[CQ-Contest] Club Mgmt/ARRL Mgmt (was "Multi-Single")

[Jerry Boyd]

Bruce,
I've disagreed with your writings in the past at times--but this time I
agree with your points 100%.  The folks I've dealt with at ARRL HQ and in
the Field organization over the past 40 years (and there have been many)
are top notch, dedicated people.  I think they deserve a "break today".
Jerry
K6BZ

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> From: Bruce Sawyer <N6NT at worldnet.att.net>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Cc: W2CE at prodigy.net
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Club Mgmt/ARRL Mgmt (was "Multi-Single")
> Date: Monday, December 08, 1997 1:39 PM
> 
> Straying FAR away from the stated subject line of "Multi-Single", W2CE
> recently opined,
> 
> >You have to realize that there are people who attain some form of
> >position be it an officer of a large radio club or even ARRL position
> >that are experiencing the biggest influential position of their lives.
> >Few would be selected if they had to present resumes with business
> >qualifications.
> >Who do people elect to manage a corporation the size of the ARRL ?  Does
> >anyone ask for corporate managerial experience or do you just shake the
> >hand of a guy with a big signal? ...These people are not gods...
> >Position and ethics don't go side by side.
> 
> These are some sweeping indictments that cover a number of people I hold
in
> very high regard, and I am personally offended by these remarks.  Overall
> management responsibility of the ARRL rests with the board of directors.
> The division directors (and vice-directors) with whom I have had personal
> contact invariably have had distinguished business careers.  I'm not sure
> why W2CE should consider that such a necessary qualification, but the
> correlation here is quite strong.  The staff in Newington surely must
suffer
> from the highest ratio of competence/compensation I have ever observed
> outside of a monastery.  I'm sure there are exceptions, but the ones I've
> been privileged to know are NOT there because they are "experiencing the
> biggest [sic] influential position of their lives".  They're there
because
> they love the hobby and want to give something back to it.  I think we
> should be grateful there are people like them who are willing to take the
> responsibility they have, suffer the abuse they have to endure, and then
try

> to provide for their families on the salaries the league is able to give
> them.  (The technical salaries in Newington are about 1/4 to 1/3 of what
> they could be making here in Silicon Valley.)
> 
> Likewise, the people who belly up to the bar to accept elective office in
> our radio clubs are probably not doing it because they're getting their
> kicks out of exercising some kind of power they would not otherwise be
able
> to earn.  They're most likely doing it because they feel it's everybody's
> responsibility to take their turn and try to help the hobby and because
they
> honestly feel they can make a difference.  I spent one year as president
of
> NCCC and had fun doing it, but I don't think I ever want to do that job
> again.  There were just too many people who felt I owed it to them to be
> their personal punching bag for whatever in ham radio it was that was
> irritating them at the moment.  Just as in everything else in life, it's
10%
> of the people (who never come to club meetings, of course) who cause 90%
of
> the problems.  That 10% can be really irritating, though.
> 
> I'm sure there are examples W2CE could offer to try to prove his point,
but
> to generalize the accusation to include the set of people he did is just
a
> gross insult to a lot of dedicated people.
> 
> Bruce, N6NT
> 
> 
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