Brian and Bob I would suggest we go further. The online form's "Phone (daytime)" and "Phone (evening)" is decades out of date. Now, people routinely have business, home and cell numbers. It would be of great help in contacting members if we knew what number we were calling. Both the online form and the printed form would be better if both requested "Business, Home and Cell" with at least one contact telephone number being required. 73 *-----------------------------------------------------* ** John Robert Stratton N5AUS West Gulf Division Vice Director West Gulf Division Legislative Action Chair Office telephone: 512-445-6262 Cell: 512-426-2028 PO Box 2232 Austin, Texas 78768-2232 *-----------------------------------------------------* On 3/15/11 10:21 PM, Bob Vallio wrote:
Brian, I share your concern, and suggest that your covering suggestion be implemented.
Bob Vallio -- W6RGG
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Brian Mileshosky <n5zgt@swcp.com <mailto:n5zgt@swcp.com>> wrote:
Hi Everyone --
I believe this was discussed briefly in the past, but I'm finding it increasingly frustrating to look up a member in the directory found in ODV with intentions to call them on the phone for something, only to find that no phone number is on record.
I know that this is a function of who voluntarily provides a phone number, but almost all of the problem is ours: we don't ask members for their phone number. There's no place for a phone number on the print form available on the website at https://www.arrl.org/resources/membership/membership_app.pdf and the online membership/renewal form doesn't require someone to provide a phone number...it's optional, which means more often than not someone just leaves it blank to move on to more important (i.e. required) information.
Not sure about other Directors, but I like to have a personable conversation with members as needed, especially when I need to contact them about something timely.
I kindly ask that the League return to the practice of requesting phone numbers for renewals and new memberships (i.e. modify the print form accordingly and modify the online form such that the phone number is among the other required information). This trivial modification will go a long way to helping us better represent and maintain contact with our members.
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