Vintage QST Articles

See 20 pages of the first edition of QST on WikiMedia

Month	Cover	Year
June TOC		1929
October TOC		1929
December TOC		1929
February TOC		1931
August TOC		1931
October TOC		1931
December TOC		1931
April TOC		1932
May TOC		1932
October TOC		1932
December TOC		1932
January TOC		1933
April TOC		1933
May TOC		1933
December TOC		1933
August TOC		1934
July TOC		1935
September TOC		1935
December TOC		1935
July TOC		1937
September TOC		1937
March TOC		1939
April TOC		1939
May TOC		1939
August TOC		1939
September TOC		1939
March TOC		1940
June TOC		1940
July TOC		1940
August TOC		1940
November TOC		1940
January TOC		1941
February TOC		1941
May TOC		1941
January TOC		1942
March TOC		1942
April TOC		1942
September TOC		1942
November TOC		1942
December TOC		1942
February TOC		1943
November TOC		1943
June TOC		1944
July TOC		1944
January TOC		1945
February TOC		1945
March TOC		1945
April TOC		1945
April TOC		1946
July TOC		1946
July TOC		1947
August TOC		1947
September TOC		1947
October TOC		1947
August TOC		1948
September TOC		1948
September TOC		1950
May TOC		1951
April TOC		1952
May TOC		1952
August TOC		1952
November TOC		1952
December TOC		1952
January TOC		1953
February TOC		1953
April TOC		1953
May TOC		1953
June TOC		1953
July TOC		1953
September TOC		1953
October TOC		1953
November TOC		1953
December TOC		1953
July TOC		1966
September TOC		1966
October TOC		1966
November TOC		1966
December TOC		1966
January TOC		1967
February TOC		1967
April TOC		1967
May TOC		1967
June TOC		1967
July TOC		1967
August TOC		1967
September TOC		1967
September TOC		1972
NOTE: The ARRL provides a complete digital archive of every QST from 1915 to the most edition. Access is free to ARRL members. One unexpected discovery is that the average reader must have had better near vision eyesight than today because the print size was very tiny. Even as recently as 1943, a large portion of people could not afford corrective lenses so unless either a reading magnifier was a staple of every household or it was common practice for the person with the best eyesight in the house to read QST aloud to the poorly sighted of the house, the only conclusion can be that the average citizen had better eyesight than today. I write that only partly in jest; a search for scientific data to back my suspicion was not fruitful. See response from Joe B. Kirt, Re: The old QST font size. During WWII everything was rationed, including paper and ink, because materials were needed for the war. Magazines were permitted because to not print them would hurt morale. And since the Army and Navy (and Marines) needed radio operators, I suspect QST was near the top of the permitted list. But the smaller the font, the more you could squeeze into a given issue. 73 Joe (N3TTE) Birsa, P.E. Warrendale, PA

Visit the ARRL website today for a complete digital archive of QST and their other publications.

I have written before about the incredible resource for RF engineers and hobbyists that is the ARRL's monthly publication, QST. Since its first edition in December, 1915, the magazine has been chock full of useful information. As would be expected, the nature of content has evolved over time to have the greatest appeal to contemporary readers. Correspondingly, reviewing past issues provides a peek back into history not only to learn of vintage equipment and events, but also it lets us see the difference in the nature of readers, most notably their expectations in content, prose, etc.

All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

These articles were scanned and OCRed from copies of vintage QST magazines that I purchased on e-Bay. I took the trouble to OCR them in order to provide searchable text for people who are trying to find specific items: equipment, companies, friends, even themselves.

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