[MRCA] was Digital sigs on 5357 kc now ARRL

[Ray Fantini]

And I thought the ARRL existed just to collect dues, pay all their cronies up North lots of money and promote an atmosphere of you have to have the newest widget or device out there to be a complete Ham to keep the advertisers in QST happy?
But then again any organization is only the sum of its members and in the thirty or forty years that I have belonged to the ARRL cannot think of anything that I have done for them or the community at large so perhaps the problem is me.

Ray F/KA3EKH








From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Gottlieb
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 1:21 PM
To: mkdorney at aol.com
Cc: mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Digital sigs on 5357 kc

I don’t know the ARRL that well but once an organization is created, the first order of business is usually the continuation of the organization. If they see contesting and sport as the way to do that, they won’t spend a lot of effort supporting other reasons for ham radio.

Peter

On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:07 PM, WW2RDO via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net<mailto:mrca at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:
  Personally, I ignore that contesting stupidity.  And I encourage others to do the same.  If the ARRL is all hung up on that idiocy, perhaps the powers to be need to re-acquaint themselves with the primary reasons the ham radio community exists.

Mark
WW2RDO

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