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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Merger
From: Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net>
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 17:03:26 -0500
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Well I for one am not happy with CQ at the moment.  Not only do I subscribe to 
CQ but have subscribed to Pop Com for years.  It just quit showing up...no 
explanation for months...then CQ went MIA.  Finally I received my first CQ in 
the month it was printed for this month.  I'm still having to figure out where 
and how to find the Pop Com content I paid for.

I'm not much for digital magazine content so the jury is out with me as to 
whether I renew my subscriptions or not.

I'll be glad when they get some of the CQ awards into LOTW....

Cecil
K5DL

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> On May 21, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Stuart Rohre <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 
> I just heard a talk, post Dayton, by one of the ARRL vice Directors. ARRL is 
> hopeful for this merger to work to the benefit of hams, and for CQ to emerge 
> from its restructuring as a viable magazine.  CQ appeals to a segment of ham 
> radio, (contests) that varies from the ARRL contest participants with some 
> overlap.  But CQ magazine devotes more in their magazine to their sponsored 
> contests and those of overseas sponsors.
> 
> ARRL records show a steady growth in new hams, and League membership grows as 
> new hams enter the hobby.  Recent and  younger ham retention is a big topic 
> at the League, and stimulation of further interest in the hobby; especially 
> among the young and middle age "Makers" is also a big topic.  The league has 
> an active youth component at each large convention, with a special subset of 
> their booth devoted to that.  It seemed to be well attended at Ham Com in 
> greater Dallas, (Plano) last year.
> 
> The league has furnished seed money to stimulate Broadband Ham Net (tm), the 
> up and coming digital and microwaves revolution in ham emergency 
> communications.  This is based on Mesh networking, where a spread out 
> community of hams can provide multiple paths across a city that suffers phone 
> outages, or overload.  Hamnet can simultaneously transmit the ARRL Handbook 
> text in 2 minutes,  while supporting a VOIP phone system and live video from 
> an incident scene.  In other words, it has more bandwidth,than packet like 
> systems could ever dream of.
> 
> That might be a technical area that no commercial manufacturer is directly 
> serving.  Hams are presently cobbling together systems from other commercial 
> wideband antenna hardware and network boxes such as Linksys surplus routers.  
> New work and software has appeared for off the shelf "at the antenna" routers 
> such as the Bullet devices.  A vendor who can serve the ham's questions and 
> package a turn key "Kit"
> would be offering something no other ham supplier has attempted.
> 
> -Stuart Rohre
> K5KVH
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