I'm not going to take a side in this discussion but allow me to point out that
there are 776,142 FCC licensees as of yesterday.
https://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts
Of those, fewer than 160,000 are ARRL members or about 20% of the total. I am
one, only because I'm a DXer and participate in the DXCC program. I won't take
any more shots at ARRL is this forum other than to to say that communicating
with my Director is pointless. My emails go unacknowledged. Don't count on
$20 from me.
Regarding that other 80% of hams I'll venture that most of them aren't even on
the air and if they are they probably have a Boafeng strapped to their belts.
For example, looking here https://haminfo.tetranz.com/map at my six character
grid square I find that I have 18 ham neighbors. I was shocked when I saw
this, since this area is one of one acre or larger parcels and half of the grid
is a national park, so that seems like a pretty high density. However, of
those 18, I know exactly one of them. Otherwise, I see no antennas, hear no
signals and have never run into any of them at ham gatherings. I wouldn't
count on any $20 donations from any of these folks either.
I can spare $.02, this is it.
Wes N7WS
On Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 02:27:22 PM MST, Tony <73guddx@gmail.com> wrote:
Dave:
We can buy a lot of leverage in Washington with 700,00 hams donating
annually to the ARRL Spectrum Defense Fund. That's $14,000,000 annually
with a measly $20 donation from each ham. It's still a big number even
with a 50% participate rate.
Maybe have each vendor at Dayton participate in a fund raising and
awareness effort? Funding could do a hell of a lot more than an FCC
petition, but we need to get the message out there.
Tony -K2MO
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