You make a good point. The ARRL does more than just publish QST and sponsor
contests. Some on here have suggested that we hit the ARRL where it hurts
and drop our membership from the League, but that hurts us all. The ARRL
provides some excellent services and fights for our hobby. So just because
we don't like what they do in QST is no reason not to support them.
If you don't like what is in or not in QST then throw it away when it comes
in the mail, but dropping your membership is like throwing the baby out with
the bath water.
73
Rick
KC5AJX
>From: "Salina Physician Anesthesia" <spa@tri.net>
>To: cq-contest@contesting.com
>Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: Thanks to the ARRL services
>
>
>A bit off topic, but the League has been getting a bunch of bad press on
>this list:
>
>I booked a cruise to Antarctica on the Endeavor with Lindblad Travel and
>will be there the first of Feb. Will only be on land a few hours so my
>thoughts of taking a rig along were left as that. Six days ago I decided,
>what the heck, I'll take the FT-817 along in my back pack, take a fly rod
>antenna and see if 2.5 watts can do anything. Can'f find a PSK31 program
>for
>my Cassiopea! I'll be travelling Chile, Argentina, Antarctica and needed
>some official stuff to get through airport security. All this off topic on
>this list, but:
>
>Six days ago I sent off the IARP application to the League with a note,
>"leaving the 24th, can you rush?"
>
>Seven fifteen this morning, Sunday, the door bell rang. A neatly dressed
>postman standing there commenting something like, "You needed this in a
>hurry!"
>
>Those guys up there have a lot of decisions to make, but I've not been let
>down when I needed something. Thanks,
>
>N0UU
>
>
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>From Steve Baron - KB3MM" <SteveBaron@starlinx.com Sun Jan 13 19:16:02 2002
From: Steve Baron - KB3MM" <SteveBaron@starlinx.com (Steve Baron - KB3MM)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: [YCCC] Proposed QST changes, Hit 'em where it Hurts
$$$
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Didn't the ARRL recently have a special '5 year renewal at the current rate'
before the rate goes up ? Think it was 4 or 5 months ago maybe.
----- Original Message -----
From: "andrew" <andrew@gi0nwg.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Bob Johnson" <rjohnson@tmlp.com>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>; <yccc@yccc.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 14:09
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Re: [YCCC] Proposed QST changes, Hit 'em where it
Hurts $$$
>
> In message <Version.32.20020112201903.01050dd0@mail.tmlp.com>, Bob
> Johnson <rjohnson@tmlp.com> writes
>
> >Stop and think about what the average "New Ham" gets out of there $39
ARRL
> >membership, a membership card and a monthly magazine, PERIOD !!!
>
> RSGB membership cost GBP 40.50 (approx USD 58.50). Admittedly, we get a
> totally free (send and receive) QSL bureau, though the new VHF only guy
> wouldn't see a great benefit in that. Why doesn't the ARRL just raise
> the subscription to $45? You'd still be getting a better deal.
>
> Andrew Williamson GI0NWG / AC6WI
> Homepage = http://www.gi0nwg.freeserve.co.uk/
>
> One of the ZL9CI gang
> http://www.qsl.net/zl9ci/
>
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