ARRL Introduces Fifth Pillar at Dayton Hamvention®
On Saturday, May 17 at the Dayton Hamvention, ARRL President Joel Harrison,
W5ZN, plans to announce that the League will expand its identity program to
include greater emphasis on technology. Harrison explained that Ham radio
operators, and
Harrison explained that Ham radio operators, and particularly ARRL
members, closely identify with current and emerging radio technology.
Today, we are naming 'technology' as ARRL's new fifth pillar.
No doubt they will inform the amateur community of these intentions in
an ASCII bulletin
I'll believe it when I see a change in QST that puts more emphasis on
advancing the radio art and less on preserving it.
(Not that I have anything against that, it's just not part of our
purposes - or ARRL's pillar.)
