Will Angenent:
Can I reply to the post below without getting expelled from AMPS ?
tnx
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>> Rich says;
>>
>> >Are you familiar with the term "shaking-hands money"?
>>
>> No. never heard it before.
>>
>> >think they control the League by voting for ARRL Directors
>>
>> A bigger laugh is to think the directors of any national society of more
>> than a handful of members (30? 50? 100 max) control it. Been there myself,
>> done that...........
>
>This stuff will go on forever!
>
>In truth, copies of Rich's articles were sent to over a dozen people
>NOT involved in any way with manufacturing or QST advertising.
>
>The ARRL was very surprised when there were no favorable
>responses from these people. As a matter of fact, the staff at QST
>went out of its way to find someone they trusted who agreed with
>Rich, and drew a total blank.
>
>This put the league in a serious bind, because all of the Handbook
>information that was about to be used was found to be technically
>flawed.
>
>At that point QST's staff decided they were in trouble, and upon
>checking found out none of Rich's work was ever reviewed. Rich,
>like many authors, had a "green light" that caused QST to publish
>almost anything he submitted.
>
>QST's staff could do nothing but admit letters they had ignored for
>many years were correct. (One letter was from Eimac, who
>immediately after the first article attempted to correct
>misinformation. That letter was "filed" at HQ for years without any
>response.)
>
>Rather than admitting a mistake they published the letters and let
>the letters do the "dirty work". I did not and do not think that was a
>good way to handle the problem. It keeps the real problem, a lack
>of technical editing, from being apparent and shifts the blame to
>outsiders.
>
>The only reason excerpts from my letters appear so frequently is I
>happened to catch the largest number of technical errors that
>agreed with the independent reviewers. Because of that, I was
>quoted in multiple places.
>
>While some (but not a majority) of the letters used did come from
>people connected with manufacturing, the truth is the actual review
>process that turned Rich's green light off was accomplished with
>people who were NOT advertisers or involved in commercial
>aspects of amateur radio.
>73, Tom W8JI
>W8JI@contesting.com
>
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