All,
I just sent the email below to the ARRL board of directors in my capacity of ARRL member at large:
All,
The last time I wrote to all of you was prior to a board of directors meeting. At that time I excoriated the leadership supporting a misguided set of changes that you were considering. Well, I must have struck a nerve since the item was tabled. Was it tabled to kill it I hope? Or just to let some time go by and hopefully the members incensed by the move would lose interest? I plan to make sure they stay interested until it is completely gone.
Instead of engaging in these shenanigans I submit the leadership should be asking the “CEO” why he can’t figure out how to hire an Information Technology person to tend to our business? What has it been, two years since he ran the last one off? If you have an iPhone how many iOS updates have there been in the last two years? You get my point. The website is pretty poorly done. There are a lot of dead links and many other issues. The site was recently compromised. The list of failings is lengthy. If Minster can’t figure out who to hire then I suggest you look to an outside source. And maybe for a new CEO.
ARRL’s site hack and lack of member access to Logbook of The World lays right at Minster’s feet. For the life of me this member can’t understand the lack of accountability. Please stop with the nonsense and start holding Minster responsible for his shortcomings…or replace him.
Best Regards,
Phillip Beall (W5EBC)
If you are an ARRL member please feel free to use this list and write to them yourself:
Rick Roderick (K5UR <K5UR@arrl.org>; Bob Famiglio (K3RF <k3rf@arrl.org>; Marty Pittinger (KB3MXM <kb3mxm@arrl.org>; Carl Luetzelschwab (K9LA <k9la@arrl.org>; Brent Walls (N9BA <n9ba@arrl.org>; Bill Lippert (AC0W <ac0w@arrl.org>; Lynn Nelson (W0ND <w0nd@arrl.org>; David Norris (K5UZ <k5uz@arrl.org>; Ed B. Hudgens (WB4RHQ <wb4rhq@arrl.org>; Scott Yonally (N8SY <n8sy@arrl.org>; Roy Hook(W8REH <w8reh@arrl.org>; Nomar Vizcarrondo (NP4H <np4h@arrl.org>; Art Zygielbaum (K0AIZ <k0aiz@arrl.org>; Dave Propper (K2DP <k2dp@arrl.org>; Fred Kemmerer (AB1OC <ab1oc@arrl.org>; Phillip E. Temples (K9HI <k9hi@arrl.org>; Mike Ritz (W7VO <w7vo@arrl.org>; Mark Tharp (KB7HDX <kb7hdx@arrl.org>; Kristen McIntyre (K6WX <k6wx@arrl.org>; Anthony Marcin (W7XM <w7xm@arrl.org>; James Boehner (N2ZZ <n2zz@arrl.org>; Bill Morine (N2COP <n2cop@arrl.org>; Jeff Ryan (K0RM <k0rm@arrl.org>; Dan Grady (N2SRK <n2srk@arrl.org>; Mickey Baker (N4MB <n4mb@arrl.org>; Jeff Beals (WA4AW <wa4aw@arrl.org>; Richard J. Norton (N6AA <n6aa@arrl.org>; Edward Stearns (AA7A <aa7a@arrl.org>; John Robert Stratton (N5AUS <n5aus@n5aus.com>; Lee H. Cooper (W5LHC <w5lhc@arrl.org>
“Minster” in the note above is David A. Minster (NA2AA). He fancies himself a big deal. To me he appears to be little more than a political hack that some on the ARRL board want there because he is their buddy. Those same members of ARRL leadership appear to me to spend more time playing political games than they do tending to their member’s business. There is plenty of work to be done without ANY political games.
Please feel free to share this with your ARRL member ham friends. Someone needs to smoke the rats out of the wood pile. Having a competent IT professional running your IT operation is an imperative. If the “CEO” of ARRL can’t figure that out after two years, he isn’t CEO material.
One guys opinion.
Phillip