[Qcwa] QCWA filing on the 60 meter band proposal

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:00:07 -0400

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:26:00 -0700 "Bob Plamondon" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> Hi, Al.
> 
> Oh, I think that was surely an "attack" - albeit very nicely
> articulated.
> 
> As for the filing protocol ... we have leaders in democracies 
> (which
> really means "republics") to ACT for us - not to take polls on 
> every
> issue to determine what they should do.   However, (as I alluded to
> earlier) if this were a controversial issue, they surely should 
> have
> (and I believe would have) encouraged a debate and perhaps called 
> for a
> vote of the membership.  This one was a "slam dunk" and it would 
> have
> been an expensive and time-wasting process to find out that the 
> vast
> majority of us were in favor.
> 
> I infer from your words that you suspect John might have acted
> unilaterally - I would doubt that very much - but it is something 
> that
> perhaps should be made clearer for such formal statements.  I 
> certainly
> expect our officers to participate.
> 
> 73,  w6BOB
> 
> > On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:37:01 -0700 "Bob Plamondon" <[email protected]>
> writes:
> >
> > Hi, Raymond.
> >
> > If you bothered to check the website for Officers/Directors
> > http://www.qcwa.org/off_dir.htm   you would have discovered that
> > W3BE is a Director.
> >
> > The reason organizations have leaders is to act for us - which 
> John
> > did extremely well in this instance.   Were this a controversial 
> issue
> > (which it clearly is not), I'm sure our leadership would have 
> played it quite differently.
> >
> > Gratitude should have been your response - not an attack on one 
> of our hardest working and competent leaders.  Think about it.
> >
> > 73,  w6BOB
> > Southern California
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        Dear Raymond,  W5VPU:

        I am amazed that for someone eligible for QCWA membership,  you
seem to have no knowledge of the members of the QCWA Board of Directors, 
of which John Johnson,  W3BE,  is a member.  Since John was the former
Chief of the Amateur and Citizens Division of the FCC for a decade or so,
 I just supposed that a majority of Amateurs would know him in that venue
if in no other.  I came across his bio on page 14 of the Spring 2002 QCWA
Journal.  Did you read that page by any chance,  Raymond?   If not,  how
about pages 10 through 13,  where John's Quarterly column of Q & A
related to FCC Rules and Regs  is a regular feature of the Journal? 
        I have it on good authority that the Board of Directors felt that
support of the proposed new 60 meter band would be something most QCWA
members would support,   that it was discussed via e-mail exchanges,  
that a motion was made regarding a statement of support ( for which some
Directors proposed amendments),  which was passed with overwhelming
support.   Then John was asked to draft the QCWA Board's position to the
FCC-- as a former FCC staff person,   who better to know how to do so? --
and that position was once again offered to the Board to modify or
change.  All done decently and in order,  Raymond,  with the thought that
you and most others would really want to have a new 60-meter band enough
that support for it from as many individuals and groups as possible would
be a good thing,  and that they should say so directly to the FCC.   
        In 2003 there will be another opportunity for you,  Raymond,   to
become a part of the "elite" who "run things" in the QCWA -- and whom you
scourage so readily -- when another group of folks will be invited to run
for election to the QCWA Board of Directors.   John Huntoon (do you have
any idea as to who he is?) is Chair of the Nominating Committee,  and
will surely welcome your petition for the position.  
                        -- 73,  Alan,   KJ9N  -- God Bless America,  God
Bless our Democracy,  God bless the QCWA,   and God Bless you,   too!

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