[CQ-Contest] ARRL DX CW Contest in QST

Mark - N5OT r-emails at n5ot.com
Tue Aug 27 06:24:25 EDT 2019


It's a good question, Ed.  Thanks.  Given our League, I think all of us 
will be well served if we face forward and embrace the fundamental shift 
in the way we as a society consume written periodical content.  I don't 
hold it against the League (us) to attempt to sustain itself 
(ourselves).  I can only speak for myself, but once I got past being 
bound to a print magazine, and I started enjoying the way the (vastly 
enhanced) content is presented on the 'web, it gave me a new, different, 
and better outlook.  I reiterate I am only speaking for myself, but I 
wonder if what I am saying resonates?  Certainly contesters have been 
squirming about this exact thing ("reduced" coverage of contests) for so 
long, it sounds like a debate about incentive licensing :-)

I imagine we're all different about this and how much we like the 
physical magazine in our hands.  It is not an easy question.

73 - Mark N5OT

On 8/26/2019 8:44 PM, Edward Sawyer wrote:
> Mark, With all due respect, in the next 2 years do we expect the last 2 pages to also disappear?  Why not, at least then the attitude at QST will be so obvious it can't be ignored.  What will really be telling is if all of a sudden FT8 contests get multiple page spreads.  Then the cycle will be complete.
>
> Ed  N1UR


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