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Dave Heil · February 14th 07, 05:38 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:
On Feb 13, 7:49ï¿½pm, Carter-k8vt wrote:
wrote:
ï¿½ ï¿½The ARRL never reveals its budget plans to the public,
ï¿½ ï¿½despite all its Believers' claims that it is handled in a
ï¿½ ï¿½"democratic fashion" AS IF it were an arm of the guvmint.
ï¿½ ï¿½The best one can hope for is someone else getting copies
ï¿½ ï¿½of its IRS Returns and publicizes those. ï¿½Otherwise we
ï¿½ ï¿½"common folk" would never know its a multi-million dollar
ï¿½ ï¿½"non-profit" organization.
ï¿½ ï¿½LA
OK, no problem, assume everything you say is true.

There WAS a website (webmaster is a ham) that DID
post ARRL IRS returns.

What is the significance of that? Are you suggesting that there is some
sort of impropriety going on?

I footnoted that in one of my
Comments to the FCC.

To what end?

Have to look it up on the CD
holding those documents but anyone can access it if
it is still up and running.

1) Is that bad? Is it any different than the NRA or any other hobby
organization?

The National Recovery Act is still going on?!? :-)

You aren't funny, Len.

2) What alternative to the ARRL do you suggest?

"Alternative?" You want an instant alternative?

Take your time. Think about it.

The ARRL was incorporated in 1914. That's 83 years
ago. The league was able to squash its competition
in the ancient days by good PR work. I admire them
for their chutzpah in that.

If we are to believe you, the only reason that the ARRL succeeded where
others fell by the wayside is good public relations work?

From my observation the ARRL just got to believing
its own "sins of omissions of the truth" that it lost
sight of its original aims (other than being a local
telegraph service hacker)...then got the inner circle
of its staff to think they were all there through some
odd "divine right."

How did the inner circle of the staff trick the inner circle of the
staff to think it was there by divine right? Maybe you meant that the
evil, elected board of directors brainwashed the staff. I'll have to
note that your notion of the ARRL staffers or directors believing that
they are there through odd divine right is a narrowly held one. In
fact, it appears to be just your view.

It is only a fraternal order and a
publisher.

....to the best of your knowledge.

Ain't no equivalent national organization in the USA
now that could compete on equal terms with them.
However, that is NO reason (logically) for them to
think they are Top Dog just because they don't have
the competition.

If you are the largest, most successfuly organization in American
amateur radio, you are likely the "Top Dog", although I think the
capitalization is unnecessary.

Its Believers do, but then they have
drifted off the mainstream into an emotional attachment
to fraternalistic orders.

You state things like the above as "fact". You seem to have an idea
that members of the ARRL are some sort of monolithic bloc. That's a
factual error on your part.

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