[SJDXA] FW: Rebuttal to the Note to Members from Rick Roderick, K5UR by K6LA

Tue Jan 16 22:36:09 EST 2018

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From: John Crovelli [mailto:w2gd at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 9:16 PM
To: KI4KWR - Steve Molo
Subject: Fw: Rebuttal to the Note to Members from Rick Roderick, K5UR by
K6LA
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Here it is in .pdf 

 https://www.myarrlvoice.org/k6la-letter-to-k5ur-jan-16-2018/

 <https://www.myarrlvoice.org/k6la-letter-to-k5ur-jan-16-2018/> 

 <https://www.myarrlvoice.org/k6la-letter-to-k5ur-jan-16-2018/> K6LA Letter
to K5UR, Jan 16, 2018

www.myarrlvoice.org

From: Ken Widelitz [mailto:kwidelitz at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 16,
2018 12:02 PM To: k5ur at arrl.org Cc: ARRL Board of Directors and Officers
Subject: Note to Members from Rick Roderick, K5UR.

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From: John Crovelli <w2gd at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 8:43:54 PM
Subject: Rebuttal to the Note to Members from Rick Roderick, K5UR by K6LA 

Attached is a point by point REBUTTAL to the "Note to the Members" posted on
the ARRL website last evening by K5UR.  

This response posted today by Ken, K6LA  is timely and is concise in
pointing out the deficiencies in ARRL President Roderick's "note".  You may
forward with his permission.

Please repost K6LA's email locally and if you would forward to other clubs
and individuals you feel would help in this distribution.

Thank you.

W2GD

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From: Ken Widelitz [mailto:kwidelitz at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 12:02 PM
To: k5ur at arrl.org
Cc: ARRL Board of Directors and Officers
Subject: Note to Members from Rick Roderick, K5UR

Dear Mr. Roderick,

Your note of January 15, 2018 is disingenuous, misleading, devoid of facts
and itself consists of much misinformation.

Most disturbing is your implication that because none of the proposed
revisions of the Articles of Association and Bylaws ". has yet been
addressed by the Board of Directors" it is improper and a
mischaracterization for members to comment on the proposals.  Yet later in
your note you state "ARRL member input is welcome on all such subjects."  It
is at this point, prior to the BOD discussion, that members can and should
give their input. How do you reconcile those two conflicting statements?

You go on to state ". other equally and erroneous and false statements have
been made with respect to completely unrelated issues ." What are those
statement to which you are referring? Why are they erroneous and false? An
argument such as yours requires details, not blanket statements unsupported
by facts.

You state that criticism that the ". ARRL operates under some "cloak of
secrecy" . is unfair and undeserved." Yet later in your note you state

"Unfortunately, it was necessary for the Board to take the highly unusual
action of publicly censuring one of its members recently." You state the
Board "..took action to protect the organization's integrity based on the
information presented.This is not a procedure that any nonprofit
organization would conduct publicly." While the procedure may be conducted
privately, the reasons for results should be public. It strikes me that the
reasons are not "personnel" as has been stated by a couple of directors, but
rather "personal." 

You state "that it is not fair to members, or to the representative
Directors who have yet to evaluate them collectively, to have the proposals
mischaracterized or misrepresented." You fail to state what proposals have
been mischaracterized or misrepresented and in what way. Again, your
proposition requires details, not blanket statements unsupported by facts.

Quite frankly, you note only serves to underscore the need for the campaign
which not only is well-intentioned, but accurate.

Ken Widelitz, K6LA

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