Hi All,
I think the following sums it up: "In this life there are three kinds of
people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those
who ask "What Happened?"."
73, Harry
At 21:26 6/24/01 -0500, Dale L Martin wrote:
>
>
>> 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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Harry A. Hodges, W6YOO
ARRL ASM - VE Team Leader
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