[Milsurplus] What was the ARRL thinking ?

[Robert Nickels]

On 9/28/2026 9:05 AM, Bill Cotter via Milsurplus wrote:
> Or, they could move The League to KY, TN, NC, or SC, and not have so 
> many business & personal expenses to worry about! That might give them 
> some relief from having to make so much money as a non-profit. And, 
> they might be better able to serve the amateur radio community with 
> less overhead. 

Hi Bill,

Your comment triggered a LONG-ago memory!   I lived in western Nebraska 
in the 1970s and repeaters and remote base stations were my primary 
interest.  Once guy who had a big antenna system used to get into my 
repeater from about 75 miles away - Dan, W0UFZ.   He'd been a ham for 
many years and as most of us have discovered,  along with age comes a 
bit of attitude ;-)   He felt the ARRL was losing it's way back then, 
and made them an offer:   Move ARRL HQ to Alliance, Nebraska where he 
lived - a small city of 8,000 (now) on the edge of the Nebraska 
Sandhills.    He would donate a number of acres of land and had a whole 
list of reasons which he would happily expound upon.  They included 
lower costs of operation, reduced payroll cost, a central US location 
that could provide better signals from coast to coast,  plenty of space 
for large directional antenna arrays (like SW BC stations used), and of 
course "midwestern values".

Naturally, nothing ever came of it.     But he was dead serious and it's 
hard to argue with his claims even today - especially in the age of the 
internet.

73, Bob W9RAN
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