[Fists] Great Lakes Director's Comments

Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:00:19 -0500

Stating that you support both sides of an "either or" issue is a chickenshit
stance.
Either you support code testing or you don't, pick a side.

This guy is very rude and a joke. Glad I did not vote for him. :-)

72, oo
Dan, N8IE

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan KB6NU" <[email protected]>
To: "n3drk" <[email protected]>; "Fists" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Fists] Great Lakes Director's Comments

> 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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>
> ----- 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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