[CW] ARRL BOD Jan. 19-20, 2001

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On 13 Aug 2003 at 12:30, David J. Ring, Jr. wrote:

> Lovers of CW:
> 
> Your attention is directed to this web page of the ARRL where the Board of
> Directors (BOD) directs the following actions:
> 
> http://www.arrl.org/announce/board-0101/
> 
> NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the ARRL Board of Directors recognizes
> and accepts that suppression of the Morse code requirement in Article S25 is
> likely to occur at WRC 2003; and be it
> FURTHER RESOLVED, that deletion of the requirement from Article S25 should
> not automatically or immediately mean a similar removal of the Morse code
> from Part 97 of the FCC rules; and be it
> FURTHER RESOLVED, that each administration should determine if Morse code is
> retained as a testing element; and be it
> FURTHER RESOLVED, it is the opinion of this Board at this time that Morse
> code should be retained as a testing element in the U.S.; and be it
> FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Morse code is deserving of continued support as
> an important operating mode including providing for the protection and
> maintenance of sufficient spectrum in band planning; and be it
> FURTHER RESOLVED, that staff develop a program designed to promote the use
> of Morse code; and be it
> FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution supersedes all previous statements of
> policy related to suppression of the Morse code requirement in Article S25.
> 
> No subsequent action by the BOD or the Executive Committee of the ARRL has
> been made on this subject according to a complete reading and a manual
> search of the minutes of all later BOD and Executive meetings for the word
> "morse".
> 
> 73
> 
> David Ring, N1EA


Which make the claim that the ARRL Rep at trhe NCVEC conference had "no 
policy" to go by a big lie! Even the ARRL President claimed that there 
was no policy in place, or that it had changed after WRC2003. Since the 
above was done expecting the results of WRC2003 to be as they were, once 
again, the ARRL speaks with very forked tongue.
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