I don’t think the ARRL raised dues so they could keep putting out QST.
ARRL raised dues because the cost of everything went up due to inflation
and as a result for the overall financial health of the league, dues had to
be raised.
Ria
N2RJ
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dave Thompson <thompson@mindspring.com>
wrote:
>
> Gang.
>
> CQ Communications that publishes CQ Magazine is a small business. They
> are current on the digital version but they have been having trouble
> finding reasonable printers. They do not have the backing of a large
> organization such as ARRL who had had to raise member dues to keep putting
> out QST.
>
> Remember CQ sponsors many of the top contests then provides space
> including all the line scores. ARRL and QST stopped printing the line
> scores years ago. I suggest that instead of dropping CQ contesters need to
> at least buy the digital version.
>
> The question is what happens to all the CQ WW contests if CQ goes out of
> business. Efforts have tried to better fund CQ Communications over the
> past few years and were dropped due to the funds needed. Support CQ to
> support our contests.
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB ex K5MDX
> Retired CQ WW 160 Director
>
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