Paul and Everyone- I am a former ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Vice-Director who served two terms (1990-1994). My main issue with any League proposal is that they do not site research through membership and/or Amateur Radio community surveys for their rule-making petitions. They also are usually the same on other Board, Executive committee reasoning's and decision making. As a League member since 1969 and Life Member since 1976 I feel that my membership plague makes me a sort of stockholder. How about more emphasis on ARRL membership surveys on these issues? Even magazines like CQ are more into that than the ARRL. The answer has been obvious since the League was founded in 1914. Keep the control behind the doors of their meetings in their own hands. Sorry if this upsets anyone but I have had the pleasure of looking at it on the inside out for four years. I however have chosen to stick by them only because they are the only national organization to represent us of it's kind. It does not mean I disagree with everything they do. I certainly do agree they could have done better than the regulation by bandwidth proposal as it now stands. Especially when it comes to the long-term classic, traditional modes like AM.
Best 73's, Bob K5SEP Kilowatt Five Sporadic E Propagation
