[Qcwa] QCWA Journal on the Web

[Dick Thompson]

Bob,

Being new (not even a number yet), how is the quarterly journal dispersed to
members?  By mail?  Just curious.

73,

Dick
WB0DUL
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N0UF" <n0uf at kc.rr.com>
To: "QCWA Reflector" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:38 PM
Subject: [Qcwa] QCWA Journal on the Web


> This was discussed at the Dallas Convention.
>
> There are several areas of concern.
>
> 1. At 90 to 100K per page, it would take about five Meg of disk space for
> each Journal. No one was really sure how many issues should be keep
on-line
> if we went that way. Our entire site now is less than eight Meg. Four
issues
> would quadruple our disk usage in the first year.  Joe Smith, W0JOE,
> provides this disk space, processor time and the physical access to it
free
> of charge to QCWA.
>
> 2. At what point do we put the Journal on the web,  right away, in a week,
a
> month, two months? Without some kind of controlled access, read id and
> password, some felt it would be unfair to the dues paying members when
> everyone could access it free. Setting up and maintaining an id and
password
> file for active members would be more of a job that I have time for and
> would also require more FREE web server resources.
>
> 3. No one knew the amount of work involved to convert the Journal to Adobe
> format. I don't think this is a big deal but I really don't know.
>
> Good idea Norm, just isn't feasible the present time.
>
> tnx es 73,
> Bob Roske, N0UF
> QCWA Webmaster
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Norm Gertz" <k1aa at cfl.rr.com>
> To: "Discussion of QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>; "JF2IGP"
<JF2IGP at jarl.com>
> Cc: <qcwagm at rcn.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qcwa] Any quarterly magazine missed ?
>
>
> > Just a suggestion.....how about including the Journal on our website in
> > Adobe format?
> >
> > 73 Norm   K1AA
>
>
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