[Hallicrafters] A response to your response

[Peter Markavage]

Duane:

Although there are times when some discussions can get out of hand, I
don't see this discussion heading that way. Plus, in your response you
have sighted a serious problem and activity, which you either have
personal experience or direct knowledge, that should be of interest to
any Hallicrafters reflector members that may also be ARRL members. Rather
than sending people off to go join another group to talk about it there,
this might be of interest to the Hallicrafters reflector community. Since
the ARRL is a nonprofit organization, I'm even more curious as to who or
why some other group or groups would want to take on the job
responsibility of representing the amateur community at large.
Additionally, all the ARRL financial reports (monies coming in, monies
going out, etc.) for the last several years are available in their Annual
Reports on their general population web site to read and digest.

Pete, WA2CWA

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:49:48 -0500 "Duane Fischer, W8DBF "
<dfischer at usol.com> writes:
> With all due respect to Pete, any group that has tried to fight for 
> Ham radio in
> the past has been viewed as a threat by the ARRL and they spent our 
> subscription
> and membership fees to kill off any competition.        
>         
> There is a list allocated by Alan Waller, K3TKJ for these kinds of 
> discussions,
> perhaps we should move it over there?        
>         
> 
> 
> ----------
> From: Peter Markavage <manualman at juno.com>
> To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] My response to the BPL article
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2004 2:20 PM
> 
> I guess you haven't checked recently into all the ARRL activity 
> going on
> to fight the BPL controversy. QST subscriptions, along with other 
> sales
> activities, help generate revenue to help keep the work the ARRL 
> does for
> the amateur service alive and moving forward. Even though the ARRL 
> cannot
> do "formal lobbying", without them the amateur service would be in a 
> lot
> worse shape. Who would you suggest, that could take their place, to
> continue to fight for our interests?
> 
> Pete, WA2CWA
> 
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:04:13 EST GARDGORE at aol.com writes:
> > We had better look for help somewhere else beside the ARRL. 
> They're 
> > more 
> > interested in selling QST subscriptions these days than battling 
> BPL 
> > on our 
> > behalf.
> > 
> > - Greg

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