ARRL QST magazine vs, CQ,.. etc..

[KD3NE]

I always like QST for the technical stuff.

CQ seemed to me to be more ' current events ' information.

QST's I keep ...... CQ I read and passed on to school libraries and the like when I was done with them.

[KI6ZIF]

QST and League membership are definitely worth the cost. Lots of operating news and technical articles, but the screwdriver-and-dikes projects are nowhere near what they used to be. If you're really a techie type, add QEX to your subscription. To me, a big plus of membership is the on-line archives. Lots of good stuff there.

CQ is OK from an operator's point of view, but I do wonder if most of the staff know which end of a soldering iron gets hot. I let my subscription lapse about two decades ago. I will thumb through an issue if I'm in the bookstore.

Truth be told, I support most but not all of the hard work the ARRL is doing on "our" behalf. However, I pay my ARRL dues, simply because it's cheaper to do so. Then to run down to Ham Radio Outlet, and buy every months QST magazine.

[N2RJ]

I do prefer print magazines, I like to read them in bed. I don't have one of those reader things.. and sitting at my PC to read a magazine all the time really isn't that relaxing to me. I never toss magazines. And some really show there age.

Reading the magazine on a reader like an iPad or kindle is a huge game changer.

I know some people love to collect magazines but I hate them. I recycle mine almost as soon as I'm done reading them or I might pass them along to someone else. But they clutter up the house and I'm more than happy to go all digital.

But if you like print magazines, there is nothing wrong with that. They are available and don't seem to be going away.

[KL7AJ]

I'm thinking of joining the ARRL to get the QST magazine, I've glanced at a couple issues at the library downtown, but really don't have the time to sit down there and study them (they can't be checked out)
And being in Canada, they aren't in the book stores to just buy a copy here and there, so I'm wondering what hams that get to really sit down and read them think, and how they compare to CQ Magazine?

I don't want to start a magazine war thread, just get a general idea how they compare, and since ARRL is an America organization, is there much benefit to a Canadian?

Please don't suggest I join RAC, been there, done that, won't do it again.. at least til there a bit change in leadership and how they tread members..

Don't let my opinion influence you; I'm just an author. But.....in writing articles for QST for over 30 years, I have NEVER had a late payment, nor have even had to ask to be paid. ARRL has always treated me in an impeccably honest and professional manner.

CQ on the other hand...... I learned at Dayton.....too late.....that it is their standard operating procedure to stiff their authors out of their royalty payments. After a year, I have yet to receive one thin dime of royalties for my popular "THe Opus of Amateur Radio Knowledge and Lore." Two other extremely well-known and reputable authors shared their same experiences with me at Dayton. I will never write another word for CQ....about all I can do is take my losses and learn a hard lesson.

So, if treatment of authors means anything to you, there is no contest.

Older but wiser,

Eric

[VE3KNT]

Don't let my opinion influence you; I'm just an author. But.....in writing articles for QST for over 30 years, I have NEVER had a late payment, nor have even had to ask to be paid. ARRL has always treated me in an impeccably honest and professional manner.

CQ on the other hand...... I learned at Dayton.....too late.....that it is their standard operating procedure to stiff their authors out of their royalty payments. After a year, I have yet to receive one thin dime of royalties for my popular "THe Opus of Amateur Radio Knowledge and Lore." Two other extremely well-known and reputable authors shared their same experiences with me at Dayton. I will never write another word for CQ....about all I can do is take my losses and learn a hard lesson.

So, if treatment of authors means anything to you, there is no contest.

Older but wiser,

Eric

Actually it does. While I have never wrote anything ham radio related, I have had a couple articles published in the early 90's in the R/C car magazines. One never told me that had accepted and were going to print the articles I had submitted, I found out when I just happened to pick a copy up in the store. So I wrote them a quick letter (a nice letter) and asked about when I'd be paid. The finally paid for the one, and sent the other back after pulling it from an up coming issue. I assume because I asked about being paid. It was already in a page mock up, they did not send the manuscript back.. That magazine went under a year or two later..

[K5FH]

CQ on the other hand...... I learned at Dayton.....too late.....that it is their standard operating procedure to stiff their authors out of their royalty payments. After a year, I have yet to receive one thin dime of royalties for my popular "THe Opus of Amateur Radio Knowledge and Lore." Two other extremely well-known and reputable authors shared their same experiences with me at Dayton. I will never write another word for CQ....about all I can do is take my losses and learn a hard lesson.

Yep...ask Wayne Green, W2NSD, about how that's been going on at CQ since he was editor back in 1955.

It's in Wayne's blog from 2009:

http://www.waynegreen.com/wayne/news-archive_2009.html

Scroll down to the 4/23/09 entry, about halfway down the page.

As Archie Bunker said, "Deja vu all over again..."

[WA8UEG]

Plus you could spend months searching topics of interest to you in back issues on line.

[KL7AJ]

Plus you could spend months searching topics of interest to you in back issues on line.

That's my most-used feature as an ARRL member! Just recently "downlud" all of John Troster's, (W6ISQ) hilarious and classic articles!

Eric

[N2EY]

Yep...ask Wayne Green, W2NSD, about how that's been going on at CQ since he was editor back in 1955.

It's in Wayne's blog from 2009:

http://www.waynegreen.com/wayne/news-archive_2009.html

Scroll down to the 4/23/09 entry, about halfway down the page.

As Archie Bunker said, "Deja vu all over again..."

I'm not sure I'd take anything ol' 'NSD says at face value. Fella tends to remember stuff that didn't actually happen.

He claims to have paid authors $10,000 out of his own pocket, on the promise of being reimbursed. In those days $10,000 was a heck of a lot of money, and would have bought a lot of articles!

Elsewhere in that blog he claims to have founded American Mensa as if it were something he did alone. But there's no mention of him in the histories of that organization. Read his tirades in 73 and you'll see opinion presented as fact and fact presented as opinion.

73 de Jim, N2EY

[N5PVL]

I'm not sure I'd take anything ol' 'NSD says at face value. Fella tends to remember stuff that didn't actually happen.

He claims to have paid authors $10,000 out of his own pocket, on the promise of being reimbursed. In those days $10,000 was a heck of a lot of money, and would have bought a lot of articles!

Elsewhere in that blog he claims to have founded American Mensa as if it were something he did alone. But there's no mention of him in the histories of that organization. Read his tirades in 73 and you'll see opinion presented as fact and fact presented as opinion.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Does he work for NPR, now?