On Nov 16, 2010, at 3:51 PM, ab2tc wrote:

> I'd love to but where do I find the article? I don't think my local library 
> has many back issues of QST.

You should be able to read (some of) them at the ARRL web site if you are an 
ARRL member.

If not, you can try the QST View CD-ROMs.  

ARRL no longer sells the CD-ROMs but you might be able to get them from the 
people who created QST View CDs for ARRL-- they were still selling them when I 
snooped around on the web a year or two ago.  I have a link to the vendor's URL 
on my "QST Browser" web page:

http://homepage.mac.com/chen/w7ay/QST%20Browser/index.html

A funny anecdote is that the 1950-1959 QST View was the first set to disappear 
as ARRL was selling remaining stock.  I had people who stumbled on "QST 
Browser" but could not find the 1950-1959 set to buy, so they wrote me to see 
if I knew of secret stashes :-).  I suspect that it could be due to the ham 
"baby boom."  Everyone wants the QST from when they first became hams, when 
they'd drooled over the ads of things like the S-Line which they could not 
afford as teenagers :-).  ARRL sold out of them first, then vendors like Texas 
Towers and Universal Radio sold out of them.  Until finally, only Radio Era had 
them.  Today? estate sales, perhaps, if Radio Era does not keep stamping them 
out :-).

73
Chen, W7AY


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