[AMRadio] Help

[Don Cunningham]

Jim,
I may be the only ignorant one on the group, but I need some "explanation" 
of the help that is needed here.  When Al, K3TKJ retired, things became 
confused in my mind, and I guess they haven't cleared up yet.  QTH.net and 
QSL.net were two different entities and, in my mind hosting two different 
venues.  QTH hosted a VERY good forsale/swap list and web hosting and paid 
advertisers, QSL.net ran the email reflectors with NO outside support.  That 
may be an oversimplification, but that was my understanding.  I always 
supported QSL.net, as I would HATE to lose my email reflectors, and felt I 
should support something I use.  I try to donate to QTH.com when I use it to 
buy or sell.

As I said, maybe all that above is an oversimplification, but it appears 
from looking at what I just typed that if we don't break down and start 
sending in some funds, we could lose ALL of the above by just our ignoring 
taking care of business.  Maybe Scott needs to get more specific and let us 
know what the needs are.  He is causing some of the problem, because he has 
ALWAYS said on his site (quoted loosely) "I want to provide this for free, 
donate if you want to", and maybe that has become now "if you don't donate, 
all this is going to come crashing down".  Sometimes it takes that with us 
hard heads.

Jim, you know me well enough to know that I am jesting, as I HAVE always 
tried to donate to QSL.net, and do send funds to QTH (not as regularly as I 
probably should), but I don't want to lose either and I think the community 
as a whole would hate to lose this valuable resource (or resources).  But 
maybe they need to let us know both what their needs are, and what they 
would consider to be an appropriate donation and quit beating around the 
bush!!  A LOT of us are on fixed incomes, but most can afford to send 
something if we have some sense of the true needs.
73,
Don, WB5HAK