Peter:
I think that from a business viewpoint the ARRL is doing what
they seem to think is best. It probably boils down to your statement
of "bang for the buck." I think others have said about the same
thing.
If you have the capability you outlined, and the time to do it, why
not write a short but clear proposal and offer to do the work part
and - basically - sell the resultant to them? All they would have to
do is post it. It would have to be all ready to post.
I suspect it is manpower/time thing on their part.
- Jim WB6BLD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Markavage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] ARRL To Retire QST View
The complete index for all QST articles (from 1915 on), all QEX articles,
and all Ham Radio Articles is available on the Member's part of the ARRL
web site. You can search to your heart's content. Another index is FBTO,
which covers roughly the 40's to about 1991/92.
Re-scanning all those old issues to 21st century scan quality, converting
to PDF type files, etc. probably would time comsuming and costly and
probably not much "bang for the buck" in return for them. But, hmmm, I
now have apparatus that will allow me to scan at high quality, 50 sheets
per minute, and save directly as a pdf file. Maybe I should make a sales
pitch.
Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:46:42 -0500 "Todd, KA1KAQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
Joe and group -
This was announced a while back and stirred up folks in the
AM/Classic
Gear groups. Mike W1RC had some initial exchanges with ARRL folks I
believe but passed it along to someone else as he was pretty busy
with
other matters.
Looking at the situation and the League's view of such things, I
wouldn't hold my breath on a solution. Keep in mind that the
audience
would be small vs the likely cost, and the audience would consist
of
mainly of old gear and history buffs. The ARRL has never been
terribly
excited about such things, preferring instead to push new
technology
that favors its advertisers. Providing a resource that helps folks
research and, as a result, perhaps purchase or even build old style
tube gear doesn't strike me as something they'd be likely to do.
Aside from gear and HB articles, there remains a lot of historical
information along with other interesting stories and events in the
pages of QST. Fortunately all the oldest magazines are still
readily
available and make for a good, relaxing read. Searching isn't
terribly
hard if you use the yearly index in the December issue, but time
consuming if you have no idea of the year an article was published.
Perhaps the real solution will be that someone creates a CD of the
yearly index issues to permit fast and easy searches for articles
in
the magazines.
Again - this is an opinion only, based on rumblings I've heard
along
with the League's record on such matters.
~ Todd, KA1KAQ
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