[QCWA] New 2010 Roster Statistics

[jangus at suddenlink.net]

Declining membership?
What a surprise...

I've been continuously licensed since 1967 yet I've never been made to feel welcome
by the older members of the QCWA. 

Sorry folks, I'm only 56, that leaves me out of having served time in WWII.

Nor do I appreciate being referred to as an extra-lite because I didn't prove to the FCC
that I can send and receive Morse code at 21 WPM.

Now, let's see, some quick math here... 2010 - 25 = 1985. A lot of things have both
happened and changed since 1945. But still I feel as though I'm being held to an
unreasonable standard for acceptance into an "Old Boys Club."

Now suddenly there is a "We're losing membership numbers." There is a large pool
of people that have been licensed prior to 1985, yet where are they? Have they
all been chased off as not being "real enough" to qualify in some secret cabal?

The requirements aren't that difficult. "If you hold a current amateur radio license
and you were licensed, as a ham, 25 years ago or more, you are eligible to join
QCWA." You don't even need to have been continuously licensed. So where is
everybody?

Jeff
wa6fwi
QCWA lifer

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