[CW] ARRL MUST GET BETTER

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

I don't like the content of "QST", I'd rather get "QEX" than "QST".

The technical content of "QST" has gone from "some extremely challenging", 
to some "quite easy" to articles which are written at 6th grade level.

I enjoyed the section news and would often read about other sections as well 
as my own.  I'd look at the Brass Pounders League (BPL) scores and try to 
remember the callsigns.

I depended upon at least one article a month as something that would 
introduce a new technical concept to me.

Remember "QST Extra" - those were interesting articles.

"QST" now seems to have grown quite thin, especially if you discard the 
advertising.

I've read "QEX" and I like it very much - I'd like to see that in "QST" but 
I grow increasingly annoyed by an ARRL that is selling everything a la 
carte.

In the "old" days, you could buy ONE book - a license manual for Novice, 
Technician, General, Advanced and Extra - plus it would have the latest FCC 
and ITU rules and regulations.

Now to get the same information, you have to buy multiple books at a 
multiple price tag.

I avoid things when I smell greed.

73

David N1EA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Winston Rogers" <w0lz at winlyn.us>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] ARRL MUST GET BETTER




Many of us have more than a few issues with the League these days, this just
being one example.  I personally feel that they do not support my mode, CW.
That is a major issue for me.  It also does not escape me that homebrew
articles in QST are limited, in many cases so as not to offend advertisers
who think homebrew products compete with their sales..

Over the years I watched the AARP go from being a great lobby for a group of
people, to being little less than a big business.  The ARRL seems to be
moving in that direction.  I think BPL was a done deal from the beginning
and that the League knew it.  They also new they had to fight it, to keep
their members.  That probably doesn't make it a token effort, but it sure
wasn't a great effort.

As an amateur, I want the ARRL to support me, at least proportionally.  If
they can not do this, what good are they and why do I owe them any
allegiance.

Each year when I re-up, I give it a lot of thought.  There will probably
come a time when I can no longer see any benefits to membership. When that
day comes I will take my money and subscribe to a better magazine.

Win, W0LZ

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