Back in the late 70's and early 80's, when I was a Novice we had:
QST
CQ
73 Magazine
WorldRadio
HamRadio
Ham Radio Horizons
Now all that's left is QST and a few digital ARRL publications? NCJ, QEX, On the Air? I think the ARRL's "On The Air" is the only publication left with new comers in mind?
Filling the void somewhat are e-zines like the K9YA Journal that's written in a style a lot like WorldRadio. More human interest stuff than technical; and we need that. WorldRadio drew me deeper and deeper into the hobby. I was never the electronics engineer type and contesting was never my bag. I enjoyed reading about the non-technical side of the hobby, and what other people were doing and some good historical articles, too.
I wish we had more publications like that today.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
Hi Larry
ReplyDeleteThere are still lots of hhuman interest type stories out there, but online.
Qrper.com and the SOTA reflector have lots of "doing" type posts. I don't care for the massive selling job qrper.com does , but ghere are some good posts.
Rick N8TGQ
I'll second the suggestion of QRPer.com. But I don't feel it does a massive selling job. Print magazines, with their 'half the pages are advertising', seem like a massive selling job. QRPer just seems to offer links to stuff that gets used by whoever writes the post. I suppose you can call that a sell job, but someone telling me that the nice cable with a ferrite choke built in was purchased from someplace feels a lot less intrusive than the last third of QST being one big MFJ catalog.
ReplyDeleteFull disclosure - I'm pleased to say I support QRPer via the Patreon system, so I probably have some built in bias.
Paul W7PFB