[TowerTalk] Fwd: MFJ QRT on May 17, 2024

[Jim Brown]

On 4/26/2024 11:41 AM, Bill Eisinger wrote:
> I could frankly care less about MFJ’s demise except for one thing….as by far the largest advertiser in QST

When I was a kid, there were smart people writing for and editing QST, 
and we could learn stuff from the magazine. When I got back on the air 
in 2003, I was disgusted by the absence of any of that. Until he 
retired, N0AX was the only guy writing for it who had a clue (and he is 
VERY sharp -- I worked with him for more than 10 years on the Handbook 
and Antenna Book, and for both versions of the book on Grounding and 
Bonding). The only strong technical things I remember are one by AA7JV 
on his "garden beam" for 20M, and a piece by KE4PT about loss at HF in 
dense forests.

Longtime Southwest Division Director N6AA said at Visalia this month 
that there was NO ONE technically competent involved with QST. I 
regularly winced at technical errors when I skimmed the magazine. And 
now that we have to pay extra for a paper copy, I haven't bothered to do so.

73, Jim K9YC