QST online

[K8ERV]

. 343MB download. .

WoW, that would take me forever and a half. At least Zinio compressed their mags to about 16 megs.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[K7EA]

I think it is great, and very well done.

I don't have a tablet in all my bathrooms yet, so I still need the printed copy around, but here's to you curmudgeon nay sayers:

This is history in the making and the kids you are Elmering now will remember seeing it happen, and then reminisce about it, and you, as they become OOM. I won't compare it to advances like hetrodyne radios, DSP, SSB, and digital modes, because it's bigger than that.

Get a grip. The online QST is awesome!

I wish K1ZZ would send me money for saying this, but that probably won't happen.

[N8MSA]

Access restrictions are impossible to control with a print edition as well. Once you buy a copy of a magazine, print or digital, that copy is yours to stack on a shelf, store on a harddrive, destroy, or sell at the next ham-fest. You may not however make copies of either to sell and redistribute.

Tim

Sorry...I thought we were discussing the "digital" edition. You are correct that it isn't legal to copy either for redistribution, but the moderate-to-high inconvenience of making a physical copy of a magazine tends to discourage that particular type copyright infringement. Electronic documents are fundamentally different, and that is precisely why many organizations take measures to protect against "casual" copyright infringement.

[KF7PCL]

I am glad that it is not a PDF file.
Acrobat Reader routinely hangs my machine.
The in-browser viewer they are using does not.

[KJ4VTH]

The new digital QST is pretty nice! Not perfect but darn good. I witnessed another hobby (non-ham) magazine struggle with digital version and it caused them no end of trouble so it's nice to see a digital distribution that actually works.

[K8ERV]

I asked before, is ARRL using Zinio?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[KJ4VTH]

The url says Nxtbook

[WD0MYM]

Good job ARRL, I just opted out of the printed edition.

This is a milestone in my life; I have worked hard to eliminate all of my paper mail and this should be about the last of it. I am not 100%, but close. Going to the mailbox is pretty much a waste of time; a bunch of junk. I look forward to the day when I can actually get rid of my mailbox.

[KC9UDX]

I have often thought about getting an outdoor wood-burner and heating my home with junkmail. But, I will not soon convert to getting all my mail online, in fact, I've been going the other direction in recent years.

[VK5TM]

It will be interesting to see if they are still going to publish the Periodicals CD at the end of the year.