[QCWA] Cost cutting

[Bob Montgomery]

Perhaps sent digitally and one mailing of a CD with the years issues ? The
cost per CD would be less than a buck when done in bulk and would save a
lot of money, but still give the members something in their hands.

73, Bob W3ZR/VE3SXZ
On Nov 11, 2011 7:49 PM, "Stan Vandiver" <w4sv at chapter36.org> wrote:

> 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.
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