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@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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