[Lowfer] Alternate Morse code test

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QST is the mag fer the masses and if you want any substance you need the
extra
25 bux outlay fer QEX. This kind stuff that used to be in qst. We all
miss Ham Radio
IMHO one of thebest HAM mags going.

I suppose the money factor was involved with the QST/QEX change and
perhaps a good business move
obviously The ham community has changed and QST is staying in the middle.


Kinda Like Malcolm though,,   HAR

In its early years QST
was mostly full of net and traffic handling stuff. That was the
justification for the Hobby then,, today
it is mostly ares/races and the tech ability isnt as needed as long as
there is one ham to guide
the masses.  You dont need CW to be a traffic handler at the local fire
house when you are using the
local 146 repeater to pass info during a fire N rescue drill,, but you
will buy the radios and antennas and
read QST to see what is happning with other ARES stuff.

its all economics


Bob K3DJC


On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 14:31:58 -0700 Ed Phillips <evp@pacbell.net> writes:
> Bill Ashlock wrote:
> > 
> > Jay
> > 
> > >What other reason could there be? Just for the record I'm not an 
> ARRL hater
> > >(worked there for 6 years) - I just disagree with their thought 
> process.
> > 
> > Wouldn't be the first top-notch organization (including some 
> companies I've
> > worked for) that went down the tubes due to out-of-touch upper 
> leadership.
> > It would be a tough and unpopular decision to stiffen the 
> requirements, and
> > the short term effect would be negative (because we ALL want more
> > membership, Right?), but the long-term effect might just be a real 
> positive.
> 
>         I don't know whether or not they are really out of touch, 
> but sure
> seems to me that QST is dumbed down and more devoted to commercial 
> gear
> than in the past.  In the days where kids grow up watching TV stuff 
> like
> Star Trek and the like (gotta be careful what I say here, my wife's 
> a
> "Trekkie" and doesn't like remarks about pseudo science), seeing 
> violent
> movies, and playing video games it is entirely possible that ham 
> radio
> seems too tame to be of interest.  "There's always the Internet and
> email."
> 
>         Back in the early 1970's I heard Pete Hoover (now W6ZH) 
> speak of "the
> codfish curtain" on several occasions, in spite of his family
> affiliation with ARRL.  He certainly felt they were out of touch 
> with us
> "W6's".
> 
>         The ARRL is a major publisher now and I suspect they're 
> turning enough
> profit there to keep going for a long time.
> 
> Ed
> 
> By the way, what does being "in touch" mean to some of you?  I'm 
> not
> quite sure here.
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