[TenTec] Merger

[Cecil]

Well I for one am not happy with CQ at the moment.  Not only do I subscribe to CQ but have subscribed to Pop Com for years.  It just quit showing up...no explanation for months...then CQ went MIA.  Finally I received my first CQ in the month it was printed for this month.  I'm still having to figure out where and how to find the Pop Com content I paid for.

I'm not much for digital magazine content so the jury is out with me as to whether I renew my subscriptions or not.

I'll be glad when they get some of the CQ awards into LOTW....

Cecil
K5DL

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> On May 21, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Stuart Rohre <rohre at arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 
> I just heard a talk, post Dayton, by one of the ARRL vice Directors. ARRL is hopeful for this merger to work to the benefit of hams, and for CQ to emerge from its restructuring as a viable magazine.  CQ appeals to a segment of ham radio, (contests) that varies from the ARRL contest participants with some overlap.  But CQ magazine devotes more in their magazine to their sponsored contests and those of overseas sponsors.
> 
> ARRL records show a steady growth in new hams, and League membership grows as new hams enter the hobby.  Recent and  younger ham retention is a big topic at the League, and stimulation of further interest in the hobby; especially among the young and middle age "Makers" is also a big topic.  The league has an active youth component at each large convention, with a special subset of their booth devoted to that.  It seemed to be well attended at Ham Com in greater Dallas, (Plano) last year.
> 
> The league has furnished seed money to stimulate Broadband Ham Net (tm), the up and coming digital and microwaves revolution in ham emergency communications.  This is based on Mesh networking, where a spread out community of hams can provide multiple paths across a city that suffers phone outages, or overload.  Hamnet can simultaneously transmit the ARRL Handbook text in 2 minutes,  while supporting a VOIP phone system and live video from an incident scene.  In other words, it has more bandwidth,than packet like systems could ever dream of.
> 
> That might be a technical area that no commercial manufacturer is directly serving.  Hams are presently cobbling together systems from other commercial wideband antenna hardware and network boxes such as Linksys surplus routers.  New work and software has appeared for off the shelf "at the antenna" routers such as the Bullet devices.  A vendor who can serve the ham's questions and package a turn key "Kit"
> would be offering something no other ham supplier has attempted.
> 
> -Stuart Rohre
> K5KVH
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