So, is CQ-Contest now the appropriate mailing list for ranting about
QST antenna articles? Is it now the appropriate reflector for other
quasi-political debate about the ARRL? This thread seems a little far
afield of actual contesting issues to me.
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:26:01PM -0500, Dale L Martin wrote:
>
>
> > Hello Jerry,
> >
> > No offense intended towards you, but if the ARRL is suppose to be
> > doing all you
> > describe below then they must not be doing a very good job. Are
> > not only about
> > one fourth of the licensed amateur radio operators in the United
> > States members
> > of the ARRL. That seems kind of pathetic to me.
> >
>
> No more pathetic than anywhere/anything else.
>
> Do you vote? How pathetic is that? And you don't even have to pay a fee.
> Yet, only just over half the voting age population registered in the 1994
> election and only 45% voted.
>
> Belong to any ham radio clubs? How many in the club are actually ACTIVE
> members? How many show up for club-related events to do things (meetings,
> fun-runs, shack cleaning, tower work, equipment repair, etc.) and/or
> volunteer to lead a team or organize an activity? In any club/organization,
> there are going to be the movers-shakers (no matter what the quality of
> their moving-shaking may be). The rest just sit on their haunches and watch
> the goings-on.
>
> > Seventy five percent of all US hams can not be wrong! Can they?
> >
>
> Yes, they can. Very much so. They can also be miserably cheap bastards,
> too, so any membership dues is anathema to them.
>
> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>
>
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