[CQ-Contest] CQ Magazine

[Ken Widelitz]

 If CQ had any business sense, they would bundle the digital subscription
with the paper subscription as QST does (in addition, now bundling digital
NCJ and QEX.) I suggested that when they first started the digital edition,
but they seem to think it generates extra revenue. The problem with the
paper issue always being late, and sometimes never being printed in the
past few years is that it generates bad will among subscribers.

I have always subscribed to CQ for 3 years at a time, but next time it
comes up, I may just drop it. Contest results are available without a
subscription online not much later than the digital edition and sometimes
earlier than the paper edition because it is so late.

73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:32 AM robert wa1fcn <wa1fcn at charter.net> wrote:

>
>      GM Ria
>
>          Thank you for that piece of information. I had no idea on
> that.  Is it a completely
>
>          different issue, or just the same issue with a January name on it
> ?
>
>          Can you tell me if there is any contest results in that issue.
>
>                      73 BoB WA1FCN
>
> On 1/15/2020 11:11 AM, rjairam at gmail.com wrote:
> > Digital is current. Latest issue is January 2020.
> >
> > Yes this is an answer some who are fond of the old ways of print
> > magazines don’t want to hear.
> >
> > But to be honest the entire print magazine business is suffering. I
> > don’t know how CQ still does it but I appreciate that they are there
> > as an independent voice in amateur radio.
> >
> > 73
> > Ria, N2RJ
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:47 AM robert wa1fcn <wa1fcn at charter.net
> > <mailto:wa1fcn at charter.net>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     GE All
> >
> >              Has anyone heard IF CQ magazine will ever get back on a
> >     timely
> >     tract.  I can't be the only
> >
> >              one who frustrated reading about tips and strategy for
> >     contest
> >     that are already history!
> >
> >              Yes I have been around a good number of years and know
> >     some of
> >     them, but how about
> >
> >              the newer hams/contesters that could benefit from this
> >     info.  I
> >     just got my December issue
> >
> >              and I am reading  about up coming contest that happened the
> >     first week in December!
> >
> >                      CQ how much longer will this continue!  I will admit
> >     other than out dated contest
> >
> >              info, CQ is my favorite radio magazine. Still ..........
> >
> >                    BoB WA1FCN
> >
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