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[N7DC@cs.com]

I agree.  To refuse to vote, is to vote for whichever side wins.  ARRL did 
the same thing way back in 73/74 at the region 3 IARL meeting held in Hong Kong. 
 I was the voting member to that meeting, from the Hong Kong Amateur Radio 
Society, and had written a position paper ( asked for by our members) against 
the issue of licenses without a code test.  (((Yes it goes back that far))).  
What we were seeing was the JARL (Japan) issuing licenses to people for just a 
few Yen, and without requiring them to take a CW test, and allowing them HF 
privileges.  The explanation by the Japanese society was that "These licenses are 
only allowed 5 watts output, therefore wont affect anyone outside Japan"  
SURE,  We could hear them by the thousands there in Hong Kong.  Our position was 
simply that it was against international law, formatted by the ITU, voted on 
by member nations, and being ignored by the JARL:, who already had been given 
total responsibility for testing and issuing licenses by the Japanese 
government.   
   What ripped the cake, as far as I was concerned, is that the 
representatives from the ARRL (having certain holdings in the Pacific) and in the person of 
W1RU, Dick Baldwin, made a statement that we had no right to read our paper.  
It all came to a head with us having to put the reading of the paper up 
before the membership of the region 3 board, just to accept or deny my giving each 
member group a copy of the paper, and my reading it out loud during the 
meeting.  The vote, if I remember correctly, was 4 accepting, 2 denying, and 2 
negatives.  I read the paper.  Guess who the two negatives came from?  Your right:  
ARRL and JARL.  I remember that New Zeland, Australia and I believe it was 
Indoensia and Malaysia voted to hear the paper, but dont remember who voted 
against us.  
   A few minutes after I read the paper, (and no vote to accept or act on it 
was even expected after the reading), W1RU stood up and praised the JARL for 
giving us (the region 3 group) a sum of money, to fight inteference in the 
region!   I almost fell out of my seat.  The fix was already in. 

I looked forward to the QST article on the meeting, and some 3 or 4 months 
later it did appear:  with not one mention of our position paper.  Subsequent 
letters to QST?ARRL prooved freuitless and then never respsonded.  That when I 
quit the ARRL, and stayed away for almost 12 years until I got back here to the 
states and needed to be a member in order to send out QSL via the buro, land 
that remains the primary reason I remain a member today.  

   This has been a long term plan guys.  I fought it then.  I fight it now, 
and will continue to fight it, even though it appears to most to be a loosing 
battle.  Dont fight, and they WILL easily win.  Fight and make them pay for 
their arrogance, land they WILL loose lots of old time members because of it.  
Let them know ( if you believe as I do) what side of the fight you are on, and 
what the consequences are going to be if they ignore the membership.
Danny





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