Larry wrote:

What little meaning about this subject did I not make clear? The ARRL
business, and that's what it has become...a magazine company selling
products...hasn't been a member-controlled ham club since I was a kid.

It is an economic matter with the ARRL. Where would they generate their
income if all those test publications and CD's were made obsolete? That
said, I agree completely with your observations of the ARRL's bad
influence on ham clubs and amateur radio in general.

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Skipper

Skipper wrote in :


It is an economic matter with the ARRL. Where would they generate their
income if all those test publications and CD's were made obsolete? That
said, I agree completely with your observations of the ARRL's bad
influence on ham clubs and amateur radio in general.

I don't fault ARRL for becoming a business. But if a business is to
"represent" ham radio, then, why not Icom or Kenwood or Yaesu or soem other
ham business.

ARRL says it's a ham club. Ham clubs survive without becoming business or
publishers or magazine companies. That's what dues are for....dues that
give members CONTROL of the club. Once Icom ad revenues overcome club
dues, the club becomes an arm for the manufacturers to move product, which
is what the ARRL is all about.

Larry wrote:

Skipper wrote in :



It is an economic matter with the ARRL. Where would they generate their
income if all those test publications and CD's were made obsolete? That
said, I agree completely with your observations of the ARRL's bad
influence on ham clubs and amateur radio in general.


I don't fault ARRL for becoming a business. But if a business is to
"represent" ham radio, then, why not Icom or Kenwood or Yaesu or soem other
ham business.

ARRL says it's a ham club. Ham clubs survive without becoming business or
publishers or magazine companies. That's what dues are for....dues that
give members CONTROL of the club. Once Icom ad revenues overcome club
dues, the club becomes an arm for the manufacturers to move product, which
is what the ARRL is all about.

OK, so WHEN is the change going to happen? Any idea?

Howard Peer wrote in
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OK, so WHEN is the change going to happen? Any idea?



None. The FCC wheels grind painstakingly slow, as any government
bureaucracy does so one cannot be blamed if things go aground...

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Larry