[CQ-Contest] Time to Get Off the Pot

[hwardsil1 at mindspring.com]

I think it depends on the focus of the article.  If, for example, it's a how-to that is specific to contest operation (say, a SO2R switchbox), then it's probably too narrow for QST.  But that type of article could easily be broadened for general consumption - think, "High-Performance Audio Switching in the Ham Shack" and you have a much better chance of getting it in QST.

Send me the article and maybe I'll have a good idea or two.

73, Ward N0AX

"Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:03:31PM -0000, Silver Ward wrote:
> 
> 2) Don't like the QST content?  Then generate some!  If you have a problem
> with making a lawn chair into a 6-meter loop, then I must assume that you
> have some actual ideas for replacing it.  You don't have to be Victor Hugo -
> the league has good editors to polish up the article.  Here's some topics -
> talk amongst yourselves; "The Gamma Match - Construction and
> Implementation", "Amplifer Care and Maintenance",  "Long-Path for the Little
> Pistol", "Making 1000 QSOs - In One Weekend".  Start typing.  The email
> address for your submissions is qst at arrl.org and the writer's guide is
> available at www.arrl.org/qst/aguide.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what the QST editorial board really wants in
the way of contesting feature articles?  I've published multiple articles in
the NCJ and CQ Contest that I first sent in to QST.  They were all rejected 
because they featured contesting and contesting was of "limited interest."

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