JEP wrote:
Without ole HPM, ham radio would have been dead is correct. Him
alone,
NOT ARRL.
Since HPM died, the ARRL has been full of underpaid junior staff and
rampant graft with senior staff.

Life would have gone on without ham radio.

By the way, HPM was an inventer. What was one of his inventions?

The gun silencer. I got that information from the *ARRL's* website
G.

Carmen