There is some publicly available commentary that gives the appearance that AMPR may have engaged in discriminatory practices in awarding grants. ARIP is not a legal entity and cannot provide judgement on these issues, other than to provide links to the publicly available commentary upon request. ↩

The Arizona Repeater Association does have a loose statement that could be considered as qualifying - it is implied in their Conduct and Policies document “Do not make them negative commentaries on institutions, groups, or people”. However, when we contacted them to thank them for having a statement like this, a member of the board replied with “Go away!! Amateur radio does not need your woke program. It has never excluded anyone and seeks out all interested people. This is a solution looking for a problem.” For all of the obvious fallacies in this statement, using a known racist dog-whistle (using woke as a derogatory term vs. it’s original meaning) is the most disqualifying, and is viewed as an act of discrimination in and of itself, hence their listing in our ‘failed organizations’ section. ↩

We received 2 communications from officers of the Suburban Amateur Repeater Association. The first indicated that they are an inclusive organization but they don’t want to be a “social advocacy group” and to “please give us a zero and remove us from your mailing list.” The second message from the second officer seemed to walk back on this a little bit, and stated that “SARA would like to state that our organization’s working reference document of amateur radio conduct and inclusivity is found in The Radio Amateur’s Code, written by Paul M.Segal, W9EEA, in 1928 (http://www.arrl.org/amateur-code).” This document, while problematic in its own right, would be better than nothing, however it does not appear that this is actually linked to, referenced from, or included in any publicly available information from the Suburban Amateur Repeater Association. ↩