Re: [IRCA] Please accept my resignation.

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

Even though I don't give a hoot about QSL's for my own reasons anymore, I do 
feel bad when anyone gives up something they obviously love and believe in, 
no matter what the the reasons. However I do not feel that a private letter 
should have been published for everyone on both lists to see. I feel bad for 
both involved in this unfortunate incident and hope you iron out your 
differences and both stay in the club.

Bob Young
Millbury, MA


>From: "Les Rayburn" <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: Les Rayburn <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,        Mailing list for the 
>International Radio Club of America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America"<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,        <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [IRCA] Please accept my resignation.
>Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:02:27 -0500
>
>To Officers of the NRC and IRCA,
>
>It is with much regreat that I must tender my resignation as Broadcast Test
>Coordinator, effective as soon as you can appoint a replacement. The job 
>has
>simply become untenable, and I cannot continue.
>
>While it is prompted by the latest incident with an IRCA member, "Willis" 
>of
>Old Fort, TN, it is not just this one incident or member who have brought 
>me
>to this decision. Rather, it is the totality of similar events over the 
>past
>three years with bad apples from both the NRC and IRCA acting in this
>manner.
>
>It is my belief that the leadership of both clubs have done precious little
>to address this growning and serious problem of membership's behavoir
>towards broadcasters, conduct towards fellow members on lists and forums,
>and over zealous attempts to obtain QSL cards. This general decline in the
>behavoir of members, especially as it relates to broadcasters, threatens 
>the
>hobby in general. In paricular, it makes the task of arranging for DX tests
>more difficult.
>
>Just as DX'ers have joined e-mail lists and discussion forums, so have
>broadcasters. If we offend an engineeer at a Clear Channel station, we can
>anticipate that he'll relay that situation to other engineers on an e-mail
>list. If we accuse a station of "cheating" in one of our forums, it's 
>likely
>to find it's way back to that station or at the least, to other stations 
>who
>will take offense. There is no such thing as a "private" e-mail list. Just
>as members should expect remarks published in our print publications to 
>make
>their way back to broadcasters, the same is now true of electronic 
>messages.
>
>I've written many, many e-mail messages and articles attempting to make 
>this
>clear to members. In one exterme case, I appealed to the leadership of the
>NRC and had one member removed from the club. But my voice has been a lone
>one. The leaders of both clubs have stood silent and done little to stem
>this tide of behavoir. There is little to no moderation of the e-mail 
>lists.
>There is no formal process for complaints to be lodged by broadcasters.
>There isn't even a set of rules or guidelines that a member agree to before
>being accepted into membership.
>
>The lastest incident is simply the last straw. A civilized discourse and
>word of caution to an IRCA member results in a response that questions my
>relationship with God, my political beliefs, and my intergrity. Such
>behavoir cannot be allowed to stand.
>
>Playing a role in arranging tests for the past four years has been very
>rewarding at times. We've accomplished some things that I've very proud of
>including the new "inventory insert" DX tests, the Flash Card Alert system,
>trying new modes like QRSS, international DX tests, and the "Big Sky"
>coordinated test event from Montana.
>
>But I simply cannot continue to devoted so much time when others can wreck
>all my efforts with careless words, unprovoked attacks and rude behavoir.
>
>I'll work closely to help make the transition to a new BTC go smoothly and
>support the effort in any way that I can. I include "Willis's" most recent
>letter below. While this letter was sent to me personally, and "off list" 
>it
>was sent in response to our discussion on the IRCA list. It is
>unfortunately, typical of the kind of personal attacks that I've heard over
>the past four years.
>
>73,
>
>Les Rayburn, N1LF
>
>
>========================================================
>
>Les-
>At 0030 EDT they are still in their at S7 to S9 with QSB.
>This is NOT transmitter work, this is not just a mistake from someone not
>doing their job by turning the transmitter off (which is a form of
>CHEATING.) What this station is doing is against the rules. But, what do
>Americans do today?, "To hell with the rules, if I want to do it, I will."
>You have done the same thing in your own life, and I know you have.
>
>"day time power past their appointed time to power down" the correct term
>for this is "CHEATING." By any other name it's still CHEATING!! The FCC
>calls it "CHEATING."
>
>I am almost sure you have studied Psychology, right?
>
>Les, I am writing to you off the list. I have keep fairly quite about this
>topic, but I will no long keep quite. I have really grown tired of this
>topic, of this 'new age' thinking, and a total lack of moralty towards your
>fellow man. I know that you left a good conservative church to join a 
>overly
>liberal riligious group that has women and queer leaders. (Episcopal). I
>know your thinking, "What the hell has this got to do with the topic?" A
>persons religious background will show how they will think and react to a
>given topic or situation.
>
>With NO Bible backgroung to base truth upon, a person will turm to 
>humanism,
>socialism and who knows what. God says when go against the rules your
>"CHEATING." I will follow that thinking and continue to call it "CHEATING"
>
>There is so much more to topic, I am not going try and explain every aspect
>in detail.
>
>All I ask is, Stop hiting me with your "new age" slogan! It's to bad you
>turn your back on Christ.
>
>Cheating by any other name is still cheating!
>
>
>
> > Willis,
> >
> > About twice per year, KNX in LA will blast in here, sometimes making it
> > difficult to hear our local on the same frequency. It doesn't happen 
>very
> > often, but it does happen. I just wish folks would refrain from using 
>the
> > word, "cheating". They could be having an automation malfunction (much
>more
> > likely) or it could be unusual propagation. Cheating implies that 
>they're
> > doing something illegal or at least deliberate.
> >
> > As the broadcast test coordinator, I hate DX'ers using the word
>"cheating".
> > At best it's imprecise. What they mean is running "day time power past
>their
> > appointed time to power down".
>
>
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