Letter below is from the ARRL President Joel Harrison W5ZN in response to my letter below his. Almost amusing transparent rhetorical response to my letter and still acceptance to go live with a webinar to explain themselves, not the IARU.
Enjoy the read, this is only the opening round of what plan to make a significant even until accept my offer. All the Best Ron Weaver W6OM www.qsl.net/w6om From: Joel Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:38 PM To: 'W6OM' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: IARU Band Plan Ron, Thank you for letting me know of your concerns with regard to the band plan adopted recently by the member-societies of IARU Region 2. You sent your message to a number of individuals; because the ARRL is the representative organization in the IARU for radio amateurs of the United States, I am replying on their behalf. IARU regional band plans have been in existence for many years. They are developed, reviewed and approved at regional conferences of the IARU member-societies. The band plans provide voluntary guidelines that are intended to assist amateurs in making the most effective use of our limited frequency allocations. They are not restrictions and carry no regulatory authority. On behalf of the ARRL, I can assure you that there are no plans to propose incorporating any IARU band plan into the FCC rules. One virtue of voluntary band plans is that they are more flexible and can be amended more easily than the FCC rules; writing them into the rules would be counterproductive. The new IARU Region 2 band plan was developed by delegates to the Region 2 Conference from a number of countries. It does not align in every respect either with the FCC rules or with operating patterns followed by US amateurs. Unlike the United States, most countries do not have regulations setting out subbands for different types of emission. Even in the US the FCC rules do not provide much detail with regard to frequency use. As FCC amateur licensees we are obliged to cooperate with one another in selecting transmitting channels and making the most effective use of amateur service frequencies, and to follow good engineering and good amateur practice. Your message objects to the Region 2 band plan for "suggesting limits that are more severe than regulations from the governments in the region." However, the band plan does not contain "limits." As voluntary guidelines the band plan cannot by definition be "more severe" than regulations. And finally, if the band plan did not suggest an operating pattern that is a subset of the regulations it would serve no purpose. Your message refers to IARU President Larry Price as wishing "to discourage footnotes among the various regional plans he oversees." First, the IARU President does not "oversee" regional band plans. Each regional plan is developed by the member-societies of that region, in accordance with the constitution, bylaws and rules of the regional organization. The regional organizations are autonomous entities and do not answer to the IARU President. Second, Mr. Price's observation with regard to footnotes had nothing whatsoever to do with IARU band plans. Footnotes are not by their nature either good or bad; it depends on what they say. Mr. Price's observation had to do specifically with footnotes in the ITU Table of Frequency Allocations that prohibit amateur operation, or authorize sharing by additional services, in certain countries in certain parts of the bands that are allocated in the ITU Table to the amateur service. One of the goals of the IARU is to minimize such footnotes. On the other hand, there are other footnotes to the ITU Table that are extremely beneficial to Amateur Radio, such as the ones permitting amateur-satellite operation. In any case this is totally unrelated to IARU band planning activities, which are internal to the amateur service and to each regional IARU organization and have nothing whatever to do with the ITU. I hope this has reassured you that nothing will happen on January 1 that will in any way affect your use of AM. We are always seeking ways to improve the process of revision of the IARU Region 2 band plan and the ARRL Board of Directors, who determine the policy for ARRL's input to IARU Region 2, are always open to member input on future revisions that ARRL delegates may take to future Region 2 Conferences. I encourage you to communicate with the Division Director in your ARRL Division. Sincere 73, Joel Harrison, W5ZN ARRL President _____ From: W6OM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IARU Band Plan As a professional CEO with twenty years experience and two publicly traded companies that I started from scratch I am appalled at the continued subterfuge and lack of professional ethics at the highest levels of the ARRL. The ARRL's most recent initiative to limit bandwidth by mode in specific segments of the spectrum by posturing with the IARU to make it look like an IARU initiative is an insult to everyone in the amateur community. If those of us who lead public firms with thousands of share holders around the world conducted our business activities in the manner the ARRL does, our shareholders would remove us from office and an SEC investigation would follow. ARRL senior management has been and continues to be immersed in secret agenda politics regardless of what the membership wants. The sooner the membership votes to remove the officers and directors and elects professionals to lead the organization the better off Amateur Radio will be. The ARRL's bandwidth initiative came under scrutiny domestically and was withdrawn with the usual condescending rhetoric that we the membership did not understand it. It is the ARRL's responsibility to write initiatives clearly so everyone can understand them. After reading through the ARRL's financial reports I see where the revenue streams come from and why the ARRL fundamentally does not care about "Leading" a professional organization which represents the membership. The ARRL is in business to sell advertising and to promulgate any initiative which increases advertising revenue regardless of how it affects the membership. ARRL Senior management pays lip service to various groups, but due to the ARRL's ineptitude it is incapable of mounting any sustained effort to achieve anything substantive. The ARRL stone walls letters like this using "framing techniques" to construct answers which devalue the original content and ad credibility to the ARRL's distorted view of Amateur radio. I too have been well schooled in the art of public speaking, debate and press corps techniques for deflecting truth and creating subterfuge so I see through the ARRL's methods. I invite the CEO and officers of the ARRL to a live World Wide Webinar wherein you must answer the memberships questions clearly while everyone watches. I will have my engineers set it up, IT WILL COST YOU NOTHING, all you have to do is log in with a web cam and accept my questions and countless others who deserve clear unbiased explanations. I suggest a quarterly webinar wherein the membership participates and requires ARRL to provide credible clear explanations on all initiatives. This is a communications activity and ARRL management must be open and willing to come under scrutiny and explain its position for all to understand. Many have sat silently for too long saying the ARRL is the only representative body we have in Amateur radio, but the body has long been dead. It is time to revitalize Amateur Radio with aggressive unrelenting professional leadership. Forward this to your legal counsel so we can all be clear about what is about to take place. I fully intend to ask the world ham Community through my own opt- in mass mailing PR firm why the ARRL will not go live and explain its actions to the membership. Ron Weaver W6OM www.qsl.net/w6om ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
