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Subj: On IARU's "Shaping the Future" program
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Sent: 220905/1712Z 54155@YT7MPB.#NSD.SRB.EU LinBPQ6.0.23
Few days ago, I sent an email to IARU R1 Secretary
(secretary@iaru-r1.org) but did not get any response (yet):
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Hello there,
Today I took some time to read IARU R1 webpages related to the program
above. At first, I was greatly disappointed with the table related to
SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats), link: Home
(R1) → Shaping the Future → Background. It seemed to me that you have
intentionally made up results of the analysis, by exaggerating
well-known historical 'positive' opinion, dated since the
sixties-seventies i.e. generalized views combined within the Strengths
and Opportunities part in your table.
In the same time, you forgot to elaborate details of Weaknesses and
Threats. Just an example (from the RSGB analysis): The RSGB had found as
one of the biggest weaknesses -if not the most bigger one, the very bad
demographic situation where the ham radio today consist of 'old [white]
men who look at the world the same way they did when they were young'.
The RSGB has also noted that there 'are no women and minorities' in ham
radio. Next to that, they found that excepting few kids, there is
visible absence of the most valuable part of the general population (say
people from 27 to 58 years of age, or similar).
It makes me wonder why IARU leadership made up the actual bad situation
in ham radio (and even worse perspective of it), by diminishing serious
weaknesses and threats? Look again to your table: You even changed the
order of SWOT segments by re-ordering 'good' things (Strengths &
Opportunities) and putting them to the 1st and 2nd place, and then
followed by [less important?] Weaknesses & Threats on the 3rd and 4th
place. Why? To make things look better?
Let's go further: You completely ignored the fact that many national
regulators have not-so-good relationship with national ham unions. For
example, even though I live in Serbia, I found as very familiar the
statement of the RSGB's analysis where they noted that the British
national regulator does not belong to a group of those who like the RSGB
(and possibly vice-versa). I saw that RSGB opinion as particularly
interesting because here in Serbia the national regulator RATEL blindly
follows bad recommendations given by only few bureaucrats within the
national ham union SRS. (Recent rumors say that SRS was almost incapable
to organize its annual assembly the proper way, if any.) And if things
are so bad here in Serbia, and in the UK as well, it makes me wonder why
the IARU R1 leadership ignored the reality? It is unfair to just give a
'neutral' statement on 'Regulator attitudes ...' -without giving any
detail on what went wrong.
After looking at your link: Home (R1) → Shaping the Future → Program
organization ("Shaping the Future program is organized in three
different type of groups: ...") I am completely unsure whether Serbian
representatives (who elected them anyway?) are qualified enough to do
anything clever in their teams! It is well known for ages that SRS, and
its Vojvodina province organization unit SRV, are nothing else but rigid
bureaucratic structures that mainly support CW as a 'proper' mode for
'real' hams, and numerous contests as the only supported activity in
domestic ham radio. In the same time, they openly refuse modernization
and support re-building data infrastructure such as packet-radio nodes &
BBSs, APRS, Winlink/pactor email exchange, joint educational projects
within educational environments, and so on. On top of it, it is a shame
that the only ham club that had the word "Academic" in its name, once
upon a time located here at the University of Novi Sad, the capital of
Vojvodina province, completely disintegrated and disappeared from scene,
and its valuable ham instruments were stolen. Neither SRV, nor SRS did
anything to prevent that and/or to prosecute the perpetrators.
I could write much more about it (and other wrongdoing in domestic ham
radio), but what's the purpose ...
Misko YT7MPB
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