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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There are other countries beside the USA
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>VK4TEC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Australia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Andy@rickham.net href="mailto:Andy@rickham.net">Andy McMullin</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=aprssig@tapr.org
href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 03, 2009 2:06
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [aprssig] ARRL Addresses</DIV>
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<DIV>On 2 Jan 2009, at 12:00, <A
href="mailto:aprssig-request@tapr.org">aprssig-request@tapr.org</A>
wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV><BR>Message: 1<BR>Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:26:16 -0500<BR>From:
"Richard Amirault" <<A
href="mailto:ramirault@verizon.net">ramirault@verizon.net</A>><BR>Subject:
Re: [aprssig] Objects vs real stations<BR>To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List"
<<A
href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</A>><BR>Message-ID:
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class=Apple-tab-span></SPAN>reply-type=original<BR><BR>----- Original
Message ----- <BR>From: "Bob Bruninga "<BR><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">a) Every ham should set his ARRL email
address<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Isn't that only available to ARRL
members?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Yes, I assumed that any active amateur radio
operator would be a member of <BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">the National Organization for Amateur Radio,
(the ARRL). In todays <BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">society of competing interest for the
electromagnetic spectrum, it seems <BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">to me to be only in the best interest of each one
of us to support our <BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">national organization to maintain our access to
RF.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Well, here's another point that you and I
disagree with. You assume that <BR>because it makes sense TO YOU that
everyone else feels the same way.<BR><BR>I, personally, am a member of ARRL,
but I know many hams that are not. Some <BR>disagree with the ARRL's
policies and/or actions .. others feel it's too <BR>much money to join ..
and there are a few that don't know that much about <BR>them so haven't
decided one way or another.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>
<DIV>As someone also tried to point out, your messages are all very
USA-centric too. Sometimes depressingly so.....</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway, radio amateurs come from all over the world. It's a big planet
and not all join your American Radio Relay League -- because they're not
American -- does that make it plain enough? So, worldwide, more "hams" (as you
Americans like to call us) do NOT have ARRL membership than do. So Bob's
statement could be taken as insulting for the rest of us -- along with the
attitude that we are not active operators because we might not be members of
your association.</DIV>
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<DIV>Of course, as well as being a member of the RSGB I am a member of the
ARRL -- but that's because I like reading QST rather than the services it
might provide provide were I in the USA. Which address should I set then? My
country's national organisation or yours?</DIV><BR>
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<DIV>-- </DIV>
<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Andy, G8TQH</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.rickham.net/">http://www.rickham.net/</A></DIV>
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