Photo left: iNARTE President Jim Wickham and ARRL President Jim Haynie (sitting L to R) sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the two organizations, witnessed by Russ Carstensen (NARTE Executive Director) and Executive Vice President David Sumner (standing L to R.)

NARTE President Jim Wickham and American Radio Relay League President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organizations on May 5, 2000. Jim Haynie is very interested in partnering with other organizations. ARRL has about 210,000 members world wide and about $10 million in revenue.

The purpose of the MOU is to state the terms of a mutual agreement between ARRL NARTE that will serve as a framework within which both organizations may support or cosponsor programs or events intended to foster and promote technical awareness, education, and achievement in amateur and commercial telecommunications.

NARTE and ARRL will exchange technical articles, demonstrations and activities in order to encourage and broaden interest in telecommunications technology. They will cooperate in the advocacy of issues of mutual interest before the FCC and other agencies, and in Congress to the extent that such cooperation may further their shared regulatory goal.

They will cooperate in the development of curricula for certifying technical personnel and practitioners on a vocational and avocational basis and in the introduction of concepts and practices in Amateur Radio to those persons and to the general public.

A significant number of NARTE members that are also ham operators. For example, iNARTE Board members Lawrence Behr, Kimball Williams, Tom Croda and Dave Case are hams.

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