[SECC] DISMAY AND DISGUST WITH ARRL AND DAVID SUMNER

[Macie, Gordon]

Some more rumblings from Mississippi...
 
 

From: Rob  <mailto:rob at selectconnect.net> Gardner 
To: Doug  <mailto:km5km at avsia.com> Epps 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: DISMAY AND DISGUST WITH ARRL AND DAVID SUMNER

This is an open reply to Doug's email.  Please read and form your own
opinion.  Mine is set.
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Hi Doug,
 
To heck with it, I am out. No more ARRL.  I have had it.  I have resigned as
ASM and will not renew my membership.  It is time for a new organization
that is for ham radio, not CB !  I am all for starting a grass roots
organization that supports the true meaning of amateur radio.  I will not
support this "money-Hungary" group that is headed up by David Sumner and
Joel Harrison.  They are supposed to support the membership, which I feel if
the members voted, it would be a landslide election in favor of increasing
the regulations to become an amateur operator, not decreasing them.  
 
Anyone out there for forming a new national organization?  Amateur's
definitely need a new voice, because apparently, the ARRL is not
listening.... just doing what the hierarchy wants to do.  To heck with them.
 
73 de Rob - WJ5K
EX- Assistant ARRL Section Mgr. - MS
 
I am forwarding this to all my fellow amateurs that are on my mailing list.
I will not support the ARRL until they come to their senses.  If the ARRL
gets this passed, ham radio is NO MORE.  It will be CB City.  10-4 Good
Buddy.
 
 
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Doug Epps <mailto:km5km at avsia.com>  
To: Steve KU4IU <mailto:ku4iu50mhz at earthlink.net>  ; Sam K4SWM
<mailto:k4swm at sonet.net>  ; Rob Gardner  <mailto:rob at selectconnect.net> WJ5K
; Michael KG4EMV <mailto:kg4emv at bellsouth.net>  ; Lee AD5IS
<mailto:ad5is at nexband.com>  ; Joe Clark AA5IL <mailto:zdog at netdoor.com>  ;
Jerry  <mailto:jerryl10 at comcast.net> KF4DPF ; Jeff
<mailto:ku4ww at hiwaay.net> KU4WW ; Jack Ellis KI5QV
<mailto:jackls at peoplepc.com>  ; Hansel  <mailto:kd5dqu at wmconnect.com> KD5DQU
; Joe N4XPZ <mailto:n4xpz at windlink.org>  ; Barney W4HX
<mailto:w4hx at bellsouth.net>  ; Charles N4OFM <mailto:n4ofm at aol.com>  ; Danny
W4PIG <mailto:w4pig49 at cs.com>  ; Dennis K4DRA <mailto:k4dra at yahoo.com>  ;
Doc KQ4L <mailto:kq4l at aol.com>  ; Gerald K4TPC
<mailto:k4tpc at internetpro.net>  ; Jerry W4RLP <mailto:w4rlp at alltel.net>  ;
Jim K4JRS <mailto:k4jrs at aol.com>  ; Joe W4JSM <mailto:w4jsm at mylink.net>  ;
Johnny W4JTH <mailto:w4jth at bellsouth.net>  ; Mike
<mailto:ks4wz at adelphia.net> KS4WZ ; Milton N4DA <mailto:n4da at bellsouth.net>
; Phil  <mailto:k4dpk at romecomputer.com> K4DPK ; Rex
<mailto:rexjo at bellsouth.net>  ; Rod <mailto:rodabney at alltel.net>  ; TOM HIX
W4TH <mailto:w4th at hotmail.com>  ; Tony G.  <mailto:tgayler2000 at alltel.net>
W1YP ; Tony KE4PK <mailto:ke4pk at bellsouth.net>  ; Tom Ivey
<mailto:tomivey at earthlink.net> KU5V ; Pepper <mailto:jpepper at direcway.com>
; Mark  <mailto:MMHENRY at ATTGLOBAL.NET> WD5GHW ; Joe
<mailto:joas at netdoor.com> KC5Q ; John K5PGW <mailto:jbkking at mtaonline.net>
; George  <mailto:klm1 at mindspring.con> KD4KAW ; Bill  <mailto:MRTNMO at cs.com>
KE4LK ; Billy  <mailto:ka5gnm at avsia.com> Jones KA5GNM ; Bobby W4BVQ
<mailto:johnsonbh at frontiernet.net>  ; Clem W4MXI <mailto:w4mxi at yahoo.com>  ;
Clem W4MXI <mailto:w4mxi at hotmail.com>  ; Dan W4GQF
<mailto:w4gqf at hotmail.com>  ; Dr. Cliff  <mailto:colemanMD at mchsi.com> K9JTS
; Gene WB4GB <mailto:wb4gb at powernet.org>  ; Harold
<mailto:kk4dd at internetpro.net> Brown ; Jim W4SGH
<mailto:w4sgh at internetpro.net>  ; Jim  <mailto:jim30222 at bellsouth.net> W7JRW
; JIM WRIGHT W7JRW <mailto:w7jrw at bellsouth.net>  ; Ken KI5ZY
<mailto:ki5zy1 at bellsouth.net>  ; LEW  <mailto:kd4dx at mindspring.com> KD4DX ;
Mike K5WIM <mailto:k5wim at bellsouth.net>  ; Paul N4PC
<mailto:n4pc at bellsouth.net>  ; Red W4RED <mailto:W4RED at mindspring.com>  ;
Terry W5TF <mailto:w5tf at megagate.com>  ; Wallace K4QVC
<mailto:k4qvc at tds.net>  ; Wayne W4BE <mailto:w4be at hiwaay.net>  
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:03 PM
Subject: Fw: DISMAY AND DISGUST WITH ARRL AND DAVID SUMNER

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: john  <mailto:jbkking at bellsouth.net> king 
To: hq at arrl.org <mailto:hq at arrl.org>  
Cc: kf4cj at farmerstel.com <mailto:kf4cj at farmerstel.com>  ; roy ezell
<mailto:k9roy at mchsi.com>  ; rholling at fcc.gov <mailto:rholling at fcc.gov>  ;
w5zn at arrl.org <mailto:w5zn at arrl.org>  ; w5jbp at arrl.org
<mailto:w5jbp at arrl.org>  ; k5mc at arrl.org <mailto:k5mc at arrl.org>  ;
w5rz at arrl.org <mailto:w5rz at arrl.org>  ; w5xx at arrl.org <mailto:w5xx at arrl.org>
; wb4ncw at arrl.org <mailto:wb4ncw at arrl.org>  ; nb4k at arrl.org
<mailto:nb4k at arrl.org>  ; w4ozk at arrl.org <mailto:w4ozk at arrl.org>  ;
af4o at arrl.org <mailto:af4o at arrl.org>  ; n4jk at cox.net <mailto:n4jk at cox.net>
; anchor at ec.rr.com <mailto:anchor at ec.rr.com>  ; n5amx at juno.com
<mailto:n5amx at juno.com>  ; almarzia at earthlinl.net
<mailto:almarzia at earthlinl.net>  ; km5km at avsia.com <mailto:km5km at avsia.com>
; anp229 at charter.net <mailto:anp229 at charter.net>  ; DLStichler at aol.com
<mailto:DLStichler at aol.com>  ; fcreel at surfbest.net
<mailto:fcreel at surfbest.net>  
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:30 PM
Subject: DISMAY AND DISGUST WITH ARRL AND DAVID SUMNER

Please go to www.arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org>  and look at the new
proposal the ARRL has made to the FCC to allow no-code  operators on the HF
bands. ARRL has recommended that the doors to the HF bands be opened up with
little more than it takes to get on the so-called Citizen's Band.
 
I was an ARRL member for years and had applied for life membership a number
of years ago when at the direction of David Sumner, the ARRL decided to
lower the standards of Amateur Radio and let RIF RAFF from 27 mhz into
Amateur Radio with watered down requirements for license. Everyone knows it
was intended to swell the membership of ARRL, sell more "appliances" so the
Japanese manufacturers would buy more full page adds in the covers of QST.
More revenue from advertising meant more operating money to pay Sumner a
higher salary. David Sumner is an egotistical, self centered, parasite to
our hobby. He has never worked in his life and has lived with his mousy
little bespeckeled pin head in the Amateur Radio Trough. He has never held a
"real job" in "the real world". He is the single most detrimental and
dangerous threat to American Amateur Radio!!!!!!
 
I let my application for life membership lapse along with my membership and
subscription to QST because of the position David Sumner and ARRL had taken
to turn the Amateur Radio  bands into "The Good Buddy Society of Ignorant,
Uncouth, Booger Pickin and Crotch Scratchin, Jerks".
 
The sad part is that I rejoined the Arrl in November 2003 just in time for
David Sumner to direct "The Directors" of the ARRL to shoot our hobby in the
foot "once again". This is most likey a "Gut Shot" and will probably result
in a slow and agonizing death for Amateur Radio.
 
David Sumner can't hide behind the skirt tails of the clodhopper "directors"
because we all know who DIRECTS the DIRECTORS. We know that the directors
are the fall guys of Sumner and that they are all wanna-be Democrat
Politicians who would sell their sister to get the a little recognition and
ego bolstering fantasies of being "leaders of men".
 
I am not going to cancel my membership at this time and leave our hobby to
the mercy of David Sumner and the "lacky boy" yes persons who have been
elected to the ARRL by Default. It is time that EVERY officer of the ARRL
down to the SCMs have opposition at the next elections to remove David
Sumner's puppets from all ARRL offices resulting in the removal of Sumner
from the ARRL and hopefully the hobby of Amateur Radio. I ask each of you to
actively recruit men and women with principle to be nominated to run for
every office as election time arises. I will contribute financially to the
campaigns of those who vow to fight to preserve the hobby and return to and
maintain the standards that existed when I was licensed in 1958.
 
Please send this email to every Amateur you know who is dedicated to holding
up the standards of our wonderful hobby. Please encourage them to join the
ARRL, qualify to vote, get nominated and lets' take the ARRL back from those
who are in it for personal gain, such as David Sumner, and those small time
ego maniacs who are elected and serve David Sumner.
 
Let's send men and women OF PRINCIPLE to Newington!!
 
GOD BLESS AMERICA and GOD SAVE AMATEUR RADIO!! But remember, God helps those
who help themselves and provides the strength and ability to do the job. DO
YOUR PART and resolve today to help save our hobby!!  73, John W. King,
K5PGW, Attorney at Law, B.A., CSW., J.D.
 
 


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