[Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands

[manualman at juno.com]

I'm not sure what QST you're looking at but column wise QST has had the
"The World Above 50 MHz" column (stuff about VHF and above) since the
beginning of time. Likewise, the DX column is now called "How's DX" and
there's a host of other columns. I don't remember QST having a YL column
(unless it was a 100 years ago) although I think CQ Mag. had a YL column.
back in the old days.

Here's a bunch of QST Annual Indexes for your fun and amusement:
http://www.arrl.org/qst-annual-indexes

Pete, wa2cwa

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:28:34 +0000 RAY FRIESS <rayfrijr at msn.com> writes:
> 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.