Excuse me. What I should have said was that, "as recently as 2007, W2VU served on the Public Relations Committee." See http://www.arrl.org/pio/contact/2007/02/ or Document 25 of the January 2008 Board meeting. 73, Dick Norton, N6AA On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Joel Harrison <w5zn@arrl.org> wrote:

Just as a point of clarification, W2VU is not on the Public Relations Committee.

-----Original Message----- From: Richard J. Norton [mailto:richardjnorton@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 1:41 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:16949] Re: Order 63 - Volunteers - Chapter 5, QRZ.COMand EHAM.COM

Whereas the spirit shown by Director Mileshosky is commendable, I would like to add a few comments.

1) I still personally advocate not replicating what others are doing. I don't see how replicating something benefits Amateur Radio.

2) I don't view EHam and QRZ primarily as enemies, with which we should be expending energy fighting. They are operations run by volunteer Amateurs who have many of he same objectives that we do. Many are ARRL members.

For example, two of the EHam founders are heavily involved with the ARRL contest program. The entire electronic contest-log submission operation is run and subsidized by one of them. I would hate to see what would happen if we offended him.

3) Even with respect to CQ Magazine, keep in mind that CQ Magazine editor, W2VU, is an ARRL Life Member and is even on the ARRL public relations committee. Additionally, a group of overlapping contest volunteers is involved with both the ARRL and CQ contest programs.

4) As has been elaborated on previously, I rather see us cooperatively partner with other organizations, bring them close to the League, and utilize their talents and energy.

73,

Dick Norton, N6AA