[CW] Re: CW digest, Vol 4 #370 - 7 msgs

[Marshall Emm]

Jim said--

>>What I find most interesting is that this is the first I'm hearing about
such a survey. <<

It was probably in the minutes of the board meeting that approved it-- who 
reads those?  Wait a sec-- QST stopped publishing minutes, didn't they?

What I find interesting is they used member funds to pay an outside company to 
survey non members.  Either they don't trust their own ability to conduct an 
impartial survey or (more likely) they thought a commercial polling firm would 
lend some sort of authority to the results.  Why?  No doubt so they can say to 
the FCC "this is what hams want" rather than just "this is what our members 
want."  But of course they overlooked the first question, which should have 
been "do our members want us to spend  their money to find out what non-members 
want?" [g]




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Marshall Emm
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