Fw: [Fists] Great Lakes Director's Comments

Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:38:17 -0500

Yes. It is pretty pitiful the present Leadership of the ARRL. Perfect
example of a chickenshit politician trying to appease the masses.
73
john

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Emmersom Bigguns" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Fists] Great Lakes Director's Comments

> Mr. Weaver reminds me of Charlie Brown, wishy-washey.
> If you are affraid to make a stand one way or the other, then get the hell
> out of the way. :-)
>
> 72, 73
> Dan, N8IE
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2:30 PM
> Subject: [Fists] Great Lakes Director's Comments
>
>
> Here is Mr. Weavers latest e-mail hand out to folks in the Great Lakes
> area......
>
> (DIRECT ANY COMMENTS TO: [email protected]. Do not simply click on reply.
> The reflector does not receive or forward E-mail.)
>
> E-MAIL & US MAIL ON MORSE CODE REQUIREMENT
>
> During recent days I've received E-mail messages promoting absolutely no
> code from proponents of No Code International. Before this, I received
> code-forever cards from FISTS followers. Partly because of this, I'm
> motivated to come out with a bit of plain talk. I do not wish to offend
> anyone. I respect anyone's opinion (regardless of my opinion of it) and
> continue to invite people, ARRL members especially, to let me know their
> thinking. However, here is what I think about the Morse code licensing
> issue and how I intend to proceed at the ARRL Board meeting next week
> . . . and a few thoughts on other topics. Please take these words at
> face value.
>
> THE OPINIONS OF MEMBERS
>
> Members' opinions are very important to me. Your answers to my July CW
> questionnaire caused me to modify my initial position on code
> requirements. Any member of this Division was eligible and requested to
> give me his/her thoughts. For members who somehow did not receive the
> poll, I regret you were missed. For you who chose to ignore the
> questionnaire, I am sorry you shut yourselves out of helping shape my
> opinion. You snooze; you lose!
>
> NO CODE INTERNATIONAL (NCI)
>
> NCI has done a good job of encouraging its members and followers to let
> me know what they think. No problem. Unfortunately, most of the NCI
> people who contacted me and identified themselves as such do not belong
> to ARRL. They lost their opportunity to help me formulate my position
> on code requirements by not being an ARRL member and, therefore, not
> replying to my questionnaire. My position was developed by mid-Fall
> after studying the hundreds of responses by members to my questionnaire
> and after studying other information I found.
>
> NON-MEMBERS
>
> To be very frank, unless a non-member comes to me with a clearly good
> idea or points out a clear problem, their opinion holds significantly
> less weight with me than those of members. With exception, nonmembers
> do not actively support the fight ARRL is making to defeat the forces
> (BPL) attempting to QRM our frequencies on a wholesale basis. They also
> generally do not support our effort to pass legislation that prohibits
> FCC from skimming off our frequencies at will . . . or our fight to
> secure the right for each amateur to install an antenna/tower (provided
> doing this is physically reasonable and safe). In short, nonmembers who
> ask my support for a position usually have not in my opinion shown they
> care enough about Amateur Radio by joining the fight to protect it and
> enhance it.
>
> If anyone wants my unqualified representation, all they need to do is to
> join ARRL and become part of the only organization in the world that is
> fighting to preserve and enhance Amateur Radio in the US. Shouldn't it
> be more important that all of us get together under one strong
> organization to defeat the BPLs, frequency skimmers and
> anti-antenna/tower rules than to have a head-butting contest over either
> of the no code or know code extremes?
>
> As an example of the reason I feel this way, it would matter not that I
> have a 20-wpm license or a no-code license, if we lose essential battles
> and find ourselves but have only insufficient, and highly QRMd
> frequencies on which to exercise these licenses.
>
> MY POSITION
>
> I agree with and will pursue offering the opportunity in a meaningful
> way to no code licensees to use HF. I have just become a Bad Guy in the
> eyes of the strict know-coders.
>
> I also agree with and will pursue requiring Morse code requirements for
> a specified class of license. I have now also become a Bad Guy in the
> eyes of the strict no-coders.
> Let's face it, no matter what I and the rest of the Board do in this
> matter, we will be labeled stooges, a bunch of out-of-touch old men and
> saddled with the claim we have prostituted ourselves to the financial
> dictates of someone or other, somewhere. This easily-concocted view of
> the Directors and Officers is an easy, if not fully inaccurate, target
> for anyone who does not get exactly what they feel they deserve.
>
> So much for the goings on in the world of friendly politics!
>
>
>
>
>
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