Bob - W6MU said, "Now that I've lost access to the most current online QSTs I will no longer do so." He never had access to the full on-line versions of QST. He hasn't lost anything. http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/01/29/10599/ I've had lots and lots of compliments about having QST online and only one or two complaints. If someone questions why we hold back the last few years I say that it is available to those who are the League's strongest supporters, and that we have had problems with content being pirated and want to preserve our ability to keep the ARRL financially viable. I also tell them that one of our long-term questions is how to continue to survive as paper publishing becomes more expensive and we need to move to digital distribution. The newspaper industry is not a model we want to follow so far... -- Tom At 08:25 AM 6/24/2009, Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ wrote:

Actually he hasn’t resigned – his membership runs through July 2012.

Dave K1ZZ

From: Bob Vallio [mailto:rbvallio@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:08 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:17855] Fwd: [Fwd: ARRL membership]

Another member who is resigning because of our Diamond Club member preferential access treatment, as opposed to non-Diamond club members. Are the rest of you seeing similar response from your members?

Bob -- W6RGG

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Vallio <<mailto:rbvallio@gmail.com>rbvallio@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: ARRL membership] To: Bill Hillendahl KH6GJV <<mailto:kh6gjv@arrl.org>kh6gjv@arrl.org> Cc: <mailto:dsumner@arrl.org>dsumner@arrl.org, <mailto:mhobart@arrl.org>mhobart@arrl.org

Thanks, Bill. This is not an isolated response, and I'm not sure how many members we have lost since this system was instituted. Perhaps the Board will weigh in with their opinion in July. I'll copy your mail to our Board mailing list, for comments.

73, Bob -- W6RGG

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Bill Hillendahl KH6GJV <<mailto:kh6gjv@arrl.org>kh6gjv@arrl.org> wrote: Below, I am forwarding an email I received from an ARRL member. FYI.

-- 73,

Bill Hillendahl KH6GJV Section Manager San Francisco Section ARRL - the national association for Amateur Radio 707 544-4944

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ARRL membership Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:14:28 -0700 From: Tim Bosma <mailto:w6mu@comcast.net><w6mu@comcast.net> To: Bill Hillendahl <mailto:kh6gjv@arrl.net><kh6gjv@arrl.net>

So I renew my ARRL membership, and I get the usual envelope stuffed with junk and my membership card, and now I get told that unless I become a Diamond Club "brass" member, I can't have access to the last 4 years of QST on-line.

I've donated more hours than I can count to Ham Radio since 1983. I've always supported the ARRL, but this extortion to get access to current QST's online is a deal breaker for me because after I read my QST's I donate them to folks interested in becoming hams, - especially younger students at SRJC who are interested in Ham Radio. Now that I've lost access to the most current online QSTs I will no longer do so.

I will increase my support of AMSAT with the money I used to spend for my ARRL membership. Hell, I may even subscribe to CQ again.

Feel free to pass this on to her and Dave Summers - when my membership expires, I quit.

73 Tim w6mu former ARRL supporter #0001248365

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