He is one of 32 YouTubers who received a card.
I felt he was important to include for 2 reasons:
- His perception is that we did wrong by him
- He can be moved from darkness into light
It is nothing more than that. He is not an extremist. He’s just a jovial guy with a pretty decent following in Southern CA who I want to bring back into the fold.
Inclusion…
David
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From: Bob Famiglio, K3RF <RBFamiglio@Verizon.net>
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He is the guy who raised hell that ARRL was not doing anything about the (false claim) that California was kicking hams out of their tower sites. Totally false and he did not have the facts right at all. Didn’t stop him though as
he got lots of views. They needed a lease document and the ham user had no documentation for being there. The way he made up stories about how he and some lawyer fixed it without the ARRL stepping up was so wrong in so may ways. Click bait. Opportunist without
much depth. But if David thinks he is the right guy. . .
Bob Famiglio, K3RF
Vice Director - ARRL Atlantic Division
610-359-7300
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Hi David,
I'm very concerned about the engagement with K6UDA. Not only because of the criticism of ARRL, which I view as being based on wholly false claims, but also the content of his channel. I mean, look for yourself. Is this what we want
to be associated with the ARRL brand? A person who puts a half naked doll(?) as his show brand and titles his show as "the ham radio show your mother warned you about?"
Next we need to invite Billy Crowell. The two of them can do a talk show. Call it "The amateur jam session." It would be perfect.
No charge for that idea, Merry Christmas.
In all seriousness, as if I wasn't serious here - I really hope we aren't seriously considering having some sort of content deal with Bob. Especially if we want to expand our base.
73
Ria, N2RJ
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 11:34 AM Minster, David NA2AA (CEO) <dminster@arrl.org> wrote:
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> One of the ideas I floated some time ago was a monthly status report to the board members, and I was told that “the board deals with policy matters, a regular status report isn’t necessary”
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> I gave a full status report on the EC call, and also gave a status report on the A&F call – and in both cases every or nearly every board member was in attendance.
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operating radios, or anything else frankly. My evenings have become phone call times and weekends are for various forms of outreach.
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a YouTuber – who is also a teacher and actively teaches an elective course on ham radio to his students – as a consultant to work with Kris on the Learning Center and to build out a resource group on Youth; we are in discussions with a major YouTuber to become
the face of a column in QST as well as featuring his content on licensing in the Learning Center; and I sent 32 YouTube video bloggers a holiday thank you card along with an ARRL mug (that we have tons of) and our new Field Day 2021 logo on a window slick to
show on their programs.
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> Here is a video posted last night of an interview with K6UDA. He has been a vocal critic of ARRL and pretty nasty at times. Take a look at his response to the outreach. This is exactly where I am going with this engagement. We
want the entire social media community promoting the good works of the league and not getting fixated on the few shortcomings.
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