By Dan Romanchik, KB6NU<\/p>\n
Recently, I received this email from a reader:<\/p>\n
\u201cHi Dan,<\/p>\n
\u201cHope you\u2019re doing well. I have a couple of questions about the ARRL. I\u2019ve been reading your blog and other sources, and it\u2019s clear that the ARRL is in a little trouble. I have to say, though, that as soon as the current administration in D.C. notices that some of their friends can make money off of amateur radio bandwidth, the whole amateur radio service is in very serious jeopardy. The only way I can think of to counter that would be an organization like the ARRL, and I think there\u2019s really only one organization like the ARRL. Is that not true? If it is, how can we help?\u201d<\/p>\n
I replied that it is true that there\u2019s only one organization like the ARRL. In the past, there have been groups that have tried to compete with the ARRL, but they\u2019ve never really taken off. It\u2019s an incredible amount of work to set up an organization like the ARRL and none of the alternates have been able to get to critical mass.<\/p>\n
The second question\u2014How can we help?\u2014is the big question. Here are a few thoughts:<\/p>\n
Having said all that, there are ways to make an impact besides playing ARRL politics:<\/p>\n
I\u2019d love to hear any other thoughts that you all may have on this. I really do think that at this point, we need to inundate the ARRL Board and staff with input from the membership. While they may have a long history of ignoring the membership and just going about their own merry way, now is really a time of change, and this might be the right time to set the ARRL on a better path.<\/p>\n
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When he’s not getting all worked up over ARRL politics, Dan blogs about amateur radio at KB6NU.Com, teaches amateur radio classes, and works CW on the HF bands. He’s the author of the No Nonsense<\/i> amateur radio license study guides and The CW Geek’s Guide to Having Fun with Morse Code<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ARRL: How can we help? By Dan Romanchik, KB6NU Recently, I received this email from a reader: \u201cHi Dan, \u201cHope you\u2019re doing well. I have a couple of questions about the ARRL. I\u2019ve been reading your blog and other sources, …<\/p>\n