[Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands

[RAY FRIESS]

I have to agree with Mark.   If you still even occasionally pick up an issue of QST you can tell the League no longer puts much interest in or emphasis on technical matters.  Compared to years ago, the number of technically related articles has greatly declined, both for construction and nonconstruction articles.  Oh sure, there's the beginner's corner with a few technical related items, but overall, it's just not there anymore when it comes to construction or other technical things.  QST used to be about 50-50 when it came to technical and operating oriented articles.  They did away with all the columns that covered contest results.  I really like those, not necessarily for the results, but the accompanying pictures of shacks and equipment.  They did away with the individual columns for things like DX, YLs, VHF, etc.

Those are all some of the reasons I gave up my membership and QST subscription.  Several times a year I go to the library which has a subscription and go through back issues, to see if there's anything antenna related or other construction related things that might find their way into QST and if I want it, I make a copy.



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From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net <boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:57 AM
To: Rob Atkinson
Cc: Boatanchors List
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands

With the “memorize your way to your license” system we have now,  I see no
reason why you can’t be expected to expend a bit more effort and get your
General at the same time as your Technician license.   How easy do we have
to make it?  Send in a check and a few cereal box tops?

 Doesn’t the league boast about little Jane or Johnny going from nothing to
Extra in one sitting?     They might not know what end of a hot soldering
iron to pick up on the second try if they got it wrong the first time,  but
they’re licensed….. and that’s all the league is interested in.

Mark K3MSB

On Sep 20, 2017 6:35 AM, "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> This might be a good idea and I think the ARRL committee exploring
> ideas for creating a new Novice type license or enhancing the existing
> Tech. license is looking for suggestions.
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Michael Poteet <mcpoteet at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I expect that most people 35 years of age and younger are decent (if not
> > skilled) typists after years of keyboarding on computers at home and at
> > school.  And they are certainly used to communicating via typed messages.
> > Perhaps we should urge the ARRL to approach the FCC to open the
> Novice/Tech
> > frequencies on 15, 40 and 80 meters to digital modes.  These bands would
> > provide the opportunity to engage in interesting contacts any hour of the
> > day, any month in the year unlike the other Novice/Tech frequencies.
> This
> > may be a way to bring new people into the Hobby and, more importantly,
> keep
> > them in the Hobby.
> >
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