[GreenKeys] ==> QST.ORG WEB ADDRESS NOW IN THE HANDS OF THE ARRL

[Don Robert House]

Long-time ham and ARRL member David Lien, W6OVP, of Battle Ground,
Washington, has transferred the Web address www.QST.org
<http://www.qst.org> to the ARRL. If you head to that URL, you'll now
find yourself in the QST section of the ARRLWeb.

"I bought the rights to it about nine years ago," he said. "I was just
trolling -- I own quite a few [Web addresses]. I came across QST.org and
grabbed it. It's so important to ham radio, and there's only one use for
it."

An aerospace engineer for many years, Lien is also a prolific author. Of
his many books, the majority of which helped computer neophytes learn
the ins and outs of the TRS-80 and other early personal computers and
systems, his best-known were "Learning IBM BASIC" and "The BASIC
Handbook." In fact, Lien was a consultant on the development of the
ground-breaking TRS-80, which was among the first mass market personal
computers.

"I was pleased I was in the right place at the right time to rescue the
name and hold it for the League until they were ready [to request it],"
he said.

ARRL Chief Operating Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, who first contacted
Lien about the address, commented: "We really appreciate David's
generosity in transferring QST.org back to us. It will make it easier
for our members and others interested in Amateur Radio to find
information about QST and its content on the Web. We have some other
exciting plans in the works for QST.org that we will be implementing in
the upcoming months."