Friday, December 31, 2010

ARRL rolled back the clock on your member benefits but not staff size

ARRL trumpeted the addition of the online archive of the complimentary bird cage liner known as QST. Every now and then there is something worthwhile, although even the ads are out of date before it reaches you.

An eham.net review heralded the change.

Now, ARRL taketh away after two years:

Diamond Club members at the Brass level and above (contributing $250 a year or more) enjoy access to the complete QST on-line archive, including the most recent four years of the archive, not available to other ARRL members.

That's besides the $39 dollars or less that kept a more frugal, Connecticut Yankee run ARRL going from December, 1915 until about 1995 !

Were these Midwestern staff the Connecticut Old Timers hired during the 1970s from Grosse Pointe or what ?

See, what happened is they were given hundreds of thousands in federal DHS grants through the Corporation for National Service (CNCS) and private ones through United Technologies Corporation (UTC) to formalize the communications backup that hams have done for 75 years.

The staff lived free off those grants from an unlikely indirect patron for that Democrat top-heavy org, George W. Bush.

So now they're choking and need to secure their pensions between the grants evaporating so that Obama can take a $1.74 million vacation in Hawaii where he has We Are Change Members beat up by local police who then pretend to apologize after after damage was done.

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