[CQ-Contest] July QST arrives "Antenna Issue"

[Dale L Martin]

> Hello Jerry,
>
> No offense intended towards you, but if the ARRL is suppose to be
> doing all you
> describe below then they must not be doing a very good job.  Are
> not only about
> one fourth of the licensed amateur radio operators in the United
> States members
> of the ARRL.  That seems kind of pathetic to me.
>

No more pathetic than anywhere/anything else.

Do you vote?  How pathetic is that?  And you don't even have to pay a fee.
Yet, only just over half the voting age population registered in the 1994
election and only 45% voted.

Belong to any ham radio clubs?  How many in the club are actually ACTIVE
members?  How many show up for club-related events to do things (meetings,
fun-runs, shack cleaning, tower work, equipment repair, etc.) and/or
volunteer to lead a team or organize an activity?  In any club/organization,
there are going to be the movers-shakers (no matter what the quality of
their moving-shaking may be).  The rest just sit on their haunches and watch
the goings-on.

> Seventy five percent of all US hams can not be wrong!  Can they?
>

Yes, they can.  Very much so.  They can also be miserably cheap bastards,
too, so any membership dues is anathema to them.

73,
dale, kg5u


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