[Ham-Mac] ARRL discrimination - Think different

[Brian Short]

I am "Pro-Choice" http://www.k7on.com/blog.htm#ProChoice

> Hi fellow hams,
>
> I don't want to make this issue even more complicated but considering 
> your impressive drive in this matter, I wish to suggest another idea - 
> a stupid idea perhaps ...
>
> What do we want to achieve? The answer is simple: we want more Mac 
> software available in ham radio.
>
> Who is the person or organization we need to talk to? From my 
> perspective, we need to talk to those people capable to push this 
> issue in the desired direction.
>
> Who is this? Apple, of course, and ... Steve Jobs.
>
> I can imagine, that Apple may consider radio amateurs an interesting 
> target group: 1) there are 100.000s of hams in the U.S. and in the 
> world, 2) hams may be considered early users of innovative 
> technologies, 3) hams may be considered multipliers in the market 
> because we interface private and professional users in various 
> aspects, 4) Mac OS X is gaining more and more momentum in ham radio 
> (see Steve's, NI5V, growing list of OS X applications), 5) ham Mac 
> users may generate lots of awareness (see, for example, this email 
> forum or, alternatively, the 'human race' TV documentary driven my a 
> 'MacHead'), 6) ham Mac users represent a very large number of 
> operational Mac systems (sum the amount of Mac computer systems we are 
> using at home and in our companies and we can say: "see, ham Mac users 
> represent more than 100.000 Mac systems in the market" - wow!, 7) .... 
> (add your personal arguments here) ...
>
> What I want to say: there are many smart people in this forum and 
> therefore I am convinced we can prepare an attractive and juicy 
> package of arguments convincing Steve Jobs to consider radio amateurs 
> an attractive target group, worth to be mentioned on their webpage and 
> worth to be sponsored in OS X software development, dxpeditions, 
> public activities and ... eductational initiatives. If we can initiate 
> some sort of cooperation or project, we may go back to our national 
> ham organizations and they will definetly listen to us, guaranteed.
>
> Think different!
>
> vy 73s,
> Volker (DF5AI)
> http://www.df5ai.net
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