Unca Pete wrote:
"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message news:426c859e-943c
You can download all the above for free from the ARRL if you log in
with your member ID. With all the old QST's available on the web,
everyone ought to be a member!

Tim N3QE

I'll join the ARRL the day I can choose QEX over the QST
forced subscription that comes with the membership.

Pete k1zjh
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Have you ever thought of JOINING ARRL, and using your position as
a member to petition for this change?

Change is made by those who participate.

--N1GAK
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Agree with that ,although ARRL members should have a choice.
If they prefer QEX over QST they should have that option.
ARRL news is sent weekly by e-mail upon request .Moreover, members can
access QST articles via the ARRL web site, and also can access QEX articles.

Living in the UK I have opted for the annual CD-ROM ,which is published
in March ,including QST , QEX and the Contest Mag. covering the past
calendar year ,which suits me fine.
However I believe this option is not available to US residents .
Perhaps something to go for.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH

Highland Ham wrote in :
Unca Pete wrote:
"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message news:426c859e-943c
You can download all the above for free from the ARRL if you log in
with your member ID. With all the old QST's available on the web,
everyone ought to be a member!

Tim N3QE

I'll join the ARRL the day I can choose QEX over the QST
forced subscription that comes with the membership.

Pete k1zjh
================================================ ======================
Have you ever thought of JOINING ARRL, and using your position as
a member to petition for this change?

Change is made by those who participate.

--N1GAK
===============================
Agree with that ,although ARRL members should have a choice.
If they prefer QEX over QST they should have that option.
ARRL news is sent weekly by e-mail upon request .Moreover, members can
access QST articles via the ARRL web site, and also can access QEX articles.

Erm ... while I dislike contradicting you directly, I just tried to download a
QEX article, afer logging in to my ARRL.net account, and got the following:

: The ARRL Periodicals Archive and Search is both an index of articles and an archive of downloadable material. However, not everything in the index is available for download.
:
: The item you requested is not in the archive of downloadable information. This may be because:
:
: * Most QST material newer than 2005 is not available for download
: * QEX, NCJ and Ham Radio material is not available for download

I subscribe to QEX as well as QST, and really would like QEX to be downloadable.
I see in my future a letter to the Powers That Be.

--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO

Tired old sysadmin

"Highland Ham" wrote in message
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Agree with that ,although ARRL members should have a choice.
If they prefer QEX over QST they should have that option.
ARRL news is sent weekly by e-mail upon request .Moreover, members can
access QST articles via the ARRL web site, and also can access QEX
articles.

Living in the UK I have opted for the annual CD-ROM ,which is published in
March ,including QST , QEX and the Contest Mag. covering the past calendar
year ,which suits me fine.
However I believe this option is not available to US residents .
Perhaps something to go for.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH

The ARRL derrives a lot of income from the QST
advertisements. Decreased circulation numbers would cost
them revenue. I'm sure the answer would be increasing
the circulation figures for QEX, and making up the revenue
there, but the logistics might be too great. That's why the
QSTs are delivered on a timely basis stateside; stale 12
month old adds delivered by CD won't make the advertisers
happy. I've complained about this in the past (dumbing down
of QST) and was told that they are serving the majority
of the membership with the current content.

Anyway, I feel I might have hijacked Jimmies' thread, and
I'll stop posting with this last comment.


Pete