I noticed this on the ARRL Website today while ordering some books:
RELEASE NOTE: ARRL is retiring QST View. The software is outdated and is increasingly incompatible with some computer configurations. We want to assure our valued members and customers that our consideration of alternatives is ongoing. We will continue to offer the more popular annually-produced ARRL Periodicals on CD-ROM. These single-year CDs are available for 1995 through present.
I'm glad I decided to purchase the complete QST CDROM set a couple years ago. At this time, there are very few sets available. I'm also very pleased to have found a 3rd party viewer for Mac OS-X that W7AY generously created.
Since PDF is the de-facto standard for all platforms for document distribution, I hope that the ARRL will reconsider releasing the QST archives in this format. Since 2000, they have released an annual CD with all the ARRL periodicals on CDROM in PDF. The quality of these newer discs is excellent, while the older QST View discs, while certainly readable, do leave a lot to be desired in the graphics department.
I urge everyone interested to write the ARRL to ensure that these historical references remain available.
73, Joe, N6DGY ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
