"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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"Ryan, KC8PMX" wrote in message
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14. The ARRL leadership should take the following role in the code
test issue:

E. Stay the hell out of it until they truly represent all of the amateur
radio community.

Right now they are the only organization who represents us at all. If you
want to control their policies, become a member and climb the political
structure.


No... they only represent their membership. (as that has been dictated to
me time and time again.) There in lies the real root of the problem, it is
a "political" organization, i.e. bureaucracy.


Those who are not members of the ARRL have chosen to remain unrepresented
since they have done nothing to form a lobyy to take the place of the
ARRL.

I can self-represent for the time being. It's better that what the has been
done to amateur radio since my involvement since 1988. I write letters on a
regular basis to not only the FCC, as well as the elected officials from my
area that serve in congress and the senate. Not only do issues come up that
they might have an opportunity to vote on, they "have friends" in other
parts of the goverment as well I am sure.

Instead of lazily waiting for the arrl to act on matters, I can just imagine
the response if at least 20-30 wrote letters on a regular basis to there
congress and senator persons. Our districts for each up north here contain
*at least* 1,000 hams a piece.

That was another question I also had.....WHO are the arrl lobbyists? WHAT
exactly are they doing? WHO exactly are they talking to? WHAT is their
budgets?? I have asked this before but with no response. If it is not for
the magazine subscription (QST is actually a fairly decent magazine even
though content is forever dwindling over the years due stuff being pushed to
the website) then the other argument by some is for some type of
protectionist/mafioso scheme as to why to join the arrl.

I do not consider the arrl the equivalent of christianity, nor will I be
brainwashed to think that arrl can do no wrong or preach/recite some
mantra's.





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Ryan, KC8PMX
FF1-FF2-MFR-(pending NREMT-B!)
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