[CQ-Contest] Contest history

Alan Sewell N5NA alan.n5na at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 17:23:36 PDT 2009


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fairly reasonably priced.

73,

Alan  N5NA

James Cain wrote:
> KR2Q wrote:
>
> "Right!  This is almost word for word what my article in CQ Magazine (early 
> 1980's) advised to do!  The title was something like: "How To Operate an 
> Efficient M/S."  That's about 30 years ago now.  Maybe someone here can find 
> the exact title and publication date."
>
> One thing to be said for the american radio relay league is that qst back 
> issues are available on line to arrl members. CQ doing the same would be of 
> great benefit to historians but of no business value to the publisher that I 
> can think of.
>
> Some brave volunteer with all the back issues of CQ, a good scanner, and 
> some spare time, could scan contest-related articles from CQ and donate them 
> to the Contest Wiki. I am sure said volunteer could borrow a complete set of 
> the magazines from someone/somewhere if needed.
>
> Too bad the arrl does not make National Contest Journal back issues 
> available on line. My guess, and it's only a guess, is that Newington staff 
> time is an issue, along with a perceived lack of demand for NCJ back issues.
>
> Jim Cain
> At The K1TN Superstation
>
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