Harold,
Tnx for the explanation. I recognized ItsURcall
had access to SM addresses via QST. I guess it was more the “missing
explanation” of how the mailing occurred that suggested this was the
direct result of the agreement with the League.
73,
Jim
Weaver, K8JE
Director,
ARRL Great Lakes Division
Chairman,
ARRL Legislative Action Committee
5065
Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040
E-mail: k8je@arrl.org; Tel: 513-459-0142
ARRL,
the Reason Amateur Radio is!
Members,
the Reason ARRL is!
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From:
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:55 PM
To: arrl-odv
Cc:
Subject: [arrl-odv:13779] Belt Buckle
Hi,
Re: Belt Buckle
Let’s see if I can clear up
some of this confusion.
We
have a joint marketing agreement with ItsURCall.com. The firm will
produce and market belt buckles with designs that include ARRL logos (such as the
ARES logo), and ARRL will help cross-promote and market the product. Bob
Inderbitzen and I worked out the deal a few months ago. The belt buckles
actually look pretty sharp in person. You will be
seeing further promotion of their products in QST and other ARRL publications
per our agreement with them.
This
appeal from ItsURCall.com for additional attention from among the Field
Organization should be interpreted as a strictly voluntary. Reading the
emails on this topic, I wasn’t entirely clear how the SM’s received
the email for ItsURCall. However, we do not have to give them permission
to mail to the SM’s. SM’s email addresses are listed every
month in QST and are on our web site, so anyone with the time and desire can
obtain the mailing list.
Bob will speak to them about
“fine tuning” the language and sales techniques and specifically
not referencing our agreement in future communications so as to avoid any
further confusion
73,
Harold
Harold Kramer, WJ1B
Chief Operating Officer
ARRL - The National Association
for Amateur Radio
860 594 0220