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Skip to content WEST GULF DIVISION REPRESENTING 63,825 AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS IN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS Primary Navigation Menu Menu * Home * Leadership * Director * Vice Director * Assistant Directors and Section Managers * Open Positions * Sections * ARRL Links * About Us West Gulf Division Representing Amateur Radio in Oklahoma and Texas Read about our Leadership and open positions Jamboree On the Air, JOTA Skywarn Recognition Day ARRL West Gulf Division Representing Amateur Radio in Oklahoma and Texas Read about our Leadership and open positions Jamboree On the Air, JOTA Skywarn Recognition Day ARRL West Gulf Division NEWS FROM THE WEST GULF DIVISION View All THE ARRL BOARD IS BACK IN TOWN A message from our West Gulf Division Director, John Stratton N5AUS. Our Oklahoma/Texas leadership supports this Motion. However, they are currently in the minority. Feel free to contact the leaders that John lists below and contact your friends outside the region so they can review this information and take appropriate action: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.” A centuries old truism often attributed to Mark Twain — it is applicable to any elected organization with the power to alter the lives and rights of others — public, private, or governmental — including the ARRL Board of Directors. While the Agenda for the Board Meeting is always published before a Board meeting, the many motions to be considered by the Board have rarely ever been published before a Board Meeting. The most recent and notorious exception occurred before the January 2018 Board meeting when the Executive Committee and Lisenco motions intended to juice the 2017 “Code of Conduct” were leaked to the general Membership. The overwhelming Membership outrage resulting from the unintentional disclosure was instrumental in the punitive proposals being withdrawn. The 2017 Code of Conduct was itself overturned by a newly elected Board in January 2019. The Members’ voices were heard — and their wishes were honored. It is my belief, that of a small minority of Directors, and Vice Director Lee Cooper’s, that the Members should be permitted to have advance notice of the substantive matters to considered by the Board of Directors at its meetings. To that end, the West Gulf intends to publish to its website the substantive motions scheduled to be considered at the January Board meeting and subsequent meetings. It is our intent to discuss each known January 2024 motion in a separate email, although we will publish to the website each motion as it becomes available. At present, there are three known motions. The Agenda for the January Board meeting and each of these three motions are available for review and download at: https://board.westgulfdivision.org/motion/ The first motion we wish to discuss is the: Motion To Honor Membership Contracts In July 2023, the Board voted to raise the annual dues from $49 to $59 and to eliminate the delivery of a printed copy of QST or On The Air, effective January 2024, unless a Member paid an extra $25/year. The West Gulf Division, the Atlantic Division, the Southeastern Division, and the Southwestern Divisions voted against both proposals, but the two proposals passed by an 11-4 vote. While a dues increase was long overdue and actually needed, the West Gulf Division voted against it because it was tied to the termination of the delivery of a printed copy of QST/On The Air unless a Member paid an extra $25/year. The four divisions argued it was a breach of the ARRL’s legal contract with those Members — both annual memberships and 3-year memberships — to terminate their promised printed copy of QST/On The Air before their membership contracts expired. The membership applications in use at the time promised, in writing, the delivery of QST/On The Air magazines by “standard mail.” Besides the risks attendant upon a breach of contract, Article 11 of the ARRL Articles of Association prohibits the Board from terminating or reducing the rights of any Member. The stripping of the delivery of printed copies of QST/On The Air from unexpired Memberships constitutes a reduction in the rights of the affected Member. Both the Membership Application and Article 11 are promises — and the League should stand on its promises. That is the reason we have filed the Motion To Honor Membership Contracts. The ARRL is a membership organization, and the opinions of the Members are important. I have been asked by each of the West Gulf Division Section Managers — NTX SM Steve Smith (KG5VK), STX SM Stuart Wolfe (KF5NIX), WTX SM Dale Durham (W5WI), and OK SM Mark Kleine (N5HZR) — to share that they each support the Motion To Honor Membership Contracts. If you believe the Motion has merit and it should pass, it would be important for you to share your support for the Motion with the ARRL President, Rick Roderick, and the other Directors. All of their email addresses can be found on Page 15 of QST or at http://www.arrl.org/divisions . If you choose to share your views, please be respectful — we choose to disagree, but need not be disrespectful. John Robert Stratton N5AUS West Gulf Division Director Lee H. Cooper W5LHC West Gulf Division Vice Director WEST GULF DIVISION AND ARRL SECTIONS The West Gulf Division consists of 4 ARRL Sections. * OK – Oklahoma which has 77 counties. * NTX – North Texas * STX – South Texas * WTX – West Texas * The three Texas Sections total 254 counties * All four Sections, OK, NTX, WTX, and STX total 331 counties ARRL DIVISIONS ARRL’s governance structure divides the United States into 15 ARRL Divisions. Every three years, ARRL members in each of these Divisions elect both a Director and a Vice Director to represent them on the ARRL’s Board of Directors. The ARRL Board determines the ARRL policies that are implemented by the HQ staff. Each Division’s Director and Vice Director represent their Division on ARRL policy matters. If you have a question or comment about League policies, contact your Director or Vice Director. Search COMIC OF THE MONTH NEWS FROM HQ * The K7RA Solar Update * ARRL's Year of the Volunteers Success * ARRL Straight Key Night 2024 * VOTA: Badges on the Air * YouTube Telethon to Raise Money for ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology ARRL AUDIO NEWS FROM ITUNES * ARRL Audio News December 22, 2023 * ARRL Audio News December 15, 2023 * ARRL Audio News December 8, 2023 * ARRL Audio News December 1, 2023 * ARRL Audio News November 22, 2023 RECENT WGD POST RECENT SECTION POST WEST GULF DIVISION AND ARRL SECTIONS The West Gulf Division consists of 4 ARRL Sections. OK – Oklahoma which has 77 counties. NTX – North Texas STX – South Texas WTX – West Texas The three Texas Sections total 254 counties All four Sections, OK, NTX, WTX, and STX total 331 counties SECTIONS – POPULAR LINKS BELTON HAMFEST – OCT 2022 © 2024 - ARRL West Gulf Division - The ARRL Diamond and ARES logo are registered trademarks of the American Radio Relay League, Inc. and are used with permission.