[Fists] ARRl Membership

[ATanner283@aol.com]

The ARRL propaganda machine has done it's work well. They have a good 
following of hams believing that they alone have the FCC ear, and they alone can 
affect the future of ham radio. Do you really believe that if it came right down 
to billions of dollars, that the FCC would give a hoot about what the ARRL sez 
about power line interference?? Or ham radio in general?? Please note the 
recent history of the ARRL and the FCC. The cold shoulder that the ARRL has been 
shown concerning previous license changes, privileges on 60 meters, and this 
BPL stuff is a good example. The ARRL is a large publishing house that dabbles 
in ham radio, and is failing in both it's mission, and it's financial 
responsibilities. They published that their pension fund is near broke. I just recvd a 
dunn in the mail for money to buy new station equipment. Seems to me it wasn't 
long ago a bunch of stuff was donated??? I know of no one who listens to the 
"bulletin", as it is readily available on Internet. When my membership runs 
out, so will I. It has become obvious to all but life members, who PAY NO DUES 
and are therefore on a free ride anyway, that the whole she-bang is in danger 
of folding in on itself. I have talked to folks a little closer to the bone 
than those on the reflectors. I know it's hearsay, but if you do some research 
you will find the truth. It's all smoke. How much do you pay for a measly RCC 
certificate these days??? It COSTS 10 cents to make. How much do you think it 
costs to get cards checked for DXCC honor roll?? How about WAS?? The checkers 
are volunteers, whats wrong with this picture?? How much do you think it cost to 
send all those delegates to the International Radio get together?? Did they 
need as many as they sent?? They claim they were totally taken by surprise at 
the Morse issue, but it didn't take the other VEC's by any surprise, and they 
had their proposals before the FCC before the ARRL big shots got home from the 
party. The ARRL did not respond because they claimed they had to find out 
"what the membership wanted". Many regions did not poll, and those that did never 
gave out the numbers. Do you REALLY think the majority approved this latest 
fiasco. I think not, since it was a total surprise to everybody. Wake up and 
smell the ozone. The ARRL is NOT the honorable all seeing all hearing all doing 
entity in ham radio they would have you believe.......they are politicians 
trying to protect their own butts. Why didn't they poll the vote if it was so 
important to the membership?? They poll every other mundane move they make. Could 
it be that someone doesn't want the vote known??? Geeeeee........I 
wonder.........Al W8FAX/2192 Extra.....................heavy


--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
or had an attachment.  Attachments are not allowed.  To learn how
to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html  ---