At 08:05 PM 1/12/2002 -0500, K1VU wrote:
>Being a Life Member of the NRA since 1963 I can only say that one of the worst
>things the NRA did was to fractionate the membership into "Us and Them" when
>they came out with "The American Rifleman" and the "American Hunter" option
>for the membership !!!
>
>I see the ARRL doing the same thing right now !!!
Actually, ham radio has divided into lots of interest groups over the past 20
years, and instead of standing together we often fight among each other. Take
a look through the QST Section News column for all of the people involved in
emergency communications and the other volunteer programs in the ARRL Field
Organization. There are precious few callsigns you'd recognize from contest
QSOs - yet they are as active or more active on the air than most contesters
are. Every group wants more QST space for their specialty.
>I would like to see the League get rid of the NCJ and QEX and put the pages,
>money and coverage back into QST !!! Add QST pages not cut them. Get more
>advertising revenue for a single publication that encompasses ALL aspects of
>Ham Radio !!!
I checked into the economics of doing what you suggested. It doesn't look
good. The advertising sales for both NCJ and QEX would allow for only six
more pages of content in QST - maybe one long technical article.
The advertisers would probably not move their advertising to QST because with
the specialty publications they can reach their targeted audience with a larger
advertisement and much less cost. For the most part, the things published in
NCJ (48 pages) and QEX (64 pages) would not be published at all otherwise.
-- Tom
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e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/
Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444
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