Fw: [CW] ARRL stand on CW testing?

[Scott Rosenfeld [N7JI]]

And to be totally, brutally honest, this issue isn't really that important 
in the light of the FCC's getting bed with the power companies to promote 
BPL.  That WOULD be a show stopper - and then NO modes would be usable.

Unless there were a better organization with a better, more potent voice 
than the ARRL, it'd be unnecessarily harmful to the overall fight to 
quit.  

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Ken Brown wrote:

> >
> >
> >Huh, you don't think having 50+% of ARRL members quit would send a statement
> >and achieve the desired results? 
> >
> Yes I think it would send a message, not necessarily the right message. 
> And I do not think it would acheive the desired results. The message it 
> sent would be open for interpretation. One of the interpretations would 
> be that a lot of people on the pro-CW side are uncooperative, "my way or 
> the highway" types, who are no longer members and therfore will not be 
> represented. I agree that voting with your pocketbook can be very 
> effective. Perhaps some letters to ham equipment suppliers, telling them 
> you won't buy from them as long as they sell products from companies 
> that clearly support elimination of code tests, would help. How about a 
> donation to the W1AW fund, to keep CW practice transmissions on the air.
> 
> >That is exactly the "American" way. You can
> >always rejoin when code is retained and CW/digital subbands protected.
> >
> >I hear of more people quitting the League than ever. Vote 'em out with your
> >pocketbooks.
> >  
> >
> If there were another organization that had as many members as the ARRL, 
> which was carrying out a more effective pro-code policy, that you could 
> join instead of the ARRL, then quitting the ARRL might be considered a 
> "vote". Lacking such an organization, quitting the ARRL is more like 
> just not showing up at the polls.
> 
> DE N6KB
> 
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