[Fists] Great Lakes Director's Comments

Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:49:32 -0500

Here you have someone trying to come up with a decent compromise proposal
and you have the gall to call him "chickenshit"?

You guys can piss and moan all you want, but the  code requirement is going
to go away. So, you better crank up whatever programs you have up your
sleeve (you do have one up your sleeves, don't you?) to promote CW and get
more CW ops on the air.

73!

Dan KB6NU
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HF CW op (FISTS #9342)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "n3drk" <[email protected]>
To: "fists" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:38 PM
Subject: Fw: [Fists] Great Lakes Director's Comments

> 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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