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K4YZ wrote:
wrote: Dee Flint wrote: Extras 38,852 Advanced 39,430 General 25,245 Tech Plus 22,634 Tech 24,021 Novice 2,627 Total members = 152,809 Total Techs = 46,655 or ~30% of the ARRL membership are Techs vs. ~50% of all licensees. There's a shortfall of Techs within the membership but certainly not any sort of "yawning gap" in the representation of Techs at the ARRL (or vice versa) as Hans has implied. If we throw out those Novices, which aren't any appreciable number, then the percentages look like this: Extras: 25.52% Advanced: 25.91% General: 16.25% Techs: 30.65% ...or leave the Novices in...it only changes the percentages by 1/10th or thereabouts of a percent... Nonetheless...The Techs DO comprise a significant membership base in the ARRL...Enough to be a significant voting block if they wanted to. So why don't they? Why should they? Do the Techs have some big problem with the League which went over my head? Lennie and Brain contend that they are somehow a repressed subset of the membership, Those two "contend" a lotta things which are bass ackward and/or off-the-wall. They're your turf, enjoy, I can't be bothered. yet there's not a single impediment to ANY person with ANY specific interest in ARRL policies or programs from pushing for changes in those programs and policies if they so choose. If anything, we should be asking why are the Generals so inequitably represented in the ARRL membership. Fixing that gross inequity will involve the creation of yet another department at HQ based on the next PBI which we haven't seen yet. The ARRL is, afterall, a membership organization. If in this day and age there's not been some major effort to organize a major change to the ARRL's policies and programs, then apparently they ARE representing the opinions of their demographic fairly evenly. AMEN, that's the whole point and the only point which actually matters in the context of this thread. If there was such a disaffection for the ARRL, where's the "alter-ARRL"...?!?! Been tried several times and they all died almost on the spot. 73 Steve, K4YZ w3rv |
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