Greg, I support your general idea. Exactly how to do this would be the question. I suppose, too, we'd need to ensure we would not be violating some confidentiality "or whatever" in that we are acting as a representative of the FCC through the NCVEC rather than specifically as ARRL. Backing up still one additional step, I'm still concerned we are not truly doing the best job of putting our best foot forward in our recruiting literature. As one example, I do not believe we are selling what I see as the greatest strengths ARRL offers to amateurs - the ability to pursue a favorable legislative program and to fight adverse legislative initiatives and regulatory concepts. Of course, going back still another step, I'm mostly concerned that we've never actually implemented the "grassroots" project we adopted a while back which is needed before we can trumpet these strengths. Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je@arrl.org; Tel: 513-459-0142 ARRL Great Lakes Division ARRL, the Reason Amateur Radio is! Members, the Reason ARRL is! -----Original Message----- From: Greg Milnes [mailto:w7oz@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:40 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13370] licensed-letter from ARRL I'm wondering. When a VE team passes an applicant, what happens next? Do they get a letter or QSL-type card saying, "way to go" and by they way here's a great offer to join the ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio? If not, why not? What can we do to put the ARRL before them right away? 73/Greg W7OZ