[NLRS] QST Content

[Matt Arthur]

Hi Bill and all,
Well i have to agree with alot of what your saying.

I think the best way for us to edjucate is to teach by example.

and even maybe nicely pull some of these people a side and help them learn
to operate the right way.
Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Davis Jr" <cqbilld at msn.com>
To: "NLRS Reflector" <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:37 PM
Subject: [NLRS] QST Content


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>  Today I celebrate my 54th year as a ham ... not as long as Wally W0PHD
and a few others out there, but a pretty long time. I find QSTs from my
early years more interesting to read than almost anything that has been
published in QST for the last 10yrs or more. I took QEX for a year or two,
but dropped it. Some interesting reading, but at this point in my amateur
radio experience, not what I was looking for.
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>   Bottom line is that I find the QST can be read each month in a couple
hours, then it is put on the shelf to NEVER be pulled off the shelf in
almost every case. "Building" microphones, mike booms and 2m vertical omni
antennas of every type is just not my thing. I have 2feet of QSTs that I am
going to get rid of soon. I get QST because of ARRL membership, not the
other way around.
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>   Could/would I do better if I were the editor... ARGH ... I'm not sure
that "My QST" would be too much different, but I would try like heck to have
ONE GOOD technical entry each month. Why could "My QST" look so much the
same? From most of what I hear on the bands, the technical level of too many
of "todays" hams is closer to the "rubber ducky on 80m" than I would like to
believe.
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>   Now ... QST IS in a position to do some EDUCATION ie KK7B entries and
the "Doctor is In" etc. Sure hope it makes a difference even though it may
not reach the top of the poll. TOO MANY of hams on the band today NEED
EDUCATION on the tech side as well as OPERATION ... too much CB lingo.
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>   73  Bill  K0AWU  EN37ed
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