Cecil,
I'm with you and I miss Shannon's broadcast classics.
Eric
W9WLW
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> On May 21, 2014, at 6:03 PM, Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net> wrote:
>
> Well I for one am not happy with CQ at the moment. Not only do I subscribe
> to CQ but have subscribed to Pop Com for years. It just quit showing up...no
> explanation for months...then CQ went MIA. Finally I received my first CQ in
> the month it was printed for this month. I'm still having to figure out
> where and how to find the Pop Com content I paid for.
>
> I'm not much for digital magazine content so the jury is out with me as to
> whether I renew my subscriptions or not.
>
> I'll be glad when they get some of the CQ awards into LOTW....
>
> Cecil
> K5DL
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On May 21, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Stuart Rohre <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I just heard a talk, post Dayton, by one of the ARRL vice Directors. ARRL is
>> hopeful for this merger to work to the benefit of hams, and for CQ to emerge
>> from its restructuring as a viable magazine. CQ appeals to a segment of ham
>> radio, (contests) that varies from the ARRL contest participants with some
>> overlap. But CQ magazine devotes more in their magazine to their sponsored
>> contests and those of overseas sponsors.
>>
>> ARRL records show a steady growth in new hams, and League membership grows
>> as new hams enter the hobby. Recent and younger ham retention is a big
>> topic at the League, and stimulation of further interest in the hobby;
>> especially among the young and middle age "Makers" is also a big topic. The
>> league has an active youth component at each large convention, with a
>> special subset of their booth devoted to that. It seemed to be well
>> attended at Ham Com in greater Dallas, (Plano) last year.
>>
>> The league has furnished seed money to stimulate Broadband Ham Net (tm), the
>> up and coming digital and microwaves revolution in ham emergency
>> communications. This is based on Mesh networking, where a spread out
>> community of hams can provide multiple paths across a city that suffers
>> phone outages, or overload. Hamnet can simultaneously transmit the ARRL
>> Handbook text in 2 minutes, while supporting a VOIP phone system and live
>> video from an incident scene. In other words, it has more bandwidth,than
>> packet like systems could ever dream of.
>>
>> That might be a technical area that no commercial manufacturer is directly
>> serving. Hams are presently cobbling together systems from other commercial
>> wideband antenna hardware and network boxes such as Linksys surplus routers.
>> New work and software has appeared for off the shelf "at the antenna"
>> routers such as the Bullet devices. A vendor who can serve the ham's
>> questions and package a turn key "Kit"
>> would be offering something no other ham supplier has attempted.
>>
>> -Stuart Rohre
>> K5KVH
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