[QCWA] ASSOCIATE Membership

[Stan Vandiver]

On 11/12/2011 9:01 AM, Fred Atkinson, WB4AEJ wrote:
>           We could also offer for sale to members
> a CD with all of the previous issues of our
> journal on it.  I imagine that would sell quite
> well.  It would be up to date as of the date the
> CD was purchased and burned.  Then they could
> receive all subsequent copies separately.

ARRL offered such a set of QST-on-CD that went all the way back to their 
beginning (1914). It has unfortunately been discontinued, but I 
purchased the full collection, and I have also bought the yearly 
QST/QEX/NCJ CD's that they sell. I give away my paper QST copies at our 
local VE Test sessions to new hams.

If the entire QCWA Journal Collection were to be made available on 
CD/DVD, I would surely be interested in purchasing it also. I wonder if 
all the prior Journals are available? But it takes money to initiate a 
project like that too, and I wonder if that is possible at this time?

The yearly (June) Membership Roster has been digital for quite awhile, 
but how long? Or could early years be digitized also and made available 
on CD for purchase as a set? Seriously, I would buy something like that, 
if it reached back pretty far, or to the beginning. I think that would 
be a cool bit of history to have in my collection.

Some folks collect old boat anchor radios, some collect paper. They're 
all too heavy for me. Almost a hundred years of QST fits nicely on a 
single CD shelf, all easily carried in a bag in one hand if I have to 
move it! The QCWA Journal would be much smaller than that.

73,
Stan Vandiver W4SV