version:
"Do you want to have the code test eliminated. If yes check here." "Do
you want the code test retained? If yes check here." Any four year old
could handle the tabulation . . .

Kelly, that was a very nice presentation of an idea.

Every once in awhile . .

The survey could be accomplished via the ARRL web site, membership
required to log-in, at a total cost of about $40 for an hour of the
web programmer's time.

Maybe not forty bucks but would not require another "fund drive" to
carry out.

The ARRL members who don't have web capability
can make a trip to the public library and vote.

Tricky issue. I think one would be hard-pressed to find many active
hams who are not online. Plus when ya get right down to it 2-3
thousand reponses would be a big enough sample to produce a
statistically rigorous result.

They should probably
get out more anyway.

Prolly.

Brian

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