[Fists] ARRL poll

[Jim Lowman]

Ken, if/when you get a refund, please let the rest of us know.  I'm 
about ready to do the same.

Just before the 2001 ARRL Southwestern Division Convention, I jumped on 
one of the offers
to save money, due to an imminent dues increase, and signed up for five 
years.  Since there are
a couple of years left on that membership, I think it's time that I 
resigned and requested a refund
of dues, as well.

I, too, was an ARRL VE until the code test was dropped to 5 wpm.  In 
good conscience, I knew that I
could not sign off on someone's Extra-class ticket who had only an 
introductory knowledge of CW.

The only regret that I have about my own Extra-class ticket is that I 
took the two elements for
Extra class (20 wpm code test and theory) from a VE team that I 
eventually joined.  Nice bunch
of people, but certainly I would have placed more personal value on the 
achievement if I had
taken those elements, years ago, in front of THE MAN, as I had done for 
my General and
Advanced licenses.

The way things are going, maybe I should sell my HF gear while it's 
still worth something.

73 de Jim - AD6CW


kce wrote:

>Well, I renewed my membership, but after thinking about this poor excuse for
>a proposal and getting angry everytime I did, I decided to cancel my
>membership. I dashed off a e-mail to the league stating this and requesting
>a refund of dues. I cannot support a organization that only looks out for
>its back pocket. If you check out their web page , you see they have a spiel
>about BPL on it. Seems like just a big smoke screen to get some of the heat
>from this proposal to cool down.
>
>Ken W8OB
>Ex. ARRL member
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