Carter,
I agree with you 100%. I find that the business angle of ham radio
(including its lobbying arm) is so small that almost every company is 1 or
2 bad quarters away from closing its doors. Equipment manufacturers
(outside of Flex and Elecraft) are in the ham business, not for windfall
projects, but because it costs very little for them to take their existing
technology and sell it to us.
Dennis Bodson, one of the two supporting directors, is one of my customers
and I have worked with him a lot over the past 2-3 years. I would be
incredibly surprised if he is "following the money" and I sincerely doubt
there is any money to follow. He is a very humble, friendly and gracious
person.
So what is the game going on?
When I read the "robot response" FAQs, its almost like they are talking
about a completely different proposal than the one we are fighting.
Thinking cynically (and its hard not to), they could be feeding us the FAQs
to convince us we don't have a clue whats going on.
I don't like to think cynically so it must be something I just do not see.
For sure, the two directors pushing this have a very hard road for
reelection.
I just wish the League would be transparent enough to tell us what the hell
they are doing. Either we or the league are completely wrong on this thing.
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal LLC
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Carter <k8vt@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On 3/30/2014 3:28 PM, Thomas W4HM wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't want to start an ARRL rant thread but when I came to understand
>> this I dropped my ARRL membership. Yes I know about the argument that you
>> can't change how the ARRL operates if you are not a member. But I just
>> don't buy that logic as the ARRL does not listen to it's membership no
>> matter what.
>>
>> Nothing is perfect, not even the ARRL.
>
> Nothing is all black or all white.
>
> You say you quit the ARRL because you disagreed with them on -an- issue.
> Do you really expect them to agree with you (and you with them) 100% of the
> time on every issue?
>
> Even though you may disagree with them on -this- issue, I would
> respectfully submit that the ARRL, in general, does a lot of good for ham
> radio.
>
> Like it or not, they are the only game in town, the only national
> organization we have...and IMHO, deserving of our support.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> 73,
> Carter K8VT
>
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