17-05-2018, 07:37 PM
The WIA AGM is happening on the Gold Coast this weekend. I wonder if this matter will surface then ? I am attending and will keep the ears on 'high sensitivity' !
I have been a WIA member since about 1963 - barring a 10 year break due to work conflicts - and I can't recall ever hearing about member expulsions before. Feathers must really have been 'rustled' to have it happen now.
Personally, I suggest that RASA and the WIA can co-exist even if it does divide the attention from ACMA to the two bodies, and also think that it is probably worthwhile being involved in (/members of) both provided the organisations address matters of interest and importance to the Australian Radio Amateur. Of course, one would hope they are both pushing for identical outcomes.
In my brief reading of the RASA docs & web pages, I can only recall the WIA even being mentioned once. Maybe I missed it on other pages but I don't routinely use Facebook (or Twitter - never) so am unlikely to have seen anything that has been posted there.
I have been a WIA member since about 1963 - barring a 10 year break due to work conflicts - and I can't recall ever hearing about member expulsions before. Feathers must really have been 'rustled' to have it happen now.
Personally, I suggest that RASA and the WIA can co-exist even if it does divide the attention from ACMA to the two bodies, and also think that it is probably worthwhile being involved in (/members of) both provided the organisations address matters of interest and importance to the Australian Radio Amateur. Of course, one would hope they are both pushing for identical outcomes.
In my brief reading of the RASA docs & web pages, I can only recall the WIA even being mentioned once. Maybe I missed it on other pages but I don't routinely use Facebook (or Twitter - never) so am unlikely to have seen anything that has been posted there.
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