What for? This hobby's on the road to extinction.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Dutson" <kdutson@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Amps" <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 2006 ARRL Radio Handbook
> Richard,
>
> With your attitude towards ARRL, I am surprised you have not tried to
> organize a better club.
>
> 73, Keith NM5G
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of R.Measures
> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:44 AM
> To: Mike Sawyer
> Cc: Phil Clements; amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] 2006 ARRL Radio Handbook
>
>
> On Oct 9, 2005, at 5:53 AM, Mike Sawyer wrote:
>
>> I hate like heck being a 'pestimist', (as my father-in-law says), but
>> I haven't known the ARRggghhhL to take kindly to suggestions,
>> critiques, or criticisms.
>
> Indeed, Mike. When I was writing magazine articles for them, it was a
> semi-constant battle to see to it that their changes did not introduce a
> text error or diagram error that wasn't there in the manuscript. It
> seemed
> as if some of their copy-editors (other than Rus Healy and Dave
> Newkirk) felt they needed to assert themselves by making a change.
>
>> Their surveys that they sent out over the years were discounted for
>> what the 'board's direction' is. Recent shenanigans in the Atlantic
>> section mangers election reinforce my distrust, and low esteem for the
>> (be)League(d).
>
> In 1955, when I was 14, one fateful day when I was riding my bike home
> from
> Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in Oxnard, California, I stopped by the
> "C-Street Market" - a mom&pop store that carried QST magazine and other
> League publications. I bought a copy of the 1955 Radio Amateur's Handbook
> for $3. On page 8, under article 2 of "The Amateurs Code" I read:
>
> "The Amateur is Loyal . . . . He owes his amateur radio to the American
> Radio Relay League and he offers it his unswerving loyalty."
>
> At the time, this struck me as a bit odd since I was pretty sure that
> France had amateur radio licenses, and it seemed sort of unlikely that the
> ARRL had any control over anything in the land of Pasteur, the Curies, and
> Pascal.
>
> During the ensuing half century, I learned that:
> 1. The motto "Of, by, and for amateur radio" is really Of, by, and for
> amateur radio advertisers.
> 2. The biggest joke in HQ is that the members actually believe they
> control
> the League.
> 3. The 15 League "Directors" are controlled with "shaking hands money".
> 4. The PRI controlled Mexico politics for 60-years because the PRI
> counted
> the votes.
>
>
>> Your mileage may vary.
>> Mike(y)
>
> cheers, Mike
>
>> ...
>>
>
> Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734. www.somis.org
>
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