[Amps] 2006 ARRL Radio Handbook

[R.Measures]

On Oct 9, 2005, at 9:03 AM, HAROLD B MANDEL wrote:

> In a preceding post the following phrase printed:
>
>  "The Amateur is Loyal . . . .  He owes his amateur radio to the
> American Radio Relay League and he offers it his unswerving loyalty."
>
> Is this quote correct?

Yes
>
> Does this mean the ARRL has an interest in my equipment?
> Is there some sort of Lien? I thought I paid cash.

I think the implied meaning is the amateur radio license.
>
> In my Will the kids were going to inherit the house and
> all the junk, but now..........
>
> Do I need to rewrite it?

Nah
>
> As for "unswerving loyalty," I don't seem to remember
> the FCC examiner ( I was of the generation that had to
> actually go to the FCC office to be tested) having everyone
> stand and raise their right hands and "Repeat after me" like
> they did at the Whitehall Street military induction center.
>
> Did I miss out on that, too? Oh, no: I might be one
> of those "rebel operators." It's bad enough I didn't build
> my own transceiver, an "Appliance Operator." I have to
> live with that very day.
>
> Did anyone ever read "Catch-22?" Remember the
> chapter where everyone needed to take Loyalty Oaths?
> "Fuhgeddaboudit!"
>
> Hal
> W4HBM
>
>

Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734.  www.somis.org