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February 21st 04, 05:52 PM
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In article , Leo
writes: On 11 Feb 2004 00:00:18 GMT, (N2EY) wrote: In article , Leo writes: On 10 Feb 2004 09:52:50 -0800, (N2EY) wrote: Without the ARRL, do you think we'd still have amateur radio? I don't. Um, the rest of the planet does not have the ARRL, and amateur radio is still going strong there..... In large part that's because of US influence at the international level. Also the IARU, which was founded by guess who? Perhaps, but are there specific historical facts which support that theory? Yep. Maxim, Mrs. Maxim (she spoke fluent French, the language used in the conferences back then) Ken Warner and several other ARRL folks went to the Paris conferences of 1924, 1925 and 1927 to push for the very existence of amateur radio. Amateur radio did not actually exist by international treaty until 1927 - hams were simply a subset of various countries' nongovernment radio services. The ARRL was a founding member of IARU - not the only founding member.... True - but it was an ARRL idea. Except for Japanese 4th class licensees, how many hams are there in the rest of the planet? Well, my trusty EuroCall 2003 CD lists 276,446 callsigns in Europe alone - even if a couple of guys died, there's probably more than that now. I don't have figures for Asia, Africa, Oceania or the rest of the Americas (except that there's around 56,000 or so up here...). Once you get outside of Europe, North America, the British Commonwealth and Japan, there aren't many of us. China has more than a billion people - and how many hams? A few thousand, maybe. Quite a few, anyway! DX wouldn't be the same without 'em.....  That's a lot of real estate, covering some 150 or so countries, give or take a few.... Right. And there are 682,000 US hams, which is more than twice as many as in all of densely populated Europe. You might want to check out what the rest of the world wanted to do to amateur radio in the 1920s at the Paris conferences.... Would you have a link handy for that one? No, but do a search for W2XOY's "Wayback Machine". And, did the ARRL actually exert that much influence over the other members? As there is one IARU zone for each ITU zone, I'd expect that they would have infinitely more say in the Zone 2 group than the others...they may have been founders of the IARU in 1925, but they didn't own it - did they? ARRL organized IARU. The zone thing came later. 73 de Jim, N2EY 73, Leo |
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