ARRL MUST GET BETTER

[Scott Johnson]

Bob,
I have paid for the last 20 years, and I am  still paying.  I have a right 
to hold the league accountable don't I?  I'm not a "Diamond club member" and 
probably never will be.  I put my extra cash into slightly more benevolent 
charities.  If my right to speak out is based upon my level of financial 
support, then I am definately in the wrong organization.  Finally, hams need 
to realize that this is a hobby, and business interests WILL win out. The 
war on BPL needs to be fought from a different perspective, which is why I 
fight it as a MARS and CAP member, rather than a ham.  The amateur rolls are 
declining, the HF bands are becoming under utilized, what can a few hundred 
thousand crazy nerds (myself included) do to prevent the inevitable? 
Someone proposed I rethink my political idealogy based on one of my hobbies. 
Scary. That dude needs to get out more! I do expect more out of the league 
than it is delivering, it is painting the amateur more and more as a fringe 
segment of society, much in the same way that the older NRA tactics did, and 
the NRA is a much larger organization!  I don't plan on abandoning my ARRL 
membership anytime soon, but I reallyhope that someday they will see the 
foresat for the trees.

vy73,
Scott KC7BGE/AFA6SJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Peters" <rwpeters at swbell.net>
To: "Scott Johnson" <scottjohnson1 at COX.NET>; 
<BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [BOATANCHORS-TEMPE] ARRL MUST GET BETTER


> You Know what Scott and others it makes me ill to read E mails  like 
> this...The league is there for all of us
> and respects what we all have to say...They do not have resources enough 
> to do every thing we may want them to due
> to folks not coming to the table with financial support. I am and will be 
> a diamond club member to maybe offset some of
> you guys that have no better thing to do with your life then set back and 
> complain  !!!  If people that complain so much would use that  time to 
> support the League wouldn't we have a great organization....If BPL does 
> come a reality due to your non support then I can at least look at myself 
> in the mirror and say I tried...I do not support some items at the league 
> and as a paid up member I have a right to tell them that..You guys that 
> don't pay do not have that right but at least the league supports all of 
> us paid or not !!!!  End of my 2 cents...
>
> 73's  Bob W1PE
>
> At 11:25 AM 3/6/05, Scott Johnson wrote:
>
>>I agree with Bry, the ARRL has ceased to represent my position, their 
>>publications cater to the LCD, they waste untold sums of money on 
>>worthless and ventures, and unlike taxes, I DON'T HAVE TO BE A MEMBER.
>>73, Scott
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> Very Best 73's
> Bob Peters-W1PE
> ARRL ASM, President
> QCWA Chapter 41
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