Todd: >From the quote below, it is clear that you have missed the whole point. An >organization that makes sure it takes care of BUSINESS FIRST is what we MUST >HAVE. When we focus on "RADIO" we are defining the problem too narrowly. >Paradoxically, "Amateur Radio" IS NOT ABOUT RADIO. It's about SPECTRUM. If we >have no spectrum, we have no RADIO. And spectrum is BUSINESS. So what we need >is an organization that protects our spectrum and responds to threats by being >a player in the process we call "free enterprise".
Let me give you an example of what your kind of thinking did to a great American industry. The American railroads thought that their business was railroading--rails, trains, freight, schedules, etc. But this narrow definition of their business cost them their business. What they failed to appreciate was that their real business was transportation. And what they really should have defined as the key elements of their business was interstate tariffs and federal subsidies for the National Defense Highway System. The railroads missed the point and they are (basically) gone. As soon as anyone starts talking about the ARRL in terms of "CW" and "AM" and "220". they are already in the trees, having forgotten about the forest. The ARRL today clearly makes spectrum protection and legislative action their TOP PRIORITIES. This is correct. This is what we must have to survive as a service and a hobby. Like the railroads, we too will be gone if too many of us think like you do. 73, Don Merz, N3RHT --------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: [AMRadio] In Defense Of The ARRL I think we need a new organization that is oriented more towards RADIO and less towards sales and business. 73 de Todd/'Boomer' KA1KAQ
