[TenTec] OT: Old QSTs, CQs, etc.

[Jim Lowman]

Sadly, when QST and other magazines get to be about six months old, they 
go in the blue bin.

Years ago, when I was more active in the local club, members would drop 
off their copies, especially after ARRL made the back issues available 
on CD.
The club has a pretty complete collection, going back many years, of the 
actual magazines.
After a while we had to limit acceptance to any issue that was not in 
the library.  The number of dupes of recent issues was getting ridiculous.
They were set out on a table for members to take, and after a while the 
stack became huge.

One reason that I'm happy to see that CQ Magazine is now available in a 
digital-only format.
Apparently that same issue is on the table at ARRL.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 12/27/2011 7:08 AM, John K3GHH wrote:
> What do you do with your back issues of these magazines?
>
> I'm beginning to question my keeping of all of them, having just
> catalogued (a simple spreadsheet) and boxed about 6 years' QSTs (in two
> boxes, still quite heavy for me) and carried them up two flights of
> stairs, eventually bound for the attic (yet another flight).
>
> Someone will have to get them out of there...
>