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.
@mattgriffin in the case of #qsotoday ham expo, with a phone call. Bob Interbitzen called Eric Guth to school him on how it was gonna be.
RATPAC's lead, Dan Marler, received a series of aggressively negative emails from David Minster. The latest round of decisioneering at #ARRL is that no one from the League should accept invitations to present at RATPAC, and an email directing some divisions to "not use any RATPAC videos for training".
Specifically singling out RATPAC as competition for LC.
This isn't the end of the list, but these are the ones where I have first person visibility.
There are a lot of upset folks out there, ranging from QRZ to organizations that have yet to realize they have lost ARRL as a partner because ARRL has decided their "Learning Center" has to "win" against organizations that promote, defend, and educate about #hamradio in the US.
@abraxas3d this reminds me of an old joke about academia:
Why are departmental politics so intense? …because the stakes are so small.
Someone at the ARRL must be living in a fantasy world about the immense political and financial power of the amateur radio community and believes that the hobby’s great clout leaves room for lots of division and partitioning of its young and growing demographic.
Abraxas3d W5NYV
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