[SFDXA] The End Of The Line For The Radio Amateur Callbook...

[Richard M. Gillingham]

A pity.      What does the FCC have to do with DX addressing???  Well I 
guess there's still QRZ and Buckmaster.

Gil

Bill Marx wrote:

>* The end of the line for Radio Amateur Callbook: Radio Amateur Callbook
>is throwing in the towel and will cease publication of its CD-ROM Callbook
>product effective with its winter 2003 edition, which will come out in
>November. "Due to accessibility to the FCC database via the Internet,
>sales have declined to levels that make it unprofitable to publish future
>editions," publisher Bob Hughes announced in a recent news release. In
>1997, citing "rising costs and increasing demand for electronic
>publishing" the company phased out its telephone-book-size paper North
>American and international editions in favor of its CD-ROM product. The
>1997 Callbook--the 75th edition--was the last hard-copy version available.
>The Callbook began publishing in 1920.
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