I too was robbed of receiving QST as a 3 year membership,
losing about 2 1/2 years of issues. The last issue that was
not printed and sent to all members, their printer at that
time, told the ARRL they had no paper, that the league had to
find the paper and deliver it to the printer, to the tune of
$500K bucks, which they did not have. When their portfolio
improved a couple months later, they could have gone back to
printing it. But here is what H. P. Maxim thought about QST
in a paraphrased format, and why it should still be printed
and sent to members today and forever:
'The ARRL
was the organization,
and QST was
its practical communications
and membership journal—the
means by which the
League organized, educated,
and connected amateurs.'
If you remember,
all those things built and showcased in the Handbook, were
mostly built or duplicated by the ARRL's technical dept.
They haven't built a thing in quite a while, so why the
expense of a technical dept? The organization is very top
heavy. As to moving, I think they should consider
Oklahoma. Their signal would be equidistant from just
about everybody, and their decision making thought process
would not be frozen by CT winters and the politics of the
NE.
Charlie, W4MEC in
NC