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January 20th 04, 05:03 PM
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wrote in message ... "N2EY" wrote in message ... In article , ospam (Larry Roll K3LT) writes: Jim: This new ARRL Proposal is pretty much what I would expect to come out of Newington these days. Except it didn't come out of Newington - it's the result of the BoD's vote. And the BoD are from all over the country, elected by the members. True indeed. However, it would be interesting to see how much "membership" actually participated a) in the election of the BoD Every full member gets a ballot. If they don't bother to fill it out and send it in, it's their loss. The requirements to run for Director are pretty simple, too. and b) how much--because of that--the ARRL's decisions are actually influenced by a majority of US Amateur Radio Operators. Obviously not as much as we might like, because the majority of US hams who bothered to express an opinion on code testing in comments to FCC back in 98-143 times wanted at least 2 code test speeds. And the comments to the various petitions now before the FCC on code testing (like RM-10811) are majority-pro-code-test. So the ARRL BoD is obviously taking some people's definition of "leadership" (meaning do what you think is best regardless of majority opinion) in proposing what they've proposed. Nothing wrong with the concept that the BoD represents someone, but who they represent is those members of whom decide to actually be active in the goings-on of the ARRL; and I don't think many do. Any numbers on that? You can look up the various BoD election results as to who got how many votes. -- What will be really interesting is if/when FCC gives it an RM number, and what the comments are. And what FCC will do. I'm thinking that the free upgrade thing (which was rejected back in restructuring time) will be rejected *again*, and that the "21st Century Novice" idea will be adopted. I recall Hans predicting a 15 wpm code test for Extra as part ot the ARRL proposal..... 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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