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[RTTY] Second Century Campaign and RM-11708

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Subject: [RTTY] Second Century Campaign and RM-11708
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:34:35 -0800
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Mary,

Regarding your email seeking matching funds for the ARRL Second Century Campaign, I must respectfully decline to participate until such time as the ARRL Board of Directors petitions the FCC to withdraw their ill considered and harmful RM-11708 petition. As both a CW and RTTY operator it is difficult to imagine a more purposeful, willful and malicious action that will have severe negative consequences to all amateurs who use these modes.

That this petition was made by ARRL as the representative of ALL radio amateurs is deeply disturbing. It is obvious to even the most casual reader that RM-11708 is intended to make legal a currently illegal data mode to benefit an extreme minority of amateurs with no regard whatsoever as to the negative consequences this would bring to the data sub-bands and current users of the affected modes. For those of us who oppose this action to then be ignored, insulted and marginalized by the Chief Executive Officer as simply being too dim to understand the issue is beyond the pale.

For ARRL to now seek additional financial support, in the face of strong opposition to RM-11708 by a large segment of the amateur community, ARRL is in fact rubbing salt into an open, festering wound. Rather than seek to reappraise the situation and admit the gravity of the error made in filing RM-11708 without prior input from concerned members, ARRL now seeks financial support from those it so callously disregards. Absent a change in the attitude of the current leadership at ARRL there will not be a change in my attitude nor any further financial support until such time as there is .

73,
Gary Senesac AL9A
Formerly Proud ARRL Life Member
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