Rich,
One word, EXACTLY! See to me, the bandplan change dont bother me one bit, nor
does any of the troubles this may or may not cause. What does stick in my craw
if the way this was handled. How in the Hell could they allow anyone to be on a
comittee with a vote when they have a vested interest in it? Not one person,
but two! To me, that's just like letting the fox in the chicken house, closing
the chicken house door, and just walking away! Then try to rush it through with
only a little small mention of it, or was to my understanding. In other words,
we dont want the right hand to know what the left is doing. Then, one of these
vested folks, at the time of the vote, says they'll recuse themselves but, now
this is a BIG but, will still vote to break a tie! Now which way are they gonna
vote? Back years ago, they kept tar and feathers over this, and a big rail to
tie you to. They had public hanging too which I'm all for bringing back. Matter
of fact, the town I'm from held the last p
ublic hanging in the state of Kentucky, AFTER they had already passed the law
banning it. It's nothing but money and who's pockets it's finding its way into.
And or, whose nose is browner than whose. Things just like this, which pop up
several times a year, is the very reason I am so firm against what's now been
going on for years.
Will
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On 3/6/05 at 10:05 AM R.Measures wrote:
>On Mar 6, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Will Matney wrote:
>
>> I just ran across something (2-3 days back actually) about the ARRL
>> almost secertely pushing through a new bandplan for Winlink, I think
>> was the name.
>
>160m has no such limits and it is a delight. 80m has limits and it is
>a vast wasteland -- like unto that described in Newton Minnow's speech
>to the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961.
>- Those who try to control others for the primary purpose of
>controlling others are called megalomaniacs.
>
>> I have read some others opinions before I made this post. One wonders
>> why I will not re-license and this shows why. I have seen the ARRL
>> now, over and over, for years now, seem to do some pretty underhanded
>> things. It seems to me it is always tied to a money flow some where. I
>> know all to well what they did to Rich Measures on here, and it was
>> over deep pockets controlling what the ARRL now does.
>
>My guess is that what goes on behind closed doors in Newington goes way
>beyond money. I find it amazing that I never stopped to think about
>who counts our votes for the Directors who supposedly control "our"
>League.
>P. T. Barnum said there was one born every minute and I plead guilty
>for the period of 1955 to 1994.
>- League elections for Directors invite comparison to Baath Party
>"elections" in Saddam's Iraq.
>- Hiram, W1AW, is probably turning over in his grave.
>
>> I'm sorry, the ARRL is supposed to be for all the amateur radio folks
>> but when money is involved somewhere, it seems that things gets
>> hushed, law suits gets threatened, and stuff is done under the table.
>> Folks wonder why the membership is dropping off and this pretty much
>> nails it. Before we had the internet, where information flows sooo
>> freely, keeping things hid away was 100% easier. I started on the net
>> about the same time I said by
>> -by to my license. These types of actions is the very reason they
>> went. To straighten it out, there ought to be a major house cleaning
>> of the ARRL, and the FCC. There's too many corporate and political
>> fingers in there. The ARRL should only be staffed by non-political,
>> non business tied hams IMHO. This very thing is the reason I dont see
>> myself ever being re-licensed in the near future. I just had to say
>> something as I'd had this bottled up now for a few days. Any comments
>> are welcome.
>>
>> Will
>>
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