Volatility of electronic media is a big issue. The alternative is to keep
shelves and shelves of magazines or drawers and drawers of articles.
Speaking as one who did both, I would rather try to find another solution.
Heck, the library doesn't even keep old magazines any more. We're drowning
in information. I've lost paper copies, too...
Here's a suggestion. If you find the world's greatest Web site - download
it and save it on CD. It costs less than 50 cents if you can manage the
download time, which is less of an issue every year.
73, Ward N0AX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Clarson" <mclarson@rcc.com>
To: "'Ward Silver'" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>; "'CQ-Contest Reflector'"
<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] QST Construction Articles
> Ward: Point taken. Half an article is better than no article! But the WEB
> based stuff is SO disposable. How often have you bookmarked the greatest
web
> site ever, only to find it gone next time you went there? Where will the
web
> based contest results/construction details be 10 years from now? (Next
> question: Will anyone care?). Remember that famous (infamous?) picture of
> President Clinton hugging Monica Lewinsky at a rally? The photographer
> stated that the only reason he kept the picture is because he developed
it.
> If it was taken with a digital camera, he would have previewed it and
erased
> it. Sorry--getting off topic.--Mike, WV2ZOW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Ward Silver
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:56 PM
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] QST Construction Articles
>
>
> > Hey--no jabs at construction articles--they are 'webbing' those
too--look
> at that 1296 amp in the latest issue--all the construction details are on
> the web, the
> > article is just a fluff piece. --Mike, WV2ZOW
>
> I can't let this go by unchallenged. As a matter of fact, thank you very
> much, *I* edited that article to make it fit a fairly tight QST budget.
> Printing the entire article and all the necessary graphics would have *at
> least* doubled its size, requiring a second issue's worth of space. If it
> had to go completely and utterly in QST, it would not have been run.
There's
> no way that article could justify that much space in QST. Take a look at
> other magazines for construction-intensive hobbies and professions - plans
> and lists and detail drawings are quite often placed on a Web site.
>
>
>
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