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"Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "Robert L. Giggles (Mrs.)" wrote in message groups.com... "KØHB" wrote in message ink.net... The growth in numbers of Amateurs over the past decade has been overwhelmingly via the Technician license. This segment of the Amateur population does not seem highly attracted to ARRL membership, nor affiliate with the "national association" nature of ARRL. That's because most new hams can recognize a garden variety classic New England "mutual admiration society" of wannabe blue-bloods who's only reason for existence is to maintain their monuments to the past which nobody cares about anymore and to keep a magazine going which is composed of 80% advertising. The ARRL has fought and continues to fight to protect our spectrum, hardly the action of a "mutual admiration society". They might be able to do a better job if some of you non-members would get off YOUR high horses, join the group, and start working towards what you would like to see them doing. So long as you stay on the outside, they have no reason to represent you or your views. You obviously have not investigated their various classes for all levels of interest in areas of ham radio activity such as the many emergency courses, etc. It is all too apparent that you speak from preconceived notions and haven't bothered to get involved. You simply sit there on the outside and whine and complain. You want it to be different? Get in there and do the work to change it. Oh, that's too hard you say. Then you are just a parasite waiting for some one else to do the work so you can benefit without having contributed. Face it boys. the ARRL blew it BIG TIME when they had the chance to eliminate the dammed Code for HF way back in the early 1980's with the "Plain Language" rewrite of the amateur rules. Today most of the ham fossils who opposed this are either in their graves or waiting to expire and we're stuck with an obsolete hobby as a result. Do a better job of reading up on history. The ARRL had NO chance of eliminating the code in the 1980s as the US was signatory to an international treaty that mandated code for HF privileges. And, for what it is worth the code test will be gone for General sometime down the road. It isn't a matter of if, it is simply when at this point. ARRL's proposal recommends ending code and ONLY retaining a code test for Extra. Cheers, Bill K2UNK |
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