ARRL Now Only Wants No Code Hams - Holding Midnight Exams
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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? |
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? |
Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote:
In amateur radio, it is the biggest potato there is, here in the U.S. Actually, Dave, I think the ARRL may be the largest amateur radio organization in the world, or at least the largest national amateur radio organization. According to www.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. What other amateur radio organization even comes close to 100,000 members? 73 de Jim, N2EY |
Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
On Feb 15, 5:47 am, wrote:
On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: In amateur radio, it is the biggest potato there is, here in the U.S. Actually, Dave, I think the ARRL may be the largest amateur radio organization in the world, or at least the largest national amateur radio organization. According towww.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. What other amateur radio organization even comes close to 100,000 members? For now yup prolly but there's some cryptic chatter in the Back Channel about Sweetums' French cousin Foghorn LePutz pulling together a huge organization of Eurohams which will publish it's annual budget and won't have "Members only" pages in it's website. 73 de Jim, N2EY w3rv |
Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
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On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: In amateur radio, it is the biggest potato there is, here in the U.S. Actually, Dave, I think the ARRL may be the largest amateur radio organization in the world, or at least the largest national amateur radio organization. I think you're correct. According to www.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. What other amateur radio organization even comes close to 100,000 members? I hedged my bet, thinking of JARL. I have a few copies of Japan's "CQ Ham Radio" which are as thick as big city phone books. Dave K8MN |
Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
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Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
On Feb 15, 11:01�am, Dave Heil wrote:
wrote: On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: In amateur radio, it is the biggest potato there is, here in the U.S. Actually, Dave, I think the ARRL may be the largest amateur radio organization in the world, or at least the largest national amateur radio organization. I think you're correct. According to www.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. What other amateur radio organization even comes close to 100,000 members? I hedged my bet, thinking of JARL. Their membership has been cut almost in half in the past ten years. It follows closely the numerical decline of Japanese amateur radio in general. I remember how, ten years or so ago, the large numbers of Japanese amateurs was touted as proof of the need for a nocodetest license with HF privileges. Japan was held up as the poster country for code test reduction/elimination. (Japan has had such a license for decades. They used a creative interpretation of the treaty coupled with very lower power limits for the nocodetest class of license). *I have a few copies of Japan's "CQ Ham Radio" which are as thick as big city phone books. How old are they? Judging by the number of stations, the USA has regained the lead as the country with the most licensed amateurs. While Japanese operator license numbers are higher, it should be remembered that those licenses never expire. Thus an amateur who progressed through the four JA license classes 50 years ago increases the Japanese operator license total by four, even if the amateur became a Silent Key decades ago. The number of Japanese operator licenses shown on the AH0A website is really an indication of how many amateurs have been licensed in that country since 1952, not how many are currently licensed. Imagine if the US kept license totals that way! 73 de Jim, N2EY |
Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
On Feb 15, 2:47?am, wrote:
On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: In amateur radio, it is the biggest potato there is, here in the U.S. Actually, Dave, I think the ARRL may be the largest amateur radio organization in the world, or at least the largest national amateur radio organization. Is "here in the U.S." not understood by you? When you write ", or at least the largest national amateur radio organization," are you saying that in regards to JUST the USA or are you squeaking globally? Why aren't you being clear in your groundwork for yet-another-diatribe of others being "100% wrong?" According towww.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. Is this "towww.AH0A.org" an Ultimate Authority? Are you fluent in Japanese? Why not ask the JARL how many they have? Don't you have EXACT figures for the number of members of the ARRL? Don't you know that they give those every six months? Do you know where everyone can access that information? Have you ever looked at the QST sub-pages on the ARRL web-site? Why are you so APPROXIMATE? Don't you know that, in your own "logic" that APPROXIMATIONS are 100% wrong? "The world wonders..." LA |
Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
On Feb 15, 11:06�am, Dave Heil wrote:
wrote: On Feb 15, 5:47 am, wrote: On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: In amateur radio, it is the biggest potato there is, here in the U.S. Actually, Dave, I think the ARRL may be the largest amateur radio organization in the world, or at least the largest national amateur radio organization. According towww.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. What other amateur radio organization even comes close to 100,000 members? For now yup prolly but there's some cryptic chatter in the Back Channel about Sweetums' French cousin Foghorn LePutz pulling together a huge organization of Eurohams which will publish it's annual budget and won't have "Members only" pages in it's website. I can see it now: *There'll be a massive, multi-cultural EU-Ham organization, made up of radio amateurs from all EU countries. * Even if that happened, it would not be a national organization unless the EU became one nation. It will have an open web site, no annual dues and will give away its publications. *Publications will be produced in all of the languages of the EU member states. All of this will be take place after the ten-year discussion period. HAW!! -- Actually we've had a multinational amateur radio organization since 1925 - the IARU. But it's not really the same thing as RSGB, JARL, ARRL, RAC, etc., because an individual cannot simply join IARU. The question of who founded the IARU is left as an exercise for the reader. -- btw, there have been a couple of national amateur radio organizations besides ARRL down through the decades. But except for the ARRL, they simply disappeared after a few years. For example, the restructuring of 1951, which (among other things) gave us the modern Amateur Extra license, was strongly influenced by two relatively small amateur radio organizations who felt the old Class A requirements weren't high enough. (The creation of the Extra class was *opposed* by ARRL, in fact.) Those two organizations are long gone, but the skeleton of the license structure remains. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
On Feb 15, 8:06�am, Dave Heil wrote:
wrote: On Feb 15, 5:47 am, wrote: On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: I can see it now: *There'll be a massive, multi-cultural EU-Ham organization, made up of radio amateurs from all EU countries. *It will have an open web site, no annual dues and will give away its publications. *Publications will be produced in all of the languages of the EU member states. Where have you been? On some secret State Department "assignment?" Don't you know where the International Amateur Radio Union has had its website? Don't you know that anyone can download IARU documents for free? Don't you know that the IARU is an international union, not just of European countries? Why are you so ignorant? Have you been working Frenchmen out of band lately? LA |
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Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
From: on 15 Feb 2007 15:09:25 -0800
wrote: On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: According to www.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. What other amateur radio organization even comes close to 100,000 members? I hedged my bet, thinking of JARL. Their membership has been cut almost in half in the past ten years. It follows closely the numerical decline of Japanese amateur radio in general. Tsk, tsk, NOT 100% correct according to www.ah0a.org. Japanese amateur radio licenses were tabled there yearly, indicating a CONSTANT annual growth of 10.19% in 1978 (total licenses 686,301) dropping slowly to 0.724% annual growth in 2006 (total licenses 3,192,744). In only 28 years that tabulations shows an increase of 2,506,443. If that were averaged over 28 years it represents a growth of about 89,516 licensees per year. If that average growth is divided by 365 it shows an increase of about 245 new licenses per day. That cannot possibly be taken as a "general decline" in Japanese amateur radio. I remember how, ten years or so ago, the large numbers of Japanese amateurs was touted as proof of the need for a nocodetest license with HF privileges. Japan was held up as the poster country for code test reduction/elimination. "Touted?" Is this a race track? :-) Let's see...www.hamdata.com shows US numbers on 15 Feb 07 as 721,956 total licenses. Since 10,350 of those are club calls, the total of Individual licensees would be 711,606. Compare that to over 3 million Japanese licensees for last year, plus a continuing GROWTH. Hamdata.com numbers indicate the last 12 months as having and increase of NEW licensees equal to 22,350. However, those same 12 months show Expirations (or, in their polite euphemism, 'no longer licensed') of 28,781. That works out to about 61 NEW licensees per day but with about 78 per day Expirations. The NEGATIVE growth is then about 17 per day from a negative delta of 6,431 per year. US licensee totals peaked 3 1/2 years ago, has been on a steady decline since. Judging by the number of stations, the USA has regained the lead as the country with the most licensed amateurs. You are just speculating and have NO proof either way. While Japanese operator license numbers are higher, it should be remembered that those licenses never expire. Neither does the imagination of morsemen expire in their illogical conclusions. The number of Japanese operator licenses shown on the AH0A website is really an indication of how many amateurs have been licensed in that country since 1952, not how many are currently licensed. Strange, but I was just at www.ah0a.org and that tabulation begins at 1959, NOT 1952! Tsk, tsk, that is NOT "100% accuracy!" So, are you saying that 2,506,443 Japanese radio amateurs have died and their totals remain at only 686,301 NOW? That seems to be your IMPLICATION. Fact: World War II (in the Pacific) ended in 1945 and the Japanese surrendered. Really. It was in all the papers. Try to get out more. We don't need to kill off any Japanese now. LA |
Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
From: on 15 Feb 2007 15:09:25 -0800
wrote: On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: According to www.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. What other amateur radio organization even comes close to 100,000 members? I hedged my bet, thinking of JARL. Their membership has been cut almost in half in the past ten years. It follows closely the numerical decline of Japanese amateur radio in general. Tsk, tsk, NOT 100% correct according to www.ah0a.org. Japanese amateur radio licenses were tabled there yearly, indicating a CONSTANT annual growth of 10.19% in 1978 (total licenses 686,301) dropping slowly to 0.724% annual growth in 2006 (total licenses 3,192,744). In only 28 years that tabulations shows an increase of 2,506,443. If that were averaged over 28 years it represents a growth of about 89,516 licensees per year. If that average growth is divided by 365 it shows an increase of about 245 new licenses per day. That cannot possibly be taken as a "general decline" in Japanese amateur radio. I remember how, ten years or so ago, the large numbers of Japanese amateurs was touted as proof of the need for a nocodetest license with HF privileges. Japan was held up as the poster country for code test reduction/elimination. "Touted?" Is this a race track? :-) Let's see...www.hamdata.com shows US numbers on 15 Feb 07 as 721,956 total licenses. Since 10,350 of those are club calls, the total of Individual licensees would be 711,606. Compare that to over 3 million Japanese licensees for last year, plus a continuing GROWTH. Hamdata.com numbers indicate the last 12 months as having and increase of NEW licensees equal to 22,350. However, those same 12 months show Expirations (or, in their polite euphemism, 'no longer licensed') of 28,781. That works out to about 61 NEW licensees per day but with about 78 per day Expirations. The NEGATIVE growth is then about 17 per day from a negative delta of 6,431 per year. US licensee totals peaked 3 1/2 years ago, has been on a steady decline since. Judging by the number of stations, the USA has regained the lead as the country with the most licensed amateurs. You are just speculating and have NO proof either way. While Japanese operator license numbers are higher, it should be remembered that those licenses never expire. Neither does the imagination of morsemen expire in their illogical conclusions. The number of Japanese operator licenses shown on the AH0A website is really an indication of how many amateurs have been licensed in that country since 1952, not how many are currently licensed. Strange, but I was just at www.ah0a.org and that tabulation begins at 1959, NOT 1952! Tsk, tsk, that is NOT "100% accuracy!" So, are you saying that 2,506,443 Japanese radio amateurs have died and their totals remain at only 686,301 NOW? That seems to be your IMPLICATION. Fact: World War II (in the Pacific) ended in 1945 and the Japanese surrendered. Really. It was in all the papers. Try to get out more. We don't need to kill off any Japanese now. LA |
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