{"id":455,"date":"2011-10-22T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2011-10-30T00:45:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:45:50","slug":"the-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/the-way-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way Forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having now read the write up in the November Radcom at least three times and looked at the RSGB &#8216;NO&#8217; Yahoo! Group (<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/whiteroseradiouk\/\">http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/whiteroseradiouk\/<\/a>) I am still not convinced about saying NO.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB &#8216;NO&#8217; group seems to have the same few callsigns talking about why it should\u00a0<strong>not\u00a0<\/strong>happen. I am not sure,\u00a0<strong>BUT<\/strong>\u00a0I note that nobody has yet come up with a different plan. We seem to have only two alternatives at the moment,\u00a0<strong>the new management plan\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0<strong>the status quo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The status quo has obviously not worked, so what&#8217;s left? There is no PLAN B and I understand that the RSGB will go bust in two years if nothing is done.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding membership, the only real way of\u00a0increasing numbers is for\u00a0members and clubs\u00a0to recruit aspiring amateurs and SWLs.\u00a0Leaflets etc are generally regarded as just more junk mail. \u00a0Clubs should be the kingpins of the national society and be the ones to promote it. The management of the RSGB, who ever that is going to be, must involve clubs and societies more in the running of the society if it is\u00a0to survive and prosper.<\/p>\n<p>After all\u00a0<strong>WE<\/strong>\u00a0are the RSGB.<\/p>\n<p>73 John G0VEH \u00a0 (Email: g0veh@lefars.org.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having now read the write up in the November Radcom at least three times and looked at the RSGB &#8216;NO&#8217; Yahoo! Group (http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/whiteroseradiouk\/) I am still not convinced about saying NO. The RSGB &#8216;NO&#8217; group seems to have the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/the-way-forward\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-rsgb","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22sia-7l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}