Jim, We still do not need to give the opposition any legislative ammo to use against us whatsoever. This is still IMHO reckless on CQ's and RHR's part. It makes me question their motives now more than ever- they are certainly not concerned about the overall good of our members in particular nor amateur radio in general. Point in case: I remember that QST rejected a similar RHR ad earlier for the very reasons I stated this AM. They knew our concerns yet they paid for the CQ ad; hence it shows me an overall pattern of bad behavior. I will make no bones about it, I DO NOT like RHR. I do not like their approach and heavy handed marketing tactics. They have impressed me as greedy and that's the end of the story. It stinks! 73 -----Original Message----- From: arrl-odv [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of James F. Boehner MD via arrl-odv Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2015 8:04 AM To: 'Chris Imlay'; 'David Norris' Cc: 'arrl-odv' Subject: [arrl-odv:24316] Re: RHR ad in CQ A member brought this ad to my attention, and Dan Henderson responded "We have been aware of RHR's ad and the DC team has things in their pockets to deal with it if it comes up." Although the wording could be cleaned up a bit, I offered the following to the member: "I think it is easy to say that during a true emergency, all infrastructure systems will be down. There will be no landline phones, no cell service or internet. The RHR concept would fail under those circumstances. In other words, while everything is working, RHR is working. When everything goes down...EVERYTHING goes down. Being able to set up antennas at our home makes us a communications point that needs no infrastructure, and therefore can be up and running when nothing else is! AND, to the point that "well, we will let them put up antennas ONLY during an emergency" is fallacious, as you need to constantly train on your station to become proficient so when an emergency happens, you know both you and your station will be ready to operate. A corollary to that mode of thinking is not only that an orchestra would not be able to practice before a concert; but that they would be restricted to even not be able to learn to play their instruments, and then at a moment's notice, be expected to play a concert. The HR-1301 fight is a good fight." '73 de JIM N2ZZ Director - Roanoke Division Serving ARRL members in the Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina sections ARRL - The National Association for Amateur RadioT From: Chris Imlay [mailto:w3kd.arrl@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2015 8:52 AM To: David Norris Cc: James F. Boehner MD; arrl-odv Subject: Re: [arrl-odv:24313] Re: RHR ad in CQ David, we rejected that ad copy from RHR for the precise reason you mention. Our opponent, CAI does read our materials. I don't know whether they would see this but shame on CQ for running that ad and shame on RHR for their willingness to sacrifice the best interests of ham radio in their quest for a few bucks. 73, Chris W3KD Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2015, at 8:44 AM, David Norris <k5uz@suddenlink.net <mailto:k5uz@suddenlink.net> > wrote: GM All, I see Dr. Boehner's point with RHR and the "unrestricted" use of ubiquitous Elecraft remotes opens another issue. However that which I find most worrisome is this part of the RHR add- HOA + CC&R = RHR "It's not rocket science" RemoteHamRadio.com <http://RemoteHamRadio.com> 888-675-8035 I sure hope the HOA opponents to HR-1301 do not see this! This has the potential to do us great harm with respect to our current legislative efforts and I think it is quite reckless on RHR's part. Food for thought and my $0.02 worth... 73 David A. Norris, K5UZ Director, Delta Division Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2015, at 7:10 AM, James F. Boehner MD via arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org <mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> > wrote: I know I'm not the first to see this, but on page 9 in the June 2015 issue of CQ, RHR has a full page ad depicting a chalkboard: HOA + CC&R = RHR "It's not rocket science" RemoteHamRadio.com <http://RemoteHamRadio.com> 888-675-8035 So, they have found another venue for their advertising. Interestingly, as one of the "Heartburns" of this RHR is charging large sums of money and time per minute of operation, I found this site that has some affiliation with Elecraft: http://www.remotehams.com/ where you can actually share your station. I haven't investigated it, but it doesn't appear any money is involved. 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