[VHFcontesting] Yes -- Please Move the January Cont

[Bob Burns W9RXR]

At 09:24 PM 1/29/2013, kg7hf at comcast.net wrote:

>i have no experience in how much the arrl listens...

Are you an ARRL member? If you are, then you should be in contact 
with your Section Manager and Division Director to make sure your 
feelings on this topic are known.

On the other hand, if you aren't an ARRL member, how much weight do 
you expect the organization to place on your opinions? After all, the 
ARRL is a member-driven organization and they have an obligation to 
answer to their members. While the number of licensed hams in the 
U.S. is well over 700,000, I think the ARRL only has around 150,000 
members. If, and I'm not saying this the case, the ARRL is populated 
primarily by OFs who do nothing but rag-chew and pass NTS radiograms 
on 80m, then the organization is going to lean in the direction of 
those members.

In a perfect world, the ARRL would represent the interests of _all_ 
U.S. hams, but that's a pretty tall order as we are an extremely 
diverse group with a wide range of interests and opinions.

Bob...