I wonder how many of the 170,000 members are "very active" members, meaning those who fly, therefore have much more to lose if we were to lose our frequencies? Those are the members who might bother to publicly speak up to help save our frequencies. Perhaps maybe 20,000?

It appears that we currently don't have a safety in numbers factor, but hypothetically, suppose instead of the current 3000 AMA clubs in existance, we had 10,000 clubs and each club had 500 members who would be "very active". That would present a good and bad situation. The bad thing is each club would have a horrendously over crowded flight line, the good thing would be that AMA would have a very improved safety in numbers factor.

The good, - safety in numbers. The bad - over crowded flight lines. And the ugly - our frequencies taken away. Some choice, but still a choice.

The communication industry has trillions to play with. How much does AMA and the RC aeromodeling industry have? Check related magazines. Tons of pages on trains, boats and cars, but very little on planes. Get the picture?
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