Some more rumblings from Mississippi...
From: Rob <mailto:rob@selectconnect.net> Gardner
To: Doug <mailto:km5km@avsia.com> Epps
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: DISMAY AND DISGUST WITH ARRL AND DAVID SUMNER
This is an open reply to Doug's email. Please read and form your own
opinion. Mine is set.
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Hi Doug,
To heck with it, I am out. No more ARRL. I have had it. I have resigned as
ASM and will not renew my membership. It is time for a new organization
that is for ham radio, not CB ! I am all for starting a grass roots
organization that supports the true meaning of amateur radio. I will not
support this "money-Hungary" group that is headed up by David Sumner and
Joel Harrison. They are supposed to support the membership, which I feel if
the members voted, it would be a landslide election in favor of increasing
the regulations to become an amateur operator, not decreasing them.
Anyone out there for forming a new national organization? Amateur's
definitely need a new voice, because apparently, the ARRL is not
listening.... just doing what the hierarchy wants to do. To heck with them.
73 de Rob - WJ5K
EX- Assistant ARRL Section Mgr. - MS
I am forwarding this to all my fellow amateurs that are on my mailing list.
I will not support the ARRL until they come to their senses. If the ARRL
gets this passed, ham radio is NO MORE. It will be CB City. 10-4 Good
Buddy.
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Epps <mailto:km5km@avsia.com>
To: Steve KU4IU <mailto:ku4iu50mhz@earthlink.net> ; Sam K4SWM
<mailto:k4swm@sonet.net> ; Rob Gardner <mailto:rob@selectconnect.net> WJ5K
; Michael KG4EMV <mailto:kg4emv@bellsouth.net> ; Lee AD5IS
<mailto:ad5is@nexband.com> ; Joe Clark AA5IL <mailto:zdog@netdoor.com> ;
Jerry <mailto:jerryl10@comcast.net> KF4DPF ; Jeff
<mailto:ku4ww@hiwaay.net> KU4WW ; Jack Ellis KI5QV
<mailto:jackls@peoplepc.com> ; Hansel <mailto:kd5dqu@wmconnect.com> KD5DQU
; Joe N4XPZ <mailto:n4xpz@windlink.org> ; Barney W4HX
<mailto:w4hx@bellsouth.net> ; Charles N4OFM <mailto:n4ofm@aol.com> ; Danny
W4PIG <mailto:w4pig49@cs.com> ; Dennis K4DRA <mailto:k4dra@yahoo.com> ;
Doc KQ4L <mailto:kq4l@aol.com> ; Gerald K4TPC
<mailto:k4tpc@internetpro.net> ; Jerry W4RLP <mailto:w4rlp@alltel.net> ;
Jim K4JRS <mailto:k4jrs@aol.com> ; Joe W4JSM <mailto:w4jsm@mylink.net> ;
Johnny W4JTH <mailto:w4jth@bellsouth.net> ; Mike
<mailto:ks4wz@adelphia.net> KS4WZ ; Milton N4DA <mailto:n4da@bellsouth.net>
; Phil <mailto:k4dpk@romecomputer.com> K4DPK ; Rex
<mailto:rexjo@bellsouth.net> ; Rod <mailto:rodabney@alltel.net> ; TOM HIX
W4TH <mailto:w4th@hotmail.com> ; Tony G. <mailto:tgayler2000@alltel.net>
W1YP ; Tony KE4PK <mailto:ke4pk@bellsouth.net> ; Tom Ivey
<mailto:tomivey@earthlink.net> KU5V ; Pepper <mailto:jpepper@direcway.com>
; Mark <mailto:MMHENRY@ATTGLOBAL.NET> WD5GHW ; Joe
<mailto:joas@netdoor.com> KC5Q ; John K5PGW <mailto:jbkking@mtaonline.net>
; George <mailto:klm1@mindspring.con> KD4KAW ; Bill <mailto:MRTNMO@cs.com>
KE4LK ; Billy <mailto:ka5gnm@avsia.com> Jones KA5GNM ; Bobby W4BVQ
<mailto:johnsonbh@frontiernet.net> ; Clem W4MXI <mailto:w4mxi@yahoo.com> ;
Clem W4MXI <mailto:w4mxi@hotmail.com> ; Dan W4GQF
<mailto:w4gqf@hotmail.com> ; Dr. Cliff <mailto:colemanMD@mchsi.com> K9JTS
; Gene WB4GB <mailto:wb4gb@powernet.org> ; Harold
<mailto:kk4dd@internetpro.net> Brown ; Jim W4SGH
<mailto:w4sgh@internetpro.net> ; Jim <mailto:jim30222@bellsouth.net> W7JRW
; JIM WRIGHT W7JRW <mailto:w7jrw@bellsouth.net> ; Ken KI5ZY
<mailto:ki5zy1@bellsouth.net> ; LEW <mailto:kd4dx@mindspring.com> KD4DX ;
Mike K5WIM <mailto:k5wim@bellsouth.net> ; Paul N4PC
<mailto:n4pc@bellsouth.net> ; Red W4RED <mailto:W4RED@mindspring.com> ;
Terry W5TF <mailto:w5tf@megagate.com> ; Wallace K4QVC
<mailto:k4qvc@tds.net> ; Wayne W4BE <mailto:w4be@hiwaay.net>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:03 PM
Subject: Fw: DISMAY AND DISGUST WITH ARRL AND DAVID SUMNER
----- Original Message -----
From: john <mailto:jbkking@bellsouth.net> king
To: hq@arrl.org <mailto:hq@arrl.org>
Cc: kf4cj@farmerstel.com <mailto:kf4cj@farmerstel.com> ; roy ezell
<mailto:k9roy@mchsi.com> ; rholling@fcc.gov <mailto:rholling@fcc.gov> ;
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<mailto:nb4k@arrl.org> ; w4ozk@arrl.org <mailto:w4ozk@arrl.org> ;
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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:30 PM
Subject: DISMAY AND DISGUST WITH ARRL AND DAVID SUMNER
Please go to www.arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org> and look at the new
proposal the ARRL has made to the FCC to allow no-code operators on the HF
bands. ARRL has recommended that the doors to the HF bands be opened up with
little more than it takes to get on the so-called Citizen's Band.
I was an ARRL member for years and had applied for life membership a number
of years ago when at the direction of David Sumner, the ARRL decided to
lower the standards of Amateur Radio and let RIF RAFF from 27 mhz into
Amateur Radio with watered down requirements for license. Everyone knows it
was intended to swell the membership of ARRL, sell more "appliances" so the
Japanese manufacturers would buy more full page adds in the covers of QST.
More revenue from advertising meant more operating money to pay Sumner a
higher salary. David Sumner is an egotistical, self centered, parasite to
our hobby. He has never worked in his life and has lived with his mousy
little bespeckeled pin head in the Amateur Radio Trough. He has never held a
"real job" in "the real world". He is the single most detrimental and
dangerous threat to American Amateur Radio!!!!!!
I let my application for life membership lapse along with my membership and
subscription to QST because of the position David Sumner and ARRL had taken
to turn the Amateur Radio bands into "The Good Buddy Society of Ignorant,
Uncouth, Booger Pickin and Crotch Scratchin, Jerks".
The sad part is that I rejoined the Arrl in November 2003 just in time for
David Sumner to direct "The Directors" of the ARRL to shoot our hobby in the
foot "once again". This is most likey a "Gut Shot" and will probably result
in a slow and agonizing death for Amateur Radio.
David Sumner can't hide behind the skirt tails of the clodhopper "directors"
because we all know who DIRECTS the DIRECTORS. We know that the directors
are the fall guys of Sumner and that they are all wanna-be Democrat
Politicians who would sell their sister to get the a little recognition and
ego bolstering fantasies of being "leaders of men".
I am not going to cancel my membership at this time and leave our hobby to
the mercy of David Sumner and the "lacky boy" yes persons who have been
elected to the ARRL by Default. It is time that EVERY officer of the ARRL
down to the SCMs have opposition at the next elections to remove David
Sumner's puppets from all ARRL offices resulting in the removal of Sumner
from the ARRL and hopefully the hobby of Amateur Radio. I ask each of you to
actively recruit men and women with principle to be nominated to run for
every office as election time arises. I will contribute financially to the
campaigns of those who vow to fight to preserve the hobby and return to and
maintain the standards that existed when I was licensed in 1958.
Please send this email to every Amateur you know who is dedicated to holding
up the standards of our wonderful hobby. Please encourage them to join the
ARRL, qualify to vote, get nominated and lets' take the ARRL back from those
who are in it for personal gain, such as David Sumner, and those small time
ego maniacs who are elected and serve David Sumner.
Let's send men and women OF PRINCIPLE to Newington!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA and GOD SAVE AMATEUR RADIO!! But remember, God helps those
who help themselves and provides the strength and ability to do the job. DO
YOUR PART and resolve today to help save our hobby!! 73, John W. King,
K5PGW, Attorney at Law, B.A., CSW., J.D.
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