[Boatanchors] Re: May QST...Devoted Entirely To Amateur Radio ADVERTISEORS

[Peter Markavage]

Actually if you looked carefully, the back section of the magazine has a
"Special Advertising Section" for the Dayton Hamvention advertisers and
vendors. The Title page of the section says Dayton 2007, "Pull Out &
Bring to Dayton". The May issue  traditionally has more ads from
manufacturers to introduce new products that they plan on showing at
Dayton and many vendors run special sales at Dayton. There's nothing
mysterious about this. Vendors and advertisers jump on the bandwagon for
this issue. CQ, CQ-VHF and other magazines also follow suit along the
same lines for more advertising in the May issue especially if the
magazine plans on having a booth at Dayton and generally hands out sample
magazines. Even I ran ads in two magazines for Dayton.

Pete, wa2cwa


On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:59:33 -0400 "EP Swynar" <gswynar at durham.net>
writes:
> Good Day All,
> 
> I just got back from a visit to the public library in a nearby town 
> here...
> 
> It's a nice place to visit from time to time because they receive 
> QST magazine every month, & I like to review each issue as it comes 
> out...sure enough, they had the May 2006 copy on the shelf...
> 
> But what an absolute shock as I leafed through it! Was it my 
> imagination, or is almost the entire second half of the magazine 
> this month "...Devoted Entirely To Amateur Radio ADVERTISERS"...?! 
> Page after page consisted of NOTHING but full-page, colour pitches 
> from different manufacturers --- no continuations from previous 
> articles in between...no nothing! 
> 
> I could hardly believe my eyes. 
> 
> Reading earlier pages, I saw that the write-up on the results of the 
> November Sweepstakes contest was, well, hardly a write-up at all --- 
> any curious non-contestor Newbie scanning the summary would probably 
> be left wondering what all the fuss about this contesting stuff was 
> about: there wasn't much of anything there to entice the newcomer to 
> wade in --- heck, there wasn't even enough there to entice any 
> repeat efforts on the part of existing contestors! 
> 
> Just where were the complete score summaries, anyway...? No doubt 
> off tucked away in some web site someplace (or perhaps available by 
> way of a paid subscription to The National Contest Journal), but 
> they SHOULD be included in QST, the way they were since the magazine 
> first started. Period.
> 
> I know a lot of guys will take this opportunity & accuse me of 
> League bashing, etc., but come on, fellas: what's happened to my 
> once beloved QST magazine? I have nearly every issue going all the 
> way back to 1916, but this latest "offering" is hardly worth the 
> effort. 
> 
> Surely Hams deserve better than this.
> 
> ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ