Excellent, once again. You and your collaborators are doing a great job toward damage control. Admittedly, QST is less than fully timely; however, do you plan to have a similar article appear in it to put it into hard copy print for future reference? My only remain\nig question is; will we attempt; to forestall illicit attacks from nonmembers and members alike by issuing similarly-solid white paper-type releases of relevant articles designed to ward off significant attack. Sound releases of well crafted white papers is well-known to go a long-way toward defusing irrational arguments before they are made. All in all, the current effort does a great job of debunking existing irrational anti ARRL aimed post-actively at the League. I certainly hope we take the final step to strike a blow for sanity a prior as well as post facto. Kudos, Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, K8J ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: <mailto:k8je@arrl.org> k8je@arrl.org; Tel.: 513-459-0142 ARRL - The Reason Amateur Radio Is! Members - The Reason ARRL Is! -----Original Message----- From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5zn@arrl.org] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:53 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: Web Story on R2 Band Plan Tomorrow, the attached story will be placed on ARRLWeb as well as appear in the ARRL Letter. The Vice President's (Kay, Rick, Rod & Dave) and I worked up and agreed on the story. This information is public information and may be distributed and/or used in any necessary replies to members (and non-members) in your division, but of course it will be on the web and in the ARRL Letter. This evening I went back and reviewed the emails I have received regarding this matter. The email I received was all the same form letter email. This is provided for info only. I'm not looking for analysis and I don't believe any conclusion can be drawn from it so please don't waste your time looking for one. Again, this is just for info only. In each response, the appropriate division director was copied on my response. Total Emails (all the same form letter email) - 51 Breakdown by Division: Atlantic - 7 Central - 4 Dakota - 1 Delta - 2 Great Lakes - 5 Hudson - 1 Midwest - 1 New England - 9 Northwest - 5 Pacific - 2 Roanoke - 6 Rocky Mountain - 0 Southeast - 5 Southwest - 2 West Gulf - 1 Email from Members - 33 (1 Diamond Club) Email from Non-members - 18 Members - 64.7% Non-members - 35.3% Of the non-members, the breakdown is this: Never been a member - 4 Membership lapsed 1-5 years - 6 Membership lapsed 5-10 years - 2 Membership lapsed 15-20 years - 2 Membership lapsed 20-25 years - 3 Membership lapsed >25 years - 1 After my response, 19 responded by saying thank you for clarifying the matter and setting the record straight. 5 responded (all non-members) and said I was a liar and there was no response from the remaining 27. 73 Joel W5ZN