The recent discussion of the "online" version of QST had me thinking of
this.

Articles in QST used to be pretty much complete and self-contained.

Construction articles had complete schematics and parts lists, even PC
board layouts when needed. Technical articles might have some footnotes
and references, but they were to real books that you could buy or find
at a decent library.

Now, much of the meat of many articles is contained in random Web sites,
many not managed by ARRL, with no guarantee that any of it will be
findable after even a year or two.

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Bert Hyman W0RSB St. Paul, MN