There's something that's happened recently over at the #arrl, which is the national #hamradio organization for the USA.
ARRL identified, by name, clubs and organizations that produce educational videos as "being in competition with" the ARRL "Learning Center".
ARRL then retaliated against these clubs and organizations, calling them up and stating that these organizations *would be excluded from ARRL publications and partnerships*
Firsthand, #qsotoday and #ratpac are affected.
This is bad.
I haven't been in the ham game long, but one of the things that really bothered me was when they took David Casler's videos for General and Extra and stuck them behind paywalls.
I don't think it was a hostile takeover or anything, I'm sure Dave had his reasons for it. It just really rubbed me the wrong way that they went and made ARRL membership a condition of viewing probably the best YT classes I'd found.
I got lucky and a local club was giving them out on flash drives though.
In any case, it all stinks of impending enshittification. As someone new to radio, my first impression is to steer clear.
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