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ARRL Now Only Wants No Code Hams - Holding Midnight Exams
From: Dave Heil on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:11:06 GMT wrote: The FCC has released its latest operating budget listing over its web page. Anyone who cares to can go check it out. The ARRL never reveals its budget plans to the public, despite all its Believers' claims that it is handled in a "democratic fashion"... Where is it mandated that the ARRL reveal its budget plan? Oh, oh, little red-hatted monkey's ox has been gored! Stand by while the Schutzstaffel marches on (with hob- nailed boots) to DEMAND explanations for such egregious negative commentary! [Zey tink dey haf vays of making me cringe and beg for mercy? :-) ] If the ARRL is as open and above-board as they imply, they should make everything known to their membership. Of course, if they did that then they would have to (by law) reveal the annual salaries of their highest- paid staff...some of whom have tried to "debate" things in here AS IF they were jes' good ol' boys. :-) The League is governed by an elected board of directors who live all over the United States. Those directors are elected by League members from their geographical area. Wah, wah, wah...AS IF the League "represented ALL amateur licensees" in a "democratic manner" AS LAWFUL as any federal government body. BS. They are a PRIVATE membership entity and the membership represents ONLY a quarter of the total US amateur radio licensees. ...AS IF it were an arm of the guvmint. I don't know of anyone saying that except for you. Then you don't know much, are a BELIEVER in everything the League says they are/do, and have an extremely POOR memory of what has been claimed by other Believers in here in past years. Of course YOU have FAILED to secure a Directorship, haven't you? :-) Are you making brown-nose statements in here to gain a better image for another election? :-) The best one can hope for is someone else getting copies of its IRS Returns and publicizes those. Otherwise we "common folk" would never know its a multi-million dollar "non-profit" organization. The League must submit all kinds of paperwork to government. Name ALL of them besides the annual IRS Tax Returns. Remember your organ grinder's ****y pedantry on EXACT figures and details. Do as he says and he might give you some of the pennies out of his tin cup you carry. If government finds a problem, do you think it will sweep it under the rug, or will it address the problem? Let's just say it will NOT be national news carried in journalistic circles as Page 1 material. :-) The ARRL is still very "small potatoes" as membership organizations go. How are you involved? Tsk, tsk. Your only "comment" here seems to be on a simple comment I made about the FCC. The FCC has definitely posted their proposed annual budget. I just pointed out that the ARRL never does that sort of thing...and that got your ox gored somehow. I'm "not involved" with the FCC. I don't work there, nor for them. But, I am a citizen of the United States, was one long before you came into existance. I CAN speak to MY government without "being involved" IN the government. You aren't an ARRL member. You have no standing in the ARRL. You have no vote in ARRL matters. Wah, wah, wah...there you go again with the "not involved" routine. :-) The ARRL loves to Talk Big and say it "represents all US radio amateurs." They can't possibly represent all, not even close to a majority status. They are a MINORITY membership group. But, their survival as a profit-making publisher DEPENDS on their PR image. THAT income keeps them going, pays their bills, pays their staff, the whole thing...with the possible exception of QST staff which depends on ad sales to break even. Simple economics. Praise themselves, build the image, draw in customers, get them to pay for things. Along the way they can build a core membership that becomes a devoted following of Believers. Like yourself. Politically, the ARRL is a SPECIAL-INTEREST group. Not only does the ARRL have a professional lobbyist firm on retainer in DC but their "rep" allows government types to notice the pretty logotype on their papers and "important" titles of their officers. They have "no" influence, are altruistic in some kind of extreme? BS. In the past three-decades-plus, the ARRL has, most definitely toadied to the brass-pounders, over-emphasized that singular skill over and above all other skills. Their skewed demographics (relative to the total amateur licensees in US) of their core membership (olde-tymers, life members, etc) shows that. Their "casual" mention of "CW" over all other modes in publications shows that...their core membership loves that sort of thing. But, the ARRL's core membership is following normal human life attrition. That means their membership is dwindling. If the membership is dwindling, then the demographics of member numbers presented to advertisers twice a year shows a declining market space. Dues for membership are a very SMALL part of the ARRL's income. They've already shown their need for funding with repeated requests for donations of all kinds over and above their membership dues. The ARRL's PR tune is being rewritten now. The small coterie of movers and shakers in/around Newington aren't stupid. FCC 06-178 marks one of the significant, if not most significant event in US amateur radio history of the past half century. Old-fashioned morse code mode is NO LONGER the featured epitome of amateur radio operating skills...if we are to read between the lines of their latest "midnight exams" news posting. But, at the same time, those that want to become one with the olde-tymers can take a code test before 23 Feb 07. That is a clear sign the ARRL is trying to please BOTH sides of the morse code testing issue. They need to be careful in straddling the opinion fence lest they do physical damage to themselves. Either way, it does not matter to me except for the PR they use to masquerade as a "representative of all [US] amateurs." Pfaughh. I'm a Life Member of a professional association. Pros aren't amateurs...yet some pros like to also be amateurs when not involved in professional work. You revile that for some twisted personal reason. You don't understand that a professional radio operator license takes as much effort and knowledge (perhaps more) as any amateur radio operator license. Why? To reinforce your own PR image of an 'amateur expert' through morse code skill? To ACT the "superior" by reviling all who do not respect your mighty amateur 'accomplishments?' Do you have an ACTOR's guild membership? Why do you wish to suppress all opinions against the only national amateur radio member organization in the United States? What are you hiding? |
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