[Lowfer] Alternate Morse code test

[Ed Phillips]

riese-k3djc@juno.com wrote:
> 
> 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

	Not exactly.  There was indeed the "Communications Department" with its
traffic reports, but there were plenty of construction articles in most
if not all of the pre-WW2 QST's, and plenty later than that.  Today it's
kiddy stuff mostly.  It's interesting to read the "traffic reports"
between about 1920 and 1923, as they gave breakouts of how many messages
were handled by spark and how many by CW.  At the end of that period
spark was gone........

,, 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

Ed