Have you checked out our new website yet? I’m guessing most of you have, but if you haven’t, you really ought to. It’s a giant step forward in communications for our organization. It includes a continually updated calendar, news flashes, polls, a photo gallery, feature articles, and much more! For example, if you visit the website now you will find articles by Mark Sheppard (Lessons Learned…), Matt Thomas (EOC Green Team…), and Brian Daly (Revised ARECC Level III Course”). Previously, those articles most likely would have been delivered to you via QRV? In this and other significant ways, our new website reminds me of an enhanced version of QRV?.

    Perhaps by now, you’re guessing where I’m going with this editorial. Your editor has begun to wonder if we really should continue publishing a paper newsletter like QRV?. Clearly, it has served well, bringing important news and training material to you over the past ten years. However, with the advent of our new website your editor suspects that QRV? duplicates information that may be better handled via the web. Take this issue for example. Is there anything contained in it that couldn’t be communicated to you just as well via articles, photos, and news alerts on our new website?

     Okay, I’ll be the first to admit the possibility that I’m missing something. Perhaps QRV? does make a unique contribution to the communication needs of ACS. Honestly, I’m not sure I can identify just what that unique contribution might be, and for that I’d like your help. I want to hear from you. If you believe that QRV? should continue publication, if you believe that it contributes in ways that are different from the website, let me know. On the other hand, if you believe that information communicated via QRV? can just as well be delivered to you via the new website, let me know that, too.

     Perhaps QRV? has served its purpose. Perhaps it’s time to fully use the web to communicate news and training information. Perhaps very few of you get around to reading QRV?. Perhaps a very few of you are reading this editorial for that matter! Believe me, I am very interested in hearing from you. Please send comments to n7byp@arrl.net.