Yeah, me too!! I wish the rest of the world would respect this idea, we hams wouldn't be losing so many bands in the new telecom land rush.
The periodical industry is going, going, gone. My wife worked in the printing industry for years. Now, all those people are unemployed. Paper has become a very expensive commodity. Its price is not stable enough to forecast a magazine's cost. I am okay with QST being online as long as I have access to all the past copies. Honestly, it was getting harder to find a place to store all the paper copies.
I am a Life Member of my local Masonic Lodge, and a Paid Up For Life member of my local American Legion...These organizations each publish monthly magazines. They always show up in my mailbox on time. I have never had any problems receiving these magazines ever..And I look forward each month to getting my hands on the actual magazines, as I read them cover to cover Cutting to the quick here, it is no secret that QST in hard copy form will no longer exist. It will cease to exist, and the sooner the better in the eyes of the League’s Chain of Command. People are leaving the ARRL faster than than ever now...How long till League membership in the United States will entail 50,000 or less? And people are not leaving due to the magazine issue. It is because they are seeing The League For What It Really IS.
I agree. I was a journalist for many years. Newspaper readership has been down every year since 1972. ki4kea
I should think the electronic copies and the ability to search them is worth the admission price alone. And in passing, I should also think that there's something less of a fire hazard
Well. I am conflicted on this. I like paper. Paper has a special feel and smell. It's like old used book stores. They are wonderful places. But you sure can store a lot of magazines and key word search them on just a few gigs of space. In the long run, I think that's the direction the industry will go. I read a half dozen newspapers a day...all online. But I can remember walking past the pressman who ran our two story press. I would wave two fingers....and got two copies of the newspaper before it hit the streets....and the ink was still wet.
There's a leap in inferential thought. Time to put HazMat placards on US Mail vehicles. P.S. - In the case of the ARRL HQ, marketing = propaganda.
I used to deliver to a place in New Jersey called Marcal Paper. So perhaps I view large stacks of paper with a somewhat jaundiced eye
