[CW] ARRL CW Survey

[Thomas Beaudry]

Well, the SM sent an email to everyone asking for their participation 
in the survey as the divisional director was going to go by it (implies 
the other sections had surveys as well) when it came time to vote at 
the BOD meeting.

However...

I'm with you.  The ARRL's last surveys of both membership and 
non-membership were overwhelmingly in favor of retaining testing.  So 
the BOD voted that should be the ARRL's stand for testing in the USA.  
And what happens?  The ARRL rep at the NVEC meeting abstains from the 
vote on petitioning for removal of the Morse requirement.  Said that he 
didn't have any direction from headquarters.  Funny, I would have 
thought the BOD vote would have been all the direction he needed.

I think the problem here is that employees of ARRL work for Sumner.  
He's supposed to implement what the BOD directs.  But it appears to me 
that he avoids doing so when he disagrees with them.

Back in August I sent an email to Sumner and the ARRL president asking 
why the ARRL wasn't taking any action concerning Morse after the 
abstain at the NVEC meeting.  Sumner replied that they were doing 
plenty though all he mentioned was that the BOD is going to discuss and 
vote on it early this year.  The president's reply was down right 
scary.  He asked me if I could get him copies of the survey results 
that I mentioned earlier in this email and mentioned in my email to 
them.  Sounds like management at ARRL (meaning ultimately Sumner) is 
manipulating the league president.

That's my 2 cents.  That may be all it's worth...

> I don't know (not that I care much anymore) what "survey" or
> vote everyone's talking about.  The last one done in KP4/KP3
> Land did not necessarily result in recommendations akin to its
> true outcome, so I remain skeptical about these futile "survey"
> exercises.  The future has no credible connection to the
> ephemerally random results of these silly games.
>
>> Here in the Georgia section they did a survey on the section
>> web site.  The vote lasted a month and was overwhelmingly
>> in favor of retaining Morse testing.

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Thomas M. Beaudry
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