[QCWA] Cost cutting

[Stan Vandiver]

Hi all,

Don, W7WLL, suggests cutting part of the Journal to reduce costs (see 
below). And I agree that our quarterly Journal is likely to be a major 
expense to HQ.

But my question might be rather, "Can we eliminate the Journal 
altogether?" The paper version that is. A high-quality Journal could 
still be produced, and more content could actually be added in an 
electronic edition, instead of less.

I'm sure there would be opposition to this idea, as the Journal is 
certainly one of the benefits our our membership dues. But there is 
plenty of opposition to the idea of an Associate Member status also. Yet 
there seems to be a serious need to raise or conserve funds.

Though we are an old-timer organization, this is still the 21st century, 
and we are living in an electronic age. I for one would be glad to 
receive the Journal in digital format rather than print.

Vy 73,
Stan Vandiver W4SV




On 11/11/2011 6:19 PM, Don Tucker wrote:
> The QCWA Directors, in my humble opinion, need to look closely at those
> items which cost the most. I would suspect the Journal is not inexpensive to
> publish. I, for one, skip over the Chapter News.  I would expect to get that
> information from my Chapter. Not that I don't care but it is difficult for
> me to raise my interest level in what the Chapter in Secaucas did the last
> couple of months. Significant cost would result from dropping this part of
> the Journal, which was 23 of the 56 pages in the Fall Issue.  I would be
> more interested in seeing material more related to those whose tenure in
> amateur radio was lengthly, not necessarily personal articles, but perhaps
> more in depth material on older equipment, restoration ideas, places to find
> parts, etc, etc, etc. Maybe in one issue a year there could be a capsule of
> each of the Chapters activities during the year, very abbreviated.