Allen,
First:
Congratulations on the tremendous press you gained for Amateur Radio. When I view the great results you
obtained relative to my limited knowledge of how you went about doing your job
(so well), I can only conclude you are the best Public Information guru the
League has had – ever! I also
congratulate Dave and others who were responsible for bringing you on board.
It may be a premature to work through the following;
therefore, at your convenience and pending your personal recovery from Katrina,
I’d like to speak with you about how we (the Amateur Radio Service) can get
much greater PR assistance as a result of critical work we provide through “served
agencies.” It may be partly
out of ignorance that I sense that we (the ARS) continue very deliberately to
receive the royal shaft from the ANC and others who are too mentally-small and
childish to be able to share that which should legitimately be shared.
This, of course, rankles me --- not merely because the ARS
typically receives negligible or no billing. Having worked very closely for many
years with two such served agencies, I attribute this to their callous, selfish
and myopic failure to recognize that their continued reluctance to point out
the great good we do will ultimately lead to a dearth of skilled operators needed
to carry out the very communication that allows them to perform their work.
I am unwilling to sit back and accept a priori that we have
no viable options to pursue in rectifying this problem. I am equally willing to accept that a
mutually—acceptable, mutually-beneficial solution to this problem can be
found.
I will appreciate it if you let me know of a couple of times
during which I could telephone you to discuss this subject. Obviously, your perspective is very
important to understanding the situation.
Tnx, 73,
Jim
Jim Weaver, K8JE
Director, Great Lakes Division ARRL; http://www.arrl.org/
Tel.: 513-459-0142; E-mail: k8je@arrl.org
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