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The last time my ARRL renewal came up I decided to renew.\u00a0 This came after much thought.\u00a0 I have been a member for over 55 years and have supported the ARRL as I felt the hobby needed a voice in the power centers of the world.\u00a0 So, I sent in my funds for renewal.\u00a0 I have to admit that wanting the 275 entity sticker for my DXCC was the main driving force behind my last renewal.\u00a0 The fact is the ARRL does not need me anymore (if the ever did).\u00a0 Their future is young people, contesters and big donors (especially big donors) not us old school CW operators.\u00a0 Also, for a number of years QST magazine was a welcome benefit to membership.\u00a0 I cannot remember the last time I got anything substantial from the publication.\u00a0 In fact, I wrote this post on a flight from ATL to LGA and got all I could form the December 2022 issue before we reached altitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note: I did not vote in the latest ARRL 2022 decision election because I had nothing in common with the candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The last time my ARRL renewal came up I decided to renew.\u00a0 This came after much thought.\u00a0 I have been a member for over 55 years and have supported the ARRL as I felt the hobby needed a voice in the power centers of the world.\u00a0 So, I sent in my funds for renewal.\u00a0 I\u2026 Continue Reading ‘To join or not to join’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio-organizations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}